Yay JK! I've been waiting for this one for a long time, as it's a favorite of mine! (Maybe because they mention my birth city!!) I was all smiles and singing along with Donald and Michael. Looking forward to when our friends react to Katy Lied as a whole, because I really love the way the album flows. Lex, there aren't any horns on this cut, but the backing vocals ARE very horn-like. Every time you guys react to Steely Dan it makes my day, and since my birthday is Sunday, (Oh! It's after midnight- Happy Birthday to me!), it feels like a gift. Thanks again, JK, Alexia and Nick! 🎵❤️🎵 Debbie P.S. Can't wait for the raffle- I've got to win sometime, right?
Happy birthday Debbie!!! Hope you enjoy your day and feel the love from us all to you!! We couldn’t do this without your ever constant love and support in the comments!! You ROCK!!! ✨ 💕 P.S. Scott A. wants you to choose a song for a marathon with Nick, then michele chooses another and Scott another! HBD to you!!!! 🎉 Let us know!!
Favorite Steely Dan album. Great request from an album full of them. 5 stars. Thanks JK. If you are still scanning comments for requests any Tragically Hip from albums Up To Here, Road Apples or Fully Completely are awsome. Have a cult following in Canada. Great reaction. Keep doing you😀.
The thing that grabbed me by the ears when I'd first heard this song was the opening lyric, "Rose darling, come to me, snake Mary's gone to bed." It didn't even matter what came after that, I was floored! Of course, the rest of the song is brilliant... so very Dan!
Jeff Porcaro is/was one of the few drummers who could found that deep pocket or groove, yet was an expert fill drummer as well. Note the fills as the rhythm and pace change. Very alive and organic, yet super tight,
For me, what makes Donald's vocal style unique is the street-wise attitude he brings to each song. He totally gets the art of storytelling, and his lyric writing completely supports this vocal style.
Strongly Recommended since your Steely Dan journey has come a long way: PIXELEEN and LUNCH WITH GINA from Everything Must Go, their last album. They are snappy, clever, funny, funky, but also swing like crazy.
Buying the albums in sequence on release, I must confess that Katy Lied was the first Steely Dan album that initially felt a little underwhelming to me. But over the years it became clear that there was a lot of subtle stuff going on here, and it gets just as much airplay now in my household as all the other albums. Every listen rewards the listener even more!
This is the album that hooked me. I so dig witnessing that deep mystical soul synergy the two of you share when you’re moving to the music together. My favorite couple!
I'm glad that you get to experience the sharing from more than one angle. More Steely Dan music is always a good thing. More Steely Dan sharing is a great thing also.
Steely Dan is your favorite band's favorite band and that is true of Steely Dan as well. I might have said that before but it's still true. Where are they going to go? Dave Brubeck Quartet? Possibly! Maybe Beatles. Can't see it. Who else is in the SD genre? Virtually nobody!! Nick and Lex, thanks for doing Rose Darling, I like it a lot, not sure what it means either. Have you done Almost Gothic?
Loving watching you guys getting into music I've known forever! You've watched the Aja documentary, so I am gobsmacked that you haven't done a reaction to Home At Last!! (at least that I could find?) An obscure recommendation for you to check out. A long defunct British band called Be Bop Deluxe. Their live album particularly - Live! In The Air Age from 1977. There is a deluxe box set of all 6 of the shows that were recorded from that tour, in full but the remastered album release is the place to start. I recommend a song call Adventures In a Yorkshire Landscape for the beautiful vibe and jaw dropping guitar work. The full live shows demonstrate a band on top of its game. The performance of AIAYL that was used shows it was NOT touched up overly in the studio beyond mixing etc. Check it out
Hi!! So glad you’re enjoying this journey with us!! We did react to that one as part of this marathon - check it out!! ruclips.net/video/74RcTwyaugA/видео.html
@@NicknLex Missed that "subliminal" reference to the song!! (old brain, me!) #nicknlexrequest Do check out Be Bop Deluxe though (it's ok, it's not Bebop!) I also see your Holdsworth love and Pierre Moerlen's Gong, which leads me to an album credited to Gong called Gazeuse! Pierre leads the band with Holdsworth on guitar. 1st track Expresso is killer!
@@kbrewski1 I saw it performed live. Vibraphone, Xylophone, Marimba, Glockenspiel all giving it that texture. My first exposure to Holdsworth. Jaw permanently on the floor!
One of my favorites thanks for filling in the missing songs JK. You can hear Michael McDonald in the background vocals. The meaning of the lyrics is always up for grabs with a variety of realities folding in on each other. Someday you will have heard them all. More to come.
My take on the lyrics has always been that they are singing about sneaking into a dorm room to spend the night. Snake Mary is the grad student dorm rule enforcer, or maybe even a nun at a girls school. You gotta wait til she is sleeping to have your fun. I spent 4 years of my life either sneaking girls into my room or sneaking into their room. We avoided many Snake Marys.
Don’t forget about Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go albums. I have a feeling they’ll be some of your favorite songs, and you guys still have a bunch from both to listen to.
SD Musical production goal: Fagan, Becker and Katz drove each song to achieve musical perfection first then they modified the song with the goal to ensure that the listener would desire to listen to the song over and over again!
Thank you Nick and Lex! Like you, I’m conflicted about wanting to hear the rest of Steely Dan but not too quickly! I think the only songs left on Katy Lied are Everyone’s Gone to the Movies and Throw Back the Little Ones. Rose Darling has Dean Parks on guitar and Michael McDonald on backup. Too darn short!
Don't shy away from Can't Buy A Thrill,guys-- full of great songs! Thanks for this one..Katy Lied was my first album purchase by them,tho I'd heard the first two (my brother had them) Cheers! :-) T PS: FYI...Toto's drummer - Jeff Porcaro,was featured on Katy Lied.
You have gotten to see the Alan Parsons Project, at least! Won't go into the lyrics, but good to see you two rocking to the Dan once again! I think that we can only say that some of their pieces have more of what each of us personally likes than the other pieces. As you perfectly said, they always try to give their best. And their best is very good indeed.
Forgive me if you already reacted to this but, “Here at the western world” is a great steely Dan song to give a listen to. I think it was only released on there greatest hits.
Another great track from an amazing band! Never disappointing. Thanks JK , glad you something from Katy Lied! I only know a couple from that album! Love to all here! Thanks for the reaction Nick and Alexa what Is it Alexis? Ummm. I mean Alexia! 😂
My dad had a saying "Sounds like he's got marbles in his mouth". It was a derogatory comment I never completely understood. Until I heard Donald. I don't mean it in a negative way but he sometimes sings like he's got marbles in his mouth.
On the Dunes, On the dunes, you will be mezmorized by the smoothest Donald Fagen song ever recorded,been a few months sines I discovered it by accident cheers🎉
Yeah - I don't think they have a bad song. I don't remember ever hearing this one, and, as usual, it's not just the music that's interesting, it's also the lyrics. I just read this song's lyrics for the first time, and here's my initial reaction. "Snake Mary" is his wife, and the marriage isn't working. He's remembering an old girlfriend named Rose, and thinking he should have chosen her. That was my first interpretation. But I was bothered by the line "all our steaming sounds of love cannot disturb her in her night or raise her sleeping head", and I thought "did he KILL his wife"? Anyways, these are my thoughts literally less than 30 minutes after reading the lyrics.
@@KawaTony1964think these are teenagers. Mary could be one of their moms or someone else in authority like a "house mother". Now that she's asleep they can get at it.
It's still amazing how Nick was so against getting into SD because of the supposed over hype back then. Obviously now there was never any over hype. Just pure honest reality about SD.
You really should have been listening to the music of Steely Dan from the FIRST ALBUM ONWARDS!! You could then hear the natural progression of Walter and Donalds' songwriting in Steely Dan from the ground up and not backwards! Now how about the song 'Your Gold Teeth 2' from the same album? I am sure that you will appreciate the chord changes and the guitar solo by Denny Dias.
Please don't "should" on our friends. I, myself, had only heard the radio hits until Aja came out and a date played it for me. I became an instant fan and went and bought their whole back catalogue. After that, I went so far as to tell myself I could never marry a guy who didn't also love Steely Dan! I didn't find him until I was 36, but we just celebrated our 29th anniversary and we still harmonize to every SD song we play!
@@debrabrabenec3731 Fair enough, a piece of ADVICE to anyone exploring the music of Steely Dan or ANY other artist, for that matter. Start at the beginning. That way, it is like you are growing with the artist and appreciation for the music will grow accordingly. To some this may be a case of diminishing returns. However, and in the case of Steely Dan, the songs become richer and, harmonically at least, more complex.
The lyrics and vocal delivery are very Dylan-ish. This song feels more dated than many of the other tracks on the album, but still a fun listen, and great musicianship, as always! 👍🏼🎸🎼❤️😎
I wonder if you have watched any of the Donald fagan interviews on RUclips. He gets a bit cranky on the Dutch one, but when he has I need the viewer on the same wave length he is very open. Interesting what he had to say about drum machines..
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Yay JK! I've been waiting for this one for a long time, as it's a favorite of mine! (Maybe because they mention my birth city!!) I was all smiles and singing along with Donald and Michael. Looking forward to when our friends react to Katy Lied as a whole, because I really love the way the album flows.
Lex, there aren't any horns on this cut, but the backing vocals ARE very horn-like.
Every time you guys react to Steely Dan it makes my day, and since my birthday is Sunday, (Oh! It's after midnight- Happy Birthday to me!), it feels like a gift.
Thanks again, JK, Alexia and Nick!
🎵❤️🎵 Debbie
P.S. Can't wait for the raffle- I've got to win sometime, right?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my music sister !! Enjoy your day and hope it’s a wonderful year! Dan Hugs 🤗 💖😽🎂 🥳
Happy birthday Debbie! Glad it coincided with my request!
Happy birthday Debbie!!! Hope you enjoy your day and feel the love from us all to you!! We couldn’t do this without your ever constant love and support in the comments!! You ROCK!!! ✨ 💕
P.S. Scott A. wants you to choose a song for a marathon with Nick, then michele chooses another and Scott another! HBD to you!!!! 🎉 Let us know!!
@@NicknLex Hey can I get in on that?
@@NicknLex Yes! You’re a winner, Debbie! And Scott and JK, I’d be honored. Generous and fun! Thank you! 😽💖
Not only isn't there a bad Steely Dan song, but you can say that 90% of their songs are exceptionally good and outstanding
Favorite Steely Dan album. Great request from an album full of them. 5 stars. Thanks JK. If you are still scanning comments for requests any Tragically Hip from albums Up To Here, Road Apples or Fully Completely are awsome. Have a cult following in Canada. Great reaction. Keep doing you😀.
The thing that grabbed me by the ears when I'd first heard this song was the opening lyric, "Rose darling, come to me, snake Mary's gone to bed." It didn't even matter what came after that, I was floored! Of course, the rest of the song is brilliant... so very Dan!
Jeff Porcaro is/was one of the few drummers who could found that deep pocket or groove, yet was an expert fill drummer as well. Note the fills as the rhythm and pace change. Very alive and organic, yet super tight,
For me, what makes Donald's vocal style unique is the street-wise attitude he brings to each song. He totally gets the art of storytelling, and his lyric writing completely supports this vocal style.
Strongly Recommended since your Steely Dan journey has come a long way: PIXELEEN and LUNCH WITH GINA from Everything Must Go, their last album. They are snappy, clever, funny, funky, but also swing like crazy.
Love those songs!!
Deadly songwriting with a transcendent musicality…
Buying the albums in sequence on release, I must confess that Katy Lied was the first Steely Dan album that initially felt a little underwhelming to me. But over the years it became clear that there was a lot of subtle stuff going on here, and it gets just as much airplay now in my household as all the other albums. Every listen rewards the listener even more!
@@kbrewski1 Spot on. For me Katy Lied, Aja, and Nightfly (I consider it Steely Dan).
Katy Lied is such a good album.
Still haven't done, Everyone's Gone to the Movies?? There's a twisted masterpiece! Can't wait.
Agreed, and such a twisted song (in a good way!) with a happy sounding chorus!
Yes! A slightly skeezy song with an upbeat melody. Kind of like Rose Darling!
Island Heaven!
Love that one!
@@JKonstage Yes, SO skeezy!
There’s still more to explore on Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go
Yes! How is it that they are missing these latter releases?
The vocal cord on the chorus is awesome. One of their best.
Dean Parks with the tasty guitar solo.
This is the album that hooked me. I so dig witnessing that deep mystical soul synergy the two of you share when you’re moving to the music together. My favorite couple!
I'm glad that you get to experience the sharing from more than one angle. More Steely Dan music is always a good thing. More Steely Dan sharing is a great thing also.
On long road trips I would listen to this whole Katy Lied recording singing along to every song. This song I especially enjoyed singing.
Steely Dan is your favorite band's favorite band and that is true of Steely Dan as well. I might have said that before but it's still true. Where are they going to go? Dave Brubeck Quartet? Possibly! Maybe Beatles. Can't see it. Who else is in the SD genre? Virtually nobody!!
Nick and Lex, thanks for doing Rose Darling, I like it a lot, not sure what it means either. Have you done Almost Gothic?
Just getting to this today- their music is so good! Thank you somuch :)
Loving watching you guys getting into music I've known forever! You've watched the Aja documentary, so I am gobsmacked that you haven't done a reaction to Home At Last!! (at least that I could find?) An obscure recommendation for you to check out. A long defunct British band called Be Bop Deluxe. Their live album particularly - Live! In The Air Age from 1977. There is a deluxe box set of all 6 of the shows that were recorded from that tour, in full but the remastered album release is the place to start. I recommend a song call Adventures In a Yorkshire Landscape for the beautiful vibe and jaw dropping guitar work. The full live shows demonstrate a band on top of its game. The performance of AIAYL that was used shows it was NOT touched up overly in the studio beyond mixing etc. Check it out
Hi!! So glad you’re enjoying this journey with us!! We did react to that one as part of this marathon - check it out!!
ruclips.net/video/74RcTwyaugA/видео.html
@@NicknLex Missed that "subliminal" reference to the song!! (old brain, me!) #nicknlexrequest Do check out Be Bop Deluxe though (it's ok, it's not Bebop!) I also see your Holdsworth love and Pierre Moerlen's Gong, which leads me to an album credited to Gong called Gazeuse! Pierre leads the band with Holdsworth on guitar. 1st track Expresso is killer!
@@kbrewski1 I saw it performed live. Vibraphone, Xylophone, Marimba, Glockenspiel all giving it that texture. My first exposure to Holdsworth. Jaw permanently on the floor!
One of my favorites thanks for filling in the missing songs JK. You can hear Michael McDonald in the background vocals. The meaning of the lyrics is always up for grabs with a variety of realities folding in on each other. Someday you will have heard them all. More to come.
My take on the lyrics has always been that they are singing about sneaking into a dorm room to spend the night. Snake Mary is the grad student dorm rule enforcer, or maybe even a nun at a girls school. You gotta wait til she is sleeping to have your fun. I spent 4 years of my life either sneaking girls into my room or sneaking into their room. We avoided many Snake Marys.
Don’t forget about Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go albums. I have a feeling they’ll be some of your favorite songs, and you guys still have a bunch from both to listen to.
Great request JK. Loved your reaction you two. Lex I hope your back feels better.
Thank you for this! Love this song.
Love it..bought this album the day it came out..keep em comin' my Rocky MTN FRIENDS...Kent.
I remember when it came out I was a bit disappointed by it. Boy was I ever wrong!
SD Musical production goal: Fagan, Becker and Katz drove each song to achieve musical perfection first then they modified the song with the goal to ensure that the listener would desire to listen to the song over and over again!
Thank you Nick and Lex! Like you, I’m conflicted about wanting to hear the rest of Steely Dan but not too quickly! I think the only songs left on Katy Lied are Everyone’s Gone to the Movies and Throw Back the Little Ones. Rose Darling has Dean Parks on guitar and Michael McDonald on backup. Too darn short!
Don't shy away from Can't Buy A Thrill,guys-- full of great songs! Thanks for this one..Katy Lied was my first album purchase by them,tho I'd heard the first two (my brother had them) Cheers! :-) T PS: FYI...Toto's drummer - Jeff Porcaro,was featured on Katy Lied.
They just mentioned in this vid that they've reacted to 3 songs from it.@@kbrewski1
Normally I would hate that twangy guitar sound but of course with Steely Dan it totally works. Another great record.
One of my favorites.
Katy lied is close to AJA …….not a bad song or lyric on the Katy album….god bless Donald and Walter….
Michael McDonald on backing vocals! Dean Parks solo on guitar!
You have gotten to see the Alan Parsons Project, at least! Won't go into the lyrics, but good to see you two rocking to the Dan once again! I think that we can only say that some of their pieces have more of what each of us personally likes than the other pieces. As you perfectly said, they always try to give their best. And their best is very good indeed.
So glad you got around to this reaction---love this whole album. I literally cant listen to Steely dan without grabbing my bass---and go!!
Haitian Divorce or Cousin Dupree by SD, would love to see you react to either of them please.
They reacted to Haitian Divorce almost two years ago if you search for it.
Forgive me if you already reacted to this but, “Here at the western world” is a great steely Dan song to give a listen to. I think it was only released on there greatest hits.
I was just listening to this LIVE concert from ‘20.
It is time to react to Steely Dan's Charlie Freak.
Maybe at Christmas!
Yes! I love Katy Lied, one of my favorites. You mentioned The Bear, you should check out Jive Miguel's new mix, it's amazing!
Another great track from an amazing band! Never disappointing. Thanks JK , glad you something from Katy Lied! I only know a couple from that album! Love to all here! Thanks for the reaction Nick and Alexa what Is it Alexis? Ummm. I mean Alexia! 😂
My dad had a saying "Sounds like he's got marbles in his mouth". It was a derogatory comment I never completely understood. Until I heard Donald. I don't mean it in a negative way but he sometimes sings like he's got marbles in his mouth.
On the Dunes, On the dunes, you will be mezmorized by the smoothest Donald Fagen song ever recorded,been a few months sines I discovered it by accident cheers🎉
Great Tune! Thanks.
Good song. You won't be disappointed.
EVERY STEELY DAN'S A JOURNEY/AN ADVENTURE MUSICAL AND POETIC DARK ,SOMETIMES WITH HUMOR...WALTER BECKER AND DONALD FAGEN ARE MY HEROES FOR ETERNITY...
Still haven’t done Jack of Speed from Two Against Nature. One of my favorites!!
Shamelessplug - Citizen Dan at Buffalo Rose Sept 22. Maybe see you there??
There is still some cool SD bootleg songs you should listen to. "A Horse in Town", "Soul Ram", "Old Regime", "Dog Eat Dog", etc.
We have theory about the lyrics now. What are the lyrics really about?
Teenage fooling around?
When I first heard it, I thought it was a love song. Then I thought it was about a sex worker😂. Can’t help thinking Snake Mary is a madam
As it often is with Steely Dan, the whole thing could be an extended drug reference.
Yeah - I don't think they have a bad song. I don't remember ever hearing this one, and, as usual, it's not just the music that's interesting, it's also the lyrics. I just read this song's lyrics for the first time, and here's my initial reaction. "Snake Mary" is his wife, and the marriage isn't working. He's remembering an old girlfriend named Rose, and thinking he should have chosen her. That was my first interpretation. But I was bothered by the line "all our steaming sounds of love cannot disturb her in her night or raise her sleeping head", and I thought "did he KILL his wife"? Anyways, these are my thoughts literally less than 30 minutes after reading the lyrics.
@@KawaTony1964think these are teenagers. Mary could be one of their moms or someone else in authority like a "house mother". Now that she's asleep they can get at it.
It's still amazing how Nick was so against getting into SD because of the supposed over hype back then. Obviously now there was never any over hype. Just pure honest reality about SD.
The really is no such thing as a dodgy Steely Dan track. Fagen and Becker are just so exceptional!
You guys have to do countermoon from the album Kamakiriad ! I guarantee you will love this track😊
The chorus for Rose Darling sounds more like it could have been on “Can’t Buy a Thrill” or “Pretzel Logic”
When I heard this in the 70s it was such a disappointment. It took about 30 years to make sense but I got there in the end.
Good reactions!!!!
You really should have been listening to the music of Steely Dan from the FIRST ALBUM ONWARDS!! You could then hear the natural progression of Walter and Donalds' songwriting in Steely Dan from the ground up and not backwards!
Now how about the song 'Your Gold Teeth 2' from the same album? I am sure that you will appreciate the chord changes and the guitar solo by Denny Dias.
There is an earlier reaction to that song if you look for it.
Please don't "should" on our friends. I, myself, had only heard the radio hits until Aja came out and a date played it for me. I became an instant fan and went and bought their whole back catalogue. After that, I went so far as to tell myself I could never marry a guy who didn't also love Steely Dan! I didn't find him until I was 36, but we just celebrated our 29th anniversary and we still harmonize to every SD song we play!
@@debrabrabenec3731 Fair enough, a piece of ADVICE to anyone exploring the music of Steely Dan or ANY other artist, for that matter. Start at the beginning. That way, it is like you are growing with the artist and appreciation for the music will grow accordingly. To some this may be a case of diminishing returns. However, and in the case of Steely Dan, the songs become richer and, harmonically at least, more complex.
@@kbrewski1 It was too late then, evidently.
The lyrics and vocal delivery are very Dylan-ish.
This song feels more dated than many of the other tracks on the album, but still a fun listen, and great musicianship, as always!
👍🏼🎸🎼❤️😎
I wonder if you have watched any of the Donald fagan interviews on RUclips.
He gets a bit cranky on the Dutch one, but when he has I need the viewer on the same wave length he is very open.
Interesting what he had to say about drum machines..
Was there a July raffle? Did I miss it?
Classical chord progression during the transition and Mike McDonald to boot!
wow so glas you missed this - one of my favorite- maybe you were in Detroit with lots of money in the bank lol!
Still waiting for "True Companion." You'll be sorry you didn't listen to it sooner.
The best era of Steely is the first CBA Thrill to Katy Lied and Royal Scam Aja Gaucho were great for the end of the ride they had .
Yes it is and is a very polished shiny finish ,Deacon Blues is my fav song from that but I like the original vibe the best @@kbrewski1
@@kbrewski1All the albums are great.
Another unreleased gem, Kule Baba. Steely Dan has an African adventure!
What is the Steely Dan hole? Don’t answer that.
You mixed Only A Fool with Any Major Dude
So so tasty! ❤