Polled At Last: STEELY DAN - ILM Artist poll #50

i did make a mistake, right order and everything however Can't Buy a Thrill had 1063 points with only 1 number one vote. i was drinking last night.

i love the royal scam too. and can't buy a thrill. i actually placed them in the places they ended up in, but on another day they could have finished much higher for me. like i said before, my favorite steely dan album depends on my mood and sometimes the weather or how good or bad the party i went to the night before.

love how fagen sings 'won't you sign in stranger'

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ac/80/71a41363ada01100da3de010.L.jpg

5. Gaucho
Released: November 21, 1980
Acclaimed Music ranking: 40 for 1980 with 1804 All Time
1135 Points, 36 Votes, 8 Number Ones

'don't take me alive' was the first steely dan song i heard from TRS and i bought it the next day. it's this perfect steely dan-meets-neil young's "ditch trilogy" album.

damn - eight #1s

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and still only beat The Royal Scam by 39 points.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BZtgv8w_cCU/Uz2JklPqXSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/NM9Hig4Y6Ns/w426-h516/gaucho_ad.jpg

Three-and-a-half years... and whose fault was that, MCA?

from Becker's wikipedia, it appears that many difficult things occurred between 1978 and 1980.

cocaine happened

Blame Wendel.

too many lost nights at The Regal Beagle

Szechuan DUMPLINGS! from Mr. Chow's can cause damage

Donald Fagan lost two of those years to teaching young women about 'retha Franklin.

it's funny how no one would bat an eye at that space between releases nowadays

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4. Countdown to Ecstasy
Released: July 1973
Acclaimed Music ranking: 21 for 1972 with 518 All Time
1180 Points, 35 Votes, 7 Number Ones

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Ny0gbqIOXIc/Uz2Ob8wK5oI/AAAAAAAAAD4/TTcrcLAf4yw/w599-h595-no/steely-dan-countdown-ecstacy-back-cover.jpg

My favorite back cover of all time.

is that baxter's hand on the console?

either that or someone under the console

that's overall dude's hand on his console

The closest digit doesn't look like a thumb, which is what it would be if it were Baxter's hand.

hmmmm. I wonder who it is.

a bodhisattva?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/roger-nichols-recording-engineer-who-won-six-grammys-for-his-work-with-steely-dan-2309546.html

Nichols' contribution was acknowledged when his disembodied hand appeared from underneath the mixing desk on the back cover of Countdown To Ecstasy, along with his credit as "The Immortal".

oh, awesome. thank you!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u%2Bh9jdLcL.jpg

3. Katy Lied
Released: March 1975
Acclaimed Music ranking: 25 for 1975 with 1018 All Time
1191 Points, 38 Votes, 3 Number Ones

only 11 more points than Countdown to Ecstasy but 3 more votes.

over CTE? Damn!

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gNn1zx1lHmo/Uz2T7iUF24I/AAAAAAAAAEk/e6eZFTaxVN0/w474-h595-no/oaaa_steelydan.jpg

katie lyd

the pretzel logic crew has done well, and I have to admit that I've been digging the flapamba myself these days.

xp: fixed.

If PL wins this, I'll be truly vexed.

genuinely surprised by these results so far. i thought katy and gaucho would be ILM's 1 and 2. but maybe it's just that their supporters are louder than pretzel logic's old man support contingent (of which i am sometimes a member), and aja's -- actually i'm not sure what to call team aja. but i like all of these albums so it's all good.

No, I mean, I came to Steely Dan through Phish. The Phishheads who turned me on to SD were huge fans of Royal Scam. There is a very obvious influence.

this comment has been haunting me, and explains why The Royal Scam has never sat well with me

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d1/08/6e521363ada0b065d21fe010.L.jpg

2. Pretzel Logic
Released: February 20, 1974
Acclaimed Music ranking: 5 for 1974 with 265 All Time
1198 Points, 39 Votes, 5 Number Ones

you read that right, only 7 more points.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cIcs97HZq1k/Uz2YWQAOOaI/AAAAAAAAAFY/7DQJvgBs5I0/w793-h595-no/2012_90th_st.jpg

I can live with this being #2, though I was hoping for a shock #1.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d9/0c/6809729fd7a000576f3de010.L.jpg

1. Aja
Released: September 23, 1977
Acclaimed Music ranking: 16 for 1977 with 309 All Time
1312 Points, 39 Votes, 9 Number Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfT2DtpRUfI

40 ballots
Full results for 16 Albums
Total points, song, number ones, total votes

1312 Aja 9-39
1198 Pretzel Logic 5-39
1191 Katie Lied 3-38
1180 Countdown to Ecstasy 7-35
1135 Gaucho 8-36
1096 The Royal Scam 5-38
1063 Can’t Buy a Trill 1-37
517 The Nightfly 2-18
223 Two Against Nature 9
166 Everything Must Go 7

89 Sunken Condos 4
45 11 Tracks of Whack 2
25 Circus Money 1
20 Alive In America 1
18 Morph The Cat 1
17 Kamakiriad 1

crazy pretzel logic fans, i respect you and your enjoyment of underwritten steely dan

Pretzel Logic at 2? smdh

Yeah, that's a weird sign.

What was on the ballot that didn't place Aja or Pretzel Logic?

I ranked em like this but it'd look different today

1) Gaucho
2) Countdown to Ecstasy
3) Aja
4) Pretzel Logic
5) Katy Lied
6) The Royal Scam
7) Can't Buy a Thrill
8) The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
9) 11 Tracks of Whack - Walter Becker
10) Sunken Condos - Donald Fagen