You knew it was inevitable...The Steely Dan Song Poll

now i wish i'd voted for bad sneakers

Well, the poll ended before I could vote, big deal. But two of my handful of finalists were "Charlie Freak" and "Kid Charlemagne", and it just now occurred to me that those two characters could be the same guy, as captured at the beginning and at the end of a downhill slide. (If you ignore the real-time chronology in which the two songs were recorded.)

i like peg and everything but i don't think it's one of my top 10 or even 15 steely dan songs.

More people voted for songs that got only 1 vote than voted for "Peg" though. Lots of great songs didn't get any votes - but it's hard to pick just one.

belated vote for "monkey in your soul". my favorite, i think, of those that got none

I voted for The Boston Rag, but it could easily have gone to Razor Boy or Rose Darling, both of which got zero votes.

Peg is good, but it wouldn't even crack my Dan top 20.

Midnight Cruiser 1

this is a dope song i never heard before

respectable results, but it's kinda boring that 6 of the top 7 are singles. I expected more deep cuts!

What a disappointing result!

here's how the votes stacked up album-wise, something to keep in mind next time we do an SD album poll, which I guess would be any day now:

22 Aja
15 Countdown To Ecstasy
15 Gaucho
13 Can't Buy A Thrill
12 Pretzel Logic
7 Royal Scam
7 Katy Lied
4 non-album ("FM")
0 Two Against Nature
0 Everything Must Go

We already did the album poll. Gaucho won it.

we already did the album poll 2 or 3 times, that's what i was saying! Katy Lied won once and Pretzel Logic and Royal Scam tied another time, but maybe there was an another one where Gaucho won that I can't find right now. I still totally do not understand all the Gaucho love on ILM.

"reelin in the years", "barrytown" or "dr wu"

I'm kind of surprised by Peg winning this round, but look at how many tunes got multiple votes.

single/FM radio staple - Deacon Blues or Do It Again (as I love the guitar solo in that one).
album cut - Don't Take Me Alive

doctor wu 4eva

"Don't Take Me Alive" may not have been a single but I've definitely heard it on the radio and consider it one of their better known songs

Suprised no love for Black Friday. I'll take Peg as the winner (whover played bass on that should get a Nobel Prize) but had i voted in this i would have voted King of the World.

would probably change my vote to "gaucho" these days.

yeah Black Friday deserves a vote or two. also sad that Bad Sneakers got shut out. it's always in my top 5, even if it's never going to take that #1 spot.

I'll take Peg as the winner (whover played bass on that should get a Nobel Prize)

It's Chuck Rainey.

love the story from the vh1 special about how chuck rainey had to sneak a little slap bass in on the DL during the bridge cuz fagen/becker thought slap bass was too trendy.

for me, the song most deserving of a vote that didn't get one was "night by night"

yeah that song fucking rocks

totally. the huge cymbal crashes during the "niiiiiiiiiiight byyyyyy niiiii-ight" part remind me of doom metal, lolz.

steely doom

nigt X night otm

When the joker tried to tell me
I could cut it in this rube town
When he tried to hang that sign on me
I said Take it down
When the dawn patrol got to tell you twice
They're gonna do it with a shotgun
Yes, I'm cashing in this ten-cent life
For another one

would be cool to run this poll again. looks like it didn't get many votes