Just about anything from Steely Dan is on my all time favorites list (although they did have quite a few duds on Pretzel Logic). Barb, what's your interpretation of what "Rikki" is about?
Oh, I go with the classic interpretation. Rikki is a young, closeted gay man, and the singer is an out one.
"We could go driving down Slow Hand Road.
Or we could stay inside and play games, I don't know.
And you could have a change of heart..."
We have a Steely Dan collection CD - Can't even think of what it's called, I just know it's Number 48 on the 200-disk player - that has pretty much all the great ones. I can't decide which is my absolute favorite - Rikki or "My Old School." I can so relate to this line: "When California tumbles into the sea, that'll be the day I go back to Annadale." College, overall, was not a particularly fun time for me. My main memory of it is of feeling constantly under the gun - like there was always something more I could be doing to keep my grades up - more reading, more studying, more programming. GAH. Hated it. And when I wasn't feeling stressed up to my eyeballs, I was drunk up to them. Or hungover and stressed up to my eyeballs. GAH. And I didn't even go to that challenging of a school!
