How about a music poll to help with this anxiety! What is your favorite Steely Dan album?

[NRaleighLiberal]

Why?

Some of your favorite songs from the band

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	Can't Buy a Thrill
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	Countdown to Ecstacy
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	Pretzel Logic
	1 (10%)
	Katy Lied
	3 (30%)
	The Royal Scam
	1 (10%)
	Aja
	5 (50%)
	Gaucho
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	Two Against Nature
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	Everything Must Go
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	Other
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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. For me, album Aja - and song Aja

[klook]

3. Same here.

Guest appearance by jazz great Wayne Shorter, IIRC.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. yes, they were really starting to lean into jazz on that album

[DonaldsRump]

2. All are great

But my fave rave from SD is "My Old School"...great anthem for so many reasons. Any album that has that gets my vote.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I love that song! Worked on my guitar licks listening to that and so many others

Kid Charlemagne and Don't Take Me Alive and Black Friday....Boddhisatvah, Your Gold Teeth II - guitar player's dream (and nightmare - such amazing solos!)

[DonaldsRump]

8. So I guess we now call you "Skunk"?

meaning that as the highest compliment!

I had the opportunity to see Donald Fagen live about 20 years ago, and he closed the concert encore with "My Old School". Little known fact: "Daddy G" was G. Gordon Liddy!

SD gets mega-bonus points for working that in, especially in 1973!

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. I could do some of the leads, not all - my biggest issue was always with chords

I am an ear player, don't read music - so figuring out all of those suspended complex chords wasn't easy for me

Good anecdote about Liddy!

[DonaldsRump]

15. Am lucky to get an Em right on the gitbox!

I did actually get George Harrison's acoustic solo in the Beatles' "And I Love Her" down, but was told by many that I lacked passion! That was the closest I ever came to playing something on the guitar besides chords.

Other than being a medical doctor, I think being a musician is the finest thing one could be. I was hopeless at both, so settled for the law (or these days, the lack thereof).

And b/t/w, "Hey Nineteen" is another super great SD song.

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Never cared for SD personally -I've always thought they were self-important and overrated.

Just MHO. Let's talk favorite Led Zeppelin album!

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. start a poll!

[lastlib]

18. Took me a few years to realize just how GOOD they really were!

Overrated? Not a chance. It was pure genius to fuse jazz and rock the way they did.

[dweller]

9. Pretzel Logic

for this song ...
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[NRaleighLiberal]

11. I love that whole album

The poll I created is really quite impossible for me to answer - up to Gaucho I loved everything they did. After Gaucho....not so much

[dweller]

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[Quemado]

12. Album: Aja. Songs: Deacon Blues & Josie.

Aja is a great song, too.

[ClimateHawk]

13. I love Aja and all their 70s albums.

It's hard to pick a favorite SD album. Here lately I can't get enough of Two Against Nature and this song "West of Hollywood". What draws me to SD is their production. I can understand why audiophiles used to bring SD records into stores to test the speakers. Listening to SD through some good headphones is quite an experience. Their sound quality, along with the catchy hooks/melodies, and cryptic lyrics, make SD a truly unique musical journey. No other band sounds like SD.


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[House of Roberts]

16. The Royal Scam

Larry Carlton's session work on it is why.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. I think Carleton did lots of the solos on Katy Lied as well.

Amazing chops

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. just found this