I think I'm coming around to "Third World Man," but for me both Aja and Gaucho seem to drop off a little with the last two tracks. I like "Josie," but it's probably their most forgettable single.
― thewufs, Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
Damn, how did I not vote for "Josie." Probably the one I regret leaving off the ballot most.
― voodoo chili, Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Definitely can't argue with these two being in the top 20
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite fagen vocals
Was out earlier, but "Caves of Altamira" was my #2. Absolutely love that song, and have since I first heard it at age 5 1/2 in 1978 when my older cousin spent the summer with us. She was a huge Steely Dan fan, and she brought with her all their albums.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EfCuafZSPX8/U0CJzPI10YI/AAAAAAAAAlw/LrBtUiXsQlo/w640-h320-no/Pretzel+Logic.jpg
18. Pretzel LogicFrom: Pretzel LogicReleased: February 20, 1974686 Points, 33 Votes, 3 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
Yay Pretzel Logic, I was getting worried that it wouldn't make it.
― voodoo chili, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
I had somehow forgotten about "Josie" until I was finishing my list, but I made sure to make room for it.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
...and here is "Pretzel Logic," one of my two that I thought might not make the list.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
still kicking myself over forgetting FM
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
My 'Boston Rag' story: during the time that I was I listening to the song for the first time, I lived on 7th avenue and used to get 'out of my mind' on grass every chance I got. The girl that I was into at that time lived in Astoria ( not Bayside but same borough). One weekend afternoon I was out of my mind as usual and she drunk dialed me out of the blue
― calstars, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Another great song. This is probably going to be all killers from here on in.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
On some days I think "Pretzel Logic" is my favorite SD song. Glad it's top 20. Love Becker's solo here - his first on record!
― thewufs, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah "Pretzel Logic" is my #5, wrote a bit about it on some other thread about how it's a canny reflection on the ephemeral and thus their best blues jam
― Euler, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IOgj_3nbtZo/U0CPZkUtncI/AAAAAAAAAmc/bUaPw8XImFs/w563-h552-no/steely-dan-pretzel-logic-1974.jpg
1974: "Pretzel Logic" (3:59 edit) (B-side: "Through With Buzz")Label: ABC 12033Chart: US Pop 57
"Pretzel Logic" is a single released by Steely Dan from their album Pretzel Logic, originally released in 1974 by ABC Records. It reached number 57 in the Billboard charts. In the lyrics, the speaker describes wanting to visit the Southern United States with a minstrel show, wanting to meet Napoleon Bonaparte because Napoleon is lonely, and being the victim of fashion by being questioned about his shoes, to which he answers that he saw them in motion pictures and television and that "the times are changing".
In Brian Sweet's 1994 Steely Dan Biography Reelin' in the Years, Donald Fagen states that the lyrics are actually about time travel. Sweet also hypothesizes that the first verse was inspired by the band's distaste for touring, particularly the tours of the American South that their record label had sent them upon the previous year.
This is one of the first Steely Dan songs to feature bassist Walter Becker as a lead guitarist. He would do so periodically on every Dan release since.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
Are they really referring to the South in that line, though? Nobody calls it "The Southland" - in fact, that's a nickname for Greater Los Angeles.
― thewufs, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
And yes, I know those are Wikipedia's words and not yours, Bee.
― thewufs, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
"Pretzel Logic" got three number ones, didn't make my list.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
/She prays like a Roman with her eyes on fire./
Always hard to explain to my daughter who is, er, named Josie.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah "Pretzel Logic" is my #5, wrote a bit about it on some other thread about how it's a canny reflection on the ephemeral and thus their best blues jam― Euler, Saturday, April 5, 2014 7:18 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Euler, Saturday, April 5, 2014 7:18 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What are you talking about?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u5aqKEU1dv0/U0CSQdHisnI/AAAAAAAAAno/fOQMQl-Lxc0/w640-h320-no/King+Of+the+World.jpg
17. King Of The WorldFrom: Countdown to Ecstasy Released: July 1973699 Points, 28 Votes, 2 Number Ones
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
amazing graphic.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link
(also: i'll confess i was activity anticipating what sort of image Gaucho would get and pp did not disappoint)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link
Just checking in. Who is the other person who had The Boston Rag at 1? Bring it back now!
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Looooove the synth
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
and the guitarists answering every Fagenism.
"Pretzel Logic" was my #1--but it was actually "King of the World" that I thought would win. I'll resign myself now to an Aja or Gaucho #1
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
I was one of the #1 voters for KOTW, really was pulling for it to crack the top ten
― some dude, Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
I think of "King of the World" the same way I think of On the Beach's cover: as one of the greatest encapsulations of the last few months of Nixon. (Countdown came out in July of '73, so they jumped the gun a bit.) What it must have felt like to experience that, I mean. Even though I know they're almost certainly singing about something else--the big one in California, probably.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
A Monza for the "King of The World" graphic? Too perfect! Can't comment much now, but will say pp's images own.
― How About A Kiss For Your Cousin Doogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Great pic for a great song.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
this part of the poll must be the title track graveyard, expecting "Aja" and "Dr. Wu" next
― some dude, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
just finished re-listening to "Pretzel Logic" and wondering how i actually didn't vote for it.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
the big multi-tracked Fagen harmonies on choruses like "King Of The World" and "Pretzel Logic" are catnip to me, so great
― some dude, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
You're fucking kidding me. This is my favorite SD song
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PQHOspGyLGI/U0CZvHw-M0I/AAAAAAAAAog/ulZZWdnIOPY/w585-h320-no/FM.jpg
16. FM (No Static At All)B-side: FM (No Static At All) - RepriseFrom: FM SoundtrackSingle Released: 1978722 Points, 34 Votes
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
Gutted about the king of the world placing. But if u don't vote u can't bitch
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
kick off your high-heeled sneakers. It's party time.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
haha, yes you can.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
xpost
great song and did make my list but was my very last entry or number 20.
8 of my top 10 remaining, so I wd appear to be Mister Consensus....
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
Who is that
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
dunno, but he likes 'dirty work'
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
Haha, I see what you did there, PP.
― nickn, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
No I mean the girl
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 6 April 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
;-)
― pplains, Sunday, 6 April 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_gNsSlX6xj8/U0Cmv6-bgkI/AAAAAAAAApM/754bJvmZSkk/w448-h439-no/FM_%2528No_Static_At_All%2529.jpg
1978: FM (No Static At All) (B-side: FM (No Static At All) - Reprise)Label MCAChart: 22 US Pop, 30 US Adult Contemporary, 49 UK
This was the first single Steely Dan released on MCA Records (which had released the soundtrack), predating MCA's acquisition of ABC Records by one year.
Three versions of the song by Steely Dan exist. The first two versions, "FM" and "FM (reprise)", originally appeared on the FM soundtrack album and the 12" single. "FM" has a running time of 4:50 and features a guitar solo outro. This version of "FM" also appears on the original 1982 release of the compilation album Gold, the compilation album A Decade of Steely Dan, and the compilation album The Definitive Collection. "FM (reprise)" is an instrumental reprise of "FM" with a prominent saxophone solo and has a running time of 2:53.
A third version of "FM" was created by removing the guitar solo from the end of the original track, and using the FM (reprise) saxophone version as a new ending, yielding a running time of 5:06. This hybrid version appears on the 1991 compilation Gold (Expanded Edition) and most every release after that. It is possible this remix was done so that compilations would not feature two different versions of the same song back to back.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 April 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
should i save the rest or post a few more tonight?
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 April 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
maybe one more imo. leave some mystery for the last day.
― some dude, Sunday, 6 April 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link