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The Granddaddy of the all and 50 is a nice round number.
Ballot part one (mandatory): Your Top 20 Steely Dan tracks. Usual scoring method will be applied. Please order your list with your #1 at the top and #20 at the bottom, no need to number them. I will take unranked lists just clearly state that yours is unranked.
Standard ILX poll allocation in effect: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12
Ballot part two (optional): Your Top 10 Walter Becker or Donald Fagen Solo tracks. This can include anything that either were involved with for example, Walter Becker stuff with China Crisis.
Ballot part three (optional): Your Top Steely Dan and/or Solo albums. If you only want to rank the first seven Steely Dan then that is fine or you can rank The Nightfly above the whole lot.
Send ballots to steelydanpoll AT gmail dot com. Please include your ILM user name.
Deadline for voting will be Sunday late night in Los Angeles on March 30, 2014.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
i will never top the New Order poll that i did but here we go. this is going to be fun.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan_discography
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
alright!!! gonna be REALLY hard to narrow down to just 20 tracks, but the side polls should be fun, i will be advocating strongly for Becker's Circus Money album as usual.
― The Greta Gerwig In The Sky (some dude), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:35 (ten years ago) link
brilliant! very excited indeed -- i have so many thoughts on so many of these songs. hopefully i'll get round to sharing some of them.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
that should read: Your Top 10 Walter Becker and/or Donald Fagen Solo tracks.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
fuck yeah
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/614j%2BXAGFcL._SX466_.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
I just had my Steely Dan phase earlier this year so I'm very ready for this.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
A breath of fresh air after the floyd poll
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
albums 3, 4 and 6 have all been my favorite steely dan albums at some point in my life. 1 and 2 sometimes sneak up on me and whisper in my ear that they should be my fave. 5 has never quite. i dismissed 7 when i first heard it and it has spent the rest of my life sneaking up on me and whispering things in my other ear. i know absolutely nothing about the reunion albums, though i'm sure i've heard tracks here and there. should i?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
wishing we would also poll our favorite non-becker non-fagen steely dan players.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
Inescapable Henley. I had images disabled, so I didn't notice that piscesx had already addressed that lyric. :)
Sub-poll of best line from a Steely Dan song would be intense!
Anyway, been looking forward to this for a while. Probably the best band ever, so it's gonna be tough.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
This fuckin' band. This song in particular, I feel, is criminally underrated. Just wanted to campaign for it a bit:
http://youtu.be/u9g-Z5nFg5Y
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
Granddaddy of them all.
wish i asked for sub poll idea's first, love the best line idea. a lot.
xpost
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
20 is madness!
― Spottie, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
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adding this because it's such a brilliant idea:
Ballot part four (optional): Your Top 3 Steely Dan line(s). It can be a line or a phrase from one of their songs. Have no idea how that will turn out.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
You didn't waste time getting this one started!
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
sick, bro, i've been psyched for this one for eons. I could make at least a semi-defensible case for any song off the first 7 albums.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:36 (ten years ago) link
even "with a gun"?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:43 (ten years ago) link
well as a former administrator of the Ballot Poll thread, i know how much you want to keep the queue going.
xxpost
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
ah fuck HELLO
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
hooboy. redelurking.
― leon d'amaleon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
first ballot received and it has their Top 3 lines. that is going to be so much fun.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 06:06 (ten years ago) link
i'm gonna go ahead and campaign for some unreleased tracks because these are amazing songs that i'm probably going to vote for:
"This All Too Mobile Home"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq54uBiPJU0
"The Second Arrangement"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FlQRmYaXiE
― The Greta Gerwig In The Sky (some dude), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 09:24 (ten years ago) link
Not entirely sure it will make my ballot yet, but I want to go to bat for "Here at the Western World", a Royal Scam outtake that's showed up on since of the greatest hits albums.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I'm sure everybody voting in this poll is gonna have a hard enough time picking 20 steely dan songs out of the ones they already know, but I'm just throwing that one out there
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
i'm gonna have a massively hard time with this. but it's gonna be satisfying.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:06 (ten years ago) link
my favorite non-album track:
"the mock turtle song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4JCLcCk9P0
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:27 (ten years ago) link
My ballot won't be long--10 songs, and I'll probably have to do a bit of relistening to fill out the last two spots--but in terms of how much those eight key songs mean to me, there are very few people I'd rank ahead of them (Neil, the Beatles, a few others). Pretzel Logic is embedded into my distant memories of high school in a huge way.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
now we'll see how far the Gaucho love extends.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
Wait, people were gonna vote for albums other than Gaucho??
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
I can't figure!
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
Excited about this poll!
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, seconded, I love this one.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
Greek!
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Medallion!
throwing some early support behind Rose Darling, a kinda heartbreaking song that details a narrative in which the meaningless and insipid hours drag, and the precious moments aren’t rightfully yours for the taking.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit :-) Just had The Original Soundtrack pre-Dan record on this morning. Nothing life changing on that but still quite fun stuff. This should be a great poll - co-sign on Western World, it's fantastic.
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
wish i'd been to this tour
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― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
I've put off listening to Everything Must Go for far too long. Now is the time.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
i think i listened to that once and it sort of washed over me.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Honestly, I am expecting the same (which is why I've put it off), but I already know every song on the rest of their albums so spending an hour to be complete wouldn't kill me.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Sent!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
i'm going to listen to a lot of 'dan this week but i am pretty sure my ballot is just going to read like one of the greatest hits albums
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
― Vinnie,
much much better than Two Against Nature ("Pixaleen"! "Godwhacker"!).
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
blues beachi'm fryingsizzling in the merciful raysand it's the long sad sunday of the early resigned
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
both everything must go and two against nature are great, do not miss out on voting for "jack of speed" maybe my favorite dan song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IChlag1TSw
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
really The Royal Scam is the only meh album in their run.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Man, my SD listening has intensified steadily since I became a fan a little over a decade ago, reaching a new peak of obsessiveness and frequency in the last week or so, and yet I think I could count the number of their songs that I'm sick of on one hand. This band repays repeat hearings like no other.
― thewufs, Monday, 31 March 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
I've never really gotten around to the outtakes for the simple reason that there's already too much to dig into on the original 7 albums (never mind Fagen's solo stuff). I don't think I'll ever be done unpacking them - what a run.
― thewufs, Monday, 31 March 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
also title tracks: "two against nature" and "everything must go." though i'm guessing they're not likely to place higher than, say, "the royal scam."
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
this is a band where I wouldn't be surprised to see every album cut from their first 7 get at least one vote, except for maybe East St. Louis toodle-oo.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 31 March 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
i'd be shocked if anything from the first seven didn't get at least one vote.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
i'm wondering if anything from you gotta walk it like you talk it... gets any votes. was that one ever mentioned in the thread?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
I ended up making up some very arbitrary rules on the fly, such as "surely you can't have SIX songs from one album in here", just to get it done.
#SorryNotSorry
― 龜, Monday, 31 March 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
龜, Gaucho is amazing and I can definitely understand picking 6 or all of the tracks.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
especially since Nightfly was not allowed in your 20 and Gaucho is Nightfly's Cousin Dupree.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
that deadline is very soft as i'm going to bed. will add the last few after work tomorrow, so you actually have about a half day longer.
this has been an amazing experience. i will have some stories to tell of what i witnessed as the order was being hasted out.
― Bee OK, Monday, 31 March 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
龜, Gaucho Countdown is amazing and I can definitely understand picking 6 or all of the tracks.― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, March 31, 2014 12:17 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, March 31, 2014 12:17 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fixed.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 March 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
xp Cool. Think I'm gonna slap together a last minute late night ballot.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
me too. got it down to about 25 right now.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
Alright, I voted, can't wait
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
sent
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link
favored album?
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
Got my ballot in with under an hour to spare. Can't wait for the results!
― Leather and James (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:20 (nine years ago) link
I voted for about half of countdown and most of Katy Lied
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
Walked into a cafe near my apt in shanghai and they're playing 'only a fool would say that' :))))))>>>>
― 龜, Monday, 31 March 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
best of cbat :)
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
yes.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
I haven't been following the thread closely (or at all, really), but life experience tells me I'll probably be the only voter to put Charlie Freak at #1.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 March 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
there was at least one "charlie freak" discussion herein. it's never been one of my favorites, but it seems to me there's pretty strong support here for every song on pretzel logic except for the two side-closers. then again, there seems to pretty strong support here for roughly 97 percent of the songs in the SD oeuvre.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 06:59 (nine years ago) link
submitted. Aja got the most, then Countdown.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 31 March 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
nice! need some aja love to offset the late PL surge
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 07:08 (nine years ago) link
though I've been liking PL more now, and it was the underdog for a bit there. Bee Ok's comments make me think there was a PL/CBAT comeback.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 31 March 2014 07:09 (nine years ago) link
there's no consensus here at all which is cool, this poll could be all over the place.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 31 March 2014 07:12 (nine years ago) link
I am totally committed to my #1 choice, but after that, I could have re-ranked them a hundred different ways. Or switched out about 10 songs that I chose for 10 that I didn't.
― Sandy, Monday, 31 March 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
reading a kate bush biography right now, in an interview she lists Steely Dan as one of her early songwriting influences. glad to see two words of awesomeness connected.
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 31 March 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
Wow. As I checked out the catalogue, I kept thinking they're the exact mid-point between Kate Bush and The Doors. But I'd never dare say that out loud.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 31 March 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
her fave album is Gaucho, a quick google revealed she played Babylon Sisters when she guested on a radio show "I think they're very underestimated. They're the most incredible musicians. This is it. They are here - a musician's band. I mean, all the musicians in this country just rave about them technically, and as songwriters. But you know, they're not really played on the radio, but they're just incredible"
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 31 March 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Throw Back The Little Ones seems the most undeniably Bushic, but there are others
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 31 March 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, March 31, 2014 12:53 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It almost made my ballot, though purely for sentimental reasons. I thought it was really touching that they paid tribute to Ellington (who had just passed away), and I'm hard-pressed to think of any other band that would have/could have done a similar tribute.
That said, a little talk-box goes a long way.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 31 March 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
Man, there are some hardcore Dan fans on here. Hope I don't fuck up the art.
Though I was really proud of myself for finding the right image to go along with "Stuck In the Middle With You", so at least there's that.
― pplains, Monday, 31 March 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
It almost made my ballot, though purely for sentimental reasons
same here. I grew up in a house without jazz records (well maybe there was a David Sanborn record at one point) but the Dan's "East St Louis" was almost def. the first piece of jazz I ever heard.
― col, Monday, 31 March 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
but it seems to me there's pretty strong support here for every song on pretzel logic except for the two side-closers
"Monkey In Your Soul" just missed my ballot
― Vinnie, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
^^I rated it very highly.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 March 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
It made my ballot, too. One of my favorite PL songs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 31 March 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
So cool to hear that Kate Bush is a fan. I was rediscovering SD (and Gaucho especially) at the same time I was first getting into Kate. I even have a playlist that's just Gaucho + The Dreaming because those were the main albums I wanted to listen to all the time.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 31 March 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
(xp) i mentioned the two side-closers simply because they were the only two that didn't expressly get love in the thread. i believe that's been cleared up now.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
seeing the steve winwood thread revival yesterday reminded me how easily traffic's "the low spark of high heeled boys" could have been a steely dan song circa the royal scam and aja.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 March 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 31 March 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
-----------------Voting is Closed!-----------------
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
so i'm about to send pplains the final list. he has some work to do on the pictures and i have some last minute stuff to do.
by taking some time, i should be able to have a great rollout. going to start with some subpolls on Wednesday Night. the main rollout will run Thursday starting around 9 AM Pacific Time and run to either Friday Night or Saturday.
thanks for your patience but we are almost there.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
oh btw i will sleep, the poll is not going to go for 24 hours straight.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
was unable to vote due to, um, surgery but looking forward to recovering with the rollout.
will there be a Spotify?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
hope you are oK, rogermexico. get well soon!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah ditto!
if noone else does a Spotify playlist i definitely will -- some polls it seems like there's almost a stigma against them, but like w/ Pink Floyd i ended up just making one for my personal use even though i wasn't really posting on the thread
― CANS.... and D? (some dude), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
procedure went well, resting comfortably, percocet's not quite cuervo and columbian but all good. xo y'all.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Polled At Last: STEELY DAN - ILM Artist poll #50
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link