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

glad to turn some people onto the Becker record -- one of my hangups about Fagen solo/later SD is that Donald's voice has been in decline, but Becker seemed to finally find his on Circus Money, kind of a gruff, personable Warren Zevon vibe.

Two Against Nature won the group four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. It has been certified 2× Platinum in the US.

Two Against Nature marked Steely Dan's long-awaited debut for Warner Bros. Records - through a sub-label, Giant Records. They intended to release Gaucho on Warner Bros. after their longtime label ABC Records merged with MCA Records, but MCA claimed ownership of the master recordings.

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8. The Nightfly
Released: October 29, 1982
517 Points, 18 Votes, 2 Number Ones

I thought Nightfly might to overtake one of the first 7, such is its following here.

might manage to

wow me too

damn that's low!!

bee ok, can i put in a request for you to bold the first line of the entry, as most poll runners do? it makes it a lot easier to find when scrolling through the thread

the big seven are up next

sure

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so the big seven

take 517 points and double down, it still can't break into the Top 7.

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7. Can't Buy a Thrill
Released: November 1972
1063 Points, 37 Votes, 1 Number One

7

Wow really??

i take it the population sleeps tonight, why the West Coast is the best as far as time zone is concerned as other things can just be NEWS.

Yeah let's just stop here for today

I need time to heal

no, i have to go on

Is there gas in the car?

yes there's gas in the caaaaar

龜, are you healing over cbat? Or nightfly?

CBAT

I figured Nightfly wasn't going to place in the top 7

I figured The Royal Scam had a good chance of falling to the last slot of the original 7

Quoting royal scam songs while hoping it slides. That's cold. ;-)

I do expect to see it next though

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6. The Royal Scam
Released: May, 1976
1096 Points, 38 Votes, 5 Number Ones

That's a goddamn tie

Tie breaker = number of votes?

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Tiebreaker should actually be fewer number of votes since that means the people who voted for it had it placed higher

Royal Scam is my #1. pretty unconscionable that it's rated under Gaucho imo.

Tiebreaker should actually be fewer number of votes since that means the people who voted for it had it placed higher

― 龜, Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i totally see the logic of this but i could never quite get behind it and usually did tiebreakers just as Bee OK did when i run polls.

boo, everything must go is definitely > two against nature

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson),

my boy

TRS my number one also.

Glad to see someone other than myself voted for Morph the Cat in the solo tracks poll (I was the #1). I think that I.G.Y. and the Nightfly are the proper results for #s 1 and 2. Didn't get around to listening to Circus Money or Kamakiriad. Gave 11 Tracks of Whack a whack, but didn't find it that interesting (love the title "Surf and/or Die" though). Neglected to vote in the albums poll that's currently rolling out, but TRS should be higher.

love the royal scam.

Didn't vote in this. Even though I own all the albums up to and including Gaucho, I still feel I don't really understand the Dan. But Royal Scam is the one I listen to for pleasure.

2nd side is great, 1st side less so

Shame 'Tomorrow's Girls' didn't make it...the only track on 'Kamakiriad' up to 'Nightfly' standards...and possibly 'Snowbound'...

I love the Royal Scam too...it may not have the highs of some of the other records but for me it's probably the most consistent...

TRS, along with Presence and Black and Blue is one of those classic kinda sorta 'forgotten' albums dropped by big artists in '76--IIRC someone on the TRS poll thread called it "an album of just deep cuts", which is really fitting for all three of those lps IMHO.

The "Louie Louie" line in that record ad is funny...but veering close to Zappa-like condescension (guessing they got the idea from him).

what would a band who 'dressed trendy' look like in 1972?

The only solo tracks I voted for were "Maxine", "New Frontier", and "I.G.Y.". I probably need to give the Becker tracks a chance. I saw Fagan and Becker back in the 90s and they played one of Walt's tunes. Didn't make a big impression on me.

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And damn proud of their trendy threads too.

I find side one of The Royal Scam far stronger than side two; "Kid Charlemagne"/"The Caves of Altamira"/"Don't Take Me Alive" are all supreme SD. I still hate myself for leaving "Altamira" off the ballot.

I don't know if "Don't Take Me Alive" is good or if I remember it b/c it has a hook.

Ready to get this going!

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There's an unsurprising dearth of Steely Dan gifs on the Internet!

One more from Dan Meth:

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thats cool but idgi