Best Steely Dan/Donald Fagen/Walter Becker Album

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Katy Lied	19
Gaucho	9
Can't Buy a Thrill	7
Pretzel Logic	7
Countdown to Ecstasy	6
The Nightfly	5
Aja	3
The Royal Scam	2
Everything Must Go	0
Two Against Nature	0
11 Tracks of Wack	0
Kamakiriad	0
Morph the Cat	0

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretzel Logic over Countdown to Ecstasy for me. Wonder if anyone will vote for the latter/solo records? Forgot the none option for the criminally insane. Oh well.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Gaucho

― baaderonixx, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted Gaucho but I think it's the hangover/creeping decay talking.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I like more or less all, but I prefer "Nightfly" to any Steely Dan album.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Katy Lied.

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Best thing about poll threads: a list of titles at the top followed by people typing out the titles again one at a time.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll be sure to include an essay with my next vote.

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Katy Lied

― van smack, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Look--I'm swaying voters!

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

C'mon, where's the none option? Bah, you people obviously hate fun, and/or take this shit way too seriously.

-- JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 07:39 (7 hours ago)

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Your point being?

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

NONE

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

As posted above, I simply forgot to add the none option. Sorry.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You should know how all the pros play the game.

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Gaucho.

― unperson, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost very nearly Aja which I consider a perfect album. But Countdown to Ecstasy, while less perfect, hits harder and bites with fangs.

― Hans Rott, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i went for pretzel logic

can't quite articulate why. i think it's just the one i return to most

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost x3

You change your name

― JN$OT, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

katy lied just slightly over pretzel logix...

although, I should give some props to The Royal Scam with is the Fair Warning/Presence of this poll.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 22 April 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Royal Scam has been my favorite since I was a kid. Still my favorite, but it's not like any of the others suck.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

F.M.

― ghost rider, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I would say Aja, but I've been listening to Gaucho a lot recently, and think it is on the same level.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

bump

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Some people set this extremely long voting time.

Btw. is there a way to make out what is the deadline now that the (admittably annoying) addition to the headers with the deadline has been removed from the indexes?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

April 30.

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Katy wins. No votes for anything released after 1982. Interesting.

― JN$OT, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link

These are really weird results. I was certain Pretzel or Aja would top the list.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

No votes for anything released after 1982.

This is hardly surprising. While most of them are still great, it is fairly obvious that they aren't up there with their 70s heyday (and "The Nightly", it must be added, which is my all-time favourite)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

True that.

― JN$OT, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"Almost very nearly Aja which I consider a perfect album. But Countdown to Ecstasy, while less perfect, hits harder and bites with fangs.

-- Hans Rott, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:21 (1 week ago)"

You're a good composer Hans Rott, and i agree with you re Steely Dan.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thrilled by Gaucho's finishing, but...wow, Katy Lied. That's, um, gotta be wrong.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I know. I never got the mad love for Katy Lied, but I'm glad the oft-dismissed Gaucho placed so high.

Does anyone still listen to Morph the Cat?

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I sold my copy last month.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Katy Lied, it is indeed a mega-classic. But is it really more than three times better than Countdown To Ecstasy? This is probably the most surprising poll so far.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Only 2 votes for The Royal Scam = you are all insane.

― Brent, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I went with Katy Lied, but I was having a hard time deciding between it and Aja. I'm really surprised at how few votes it got.

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Aja, that is.

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What's special about Gaucho? I didn't get much out of it the one time I listened to it (which obviously I need to do again). Sounded like a very moderate funk record or something. (Is this another revisionist Tusk-like situation?)

Glad Katy Lied won, but admit it's a bit of a surprise--I pegged (no pun intended) Aja or Pretzel Logic to come out on top.

― sw00ds, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I, too, am a bit surprised at Gaucho's popularity. For a long time it was far and away my least favorite of the 70's records. It's definitely grown on me though, particularly the title track. Also Hey Nineteen & Babylon Sisters are two of SD's strongest...

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess it was just Brent and I pimpin for The Royal Scam. Probably the only one I end up listening to all the way through these days.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

For me, Gaucho is the SD spirit down to its bare bones. The funked-up muzak is often extremely minimal (compared to, say, the more baroque 'Aja' arrngements) and lyrically they pretty much reach the apex of the boomers' Tropicana sleaze.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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