My Favourite Steely Dan Song Is...

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Wildest cat from montana, Jan 14, 2022.

  1. Armjim

    Armjim Music is indeed a gift from Heaven

    Location:
    San Antonio, TX
    Like Wildcat, my favorite SD album is Pretzel Logic, but the song Black Friday from Katy Lied is the song I hear in my mind when I first think of the Dan.
     
  2. Chuckee

    Chuckee Forum Resident

    Location:
    Upstate, NY, USA
    Reelin In The Years...
     
  3. Acoustic Warrior

    Acoustic Warrior I Come From The Water

    Location:
    Frankfort Kentucky
    Been enjoying this version with Steve Winwood for a couple years now.
    From my boot cd and my Youtube channel.
    Fantastic song it is...
     
  4. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    Cool. One of my all-time favorite song couplets:

    Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
    Still I remain tied to the mast
     
  5. arriano

    arriano The California Kid

    Location:
    San Diego
    "Black Friday"
     
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  6. williamjoel

    williamjoel Spins At 33 1/3 RPM

    Location:
    Orlando, FL
    I like 'FM (No Static At All.)'
     
  7. CrawdaddySim1

    CrawdaddySim1 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Indianapolis, IN
    Doctor Wu

    Off of Katie Lied, my favorite Dan album
     
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  8. Crimson Witch

    Crimson Witch Roll across the floor thru the hole & out the door

    Location:
    Lower Michigan
    Any Major Dude With Half a Heart Surely Will Tell you my Friend
     
  9. Floatupstream

    Floatupstream Forum Resident

    Location:
    Missouri,usa
    Rikki
    Pearl of the Quarter
    Razor Boy
    The Boston Rag
    Doctor Wu

    Btw- I can’t stand Show Biz Kids either!
    Apologies Wildest Cat
     
  10. Joey Johnson

    Joey Johnson Forum Resident

    Location:
    Suffolk, VA
    Hard to pick just one, so here's 5:
    Aja
    Katy Lied
    Haitian Divorce
    Pretzel Logic
    Your Gold Teeth
     
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  11. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

    Location:
    Seattle
  12. 131east23

    131east23 Person of Interest

    Location:
    gone
    Yep, me too.
     
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  13. Mang

    Mang Forum Resident

    Location:
    NJ, USA
    Boston Rag
     
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  14. Elliottmarx

    Elliottmarx Always in the mood for Burt Bacharach

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    It's an uphill battle but I always try to uncouple the idea of a good song from a good performance. There are bands that we adore where their best songs are not necessarily great songs per se, but great performances. I feel this way about Led Zeppelin, it's generally those performances we crave, and not always the song itself.

    While Dylan and The Beatles performed their own songs brilliantly, for them it's the songs we generally crave, and cover versions can scratch that itch.

    I mostly think that Steely Dan fall in that Zeppelin category, though Dan's work can be thrillingly covered by jazz artists.

    So, with all of that said - I think that their best song (one that doesn't need to be performed by them to fully work) is -

    Any Major Dude Will Tell You
     
  15. Station17

    Station17 Time to play B-sides...

    So many ace songs from this band...killer guitar solos + interesting lyrics + great sound...These are 5 that would definitely make my top 10:
    Reelin in the Years
    Show Biz Kids
    My Old School
    Peg
    Josie
     
  16. JimSpark

    JimSpark I haven't got a title

    "Pretzel Logic" :cool:
     
  17. toasty

    toasty Senior Member

    Location:
    Tiverton, RI USA
    Impossible question.
    So much brilliance.
     
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  18. Schmeig

    Schmeig Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kirkland, WA

    Glad to see some love here for "Third World Man". Larry Carlton's guitar solo gives me chills every time I hear it.
     
  19. Randall DeBouvre

    Randall DeBouvre forum resident

    Location:
    Illinois
    midnight cruiser-that's the first song that I heard by them.
     
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  20. Remy

    Remy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brooklyn NY
    Knee jerk reaction: Dirty Work

    I think they did better songs but this one remains at the top of my favorites.
     
  21. bvb1123

    bvb1123 Rock and Roll Martian

    Location:
    Cincinnati Ohio
    I'm sure I'm on the minority but mine is "Dirty Work" followed closely by "My Old School"
     
  22. drds89

    drds89 atmosphericpostrockprogmetaldoomdronedreamgaze

    Location:
    Smithfield, VA
    A favorite short story on misheard lyrics, or in this case track name: A gent's band would play covers for a local woman's club on Friday evenings, and every week, one of the members would always request the song "Going Shopping." :laugh:
     
  23. blutiga

    blutiga Forum Resident

    Do It Again and the one about the creepy uncle.
     
  24. Chris C

    Chris C Music was my first love and it will be my last!

    Location:
    Ohio
    My favorite Steely Dan changes often as well, but always near the very top is "Here At The Western World", "FM", "Haitian Divorce" and anything on "Aja".

    One of the backup singers on "Here At The Western World" Florence Warner sang one of my all-time favorite local TV news jingles way back when here in Cleveland for WEWS, called "When You Catch 5, you've caught it all".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWUy23DwXA
     
  25. brimuchmuze

    brimuchmuze Forum Resident

    Deacon Blues
     

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