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re: What steely Dan album should I start on?
Posted on 6/15/16 at 7:03 pm to Funky Tide 8
Posted on 6/15/16 at 7:03 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Aja" is their finest album. No big hits, but nearly an hour of superb jazz-toned rock music.
Really. Deacon Blues, albeit, not one of my personal favorites was a huge hit for Steely Dan. Peg and Josie were other huge hits.
My personal favorite from that album is Black Cow.
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Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:09 pm to 12Pence
quote:
My personal favorite from that album is Black Cow.
I think I'd have to agree. So smooth and so funky.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 11:50 pm to Funky Tide 8
Black Cow, Aja, and Josie are my favorites from that great album. I always found Peg borderline annoying.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:30 am to Funky Tide 8
Peg?
Posted on 6/16/16 at 7:14 pm to Funky Tide 8
Actually, it had 3 moderate sized hits: Deacon Blues, When Josie Gets Home, and Peg. Great songs, but the non-hits on this album were better!
Posted on 6/16/16 at 7:24 pm to tarzana
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When Josie Gets Home
Otherwise known as "Josie".
(And the lyric is, "when Josie comes home".)
Posted on 6/16/16 at 7:40 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 6/16/16 at 9:20 pm to bleeng
Went with Royal Scam.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 10:03 pm to tarzana
quote:
"Aja" is their finest album. No big hits, but nearly an hour of superb jazz-toned rock music.
Agree. Songs like "Dr. Wu" on Katy Lied just remind of classic Steely.
Posted on 6/16/16 at 10:44 pm to prplhze2000
One of the best compilation albums ever released. I bought it when I was 12. Still blows me away. I bought a vinyl copy for Pimp Jr.
Side one
"Do It Again" – 5:50
"Reelin' in the Years" – 4:35
"My Old School" – 5:45
"Bodhisattva" – 5:18
Side two
"Show Biz Kids" – 5:21
"East St. Louis Toodle-oo" (Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:46
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" – 4:34
"Pretzel Logic" – 4:30
"Any Major Dude Will Tell You" – 3:06
Side three
"Here at the Western World" – 4:00 (Previously unreleased)
"Black Friday" – 3:39
"Bad Sneakers" – 3:16
"Doctor Wu" – 3:53
"Haitian Divorce" – 5:48
Side four
"Kid Charlemagne" – 4:38
"The Fez" (Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin) – 3:54
"Peg" – 3:54
"Josie" – 4:30
Posted on 6/16/16 at 11:00 pm to prplhze2000
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Went with Royal Scam
Like it??
That's a great album. But like most of the posters I would have started with Can't Buy a Thrill and then continued on in order. You can't go wrong until you hit Gaucho.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:37 am to bleeng
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You can't go wrong until you hit Gaucho.
Gaucho is fricking tittees.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 6:39 am to Funky Tide 8
"Deacon Blues" is truly a remarkable work of art. Its melancholy and sense of hopelessness are palpable, and sums up the angst of middle-aged males in its 7 minute narrative. Just listen to the lyrics:
They got a name for the winners in the world,
I want a name when I lose.
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide,
Call me Deacon Blues.
They got a name for the winners in the world,
I want a name when I lose.
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide,
Call me Deacon Blues.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 6:42 am to Lsupimp
Impressive list of songs, but no Deacon Blues?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 10:56 am to Funky Tide 8
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Gaucho is fricking tittees.
Every song on every album is great until you reach Gaucho and run into Glamour Profession and Third World Man. My Rival is just okay. Otherwise the album is solid but compared to other Steely Dan albums it was a step back. Especially following the greatness of Aja. It was the last album before breakup time, sort of like Pink Floyd's The Final Cut following The Wall.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 11:15 am to prplhze2000
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prplhze2000
I'll create my own, personal playlist for you. Get on YouTube, grab a whisky or glass of wine and check these out on one low-key Friday night...
1. Hey Nineteen
2. Do It Again
3. Gaucho
4. Josie
5. Your Gold Teeth
6. Time Out of Mind
7. Deacon Blues
8. Kings
9. Reeling in the Years
10. Black Cow
11. Pretzel Logic
12. Show Biz Kids
13. Daddy Don't Live in that NYC No More
14. Kid Charlemagne
15. FM
16. My Old School
17. Don't Take Me Alive
18. The Royal Scam
19. Pearl of the Quarter
20. Home at Last
Top the evening off with Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) - David Palmer provided the vocals for this song. Different, but a great, low-key diner-esque song.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 11:38 am to 12Pence
I scored a Donald Fagan's Morph the Cat cd at a flea market a few months ago, and that is a sick, sick album.
This is my favorite from that album
Brite Nightgown
This is my favorite from that album
Brite Nightgown
Posted on 6/17/16 at 8:20 pm to Funky Tide 8
They are coming here to kc next week. Never seen them but might go check them out. Steve winwood opening.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 10:13 pm to Kingwood Tiger
The drummer they have on this tour (if still the same from last summer) is the tits.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 10:14 pm to prplhze2000
the one with Dirty Work on it
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