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  • I heard the Muzak version of this song in a department store the other day. I think it's the first time I'd heard Steely Dan on Muzak. Kind of a shock! Love the video, though.

  • I've been looking for this video forever, but I couldn't for the life of me remember the artist or the title. First I thought it was "Snow Day" and that got me nowhere. I was 19 when I first saw it. Crap. Apparently I'm now old.

  • I remember listening to this song a lot when I was in the army in 1994. I really like the relaxed tempo, something I didn't know I did in '94.

  • its raining in Iraq today and this fits the mood...... Crazy enough, Mr. Fagen's tunes speak to my soul..... his music is True Magic...... There is no one like him ..... God Bless him....

  • What an odd little video :)

  • I was a junior in high school at the time. I was into Jamiroquai and hiphop groups like the Fugees and The Roots. My Mom was caring for my ill grandmother and it was winter in Columbus Ohio. After I saw this video I literally watched VH1 everyday to catch it again so I could record it on VHS. Gives me wonderful memories of the last months of my grandmother's life.

  • Another song that reminds me of this time is "Proceed" by "The Roots".

  • This is my first time seeing that since it first came out! Even better than I remember!

  • never seen this video before how cool

    saw the dan in june 2007 at Hammersmith

    I was like 16 again

    thankyou Don! you bring emotions to life in your music....

  • Absolutely amazing song. I spent an entire summer on the beach listening to this album and it will forever remind me of that time and still to this day takes me back. I also spent a lot of time that summer learning all the drum tracks to it. On The Dunes was quite challenging. Any aspiring jazz musician who takes a stab it at learning this album will more than likely improve their skills. Thank you Donald Fagen!

  • I love this video I was in the 11th grade when it came out. Its so funny to me because they capture the every day John and Jane Doe. We all get up and head to work and sometimes were so tired until we might drift off to sleep and we hope and pray that our bosses dont catch us. And how many times did all of us wanted to throw our boss over the ledge

  • my late Ex.. Hated Steely Dan...Every Core of him hated Fagan...But I loved it all baby!..SnowBound came out.. and honey I played it non-stop! We Divorced a short time later...nuf-said....

  • musical genius he is as are you for realizing it... I doubt your ex will ever get it... and that is ok...

    Best

  • Beautiful track

  • Way ahead of he's time. what was this....in the early 90s?...late 80s?....BRILLANT!

  • Fsbulously luscious song!

    Amazing modulations...superb bass...and yeah the Hammond B-3 percussiveness is Spot On...What a great guitar solo..Jazz-tone heaven!

  • love the song and the video!

    im always laughing when fagen strikes the worker asleep on the job. the face is a picture!

    3:07

  • This song reminds me of mine and my wife's lazy winter days in Germany....

  • we hit the street with risers down, with our therma-suits sealed up tight, we can beat the freeze and get safe tonight.

  • I think that could be visors down ?

    Unless Don & Walt were in the habit of roaming the streets with risers up from time to time ?

  • ...In the last song, "Teahouse On The Tracks," the narrator lands in dismal Flytown where he must decide whether to bail out or to rally and continue moving into the unknown."

  • ... In the first song, "Trans-Island Skyway," the narrator tells us he is about to embark on a journey in his new dream-car, a custom-tooled Kamakiri. It's built for the new century: steam-driven, with a self-contained vegetable garden and a radio link with the Tripstar routing satellite. The next six songs describe his adventures along the way.

  • Official explanation taken from the booklet inside the CD:

    "Kamakiriad is an album of eight related songs. The literal action takes place a few years in the future, near the millennium...

  • Tnks for the info. Now I understand the real meaning of "Tomorrow's girls"!

  • The CD had a storyline in it, if you'll take the time to listen/read. The "Kamakiriad" is a futuristic car in the storyline of the album(cd). The vid fits perfectly with the lyrics. The B-3fills really get me on this one. The way he's got the drawbars set with the percussion button on is perfect for the song. It's also a great tune with several tricky modulations with the coolest one coming out of the bridge back into the last chorus, and has an instant classic kind of feel.

  • same here, been looking for an aeon. All I could remember was "Snowed In" but that was wrong... Finally found it!!!

  • Top Shelf

  • It took me over 13 years to find this song, I know one sentence and one hour online and I found it, that was two years ago, finding the video today was just plain random luck thanks for putting this up

  • Sheer excellence

  • on the Bass guitar... none other than Mr. Walter Becker. inarguably it's the bass which is the most striking element of the instrumentation here.

  • Thank you for posting this video. Sometimes I remember-right out of the blue-something I saw many years ago and wonder if I will ever see it again.

  • 'wake me up when the wolves come out to play'

    he wrote that line for me...

  • Have to say the video has no relationship to the music. Was that the intention? Or is this an April Fool thing? (in which case ya got me!) Part of the appeal of Steely Dan is the irony, and if this is a Steely Dan video then the irony is lost on me. Unless of course the non-relation of the video to the music was intended. But there you go again ... that old irony thing, he he. Bastards. Stop that now!

  • This is not a Steely Dan video, it's a Donald Fagen Video. And it think he was just experimenting with the media,see what he could make of it. It's interesting, and kinda invoked my interest in DF, and later Steely Dan.

  • that´s something cool bout fagen´s lyrics, there´s always a way that they fit our lives. at least it happens to me all the time.

  • who cares really, the song is sooooooo cool

  • Anyone have guitar chords for this tune? Would like to here from you.

  • Lots of luck by ear.

    This is a monster.

    It took me 2 hours to learn the bass!

    At least, getting thru the arrangements without mistakes...

  • Beautiful video fact with the last computer technology. ¡¡Donald Fagen is the maximum!!

  • What a fucking brilliant song, what afucking lousy video. Man, Donald, who the hell sold you that crap? What a shame! I would like to do a new video version of this song. Directed by Charlie Tokio

  • if you love this, you'll also love dave frishberg

  • This song brings back memories of army service in Norway, in the winter and in the snow. So fitting. Funny enough I love the song.

  • This is great! I remember seeing this on MTV or..? Anyway, I just love this song and Michel Gondry is awesome! Thanks for uploading! :)

  • OMG..I am grateful to you. I have been looking for years. You're awesome. Thanks again for posting. ***Huge Grin***

  • I saw this the 1st time on a beavis/butthead cartoon & I think I wore out the tape playing it over & over. This is a good song 2 play when you're soaking in a warm bathtub (especially 4 the winter)

  • I thought I was the only one...

  • The Great Steely Dan strikes again Donald Fagen is a musical and visual genius keeps his sound true to those good ole Disco days and nights of my WEST COASTAL Youth!

    Mr. Chip's

  • Fagan and Becker's brilliance is unparalleled. Melegorm's spectacular montage work on all the other videos is beyond perfection. The marriage of both is an audio-visual experience of supremacy!

  • perfect song to have the right kind of girl alone with you in your pad while you're....SNOWBOUND from going anywhere.

  • i remember this video from beavis and butthead. ahh the good old days

  • I haven't seen this video since the 90's, and it's such a treat to see it again. I love the little "car people" ! Thanks for putting this up. ^___^

  • I love this video and this song...

  • Somebody knows who is the cow-girl on TV?

  • So cute!

  • Donald Fagen..what can I say that hasnt been said in all the great comments here.Genius! and this video is so cool..KH

  • I was always hip to Steely Dan,but the first time I seen this video was back in 1996 on Bevis & Butthead & thet were talin shyt over it,I was wishing the would shut the hell up so I could hear the damm song

  • oh, i so agree!!!

  • Where is Bevis And Butthead now....? Forgotten.... Where in Mr. Fagen ? In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.... And still rockin over 30 Years later...... All Haters Better Recognize.....Fagen is a Legend....

  • This is what a music video should be. I love it at 3:06 when the little robot Fagen zaps the guy dozing off. His face is priceless!

  • I remember this video, and how much I loved it.

    It just had such a cozy Christmasey feel to it, just like the song.

  • I was thinking the same thing too! It's perfect for the Christmas season coming up. :-)

  • Probably , one of the most underated artists ever...Fagan is a genius.....( I feel bad for the kids that have`nt heard this stuff )

  • Genius ? Mr. Fagen is a Legend......

  • I have to say the video doesn't really do it for me. Fagen is an amazing talent, though. A trilogy of albums, over 20 years is hardly prodigious, but what albums! Morph the Cat is as good as anything he has done. A musician with great integrity.

  • Dross I'm afarid. No discernable tunes and just so mind achingly dull!

  • Why bother listening if you don't like it? Go listen to some Dickhead or whatever it is that turns you on. You're obviously not old enough to get it.

  • And to you!!its not a question of age.forget it.lot of young people love the Dan and Don and Walt...

  • You're so right! My four-year-old granddaughter boogies when I put on the Dan. It just seemed so crass to tell the guy "you're obviously not INTELLIGENT enough to get it"!

  • The only issue I have with this video? It cuts the song short by almost 3 minutes! The guitar solo in the middle is botched and the fantastic tag is completely removed at the end. Walter Becker's guitar solos are hit-or-miss, but his job on both the bass and lead guitar on this song are incredible.

  • I love this album. Thanks!

  • Ahh, another non melodic Fagan tosh of bollocks. I just vomited and killed a monkey with a claw hammer listening to this

  • apreciate more DF and keep safes the monkeys.

    all the monkeys.

    except for Bush.

    thxx.

  • This record is a slice of tiresome mediocrity

  • It's not as good as Nightfly or any of the other Dan records, with the possible exception of Can't buy a Thrill, but I'll still listen to it instead of the tripe out there today.

  • Their worst is better than most artists best.

  • thats a good point...fagen/becker are one of the vbest musicians of our time.all jazz-musicians hate them and all the others don't know what to do with that stuff, its a miracle of "steely dan" that they are "between the seats"

  • its better than "the nightfly".listen to the whole record again!and put headphones on!!!

  • tell the truth...would you,could u...live in the world...any world... without your precious steelydan tunes? i think NOTTTTTTTTT!!!!!

  • merci donald pour l'intégralité de ton oeuvre je n'ai pas trouvé d'équivalent dans le monde de la musique contemporaine chapeau bas et encore de beaux albums a venir .bien sur merci a walter sans qui steely dan n'existerait pas. i. simply love your music.phil from brittany (france)

  • I've bin a massive fan of Gondry since seeing his stuff for The Chemical Brothers who I love, and as a great fan of Steely Dan, its quality to see this video.

  • Ye Gods, haven't seen this for ages. Many Many Thanks

  • i havnt heard this for ages what a bloody great tune love it

  • thanks for posting this rare video. Donald fagen is one of the best composers in the world, he is unique. This track sounds very sophisticated and the album is simply great.

  • I like this song and the video is very creative and interesting. I first seen it on Beavis & Butthead many years ago.

  • The song is not supposed to be a high energy fusion sound....the title SNOWBOUND implies a relaxed mood...'let's sleep in today'...I think is a very evocative and pleasing idea. The production is top notch and the video is classy and inventive...Krooozer

  • Thanx boerni1976 and frankez1975! I'm with you!

    Times have changed, Donald's high standards haven't..

  • Sure this isn't classic "dan"...but to disregard it and hate on it is moronic....this is good music. Thanks Donald Fagan for the awesome productions...

  • I can't believe this trash was made by the same guy who made great albums like "The Royal Scam" and "Countdown to Ecstacy." He should've quit after releasing Aja as that was his last good album. This is just boring adult-contemporary garbage.

    Face it, Steely Dan was better as a jazz-influenced rock band than the adult-contemporary snobs they became. Stick with the first 6 albums and you're all set.

  • you're wrong,wrong,wrong!perhaps "kamakiriad" is donalds best work ever!of course it needs a little time to get into into it.its one of the best producing-work ever, its timeless, wonderful lyrics, best walter on bass and leadguitar!listen again!!

  • Well said. Kamakiriad is a masterpiece. One of my favourite 'Dan' records. Funky, fabulous production, great tunes. Only Aja is better.

  • I'm not trynig to knock this or anything (since the whole bloody thing's so inventive!) but something about this video makes me feel kinda drowsy, like I'm being hypnotized. I think this is just too mellow for my blood, since I'm more of a classic ro....zzzzzzz....

  • Donald Fagen - Absolute quality with a capital Q !!

  • i didnt know thes existed, thanks! i love don, he's the best!

  • Fagen got overthrown lol

  • THX...tube for the video.Kamakiriad is part of my snowplowing format....and always enjoy snowbound @3:00 A.M when no one is on the road....THX again

  • The video is spectacular, but it doesn't fit the song AT ALL. "Snowbound" is a beautiful poem about human beings in a sort of apocalypse. It's full of melancholy and irony. Michel Gondry has turned the story into some grotesque parade of clowns. He has missed a great opportunity. I can't believe that Fagen permitted this..!

  • Yes, but the final result is a great video :) And that's the important thing. Song also is just fantastic.

  • I have been listening to SNOWBOUND for MANY YEARS and this is the first time I have seen this Video! Thank you very much for posting. Excellent.

  • Love this song, too, and always have despite being from south tx where culture is no more than lemon in your pico de gallo.

  • one of the best songs from kamakiriad cd...actually all his songs are the best!!! cool video. way to go mr. fagen.

  • The first time I saw this was on Beavis & Butthead. I thought it looked pretty cool & I've loved the song & video ever since.

  • I have known and dug this number for years...and am ashamed I never had seen the vid. You know, you always interpret a Fagen song in your own way, even visually... this is hip... a top notch work of art. So cool that it has stayed in the underground.

  • i liike

  • I wonder why this great video wasn't included on Gondry's video compilation dvd.

  • Eviva's cute.

  • This made it on Beavis and Butthead years ago in the episode with the Psychic. They goofed the hell out of it. I like Fagen but the video is kinda silly.

  • I remember that episode! I knew I recognized this silly video from somewhere.

  • i have this on tape for years , never thought it would be on you tube ! , steely dan rules , bloody class band donald rules ! fnx 4 uploading keep it up

  • Love the song/album;never seen the vid. Awesome! t.y.

  • Its true its so great the way a big snow storm shuts down the rat race in eastern metropolises! Nature's way of saying chill out!

  • good vid

  • thanxs for droppin this vid...loved this album

  • yeah and btw that's becker on bass too

  • Man... does that ever bring back memories. I remember seeing this video when I was a young lad (man... I must have been about 5). Thank you for putting this on.

  • I love this song. I've loved it since the album came out. I love it because Becker & Fagen wrote it together. But the video? W... T... F?

  • does anyone have the real video for Tomorrow's Girls?

  • I remember the video, but I have yet to see it on here. It used to air on VH-1 for a while.

  • i can almost smell the snow in the air... care to light a fire and cuddle in with me?

  • never seen this vid.was living in oz when the album came out . great stuff

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