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

From Wiki "Your Gold Teeth" follows a jaded female grifter who uses her attractiveness and cunning.

tobacco they grow in peking
in the year of the locust
you'll see a sad thing
even cathy berberian knows
there's one roulade she can't sing
dumb luck my friend
won't suck me in this time

I like how Brad's reminding me that Becker-Fagen write good lyrics.

Finally looked up Cathy Berberian today. I was sort of hoping that it was a made up name.

I like how Brad's reminding me that Becker-Fagen write good lyrics.

lol i just figured i'm not going to have much to say coherently about any of these songs, might as well post my favorite lyric from each

it's very easy to picture fagen at a club singing those warnings to the grifter and wondering if she risks it all. it could be in a musical.

which could be why some don't like it

that or the electric piano solo anyway

should definitely stop calling it a "subliminal bridge" instead of a "sublime bridge" though before I get FP'd outta here

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33. Haitian Divorce
From: The Royal Scam
Released: May, 1976
475 Points, 23 Votes

The vibes on this track are awesome, but I can't get past the talkbox :(

tearful reunion in the usa

so odd that this was their huge UK hit

Semi-mojo

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1976 "Haitian Divorce" (B-side: "Sign In Stranger")
Label: ABC 4152 (UK release)
Chart: U.K. 17

nothing more Haitian than that Celtic cemetery font

lots of time sunning at Biscayne Bay for Fagen in '76, evidently

The studio where the Bee Gees, the Mac, and the Eagles recorded their blockbusters is on Biscayne Boulevard.

fagen goes for the back pocket pose in the studio (here and CTE back). front pocket in the outside world (greatest hits).

love this song. had it at #2, but it was #1 for awhile. still blown away by its popularity in England.

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32. Your Gold Teeth II
From: Katy Lied
Released: March 1975
478 Points, 23 Votes, 2 Number Ones

love that picture, first song with more than 1 number one vote.

great song. Voted for the other "gold teeth" though.

so both "Your Gold Teeth" were right next to each other up until the last few ballots were counted. it was going to be part I then part II but they kept switching positions.

"Gold Teeth II:" great guitar solo or GREATEST guitar solo?

My number 1! The guitar solo is too much.

great song and great guitar solo. I love the volume swells, which I guess are from the volume knob on the guitar and not a pedal. I love that technique.

make sure to listen to the demo where Larry Carlton(?) lays down that solo for the first time, it is note for note what he did on the finished version....Fagen is shouting holy shit all through it, very funny

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31. Rose Darling
From: Katy Lied
Released: March 1975
492 Points, 24 Votes

make sure to listen to the demo where Larry Carlton(?) lays down that solo for the first time, it is note for note what he did on the finished version....Fagen is shouting holy shit all through it, very funny

haha wow this is great. YT commenters say it's Denny Dias on gtr.

When that piano starts banging after "MYYY FRIIIIEND" I have to change my shorts

i think "rose darling" is where i fell in love with michael mcdonald.

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30. Razor Boy
From: Countdown to Ecstasy
Released: July 1973
513 Points, 22 Votes

wait which record is it from ;)

yeah i know, getting it fixed.

wtf?

not the album flub in the tombstone, just had no idea this was so loved

you know that the coming is so close at hand
you feel all right

#4 for me. the vibes and that slide guitar lick he plays after "...comes and takes your fancy things away" do it for me.

razor boy is incred

"Razor Boy" too low, figured it for top 10 for sure

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29. Night By Night
From: Pretzel Logic
Released: February 20, 1974
522 Points, 24 Votes

OK, seriously, are you kidding me?

Fagen admitted this was a failed attempt at a hit (and it shows)

this one was my very last add to my list and was put in at number 19.

Even when I don't like a SD song, there is usually something going on that I can latch on to and enjoy...like the guitar parts obv.

Yeah, I had no idea at all people rated this so highly, I don't think it was mentioned at all on the voting thread? (can't remember ever hearing any opinion about it anywhere to be honest, positive or negative)

Pretzel Logic was my first Dan LP and though my esteem for it dwindled as i familiarized myself with the other albums, "Night By Night" is one song that remains awesome to me, so huge-sounding.

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28. Time Out Of Mind
From: Gaucho
Released: November 21, 1980
540 Points, 24 Votes

huh?