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
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.
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
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1382254_10152685557314972_1175447205_n.jpg
― 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
i think their worst pre-break album is easily can't buy a thrill, and it rules
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Roxy/Floyd/Dan are the original three streams of alt rock. them getting polled in succession is great. I'm firmly in the Dan camp so HELL YES! to this thing.
― g simmel, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
― how's life, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:01 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Indispensable track, as much so as the only other odd sod, FM.
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
FM is a given. Probably top 5.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
I'd be surprised, but Steely Dan ends with The Royal Scam for me--and only a couple of songs there--so I'm not representative.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Did this band do B-sides that weren't from the albums? I just realized that for how much I love this band, I've heard less than 5 non-album tracks and they're all on the boxset (and "FM" is indeed phenomenal).
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
the Gaucho outtakes are AMAZING...I love "The Bear" and "Kulee Baba"
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
"I made better music than those guys in the '70s and still do" - Chevy Chase.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Ha; pulled up the first seven albums in iTunes and chose exactly 20 tracks on my first pass through. Now to put 'em in order. (Only four from Gaucho, btw.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
really The Royal Scam is the only meh album in their run.― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
congratulations. this is your haitian divorce.
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
second only to Aja imo
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
^^ you're out of the game
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
welp i've already voted
at first it was surprisingly easy then it became subtly excruciating
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Brad, you just came up with the first two lines of your own Dan tune.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
lol
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
"Dallas"
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
the massive popular appeal of this band eludes me. I like some stuff (nothing post-'74 really) but every time I hear something of theirs on classic rock radio or something I'm like... "really? huge numbers of people are into this glacially paced sad-sack tuneless blah-fest? huh."
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
who said that?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah the Steely Dan B sides thing is weird, same as with Talking Heads. was it just a quirk of the mid-late 70s?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
iirc, that was Shakey Mo on the Floyd thread.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
♪ no static at all...♪♫ ♩
― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Agents of the law!
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
Luckless pedestrian!
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, March 19, 2014 9:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This record would be perfect on the soundtrack of PT Anderson's upcoming Inherent Vice (Pynchon)
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
I cannot possibly order this list
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
also, I want to leave The Fez on my list, if only to counteract the Royal Scam hate, but it really is almost a Phish song.
― POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Was just having that same thought about Sign In Stranger!
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:42 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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, 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
^^I rated it very highly.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 March 2014 16:11 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 31 March 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
-----------------Voting is Closed!-----------------
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:39 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
hope you are oK, rogermexico. get well soon!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 23:39 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Polled At Last: STEELY DAN - ILM Artist poll #50
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link