Haven't seen one in quite a minute. I always have some SD in reach, but this week I've been going especially hard on the "Pretzel Logic" album. So...no real format. Favorite songs, favorite albums...seen them in person? Whatever. Last night I was at the eye doctor and "Kid Charlemagne" came on. When it got to the "did you realize...that you were a champion in their eyes?" part, I had the biggest grin on my face. It's crazy what that song was actually about, though. If I was forced to name my top 5 SD songs, I'd prolly go:

5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
4. Hey Nineteen
3. Time out of Mind
2. Pretzel Logic (the guitar solo...GEEZ!)
1. Haitian Divorce

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"The Fez"
"Do it Again"
"Aja"
"Babylon Sisters"
"Black Cow"

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>"The Fez"
>"Do it Again"
>"Aja"
>"Babylon Sisters"
>"Black Cow"

aww shit. deacon blues gotta be in there some damnwhere. i'd be tempted to boot Aja, but naw. the fucking sonny rollins solo? no. that gotta stay.

i still got dreams of releasing an album at sixty rocking over The Fez or somethin.

as i scroll down i'll no doubt find several others on my absolutely must have list. this is a pretty impossible task.




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>aww shit. deacon blues gotta be in there some damnwhere. i'd
>be tempted to boot Aja, but naw. the fucking sonny rollins
>solo? no. that gotta stay.
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true indeed.
>as i scroll down i'll no doubt find several others on my
>absolutely must have list. this is a pretty impossible task.
>

Five is never enough with Steely Dan. I could probably list 20.

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Large Pro made a beat out of that joint and I thought it was crazy.

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So hard:

5. Glamour Profession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tub5csVUG2k
4. Kid Charlamenge : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9Xk-VoGqo
3. My Old School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA
2. Peg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7NDDQLvbo
1. Aja : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2seugAgnU

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>Haven't seen one in quite a minute. I always have some SD in
>reach, but this week I've been going especially hard on the
>"Pretzel Logic" album. So...no real format. Favorite songs,
>favorite albums...seen them in person? Whatever. Last night
>I was at the eye doctor and "Kid Charlemagne" came on. When
>it got to the "did you realize...that you were a champion in
>their eyes?" part, I had the biggest grin on my face. It's
>crazy what that song was actually about, though. If I was
>forced to name my top 5 SD songs, I'd prolly go:
>
>5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
>4. Hey Nineteen
>3. Time out of Mind
>2. Pretzel Logic (the guitar solo...GEEZ!)
>1. Haitian Divorce

My favorite Steely joints:

5. Night By Night (Jeff Da God)
4. Bodhisattva
3. Home At Last (Purdie Da God)
2. Hey Nineteen
1. Aja

One funny thing about "Pretzel Logic", in the '70s when they toured, Michael McDonald was part of their line up and he would always sing the "I stepped upon the platform" part... and that was DOPE!!!

Steely Dan was damn near all I listened to when I was outta high school... every time I hear Countdown to Ecstasy (the album) I think of going up I-77 to Charlotte

lol...I can just hear him now "...where did you get those shooooooooooooooos...where did you get those shoeoooooooos?"

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

the production secrets? (i think the documentary was on Aja, but they zoomed in on that one song for a bit). talking about how they had michael mcdonald singing basically piano chords.

incredible.

especially when you considered that he took that steez into his solo career and birthed a lotta other cats' styles offa that.


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vh1 classic albums?

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"The Purdie Shuffle"

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loved it.

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killer.

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Seems underrated by SD fans.

Great lists. My basic top 5 would change too much so let's try something different....

The top 5 sad, heavy, super depressing (but wonderfully so) Steely Dan songs:

1. Charlie Freak
2. Doctor Wu
3. The Royal Scam
4. Barrytown
5. Deacon Blues

>1. Charlie Freak

mostly because of Ed Green's half-beat shuffle (which Jeff Da God admittedly took and ran with for the years following)

but yeah, that is a really depressing song. that was a great list.

I'll add to it with later songs, just to keep the "different" going

1. Miss Marlene
2. The Night Belongs to Mona
3. Negative Girl

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hard to believe the 35 year anniversary of the "Nightfly" album

Gary Katz was the stone cold truth.

obviously today top 5 SD songs

Glamour Profession

FM with the Saxophone


my rivial


time outta mind


reelin in the years

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

who dug Time out of Mind.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

i was hoping that on one episiode when TOny was driving his SUV that "time out of mind" would be playing on that Jersey highway.

I mean Michael Mcdonald on them vocals and Mark Knoffler on guitar was sweet.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

I have ( had?) "Gold" and "Decade...".

Is the Citizen set the best comp out there? I caught a sale and think I might grab it.

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i think it's swell.

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bought on CD and tape.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

Growing up my Dad would always play PL in the car and sing along to it and I fucking hated it so much. It was awful old Dad music. I would always put headphones on to drown it out. Later I realized it was the jam and became a big Steely Dan fan.

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Anybody feelin' that album? Very slept on. Snowbound will forever be my joint.

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