Ponder the best of Mr. STEELY DAN

[Bossy Monkey]

It's impossible. It would have been impossible had they never made the last two (or three, even) albums, but hey, I'll give it a shot. Tune banned this time because I don't like it and am crazed with power is Hey Nineteen. A fine song I'm sure, but up with Hotel California in the really, really overplayed department.

This is another poll where I took nominations, but since the fundamental problem is too many good songs for too few slots, this didn't help much. Kudos to the person who nominated Don't Take Me Alive though. I left it off, but it's a perennial favorite of mine as I'm a total psycho.

In the end, I left off everything from the two newer albums, though I'm tempted to smear Reelin' in the Years in favor of Almost Gothic. Ah well, that's what the Other button is for.

[bearfan454]

1. Can't buy a thrill

It is still good. I loved that album back in the day !

[Beaker]

2. Ricki don't lose that number- or Kid Charlemagne

are two of my faves...
and what about Deacon Blues?

[lovedems]

15. Kid Charlemagne and Deacon Blues! My favorites.

Steely Dan is on my top 3 list of all time favorites. I can never get enough of them.

[last_texas_dem]

21. My favorites are...

"Rikki Don't Lose that Number", "Barrytown", "Through w/ Buzz" (I really like the Pretzel Logic album!) and "Dirty Work", but I've only heard about half of their albums.

[MrBenchley]

28. Three great ones...

Bodacious cowboys
such as your friend
will never be welcome here
High in the Custerdome

[peekaloo]

3. Kid Charlemagne or My Old School!

[Kolesar]

6. My favs too--especially the guitar solos on Kid Charlemagne

[PVnRT]

12. Another vote for Kid Charlemagne

n/t

[bearfan454]

4. When black Friday comes !

I'm gonna collect all that I'm owed. I'm gonna scratch all the little red marks from my little black book.

[mac56]

5. "Here At The Western World"

nm

[bearfan454]

7. Any world that I'm welcome to.

.

[mac56]

10. Two different songs.

"Any World" was on "Katy Lied". "Western World" was a single B-side, and appears on some different anthologies.

[DODI]

8. Doctor Wu

is my sentimental favorite (special to my husband and I).

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Dirty work

I'm a huge Steely Dan fan and our band played quite a few of thier songs but for some reason Dirty Work has always been a fav of mine.

[MissMillie]

17. Me too! (n/t)

.

[skypilot]

11. "Godwhackers"...

...from the "Everything Must Go" CD is a kick-ass funky song.

[CanuckAmok]

13. "Peg" is the best pop song ever. it's what the FM band was desgined for

I love so many Steely Dan songs, but "Peg" instantly sprang into my mind as a favourite song.

Fave album: Aja

Fave songs: Peg, Any Major Dude, Dirty Work, Kid Charlemagne, Deaco Blues, Hatian Divorce, Reelin' in the Years, Everyone's Gone to the Movies, My Old School... too many to list.

I have to say, though, that I prefer listening to the ones which don't feature Michael MacDonald on back-up vocals. I can't stand his voice.

[Kolesar]

18. but, but

Doesn't Michael MacDonald sing on "Peg"? He sings the word "Peg" while they are hitting the same note.

Peg, it will come back to you

I know what you mean about Michael MacDonald, I never liked hearing his voice. Too syrupy, like weak-ass blue-eyed imitation soul music sung by genuine white guys.

[CanuckAmok]

23. Yes....he's there...

But not to extend he's featured on something like "Bad Sneakers". If I could digitally remove him, I would. But, "Peg" is such a masterpiece, that even "Mister Whiteblues" can't damage it.

[Kolesar]

27. Gotcha...Peg is a masterpiece nonetheless

With just a smidgeon of MacDonald. I wish I was listening to it now.

[CanuckAmok]

30. I am! It's on my hard-drive...

Mmmmmmm...best bassline ever!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. Boston Rag

Killer guitar solo and harmony vocals that sounded better than ANYTHING Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ever pulled off.

"Lonnie swept the playroom, and he swallowed up all he found...It was 48 hours till Lonnie came around."

GENIUS!!!!

:toast:

[Deb]

16. Citizen Steely Dan

Hope thats not cheating. :-) I'll take everything Steely Dan.

My favorite single is Cousin Dupree but thats mostly because I had a "cousin Dupree".

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

29. I agree...

Whenever I'm radio station surfing, if it's Steely Dan, I'll stop surfing and listen. No song I don't like...
And I was thrilled when they actually won a Grammy for "Two Against Nature".
For six days, everyone knew them, and then it was "you're the guys who stole Kid Rock's Grammy!"

[bmbmd]

19. FM

No static at all.

(Bonus Question: A "Steely Dan" was a _______?)

[Kolesar]

20. girl's best friend

Google "Naked Lunch" by an author named Burroughs. I never read the book, myself.

[CanuckAmok]

25. Vibrator.

n/t

[RossMcLochNess]

22. Deacon Blues

n/t

[JVS]

24. Hell yeah!

[NNadir]

26. Jack of Speed for that great line...

Shiela's party there's a case in point
That right wing hooey sure stunk up the joint...

[Westegg]

31. "Your Gold Teeth" is epic!

What a fantabulous, grrooovvyyy jam!

"Dumb luck my friend/
Won't suck me in this time..."


But all mad props to "Show Biz Kids," which perfectly sums up my years (wasted) living in Hollywood:

"They got the house on the corner/
With the rug inside.
They got the booze they need/
All that money can buy.
They got the shapely bods/
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt
And for the coup-de-gras/
They're outrageous.

Show biz kids making movies/
Of themselves, you know they/
Don't give a fuck about anybody else."

[Westegg]

32. "Your Gold Teeth" is epic!

What a fantabulous, grrooovvyyy jam!

"Dumb luck my friend/
Won't suck me in this time..."

But all mad props to "Show Biz Kids," which perfectly sums up my years (wasted) living in Hollywood:

"They got the house on the corner/
With the rug inside.
They got the booze they need/
All that money can buy.
They got the shapely bods/
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt
And for the coup-de-gras/
They're outrageous.
Show biz kids making movies/
Of themselves, you know they/
Don't give a fuck about anybody else."

[Westegg]

34. Sorry for the dupe!

Sorry for the post ABOUT the dupe. Look, I was born in the 19th century---what the fuck do I know about computers and such like?

[GregW]

41. Agreed - Absolutely my fave SD song

Got a feeling I've been here before
Watching as you cross the killing floor
You know you'll have to pay it all
You'll pay today or pay tomorrow
You fasten up your beaded gown
Then you try to tie me down
Do you work it out one by one
Or played in combination
You throw out your gold teeth
Do you see how they roll
I have seen your iron and your brass
Can't you see it shine behind the glass
Your fortune is your roving eye
Your mouth and legs
Your gift for the runaround
Torture is the main attraction
I don't need that kind of action
You don't have to dance for me
I've seen your dance before
Do you throw out your gold teeth
Do you see how they roll

Tobacco they grow in Peking
In the Year of the Locust
You'll see a sad thing
Even Cathy Berberian knows
There's one roulade she can't sing
Dumb luck my friend
Won't suck me in this time

Got a feeling I've been here before
Won't you let me help you find the door
All you got to do is use
Your silver shoes
A gift for the runaround
Use your knack darlin'
Take one step back darlin'
There ain't nothing in Chicago
For a monkey woman to do
Do you throw out your gold teeth
Do you see how they roll

[KamaAina]

33. Mr. Steely (or is it Mr. Dan?) lives on Maui

year-round. (That'd be Walter Becker.) Then there are the many, many rock (and country: Travis, Kristofferson, Wille Nelson!) legends who winter over there. One such is -- Michael McDonald, who I just learned used to sing with the Dan! (McDonald's place is right up the road from my friend's, far "Upcountry" near Ha'iku.)

So, if you're still thinking that Hawai'i music consists of eighty-seven different renditions of "Tiny Bubbles", well then, "Back, Jack, do it again"...

[Bossy Monkey]

37. Michael provided the outstanding backing vocals on "Any World"

which I think is what got him the Doobies gig when Tom Johnston went fritz.

[Cooley Hurd]

35. ANYTHING on "Asa"

That's the best make-out album EVER!:thumbsup:

[ProfessorGAC]

36. Black Friday

Or, Take Me Alive.
The Professor

[tigerbeat]

38. don't really think it's their best....

....but i just love grooving to "caves of altamira". fantastic driving music for me.

and yes, "almost gothic" is right up there.

[Richardo]

39. "Time Out of Mind" from Gaucho

I am holding the mystical steeeeone.
It's di-rect from Lhasa
People are rollin' in the snow
Far from the world we know...

:D :thumbsup:

[Must_B_Free]

40. Steely Dan Is the Worst Band Ever

Just saw them live - they are a disgrace to music!!!

I want my $160 back!

[DinahMoeHum]

42. They were known for their studio albums, NOT live shows. . .

They didn't give many interviews either; however, I still have my old tapes of a several-part interview with their producer Gary Katz. This was around 1979-80, on the radio station once known as WLIR-FM (Long Island, NY)

I remember "Show-Biz Kids", though:

"...Show business kids making movies of themselves,
you know they don't give a f**k about anybody else..."


:bounce:

[Bossy Monkey]

43. Alive in America was terrific

so maybe you shouldn't be spending $160 to see a band you don't like. :)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

44. Any World

and Rose Darling.
My iPod is named Dr. Wu.