Top 7 Steely Dan Songs
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Topic: Top 7 Steely Dan Songs
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Top 7 Steely Dan Songs
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 04:54
Aja do! Are you ready to Do It Again with another Top 7 songs poll? We're Reelin' in the Years this time with Steely Dan in a Countdown to Ecstasy. Simply list your Top 7 Steely Dan songs below and then I'll assign the usual Pretzel Logic system of points to your lists.  1st song (12 points) 2nd song (8 points) 3rd song (6 points) 4th song (4 points) 5th song (3 points) 6th song (2 points) 7th song (1 point) Here's my Top 7 to get the poll underway:- 1. Do It Again (12 points) 2. Reelin' in the Years (8 points) 3. FM (6 points) 4. Kings (4 points) 5. Kid Charlemagne (3 points) 6. Doctor Wu (2 points) 7. Midnite Cruiser (1 point)
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 05:50
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Made up pretty much on the spot, so not exactly written in stone: 1. Your Gold Teeth (12 points) 2. Kid Charlemagne (8 points) 3. Do it Again (6 points) 4. FM (No Static At All) (4 points) 5. Show Biz Kids (3 points) 6. King Of The World (2 points) 7. Black Cow (1 point) |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 06:25
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Why only 7? Love the Dan! 1. "Do It Again" (1,726 pooints) 2. "Home at Last" (1,725 points) 3. "Babylon Sisters" (1,724 points) 4. "Aja" (1233 points) 5. "Deacon Blues" (1232 points) 6. "Pretzel Logic" (1111 [points) 7. "The Royal Scam" (999 points) 8. "Glamour Profession" (998 points) 9. "Black Cow" (997 points) 10. "Doctor Wu" (960 points) 11. "Kid Charlemagne" (928 points) 12. "Josie" (757 points) 13. "FM (No Static at All)" (69 points) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 06:28
It gets complicated adding the points up when there's more than seven.
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 08:21
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Quite difficult to choose. Today it's... The Caves of Altamira Aja Black Friday Show Biz Kids Reelin' in the Years Deacon Blues The Royal Scam |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 10:34
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Boy this is tough. Lot of Steely Dan that I'm a fan of: 1) Aja 2) Reelin' In the Years 3) My Old School 4) Josie 5) Black Friday 6) Kid Charlemagne 7) FM Just on the outside, Black Cow, Babylon Sisters and Don't Take Me Alive. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 11:22
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Reelin' In the Years Haitian Divorce Do It Again Showbiz Kids Kid Charlemagne Doctor Wu Aja
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 12:40
Yes, I've got like 20 songs or so maybe 30 just on the outside:)... Seven more or less flawless albums 1972-1980. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 15:43
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I accidentally did 10 at first and THAT was hard enough, but a rule is a rule. in order Don't Take Me Alive Kind Spirit The Bear Kings Haitian Divorce Kid Charlemagne Here In The Western World
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 18:05
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In order that they came to mind: Kid Charlemagne My Old School Deacon Blues Haitian Divorce Doctor Wu Reelin' in the Years Black Friday Kid Charlemagne and Deacon Blues aside, my top 7 Dan songs will never be the same twice. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 18:08
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From last to first Rikki Don't Lose That Number Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Green Earrings Doctor Wu Aja Time Out Of Mind Peg |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 20:40
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Might try to give this a whirl if I remember to do it. Been a wild two weeks for us. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 20:51
Yeah, but rules are meant to be . . . ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 17 2025 at 23:24
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1. The Boston Rag 2. Reeling In The Years 3. Haitian Divorce 4. FM 5. Dirty Work 6. Do It Again 7. Aja
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 00:18
That run from 72-77 was incredible. Gaucho doesn't measure up to those high standards, in my opinion. But, I mentioned this in another thread, taken on its own Gaucho is still a good listen. I know what you mean on just the outside. I could have listed Dirty Work, Midnite Cruiser, Bodhisattva, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, The Royal Scam, The Fez, Peg.... Very few songs that I either don't care for or I am ambivalent about when it comes to Steely Dan. Royal Scam is a masterpiece and the album that followed, Aja, topped it. Yeah, safe to say they are one of my favorites. First saw them in Charlotte, 1993. Drew Zingg was lead guitarist with Peter Erskine on drums. Great concert. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 01:20
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I'm not feeling like making a definitive top 7 list right now. I do however have my all time favorite Steely Dan song. It's Kid Charlemagne. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 03:21
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Okay, this is how the Top 7 looks so far after eleven rounds of voting:- 1. Reelin' in the Years (41 points) 2. Do It Again (38 points) 2. Aja (38 points) 4. Kid Charlemagne (30 points) 5. Haitian Divorce (21 points) 6. FM (15 points) 7. My Old School (14 points) Thanks to everyone who's voted so far.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 05:29
I think I reach for Gaucho more often than both Pretzel Logic and Kathy Lied (which are both still great of course) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 06:36
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Kid Charlemagne Altamira Caves Bodhisattva Do It Again Haitian Divorce Your Gold Teeth Royal Scam mentions: Home At Last Boston Rag Razor Boy Babylon Sisters ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 06:51
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Really? Here goes: - Aja - Do It Again - Kid Charlemagne - Hey Nineteen - Babylon Sisters - My Old School - Haitian Divorce
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 07:33
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Top 7 update with Sean Trane & Rick1's votes added:- 1. Do It Again (50 points) 1. Aja (50 points) 3. Kid Charlemagne (48 points) 4. Reelin' in the Years (41 points) 5. Haitian Divorce (25 points) 6. The Caves of Altimara (20 points) 7. My Old School (16 points) 8. FM (15 points) 9. Your Gold Teeth (14 points) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 09:27
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 12:26
Very good friend of mine who is a big Steely Dan fan (might be his favorite band) goes back and forth between Aja and Countdown to Ecstasy as his favorite album. I know that Bodhisattva and My Old School are in his 3-4 favorite songs. King of the World and Your Gold Teeth are also among his favorite Dan tunes. So you are not alone. As far as I'm concerned, Aja easily is my most played SD album. After that, probably pretty close between Royal Scam, Can't buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy to which I reach for most. Gaucho would fall last during that run of albums from 72-80. Gaucho is like Yes's 90125 or Genesis's Duke. Good albums with a couple great songs but a few songs that I'm ambivalent to. Those albums don't match up to certified masterpieces such as CTTE, Relayer, Yes Album, SEBTP, Trick of the Tail, Aja or the Royal Scam where every track is a keeper. Sometimes I throw Gaucho on, but I end up skipping some tracks just as I do for Duke or 90125. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 19 2025 at 08:03
Royal Scam, Countdown to Ecstasy  ,5Thrill, Aja (though I knew of them, this was the first album that I was familiar with >> radio over-exposure) Logic ,5Kati , Gaucho .
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |