Reelin' in the Poll: STEELY DAN - ILM Artist poll #50 (voting closed)

I voted for about half of countdown and most of Katy Lied

Walked into a cafe near my apt in shanghai and they're playing 'only a fool would say that' :))))))>>>>

best of cbat :)

yes.

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.

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.

submitted. Aja got the most, then Countdown.

nice! need some aja love to offset the late PL surge

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.

there's no consensus here at all which is cool, this poll could be all over the place.

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.

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.

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.

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"

Throw Back The Little Ones seems the most undeniably Bushic, but there are others

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

^^I rated it very highly.

It made my ballot, too. One of my favorite PL songs.

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.

(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.

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.

Throw Back The Little Ones seems the most undeniably Bushic, but there are others

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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.

oh btw i will sleep, the poll is not going to go for 24 hours straight.

was unable to vote due to, um, surgery but looking forward to recovering with the rollout.

will there be a Spotify?

hope you are oK, rogermexico. get well soon!

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

procedure went well, resting comfortably, percocet's not quite cuervo and columbian but all good. xo y'all.

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