went for deacon blues, even with those sax solos.
-- Alan N, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:43
???
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
haha saxophones are meant to be sung about but not played
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 6 September 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Bated breath over here - bated breath...
― Davey D, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
gotta go with "Deacon Blues," definitely has their best chorus. Still, this is pretty much impossible. Every one of their albums has at least three genuinely great songs.
― talrose, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
except for Two Against Nature
I mean Everything Must Go, Two Against Nature has Janie Runaway and Jack of Speed.
― talrose, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
gimmie a couple years and I'll probably be into the dan's sax solos. right now, they're the only piece of the puzzle I might still say is "too slick". but a couple years back, I would've said all of it was, so hey.
― original bgm, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
thats wayne fucking shorter, tho
― max, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
its not slick its god talking
otm max
― Davey D, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
God is a slick SOB, though.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't get all the crazy adoration for Gaucho-era stuff. What am I missing? Royal Scam and Aja too, they're just ok. But the first four, holy mackerel!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Read the Gaucho thread.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail Those test tubes and the scale Just get them all out of here
I just went with my gut because I have a feeling I could have spent hours if I thought about it.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
"their eyes ... their eyes ... their eyes ... their eyes"
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
We'll jog with show folk on the sand Drink kirschwasser from a shell San Francisco show and tell Well I should know by now That it's just a spasm Like a Sunday in T.J. That it's cheap but it's not free That I'm not what I used to be And that love's not a game for three
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Didn't vote for "Peg," but I support its win, especially since I've been idly figuring out its chords during dull moments in band practice in the last couple of weeks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
i coulda sworn i voted for night by night
― chaki, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
now i wish i'd voted for bad sneakers
― ghost rider, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, the poll ended before I could vote, big deal. But two of my handful of finalists were "Charlie Freak" and "Kid Charlemagne", and it just now occurred to me that those two characters could be the same guy, as captured at the beginning and at the end of a downhill slide. (If you ignore the real-time chronology in which the two songs were recorded.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i like peg and everything but i don't think it's one of my top 10 or even 15 steely dan songs.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 7 September 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
More people voted for songs that got only 1 vote than voted for "Peg" though. Lots of great songs didn't get any votes - but it's hard to pick just one.
― o. nate, Saturday, 8 September 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
belated vote for "monkey in your soul". my favorite, i think, of those that got none
― outdoor_miner, Saturday, 8 September 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I voted for The Boston Rag, but it could easily have gone to Razor Boy or Rose Darling, both of which got zero votes.
Peg is good, but it wouldn't even crack my Dan top 20.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 8 September 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Midnight Cruiser 1
this is a dope song i never heard before
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
respectable results, but it's kinda boring that 6 of the top 7 are singles. I expected more deep cuts!
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
What a disappointing result!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
here's how the votes stacked up album-wise, something to keep in mind next time we do an SD album poll, which I guess would be any day now:
22 Aja 15 Countdown To Ecstasy 15 Gaucho 13 Can't Buy A Thrill 12 Pretzel Logic 7 Royal Scam 7 Katy Lied 4 non-album ("FM") 0 Two Against Nature 0 Everything Must Go
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We already did the album poll. Gaucho won it.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
we already did the album poll 2 or 3 times, that's what i was saying! Katy Lied won once and Pretzel Logic and Royal Scam tied another time, but maybe there was an another one where Gaucho won that I can't find right now. I still totally do not understand all the Gaucho love on ILM.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"reelin in the years", "barrytown" or "dr wu"
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised by Peg winning this round, but look at how many tunes got multiple votes.
single/FM radio staple - Deacon Blues or Do It Again (as I love the guitar solo in that one).album cut - Don't Take Me Alive
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
doctor wu 4eva
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"Don't Take Me Alive" may not have been a single but I've definitely heard it on the radio and consider it one of their better known songs
― cee-u-en-tee (some dude), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Suprised no love for Black Friday. I'll take Peg as the winner (whover played bass on that should get a Nobel Prize) but had i voted in this i would have voted King of the World.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
would probably change my vote to "gaucho" these days.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah Black Friday deserves a vote or two. also sad that Bad Sneakers got shut out. it's always in my top 5, even if it's never going to take that #1 spot.
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take Peg as the winner (whover played bass on that should get a Nobel Prize)
It's Chuck Rainey.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
love the story from the vh1 special about how chuck rainey had to sneak a little slap bass in on the DL during the bridge cuz fagen/becker thought slap bass was too trendy.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
for me, the song most deserving of a vote that didn't get one was "night by night"
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that song fucking rocks
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
totally. the huge cymbal crashes during the "niiiiiiiiiiight byyyyyy niiiii-ight" part remind me of doom metal, lolz.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
steely doom
― original bgm, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
nigt X night otm
When the joker tried to tell meI could cut it in this rube townWhen he tried to hang that sign on meI said Take it downWhen the dawn patrol got to tell you twiceThey're gonna do it with a shotgunYes, I'm cashing in this ten-cent lifeFor another one
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
would be cool to run this poll again. looks like it didn't get many votes
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link