Top 17 Excuses for Not Releasing an Album for 20 Years

This is from the Top Five List at http://www.topfive.com.

Steely Dan, has just released their first album of new music since 1980.

17> Just emerged from the bomb shelter, figuring 20 years was enough time for the noxious fumes of disco to subside.

16> It started out as a simple Chinese finger cuff prank, then the next thing you know…

15> Hey — traffic in L.A. is a bitch!

14> Hunting down that infidel Salman Rushdie not as easy as it sounds.

13> “Hey Nineteen” turned out to be more like “Hey Fourteen-and-a-Half,” and there were some, er, legal issues to resolve.

12> Spent the last two decades reelin’ in the beers.

11> “All I can say is, never get in a pissing contest with Boston.”

10> Spent every night of the last 20 years at the Wintergarden, watching CATS.

9> Were waiting for an invitation to join the Traveling Wilburys.

8> Stuck trying to find a word that rhymes with “marsupial.”

7> Been in mourning ever since the Sons of the Pioneers started dropping like flies.

6> Twenty year ban on literate, well-crafted songs recently lifted by UN.

5> Busily supplying sperm for lesbian rock singers like modern-day Johnny Appleseeds.

4> Producer kept insisting on bringing Yoko to the recording sessions.

3> Will to live only recently re-awakened by potent Viagra/Parker Posey therapy.

2> Took a while to convince Mom to park on the street and free up the garage.

…and Topfive.com’s Number 1 Excuse for Not Releasing an Album for 20 Years…

1> Repeatedly seduced by that wanton temptress known as the snooze button.