"Home at Last" by Steely Dan (from the album Aja, 1977)
An Homeric epic reconfigured as lush pop song. Fagen and Becker keep the main narrative of the Odyssey intact--the long exile, the welcome return--and evoke one of the poem's finest images over and over again in the chorus, with Fagen-as-lead-vocalist-as-Ulysses lashed to the mast, long after the danger of the siren song is over.
A perfect song to commemorate a homecoming almost a week in the driving.
2 comments:
Good song. BTW, I finally figured out the title. Took me long enough! And, really, it was so obvious - the hints are all around. Like this post!
Glad that somebody finally clued into the Steely Dan allusion in the title of the blog.
But yes, it's obvious by now, I think, that I'm a SD/Fagen maniac. This song is in my Top 10 from their ouevre. Fagen did it live when I saw him in concert in March.
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