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

Dude, it was Bowie. I mean, has Steely Dan even been to outer space?

Weekends on All Things Considered continues its "Why Music Matters" series with music from the heavens, as chosen by astronaut Stan Love.

"In space, every day is an important day of work," Love says. But when he was sent up to the space station to drop off and pick up crew members, the returning station crew member asked, "Dudes, where are the tunes?"

Suddenly, the shuttle mid-deck is filled with Steely Dan and "some other kind of old-guy music, since we're largely old guys here," Love says. All the lights were turned off in the cabin as the shuttle flew across "the cloud tops at 17,000 miles per hour, so [the Earth is] always spinning underneath you, scrolling past.

xp imagining Becker-Fagen floating in a space capsule is makin' me chuckle over here

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/202469main_sl3-jsc2007e21208.jpg

^^ Stan Love

all the stars come out at night

Stteely Dan Love

damn i fucked that up

Can we be shown gauchos + Stan Love?

You'll have to baig us.

sleeve and clemenza, thank you for the shout-out! I am new here and that makes me feel very welcome.

And clemenza, I saw the Stones in 72, too. I was 16. Got my driver's license that morning, went to see the Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder that night. That was a good day.

shocked that 'california! tumbles into the sea!' didn't make the lyrics rundown, this poll has already lost all credibility.

^^We're all too busy smoking with the boys upstairs to notice/vote.

i considered "california tumbles into the sea" but ultimately rejected it after deciding warren zevon had said it better.

Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder

why even go on living after seeing that? i mean, at that point, you're pretty much done, aren't you?

xp otm, with the motel standing and all

And clemenza, I saw the Stones in 72, too. I was 16. Got my driver's license that morning, went to see the Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder that night. That was a good day.

― Sandy, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:46 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

welcome Sandy, and I am SO jealous of you! I think if I could time travel to one show it would be '72 Stones and Stevie

That was a good day.

Hall of Fame understatement.

As Bee OK pointed out to me in his confirmation email I accidentally only voted for 19 SD songs, but I never got back to him with my number 20, which was "King of the World". So when the tracks ultimately roll out just imagine it has 12 more points. Wonder if it'll need the boost?

Also, any world that I'm welcome to is one where "Beg us" rhymes with "Vegas". I don't know where y'all come from.

king of the world is a cool song and could have made the bottom of my 20 on a different day

if "Dirty Work" were Steely Dan's only song, Sandy's post about seeing the dan wouldn't be awesome. it wouldn't make sense. "Dirty Work" tears down my entire image of becker and fagen as genius assholes bc I know fagen's not singing due to insecurity. For this and other reasons, I move that "Dirty Work" be stricken from the poll.

Isn't the Do It Again line
"Now you swear and kick and beg us
That you're not a gamblin' man
Then you find you're back in Vegas
With a handle in your hand"

― nickn, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 9:48 AM (6 hours ago)

Thanks. I voted that line and apparently had it wrong this whole time. The real first line is even better! Aside from the badass lyrics themselves I've always loved how they kick straight back into this verse after the solos and windchimes.

dirty work rules

those who voted for "Dirty Work" will be given the option to transfer their vote to either "Your Gold Teeth" or "Your Gold Teeth II." if one already voted for one gold teeth but not the other, the vote shall be automatically given to the gold tooth without a vote. if one already voted for both gold teeth, well this is called money bags. So: copy this to your status and money will arrive within 4 days... based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not copy will be without money.

shut the fuck up already

I foresee terrible trouble, and I stay here just the same

sorry. i'm getting antsy waiting for the roll out.

mb david palmer should post for me

damn, that actually came out kinda pretty.

http://i.imgur.com/5loA6uk.jpg

How high did you rank "Jazzman", Graft?

super stoked for the solo tracks rollout.

xp I like jazzman. I like Palmer and the song Dirty Work to be honest. It just bothers me on the album, and it'd be a small personal tragedy if it makes top 10.

super stoked for the Stones Dirty Work poll

lol I love and voted for "dirty work" but it has no chance in hell of making the top 10, you can chill already

What is Jazzman, like Seals & Crofts? Man, this thread is like delirious with anticipation!

i believe in dirty work for top 10. we can do it.

Jazzman. One of those songs you hear, and you're Ohhhh, that Jazzman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGrSiW7GRHs

Palmer wrote the lyrics.

Oh yeah, thanks-I was thinking of "Summer Breeze" which I always thought went, "blowin' through the jazzman in my mind"

i believe in dirty work for top 10. we can do it.

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:41 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the wind is driving in my face the smell of prickly pear

are you ready to go? just got home from work. poured me a glass of wine.

let's get this going!

doooooooo it!!

Oh yeah, thanks-I was thinking of "Summer Breeze" which I always thought went, "blowin' through the jazzman in my mind"

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/03/tumblr_mmx080f1Kw1qgw79jo1_400.gif

thanks

fist, i want to say that i'm not sure how i missed some lyrics ballots, pretty sure that it really was only a couple. i can say that after tabulating all these ballots it sounds like i slipped a little bit. i'm almost 100% sure everything else is accurate.

second, i looked at a bunch of other polls and it seemed liked this one was the record. i thought i heard that Led Zeppelin had the most and therefore this poll was ahead of that one. i did look at the David Bowie poll but couldn't find the numbers.

While we're talking about misheard lyrics I've always thought "Well I never thought the girl could be so crueeeel" was actually "so ruuuuuuude" and I pretty much like my version better so take that SD

speaking of, i started to edit the lyrics but ran out of time. so as some others have explained their mistakes were transferred over.

starting with the solo stuff

I think the Bowie poll beat the Pavement one, but I forget the numbers

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, March 26, 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bowie got 80.

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, March 26, 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

two places I could have heard it: KBPI or KAZY, the two competing AOR stations back then

a toast to the classic days of classic rock!

"KBPI rocks the Rockies"

I'm glad to see this thread bumped with Dan-related content, instead of the one with the weirdly long stupid quote that gets truncated mid-phrase and

Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

also that thread title seems to imply that Steely Dan is saying that quote.

I hate being commanded to remember something

also that thread title seems to imply that Steely Dan is saying that quote.

Could be from a Walter Becker mid-show monologue.

the best part of review where quote came from is the contrast between the out-of-touch boomer Steely Dan fan and the young, hip kid listening to the fucking Fragile

The Fragile: the Gaucho of Industrial Alternative

ha, that's at least kind of plausible. I though the young, hip kid was listening to Fragile by Yes!

that dicrescenzo review remains so breathtakingly dumb, my second least favorite review from Pitchfork

The Fragile is now as old as Aja was at the time of the review, but nobody bothers to make fun of aging Gen Xers except ourselves.

i do wish NiN had spent a little more time working the vein of glossy bop-pop, tho

I hurt myself today
In that ditch out in the valley
That they're digging just for me

DiCrescenzo an equal opportunity misanthrope - he gave The Fragile a 2.0 five months before he wrote the Dan review!

You go back, Jack, do it again
Bow down before the one you serve

The Cuervo Gold
the fine Columbian
Make me want to fuck you like an animal

When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control.

On the water down in New Orleans
My baby's the pearl of the quarter
She's a charmer like you've never seen
Singing: "starfuckers incorporated"

i love the other thread title. "People fought" cracks me up