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    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. Smile

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)


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 17 2025 at 06:29
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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)
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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)



Edited by BrufordFreak - March 17 2025 at 06:30
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Why only 7? Love the Dan!


It gets complicated adding the points up when there's more than seven. Smile
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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
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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.
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Reelin' In the Years 
Haitian Divorce
Do It Again 
Showbiz Kids
Kid Charlemagne 
Doctor Wu  
Aja
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

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.

Yes, I've got like 20 songs or so maybe 30 just on the outside:)... Seven more or less flawless albums 1972-1980.
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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


Edited by MortSahlFan - March 17 2025 at 15:44
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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...'

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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
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Might try to give this a whirl if I remember to do it.  Been a wild two weeks for us.
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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

I accidentally did 10 at first and THAT was hard enough, but a rule is a rule.

Yeah, but rules are meant to be . . . 
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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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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

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.

Yes, I've got like 20 songs or so maybe 30 just on the outside:)... Seven more or less flawless albums 1972-1980.


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.

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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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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. Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

That run from 72-77 was incredible. Gaucho doesn't measure up to those high standards, in my opinion.
You're not alone in having that opinion, but I never really understood that take. But then again I never come across anyone except myself with Countdown to Ecstacy as their SD-favorite.

I think I reach for Gaucho more often than both Pretzel Logic and Kathy Lied (which are both still great of course)
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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





Edited by Sean Trane - March 18 2025 at 06:53
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
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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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