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

he's been mobilized since dawn
now he's crouching on the lawn

also my number two

Fagen doesn't bother distinguishing reporting from contempt.

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22. Reelin' In The Years
B-side "Only a Fool Would Say That"
From: Can't Buy a Thrill
Single Released: March 1973
644 Points, 32 Votes

^^ one of very few Dan songs I'm bored of

somehow i still find the solo thrilling

victim of overplay, maybe, but this has not held up as well as the other singles

xps I've been to Santillana del Mar, and now feel like an idiot for not having known there were caves there. The village is pretty enough I guess. Sounds like I'd've'd trouble getting a ticket anyway.

Reelin' is still great.

Love it, then and now.

I drove through Cantabria last summer thinking we'd stop at the caves, but like Lascaux you can't see the real cave anymore, only a replica. think the Dan would appreciate that

only the Dan would say that

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1973: "Reelin' In The Years" (B-side: "Only A Fool")
Label: ABC 11352
Chart: 11 US Pop

Can't get sick of this one

Well, I'm glad Cleveland stepped up and forced their hand. Thank you, Cleveland, thanks a bunch.

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The Boston Rag
From: Countdown to Ecstasy
Released: July 1973
646 Points, 27 Votes, 2 Number Ones

my other favorite dan lyric!

i was out of my mind and
you were on the phone

also too low

yessssss. the fake tango at the beginning of the guitar solo!

oh yeah all time favorite dan solo

this was my #5, great song.

my #10; highlights are the exhortations to "you better bring it on home" and to "bring it back, bring it back now" as the song winds down; the Dan's version of getting lost in the boogie

great song but missed my ballot.

we are into the Top 20.

so throw out your gold teeth!

my #3 - i'm no closer to knowing what it's about than i was before i ever heard it, but what a fucking great song

also i love how it seemingly takes place in new york

One more of mine - "Black Friday" - has shown up.

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20. Gaucho
From: Gaucho
Released: November 21, 1980
669 Points, 27 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Reelin' In the Years only #22? What kind of people are you?

bodacious cowboys.....yet I welcome them!

pointed my car down 7th avenue

totally surprised that Gaucho isn't higher. it wasn't on my ballot but i know there are some serious partisans on this board.

"gaucho" is a perfect song

i forgot to vote for it

love this song, made my ballot.

gaucho was my #2

Gaucho is great! Not on my ballot.

totally surprised that Gaucho isn't higher. it wasn't on my ballot but i know there are some serious partisans on this board.

The lyrics list at the top features at least four different lines from the song.

#9. I thought this was a #1 contender...

love how the synths seem to microwave the chorus

The outro is marvelous. The song is a thing of beauty.

also love the percussive guitar in the chorus, damn

Would you care to explaiiiiiiiinn

so i have been getting this info from here: http://www.steelydandictionary.com/

Custerdome: A fictional skyscraper containing the luxury apartment where the song's plot unfolds. Editor's note: I decided to make an exception to my usual "no fictional words" rule and include this in the dictionary for two reasons: A) It's the word I get asked about most frequently by site visitors; and B) Temporarily abandoning their reticence to discuss lyric interpretations, Becker and Fagen kindly explained its exact meaning during an interview: "It exists only in our collective imagination. In the Steely Dan lexicon it serves as an archetype of a building that houses great corporations..."

Gaucho: A South American cowboy. Originating from the pampas in Argentina, gauchos were familiar figures in the 18th/19th centuries, and typically were daring and skillful horsemen and plainsmen. Immortalised on film thanks to the 1927 Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckling epic The Gaucho.

i might emerge from this poll with the royal scam as my new favorite LP

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, April 5, 2014 3:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yaaaaay

i never thought "Reelin'" would rank lower than "Do It Again" and "Dirty Work," weird

One of my best friends we nicknamed the Gaucho cuz of his ridiculous clothes and ways with women

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19. Josie
From: Aja
Released: September 23, 1977
678 Points, 32 Votes, 1 Number One

fuck yeah

shine up the battle apple