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Steely Dan Appreciation Thread (3,500 Posts!)

View Poll Results: What is your favorite Steely Dan album?

Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

9 16.67%

Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)

3 5.56%

Pretzel Logic (1974)

9 16.67%

Katy Lied (1975)

3 5.56%

The Royal Scam (1976)

10 18.52%

Aja (1977)

16 29.63%

Gaucho (1980)

4 7.41%

Two Against Nature (2000)

0 0%

Everything Must Go (2003)

0 0%

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08-21-2011 , 11:27 PM

#101

Bill Murphy

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,402

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Originally Posted by Blarg

Highly recommend the boxed set that has like five or six albums on it. Even if you don't like some of their songs, there are so many there that you can still listen to good stuff for hours.

Boxed set has everything thru Gaucho, def the way to go. You can start at the beginning, play it start to finish, sounds like one giant concept album.

Booklet has some hilarious negative reviews.

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02-02-2012 , 07:12 AM

#102

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,828

important bump

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02-02-2012 , 02:10 PM

#103

cwicemvp12

Sergei Bobrovsky!

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 22,495

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09-04-2017 , 02:39 PM

#104

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,828

Bump for Walter Becker dying, RIP.

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03-11-2019 , 08:20 PM

#105

DC11GTR

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14,716

Been listening to a huge amount of The Dan these last couple of weeks. I've been doing a bunch of rearranging and organizing around the place and there is no better music to do this to!!!

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03-11-2019 , 09:46 PM

#106

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,268

The other night, Joe Jackson covered a "King of the World" and it was fantastic.

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03-13-2019 , 09:30 AM

#107

shorn7

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 4,495

First time seeing this thread...huge Dan fan. Royal Scam is my absolute favorite album back to front, but songs are the following:

1. Josie
2. Aja
3. Sign In Stranger
4. Gold teeth

Not sure how anyone could say this band is not "intellectual" or "complicated". Some of their arrangements are the most intricate you can find out there and live they are pretty much unchallenged IMO (except maybe for Rush in their prime).

Just such a unique, clean, cool sound. Never miss them when they come around.

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03-13-2019 , 10:52 AM

#108

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,828

Royal Scam is also my favorite these days. My favorite overall songs, or a rough approximation on a given day anyway:

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Originally Posted by kioshk

1 Haitian Divorce
2 Do It Again
3 Midnight Cruiser
4 Caves of Altamira
5 Any World That I'm Welcome To
6 King of the World
7 Don't Take Me Alive
8 Charlie Freak
9 Deacon Blues
10 Hey Nineteen

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03-14-2019 , 02:02 PM

#109

JDalla

Total Boar

Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 15,537

1 Kid Charlemagne
2 Hey Nineteen
3 Time Out of Mind
4 Deacon Blues
5 Sign In Stranger
6 Chain Lightning
7 Bodhisattva
8 Reelin' in the Years
9 Home at Last
10 My Old School

Honorable Mention: I.G.Y. (Donald solo)

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03-17-2019 , 06:17 AM

#110

JDalla

Total Boar

Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 15,537

Underrated: Jack of Speed - easily the best track in the post 2000 period. Or at least the closest sounding to the their original vibe. (still not hitting the top 10 for me thought)

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