Hmmm, right now three way tie between Major Dude, Babylon Sisters and FM. I'll have to sleep on it.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, this really sucks--I can't, and don't really want to, decide between about a dozen titles; so I guess I'll just go with my gut instinct and vote for "Doctor Wu."
― JN$OT, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I had to go with "Josie" because that's my daughter's name. Plus, that riff is just so, so great.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"My Old School" gots to be it!
― Davey D, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey Nineteen. They're just so in the pocket on that one. Runners up include: My Old School, Dr. Wu, Aja, Haitian Divorce, Peg, and about 15 other songs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, not even "runners up". Just other great, great songs.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I can't do it--no vote
― iago g., Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I went with "Sign In Stranger" - though I didn't give it as much thought as I probably should have.
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
(Not that I regret my choice, but I could imagine picking one of any number of songs.)
I had about 15 choices, too, and finally went with Third World Man.
― unperson, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Protesting this, impossible
― calstars, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
First thought best thought says Glamour Profession.
But my finger hesitates... aggghhh...
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Bring back The Boston Rag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I've only got Can't Buy a Thrill so I'm voting for Midnight Cruiser
― badg, Friday, 31 August 2007 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Rikki is the one
― that's not my post, Friday, 31 August 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Silly poll. But "FM" for me.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 31 August 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Almost impossible, but voted "Aja".
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 August 2007 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
As usual with song polls, this is gonna end up with Dr Wu taking the prize with three votes, followed by two dozen tunes with one vote.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 31 August 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Barrytown people got to be from another world...
― Relaxer, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I have never really understood the love for "Dr. Wu." Even the Minutemen cover is kind of weak.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"Dr Wu" is one of those songs where I love the verses but get annoyed by the chorus.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Gah.
"Peg" vs "Babylon Sisters" vs "Gaucho"
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
vs "Do It Again"
Gotta go with Gaucho over Babylon Sisters and Peg.
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
PEG because i listened to it 25 times in a row while sitting in traffic once and it was STILL GOOD
― max, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Dirty Work
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwt0qQGqp0U
― etc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
ALright, voted for Babylon Sisters in the end.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I've only heard like 10% of these but I voted for Any Major Dude.
― n/a, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Relaxer, Friday, August 31, 2007 3:35 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link
^^^ YES
― and what, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
went for deacon blues, even with those sax solos.
― original bgm, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Even the Minutemen cover is kind of weak.
Well, duh, it's a Minutemen cover.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
RONG
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Major Dude v Barrytown, the latter is more 'them'
― gabbneb, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Al Shipley = Alex in Baltimore
Maybe we should start a band together! He loves Steely Dan and Sonic Youth. Although he likes hip-hop way more than I do.
-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
haha what thread is that from
i play drums, let me know what time practice is
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
From the Chicago thread.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
SHAKE IT
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmm. Well, I once called "Do It Again" my favourite on these very pages and instantly regretted it. What I will do is call it my favourite late-night FM radio jam - that's where those long, modal soloing-things sound the best. So, one candidate eliminated, several dozen to go...
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Alan N, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:43
???
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
haha saxophones are meant to be sung about but not played
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Bated breath over here - bated breath...
― Davey D, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
gotta go with "Deacon Blues," definitely has their best chorus. Still, this is pretty much impossible. Every one of their albums has at least three genuinely great songs.
― talrose, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
except for Two Against Nature
I mean Everything Must Go, Two Against Nature has Janie Runaway and Jack of Speed.
― talrose, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
gimmie a couple years and I'll probably be into the dan's sax solos. right now, they're the only piece of the puzzle I might still say is "too slick". but a couple years back, I would've said all of it was, so hey.
― original bgm, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
thats wayne fucking shorter, tho
― max, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
its not slick its god talking
otm max
― Davey D, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i coulda sworn i voted for night by night
― chaki, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
now i wish i'd voted for bad sneakers
― ghost rider, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i like peg and everything but i don't think it's one of my top 10 or even 15 steely dan songs.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 7 September 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Saturday, 8 September 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
belated vote for "monkey in your soul". my favorite, i think, of those that got none
― outdoor_miner, Saturday, 8 September 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 September 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Midnight Cruiser 1
this is a dope song i never heard before
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
respectable results, but it's kinda boring that 6 of the top 7 are singles. I expected more deep cuts!
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
What a disappointing result!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We already did the album poll. Gaucho won it.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"reelin in the years", "barrytown" or "dr wu"
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
doctor wu 4eva
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
would probably change my vote to "gaucho" these days.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take Peg as the winner (whover played bass on that should get a Nobel Prize)
It's Chuck Rainey.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
for me, the song most deserving of a vote that didn't get one was "night by night"
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that song fucking rocks
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
totally. the huge cymbal crashes during the "niiiiiiiiiiight byyyyyy niiiii-ight" part remind me of doom metal, lolz.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
steely doom
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
nigt X night otm
When the joker tried to tell meI could cut it in this rube townWhen he tried to hang that sign on meI said Take it downWhen the dawn patrol got to tell you twiceThey're gonna do it with a shotgunYes, I'm cashing in this ten-cent lifeFor another one
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
would be cool to run this poll again. looks like it didn't get many votes
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link