Top 10 Songs: Steely Dan
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Join host Pete Pardo and special guest Mike Antonelli from The Brewery at Orange County Hops as they each run down their top 10 Steely Dan songs as well as some honorable mentions. Also, check out our interview with Mike from last summer here: • Beer & Jazz at The Bre...
Love Steely Dan, there are no bad Steely Dan tracks. Btw, I graduated High School in 1982 and as I drove out of the parking lot after graduation I blasted My Old School...and, Ive never been back, lol
HAHAA!!I I graduated in ‘82, too, and share your sentiment 100%, man!!
i bet you didnt think the girl could be so cruel.
"Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car!" Kid Charlemagne.
Picking a top ten of Steely Dan is like reading a killer novel and picking out favorite chapters. To hear a random Steely Dan song on the radio is what radio and great music were built for. Timeless, transcendent and untouchable.
You could sit a committee of ten people together, and they'd all choose different tracks, such was the sheer brilliance of SD's catalog.
September, vacationing in the Florida keys, I was 13 years old. I came out of the cabin rental and I immediately hear the beginning of Black Cow blasting from the RV area about 50 yards away. I followed the song and it got louder and louder until I found my friend, Manolo “Moly” Hernandez with his stereo out and blasting!! My life changed that afternoon. Moly holds to this day this day that he catches more fish when he plays Aja on the boat...even the fish know. Even the fish know.
Took me a while to warm up to Steely Dan. I was a metal head in my youth. But once I did I discovered the guitar work on all of their records is absolute genius. So tasteful.
My personal top 10 countdown:
10. Do It Again
9. Kid Charlemagne
8. Midnight Cruiser
7. Home At Last
6. Dirty Work
5. FM
4. Peg
3. Hey Nineteen
2. Green Earrings
1. The Royal Scam
Honorable Mentions: 11. Don't Take Me Alive, 12. Deacon Blues, 13. Babylon Sisters, 14. Josie, 15. Here At The Western World, 16. The Fez (these songs combined with my top ten, fit on one CD)
Green Earings... exactly what I was thinking
Don Campbell allow GP too
Kudos to "Home At Last".
Great Band!
My top 10 Songs:
1. Kid Charlemagne
2. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
3. Only a Fool Would Say That
4. Bad Sneakers
5. Hey Nineteen
6. Deacon Blues
7. My Old School
8. Haitian Divorce
9. Doctor Wu
10. Don’t Take Me Alive
Very little love for Can't Buy A Thrill.
Only a fool!! Great tune
@@jamesmack3314 Unique
Great list too
10. Haitian Divorce
9. Black Friday
8. Any Major Dude
7. Kings
6. Dirty Work
5. The Royal Scam
4. Bad Sneakers
3. My Old School
2. Deacon Blues
1. Don't Take Me Alive
Nice list. Mine is close
I was talking to a local DJ that had gone from spinning vinyl to having a talk show, and we both brought up ‘Countdown to Ecstasy’. He wanted to know if I liked the whole album or just a few cuts. I said I liked the whole album, ‘Razor Boy’ came to mind for me. Jeff Baxter is playing a slide guitar, and the whole song reminded me of some people who I knew back then who were living beyond their means. It made you feel like the repo man was just around the corner. Two or three years later we got to see Steely Dan with the late Walter Becker. Donald Fagen said they were going to play ‘Razor Boy’, but the beautiful backup singers were going to fill the slide guitar part. It always made me wonder if the boys had been listening to that syndicated talk show I was on. Didn’t matter, because I was just thrilled they played the majority of the album. They may not have toured much in their early years, but I was really reeling in the years when they started to play. Very professional musicians!! RIP Walter … a little piece of my school days were gone.
You both had Aja on your lists, but neither of you mentioned the name of drummer Steve Gadd, who absolutely killed it on that record. Speaking of drummers, there was no mention of Bernard Purdie and “the Purdie Shuffle”. The drummers were an integral part of the Steely Dan sound.
You are so right on! 2 of the best drummers in the business and a huge part of the Dan's story...
Rick moratta on "peg"
You are absolutely right about this...
Moratta, Gadd, Purdie, Porcaro, Chambers, Carlock...
Yeah watching this a year later and it’s the first thing I thought as well...no mention of any of the drummers...both had Aja and no mention of Gadd, no Purdie or Marotta?!!
Great top lists, mine today would be:
1 Hey Nineteen
2 FM
3 Peg
4 Black Cow
5 Time Out of Mind
6 Kid Charlemagne
7 Deacon Blues
8 The Fez
9 Babylon Sister
10 Do it Again
These guys know about music, I love how you guys talk about the songs, arrangements, musicians and the stories, thank you, this channel is awsome keep it up, cheers from Costa Rica
One of my favorite channels, thoughtful critques and commentary. Thanks Pete Pardo
Great video. You guys nailed it. My Top 10 is as follows:
1. Do It Again
2. Deacon Blues
3. My Old School
4. Kid Charlemagne
5. Reelin' in the Years
6. Dirty Work
7. Black Cow
8. Don't Take Me Alive
9. FM
10.Rikki Don't Lose That Number.
Your list is DEAD ON! Looking at it really brings into focus the complete awesomeness that is Fagen and Becker (RIP) and DO IT AGAIN is quite simply as good as music gets! Total ear candy and the pinnacle of musicianship and creativity....an exotic gem-never get tired of hearing it! Richard-you and I have great taste and should run our own Steely Dan music station. Cheers!
My favorite SD tune will always be Deacon Blues. So smooth. Musical perfection.
Me too - among many others. Love Steely Dan. So Unique.
"Sign in stranger" is great.
beckblowbyblow you zombie be born again my friend
probably their most criminally underated song
True Man of Culture spotted!
A real favorite.
JOSIE ???????????
Dr Wu, and Black Cow, outrageous!
So outrageous!
@@juaneato nice one
1- Aja
2- The Royal Scam
3- Night by Night
4- Doctor Wu
5- Your gold Teeth
6- Barrytown
7- Any Major Dude Will Tell You
8- Do It Again
9- Pretzel Logic
10- Home at Last
Arnaud B. rikkie don't lose that # is my fav too!
1) King of the World 2) Your Gold Teeth II 3) Peg 4) Almost Gothic 5) Charlie Freak 6) Deacon Blues 7) Chain Lightning 8) Aja 9) Pretzel Logic 10) Barrytown
The only list I’ve seen with gold teeth II.
Pearl of the quarter always gets me
Deacon blues has the perfect night vibes.
I truly enjoyed that alot… 🍻🍻
Excellent Pete, I loved that one, and more of Mike please, he's a very interesting guy
I'm amazed that no-one mentions 'Charlie Freak' from Pretzel Logic. A complete, heartfelt tragedy in 3 minutes with exquisite piano. 'Barrytown' (also from PL) becomes more relevant with each passing day. Neither have the fireworks of a 'Kid Charlemagne' or 'Do It Again' but they're absolute pearls of songwriting.
Wow, my list is VERY different. I'm just a few years younger than you guys, so I still have been listening to Steely Dan for 30+ years, and I'm tired of their most popular songs. So my list goes as follows:
1. Dr. Wu
2. Third World Man
3. Here at the Western World
4. Brooklyn
5. Don't Take Me Alive
6. Barrytown
7. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
8. Black Cow
9. The Royal Scam
10. Gaucho
I love a lot of the lyrical aspects to most of these. In Dr. Wu, the famous sax solo actually is like a drug trip, which makes it even more special. Here at the Western World is an amusing story of a brothel. People always wonder about Brooklyn, but it describes when the guys lived in (or visited a friend at) an apartment. The downstairs neighbor would often be out on his balcony, loudly complaining to his wife about how the world had done him wrong, and owed him. They called the guy "the charmer," and made a song about his gripes. Barrytown is about the Moonies in Tarrytown, not far from where you live, Pete. Black Cow is a sad story of a guy whose love for the girl is unreqited, but he still looks out for her. I always thought it would be fun to write a novel that intertwined the lives of all the various characters in the Steely Dan songs. Glamour Profession just missed my list, but that drug dealer's life would make a good story all by itself!
Marc Rikmenspoel Great to see Dr Wu get some love.
THANK YOU for Western World. Why is that my fav? I love all their songs but that one grabs me the most....
I haven't been able to get My Old School out of my head for days. Thanks guys.
The Boston Rag is my favorite, also Dirty Work, Dr. Wu, Pretzel Logic, Don't Take Me Alive, Black Cow, Aja, Josie, Fm & Babylon Sisters.
That's a fucking great list.
Missing Night by Night
Got a case of dynamite, I could hold out here all night, well I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me alive....
I know you're out there with rage in your eyes and your megaphones...
My favorite Steely Dan song.
bad ass
Brilliant song.
I'm a young metalhead and I live in Oregon,I heard that song the first time the other day and whoa I was like yeeeeaah!
My Top 10:
1. Do it Again
2. Deacon Blues
3. Bodhisattva
4. Don't Take Me Alive
5. My Old School
6. The Royal Scam
7. Night by Night
8. Glamour Profession
9. King of the World
10. Only a Fool Would Say That
Also want to give a shout to Preztel Logic, which has my favourite line in a SD song
"He said, You must be joking son
Where did you get those shoes?"
Do It Again is the pinnacle of musicality-exotic beauty, groove, intelligence, irresistible melody.....makes me want to live forever! Steely Dan is the champagne of rock and roll!
Lots of great jazz players played with Steely Dan! It was great, name dropping the players! Enjoyed this video very much! You both made my day!
Excellent rave up guys..... love listening to the enthusiasm coming forth.....
I have never been able to work out if Steely Dan went out of their way to track my thoughts and feelings or if I found a meaning in their songs that fit so well the hours of my days and nights.
Thanks guys, got me diggin' through my library.
Great video. I'm so pleased that Mike put West of Hollywood in his list. I agree that the saxaphone solo on this song is really special. My mind just leaves my body and goes somewhere else when I listen to this track. PS many thanks Pete and Mike. I liked both of your lists.
My top 10 would look something like this....
10. "Fez, The" / Steely Dan / Album: The Royal Scam (1976)
09. "Babylon Sister" / Steely Dan / Album: Gaucho (1980)
08. "Bodhisattva" / Steely Dan / Album: Countdown To Ecstasy (1974)
07. "Pretzel Logic" / Steely Dan / Album: Pretzel Logic (1974)
06. "F.M. (No Static At All)" / Steely Dan / Album: FM (Soundtrack) (1978)
05. “Time Out Of Mind” / Steely Dan / Album: Gaucho (1980)
04. "Deacon Blues" / Steely Dan / Album: Aja (1977)
03. "Kid Charlemagne" / Steely Dan / Album: The Royal Scam (1976)
02. “Don’t Take Me Alive” / Steely Dan / Album: Royal Scam (1976)
01. “Aja” / Steely Dan / Album: Aja (1977)
Big fan of SD and this show - thank you for this really great viewing
10) I got the news 9) Hey Nineteen 8) Dirty work 7) Josie 6) Everyone’s gone to the movies 5) Black cow 4) Aja 3) Kid Charlemagne 2) Don’t take me alive 1) Deacon Blues
I’m very late, but I see nothing but awesome people here who listen to amazing music. It motivates me to share my love for this amazing band. My top ten right now, in no particular order, is
Your gold teeth II
Turn that heartbeat over again
Only a fool would say that
Godwhacker
Glamour profession
Green earrings
The Boston rag
Bodishattva
Bad sneakers
Time out of mind
There is no wrong top ten list for Steely Dan! The entire repertoire is phenomenal!
I'm really glad one of you mentioned songs from the last two albums. It is Jazzy, but the vocal harmonies are what shine for me. So many incredible places where they just shimmer with dissonance and decadence!
Rikki - "I never get enough of that tune". Perfect. I feel exactly the same. I'll submit Gaucho's Glamour Profession for pure sonic bliss.
Jack and his radar... stalking the (don’t know what he says here!) bay eels, at the wheel... with his EURASIAN WIFE!
@@jason_samosa Stalking the dread Moray Eel...(the usual cast of unsavory characters)
And, Mike was great, bring him back, really enjoyed the back and forth discussion, awesome video.
I guess it's because of their attention to detail and settling for nothing short of perfection from their session players, but there's no such thing as a bad Steely Dan Top Ten list. Not every track was a commercial success, but it was guaranteed to be done well. I can't think of another band from any genre that I can say the same thing for. Personally I couldn't do a Top Ten without Dirty Work, but everything else was solid. Mike was great! Would love to see him again.
New sub. I'm in a Steely Dan...thing....lately. Im going through a deepening of my love for them. So many songs. So much to enjoy. So many reasons. So i in the mood to watch people talk about them and add my 2c.
You mention their jazz influences but man they had a toe in country as well. Swooping harmonies. Steel guitars. Lots of their players were very comfortable with country music. It fits so well too. That has always been something i really appreciate about steely dan is how seamlessly they braid together. It's not an easy mashup.
Show biz kids is one of my very fav songs by them! "Lost Wages" is wordplay for Las Vegas. I love the backing vox here and the phrasing of the melody. It shuffles along kind of like harlem shuffle?
I also really really love midnite cruiser. "Thelonius my old friend.
More later i will edit. Now im chasing "song for my father" edit: delicious! And a very accurate sample there.
I love so many of these songs you listed for the same reasons.
Drink scotch whiskey all night long...and die behind the the wheel! Whaaaaaaaaaaa!
I think I really like their funky stuff i guess. Hey nineteen. FM. Peg. Fez. Black Friday. Bad sneakers.
We might be the same age because the first song I remember from them is rikki alap and i didn't like it. I also didnt like sultans of swing or baker street. I was young. I got my shit together.
Love this video. Looking forward to more content and discussion.
Um. Sir. We wanna see that tattoo. 😂
Very late here. Love Steely Dan.
This is hard. I can't rank these at all, but these are my rough top 10 (in no particular order):
Deacon Blues
Peg
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
The Fez
The Boston Rag
Gaucho
The Caves of Altamira
Parker's Band
Dirty Work
Third World Man
Many people here have said Steely Dan didn't really make a bad tune. I fully concur. Didn't make a bad album, either. Everything they did was brilliant, and this top 10 list doesn't begin to scratch the surface; it just feels so incomplete. I could have stuffed a dozen more on here with ease.
D T19 I completely agree with that list
The REALLY TOP of bands.
RESPECT !!!
Two very cool guys with two very cool lists I also like Night by night, The Boston rag, Change of the guard, Don't take me alive, Home at last, Josie, Chain lighting Haitian divorce, Peg. So many great tunes Thanks Pete.
My favs:
1. Doctor Wu
2. Here At The Western World
3. Black Cow
4. Everyone’s Gone To The Movies
5. Midnight Cruiser
6. Chain Lightning
7. Gaucho
8. Aja
9. Babylon Sisters
10. Lunch With Gina
My top ten list is below. A few of the tunes are a bit interchangeable depending on the day of the week, but not number one. Deacon Blues is the greatest song in the history of Western music.
1. Deacon Blues
2. Glamour Profession
3. The Caves of Altamira
4. Rikki
5. Josie
6. Hey Nineteen
7. FM
8. Here at the Western World
9. The Fez
10. Do It Again
Agreed-Deacon Blues is about as exotic, classy, melodic, witty, intelligent and just plain masterful as music gets-I have heard it hundreds of times and still......it's not enough, I need to hear it another two-hundred times! Great shout out, brother! Cheers, Treff
My Top 10 Steely Dan. This is tough, tons of wonderful songs.
1. My Old School
2. Kid Charlemagne
3. Dirty Work
4. Decan Blues
5. Do It Again
6. The Fez
7. Reeling in the Years
8. Aja
9. Peg
10. Black Friday
Honorable mention is Pete's #1 Rikki Don't Lose That Number. I think it is their least musically and lyrically complex song. But it is just so damn catchy and I love hearing it even if it is played over and over again on the radio. Steely Dan can't write a bad song or make a bad album. They are very unique in that regard, no stinkers.
Discovering the deeper Steely tunes as I mostly was just a radio listener up to recently. Listening to each song as you rank them so thanks for pointing out the noteworthy ones.
10. Doctor Wu
9. Night by Night
8. King of the World
7. Home at Last
6. Kid Charlemange
5. Josie
4. Do it Again
3. Deacon Blues
2. Pretzel Logic
1. Don't take me Alive
Honorable Mention... Peg..The Royal Scam..Any Major Dude will Tell You..Pearl of the Quarter.
1.Home At Last
After that I find it almost impossible to rank. Such talent and musicianship but I'll add Time Out of Mind, FM, Black Cow, Aja, Babylon Sisters, Any Major Dude Will Tell You, Dont Take Me Alive, The Fez
for me :
10: Daddy Don't Live In New York City No More
9: Everyone's Gone To The Movies
8: The Boston Rag
7: FM (No Static At All)
6: Do It Again
5: Dirty Work
4: King Of The World
3: Hey Nineteen
2: Haitian Divorce
1: Peg
But to be honest, it's a fool's errand. Like dividing kids. Honourable mentions: Bodhisattva, Show Biz Kids, Pearl Of The Quarter Your Gold Teeth, Reelin In The Years, Fire In The Hole, Through With Buzz, Charlie Freak, Monkey In Your Soul, Night By Night, Green Earrings.... everything else 🤣
I've got King of the World in my top 10 as well. Very underrated.
1. Night by night
2. King of the World
3. Pretzel Logic
4. Kid Charlemagne
5. Don't take me alive
6. Brooklyn
7. Any major dude
8. Hey nineteen
9. My Old School
10. Do it again
When I saw the title for this video, my first thought was...good luck with that !
Having a beer and shooting the musical breeze with these cats would make me insanely happy. Legends.
My son and I have an ongoing joke about Show Biz Kids with the female vocals uttering "That's Regis"
So great to hear Mike reference how young Jeff Porcaro was at the time. My wife and I first marveled at a 17 year-old Porcaro drumming for Sonny & Cher at a March 19, 1972 concert in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Then 2 years later we're attending our first Steely Dan concert on April 21, 1974 at the U. of Toledo when we recognize Jeff tandem drumming alongside Jim Hodder. He had just turned 20 on April 1st. It was so great to see his face on 1975's "Katy Lied" album cover, assuming the role of drummer Jim Gordon on their "Pretzel Logic" LP.
Katy Lied is my favorite Dan album. It’s just incredible start to finish. Followed by Aja. Then Royal Scam. It’s all great.
Probably the hardest group to do a top 10 for. I will have to omit amazing songs.
1. Deacon Blues
2. Home at Last
3. Caves of Altamira
4. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
5. Do it Again
6. Kid Charlemagne
7. Aja
8. Sign in Stranger
9. Kings
10. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Another great video Pete. I also really enjoy Mikes's stories in this and the Zappa top 10 lists. When a saw Steely Dan back in '93 two highlights were, a instrumental version of Green Earring's and a version of Home At Last like a have never heard of previously or ever since but I'll never forget.
1. The Royal Scam: title track
2. Bodhisattva: Countdown to Ecstasy, first track
3. Reelin in the Years: Can't Buy A Thrill, hit of course
4. Night by Night: Pretzel Logic
5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
6. Josie: Aja, there great at album closers, they're so jazzy
7. Do it Again ~ Can't Buy A Thrill
8. Black Friday ~ Katy Lied
9. West of Hollywood: Two Against Nature, they have great closers!
10. King of the World: Countdown to Ecstasy, great closer!
Glad to hear the love for Night by Night
What's my favorite Steely Dan song? Whatever one I'm listening to!!! Nobody mentioned "Fire In the Hole" from Can't Buy a Thrill. Great pedal steel playing from Skunk Baxter. Fagen playing the piano like Monk. 🔥
Awesome video dudes 🙏 for me it's all about the caves 🤘
thanks great vid!
royal scam,aja,dr wu,glamour profession,time out of mind, haitian divorce, babylon sisters...
Love Steely Dan. Do they have any bad songs? Naaaaa..... :D
I don't think they have a bad song. Although when I listen to full albums I skip, Chain Lightning, Show Biz Kids, Everything You Did, I Got The News, Janie Runaway, and I almost never listen to the album Everything Must Go. Overall, that's pretty good, only a handful of songs.
@@theivory1 Chain Lightning is one I skip as well. I understand skipping Show Biz Kids - its very "one chord". One day it just clicked with me how awesome it is though. The whole song is basically building up to the one line "show business kids making movies for themselves you know they dont give a fuck about anybody else", then just resumes as it was before.
No, only great songs
Monkey In Your Soul and Through With Buzz are the only less-than-fab songs for me.
I would take two years to come up with 10 and probably still question if I got it right. Best band ever
Enjoyed Steely Dan top 10 songs feature , but no mention at all of With a Gun from Pretzel Logic album, never get tired of that song!
1 Deacon Blues
2 Don't take me Alive
3 Brooklyn
4 Black Friday
5 Reelin in the years
6 Peg
7 Do it Again
8 My old School
9. Kid Charlemagne
10 rikki don't lose that number
This was tough
Pretzel logic, royal scam, hey ninteen ect ect
Love this channel
Damm I forgot change of the guard should be in my top 10
1. Don't take me Alive 2. My Old School 3. Rikki 4. Any Major Dude 5. Dirty Work 6. Deacon Blues 7. Black Friday 8. Midnight Cruiser 9. Kid Charlemagne 10. Do it again
very surprising hey nineteen didnt even get a mention. that groove and those harmonies make for the perfect steely dan song for me.
I know. Very shocked. This is the song that got me hocked at a young age as a SD fan.
Donald Fagen commenting on the song "Reeling in the Years" , "Dumb but effective", and upon receiving an award for the album Aja, stating" I didn't know we were a jazz band"!
daddy don't live in that new york city... love that track!
Interesting lists. Hard to pick ten, but Hey Nineteen is easily my favourite. When I talk to my stepdaughters, and young people at work, I think about this song. I'm just growing old...….
THis turned out to be like a homework assignment! I must love this band alot because I just spent over an hour shuffling songs around and actually feeling guilty about leaving songs of the list (esp. those that were my fav song for a period of time) and weighing a few up against the Live version. Plus my REAL favorite is not technically a SD song ... but lets face it, it really is a Steely Dan song --- So here goes:
1. Change of the Guard - this was the one that let me know that I was going to like this band alot
2.Chain Lightning - I saw them live once and this was the song that killed that night IMHO
3. The Fez - used to be my favorite song to dance to when no one else was around
4. Sign In Stranger - the SD song that gets in my head and I have to listen to it or it won't go away
5.Everything You Did - Ssoooo where did the Bastard run?
6. Brooklyn - 'Owes the charmer under me' -- don't understand but don't care at this point
7. ShowBiz Kids - "They got the shape-a-lee bodies -they got the SteelyDan Tshirts - and for the 'Cooper de Gra-ah
8. King of the World It took me years to get into this one. Don't ask me why. Glad I did finally.
9. Caves of Altamira I could have easily just listed 'The ROyal Scam' in order and saved alot of time!
10. Glamour Profession - had to get this on list, I used to HATE this song and always skipped. Had a bad hangover one day and somehow heard this song and have loved it since. Again, don't ask why --- I don't know.
HONORABLE MENTIONS here...
First off my Real favorite is off the sub par Night Fly = New Frontier. But it's a Donald F solo job so... My favorite song of all time for a long while. Just superb in every way.
Some of the other songs that could just as easily go up here (already lopped a bunch of them off) are as follows:
The Royal Scam
Rose Darling
Don't Take Me Alive
Fire in the Hole
Any Major Dude
Hey Nineteen
Here at the Western World
Third World Man (my favorite sad song from SD)
LAST THING -- when listening to radio over past many decades, preferably driving, nothing thrills me more than when I am listening to a song I like and then it ends... and a half a second later I am hearing the opening chords of 'Reeling In the Years' == A little bit of heaven on Earth baby!!
Don't take me alive, everything is right, the lyrics, the guitar intro absolutely fabulous butdon't forget Kid Charlemagne
I will love to see more jazz and jazz fusion discussions, chats, tops, rants and so on with Mike Antonelli on this channel
10. Bodhisattva
9. My Old School
8. Sign In Stranger
7. Don't Take Me Alive
6. Pearl Of The Quarter
5. King Of The World
4. Hey Nineteen
/Tie
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
3. Peg
2. Josie
1. Show Biz Kids
26:54 “That’s not much of a jazz flavored song.” But they took the baseline from Horace Silver’s Song for My Father. (I started typing this before Michael revealed it.)
I'd have to say reeling in the years the beginning, guitar work , when you hear those first notes , you know it. It just drips with class.
You could literally throw in any 10 SD songs and you wouldn’t be wrong. Someone needs to show some.love for Time out of Mind. Every song on Gaucho is strong yet so different from each other.
ALL ALBUMS, NOT ONE DUFF TRACK IN MY OPINION. BUT I WAS WEANED ON THE DAN SO THATS MY EXCUSE. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS INTERVIEW GUYS , THANK YOU XX SALLY & BILLY DOO DOG IN THE UK
My top 10
1. Deacon Blues
2. Haitian Divorce
3. Glamour Profession
4. Chain Lightning
5. Pretzel Logic
6. Don’t Take Me Alive
7. Do It Again
8. Josie
9. Show Biz Kids
10. FM
Patrick Crowther FM BABY
Totally love your vids Pete. Steely are legends. My No1 is Haitian Divorce - supreme song.
Impossible for me to list in order. Just so many high quality songs Love them!
My number one...Josie
I think Fagen and Becker both contributed to lyrics and music. They were so simpatico and had the same sense of humor.
1.Kid Charlemagne
2.Don't Take Me Alive
3.Pretzel Logic
4.Do It Again
5.The Royal Scam
6.Black Friday
7.Haitian Divorce
8.Rikki Don't Lose That Number
9.King Of The World
10.Everthing You Did
On Show Biz kids, the back ground singers are singing "Go to Las Vegas" and "Blow your life's wages" in a round
Two thumbs up for this chapter, very well documented. Just a few days ago I realized that Rikki's introduction was a nod to Horace Silver's Song For my Father. Cheers!
1) Your Gold Teeth II
2) FM
3) Josie
4) Peg
5) Caves of Altamira
6) Jack of Speed
7) King of the World
8) Do It Again
9) Hey Nineteen
10) Kid Charlemagne
10. The Boston Rag
9. Don't Take Me Alive
8. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
7. Your Gold Teeth II
6. Rose Darling
5. Any Major Dude
4. Home At Last
3. Midnite Cruiser
2. Aja
1. Dr. Wu
Lived in Walden back in the 70's Great little town. To you, Mike we crossed paths several times back then. I was good friends with Tom & Danny Knapp. Glad you've had a successful musical life ~Chuck Reed
Wow.this was tougher than i thought but here are my 10
1. Kid Charlemagne
2.Deacon Blues
3. Aja.
4. Rikki Dont Lose My Number.
4. Your Gold Teeth 2.
5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
6. Doctor Wu
7. Caves of Altimira
8. West of Hollywood
9. Peg
10. Black Cow
Pete! This is the best video ever, craving this top ten since you started it. The Dan is the best but you do them proud. Your content is damn fine, on a hot streak of really solid stuff. Thank you both for this fun fun hangout
Here's a top-9, in more of a chronological order:
1) Do It Again
2) Kings
3) The Boston Rag
4) Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
5) Night by Night
6) Kid Charlemagne
7) The Royal Scam
8) Deacon Blues
9) FM
I'd say that "Do It Again" and "Kings" would battle it out for my top 2, and then it's hard to pick an order in the next seven songs, and then there's maybe 10 other songs which would be fighting it out for position #10 on my favorites. The order would change from week-to-week. I also think it's a little surprising how *few* bands attempted to follow in the musical/lyrical footsteps of Steely Dan.
Garance A Drosehn I wanted to thank you for mentioning Kings
For me it’s a toss up between Kings & Aja for me too choice
Great taste my friend, be well
Though it's a Fagen project. IGY really is a SD song and belongs right up there within the top songs.
Sometimes, you get an artist or band that have such an ability to 'create' that this question becomes redundant because there is no sensible answer to this question.
My Top ten favorite Steely Dan songs
10.Peg
9.Hey Nineteen
8. FM
7 .The Royal Scan
6 Do it Again
5.Rikki Don't Lose that number
4.My Old School
3.Deacon Blues
2.Black Cow
1.Dirty Work