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

just once i want someone to write a non-metaphorical song about chasing an actual dragon

― some dude, Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Man you ever listen to Sonata Arctica et al

My favorite song on Gaucho. Better than Billie Jean.

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier),

always disliked Fagen's vocal on "P.Y.T."

Voted for "Night By Night" pretty highly, sounds like the theme to a lost 70s cop drama.

It's the clavinet. I get Fagen's complaints that it's not fully realized. Even the lyrics in the chorus are more general than you'd expect.

time out of mind was my #3 but i think i ranked it too low

i rated damn near everything on my ballot too low. 'time out of mind' is the cvs radio steely dan fave around here. LOVE IT.

Had TOOM in my top 12

Such a tune but lacks the gravitas of the rest of Gaucho imo

yeah, it was one of the few from Gaucho that missed my ballot.

i see that we are back....

few three

Somewhere on ILM there is a TOOM thread with a (now blocked) youtube clip of some mustachioed shirtless dirtbag chopping lines while bopping and miming along to TOOM. It was my intro to the song and it was kind of creepy and wrong and perfect.

Just checking in. Nice to see so much love for the Godlike genius guitar solo on Your Gold Teeth II.

What will be the Steely Dan Sway? IE non-hit album track that ends up placing shockingly high?

i have a hunch (it's my #1) but don't want to jinx it

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27. Only A Fool Would Say That
From: Can't Buy a Thrill
Released: November 1972
543 Points, 22 Votes

Sooooo gõõd

Play some jazzy octaves. I will eat em up.

One of the best hippie putdown songs. Better than Okie From Muskogee.

This probably should have been my top track from CBAT, instead it was Midnite Cruiser (just one spot up)

great, great song however not sure if it would make my Top 40.

What will be the Steely Dan Sway? IE non-hit album track that ends up placing shockingly high?

hmm, how much should i say. this poll will actually have some major surprises.

it is looking like now that this won't end until Sunday, work on Monday otherwise would go that route.

do you want any more or should i stop? strange night with the board shutdown ect.

a couple more would be awesome!

Gotta at least do one more.

was out all night, just got home so would love a few more please!

I'm hoping for a caves of Altamira top ten surprise

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poker face

steely dan in the wild: just watched my DVR copy of david letterman's retirement announcement. when they cut to commercial right after he made the announcement, the band played "reelin' in the years."

caves of altamira better be the sway of this poll with deacon blues being the echoes.

my ballot was sucked dry in this last run: Rose Darling, Razor Boy, Night By Night, Only A Fool Would Say That and Bodhisattva

those are some of the most important songs ever to me personally so naturally they are all TOO LOW!

my favorite Dave/Dan moment -- once they performed on the show and Fagen's keyboard had a big "SD" logo on the front, and Letterman referred to them as "The Sam Donaldson Orchestra"

'Night By Night' and 'Caves Of Altamira' were both near the top of my poll...sheer bloody dan

i've been meaning to make a playlist of just SD tracks with horn sections, i love that stuff

When the joker tried to tell me I couldn't cut it in this rube town
When he tried to hang that sign on me I said: "Take it down"

some of my favourite ever phrasing in this bit

'yes i'm cashing in this ten cent life for another one' is a line that frequently pops into my head. it's a great song, i might bump it a few spots to make my 20 if i did over.

What will be the Steely Dan Sway? IE non-hit album track that ends up placing shockingly high?
hmm, how much should i say. this poll will actually have some major surprises.

it is looking like now that this won't end until Sunday, work on Monday otherwise would go that route.

― Bee OK, Friday, April 4, 2014 11:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't say anything! Jeez you people hate surprises...and please let's not start guessing the top five/top three/etc as they are rolled out--such a buzzkill

wdyll catching up with the steely dan poll on a saturday morning in april?

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love "only a fool would say that" so much, i like to think of it as their mission statement

would do a selfie if i was wearing the Shuffle Diplomacy tour shirt i had on earlier in the week

Three of my 10 have shown up so far (I've only been able to follow haphazardly, so I didn't realize they'd shown up until right now). All, of course, were lower than I thought they'd be. I'm sure the other seven are still to come. Because I have little sense of what Steely Dan songs are loved outside of my own favourites, I can only be sure of maybe three or four others still left; the other 15, no idea.

this is really the type of poll rollout we should have held at a slightly seedy '70s era hotel in los angeles

I've been drinking zombies at the Figueroa Hotel bar since Wednesday

I was disappointed to find out that this event actually featured two bands, not one.

Five of my top 20 ("Brooklyn," "Midnight Cruiser," "Don't Take Me Alive," "Bodhisattva," and "Haitian Divorce") have appeared already. Am pretty sure that 18 of my 20 are gonna wind up making it, and even my outliers are still possible. WHO KNOWS WITH YOU PEOPLE?

I'm very interested in what Aja tracks will make it. Also, is Babylon Sisters really not top 60?

I think most people round here consider Babylon the weakest song on the record? Could be wrong....still great tho I think

the lyrics and Santa Ana winds part are so classic

yeah I mean c'mon

babylon sisters is a sick slo jam

could rightfully win this poll

Babylon Sisters will be up there

"Babylon" and every Aja track but "I Got The News" def placing