One Song From Each Steely Dan Album...

west

Any major dude would say that !

dindude

Kebabkid said:

Can't buy a Thrill: Reelin' in the years

Countdown to Ecstasy: My Old School

Pretzel Logic: Any Major Dude would tell you (for some reason it reminds me of Snoopy/Peanuts)

Katy Lied: Bad Sneakers

Royal Scam: Bollocks! Ok Kid Charlemagne but Haitian or Green Earrings and Don't take me alive could've made the running

Aja: Josie but Peg is in there, too...aarrrghh

Gaucho: Babylon Sisters

Two Against Nature: Cousin Dupree

Two more tracks that are worth a mention are "FM" and "Here at the Western World" (this featured on the Greatest Hits album and is an absolute corker)

Solo albums?

I'd pick "Lucky Henry" from 11 Tracks of Whack (Becker) and from Fagen, I'd pick "Walk between the raindrops" from The Nightfly.
"Tomorrow's Girls" from Kamakiriad.

Sadly, it ends there as whilst being a big, long-time fan, I'm not familiar with anything after these.

I was fortunate enough to play in a great band in the late 90s that played Doobies, Eagles, Toto and Steely Dan material. To date, the latter proved to be some of the most challenging and satisfying stuff I've ever played live.

Well if we're getting into solo albums Cos, then Kamakiriad holds a very special place for me, as a complete album I prob listen to it more than any SD album. I think largely because I was "there" when it came out, and very much into my SD discovery at the time. I do think it is a truly remarkable album, such a unique sound to it.

west

west

For your delectation .....  An explaination , and analysis of the MU major chord

Jez6345789

Its too hard most of their albums for me have a 70-100%
track rating I seldom skip tracks but to keep with the spirit of the post .

Can't buy a thrill - Brooklyn 

Countdown to ecstasy- My old School

pretzel logic- pretzel logic

Katy lied - Dr Wu

Royal Scam- take me alive

Aja- Josie

Gaucho -Gaucho

Fretwired

Ed Motta pays tribute to Walter Becker with 43-song Steely Dan playlist

Tracklist:

1) Babylon Sisters
2) I Got The News
3) Green Earrings
4) Razor Boy
5) Rose Darling
6) Pretzel Logic
7) Fire In The Hole
8) Pixeleen
9) Deacon Blues
10) Glamour Profession
11) Almost Gothic
12) Throw Back The Little Ones
13) Night By Night
14) Kings
15) Third World Man
16) Kid Charlemagne
17) Peg
18) King Of The World
19) Home At Last
20) With A Gun
21) Doctor Wu
22) The Fez
23) Hey Nineteen
24) Aja
25) Only A Fool Would Say That
26) Haitian Divorce
27) Any Major Dude Will Tell You
28) The Boston Rag
29) Here At The Western World
30) Bad Sneakers
31) West Of Hollywood
32) The Caves Of Altamira
33) My Rival
34) Black Cow
35) Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
36) Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
37) Sign In Stranger
38) Your Gold Teeth
39) Josie
40) Don’t Take Me Alive
41) Parker’s Band
42) Your Gold Teeth II
43) Gaucho

Bucket

Hmmm...

Can't Buy A Thrill - Do It Again
Countdown to Ecstasy - The Boston Rag
Pretzel Logic - Barrytown
Katy Lied - Doctor Wu
The Royal Scam - fuck... either Kid Charlemagne, Don't Take Me Alive or Sign In Stranger
Aja - half of me says it's got to be Peg, the other half says it's got to be Home At Last
Gaucho - Hey Nineteen

Not familiar with the last two albums.

As for Fagen on his own:

The Nightfly - really really difficult choice, but probably Walk Between Raindrops
Kamakiriad - Trans-Island Skyway... dat groove
Morph The Cat - I don't really know this album
Sunken Condos - Miss Marlene

Great idea for a thread.

west

I'm still having pangs of guilt over my selection   imagine if you had to push the delete button on all but 2 albums eek ... no compilations allowed ....

Bucket

west said:
imagine if you had to push the delete button on all but 2 albums eek ... no compilations allowed ....

Countdown to Ecstasy and Aja. I'd keep a secret backup hard drive with The Royal Scam on it too.

If including the Fagen solo albums, then it'd be The Nightfly and Aja. Both are pure bliss from start to finish.

It would be a wrench never hearing Doctor Wu again though. Probably my favourite Dan song, but it sits in an album I'm not as keen on.

octatonic

west said:

I'm still having pangs of guilt over my selection   imagine if you had to push the delete button on all but 2 albums eek ... no compilations allowed ....

NO!

west

I had what is known as a moment of clarity while playing dr wu live at the office in south shields ,it was a zen like experience it lasted 30 seconds but seemed like an eternity .. sublime .. there have only been a few more in my life ..

Whitecat

My all time favourite Walter Becker solo track is this - 

guitars4you

Fretwired said:

Ed Motta pays tribute to Walter Becker with 43-song Steely Dan playlist

Tracklist:

1) Babylon Sisters
2) I Got The News
3) Green Earrings
4) Razor Boy
5) Rose Darling
6) Pretzel Logic
7) Fire In The Hole
8) Pixeleen
9) Deacon Blues
10) Glamour Profession
11) Almost Gothic
12) Throw Back The Little Ones
13) Night By Night
14) Kings
15) Third World Man
16) Kid Charlemagne
17) Peg
18) King Of The World
19) Home At Last
20) With A Gun
21) Doctor Wu
22) The Fez
23) Hey Nineteen
24) Aja
25) Only A Fool Would Say That
26) Haitian Divorce
27) Any Major Dude Will Tell You
28) The Boston Rag
29) Here At The Western World
30) Bad Sneakers
31) West Of Hollywood
32) The Caves Of Altamira
33) My Rival
34) Black Cow
35) Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
36) Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
37) Sign In Stranger
38) Your Gold Teeth
39) Josie
40) Don’t Take Me Alive
41) Parker’s Band
42) Your Gold Teeth II
43) Gaucho

43 great tracks but no room for FM - surprised

Bucket

west said:

I had what is known as a moment of clarity while playing dr wu live at the office in south shields ,it was a zen like experience it lasted 30 seconds but seemed like an eternity .. sublime .. there have only been a few more in my life ..

Phil Woods's sax solo on it is one of my favourite instrumental solos ever recorded. It is pure sonic ecstasy.

bingefeller

Reelin in the years.
My Old School
Any Major Dude
Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
Haitian Divorce
Peg
Hey Ninteen

Kebabkid

As a lot of people have mentioned "Haitian Divorce", it's hard to imagine all those guitar fills, and there's a lot of them, being in the song without the voice box. And, let's not forget that originally, the guitar didn't have that  effect treatment and Walter Becker went in afterwards and added the voice box - genius.

Skipped

A few years ago I was selling a Linn Turntable.
A middle aged couple turned up but the guy was not sure......
I put Donald Fagen's The Nightfly on the deck and played track 3 - loud.

The woman immediately  told her husband to get his money out.
As they were leaving I handed her the album. 

Whitecat

"IGY" is one of those songs that grizzly old-school FOH mixers like to balance a PA system on before they run a sound check, apparently. 

bingefeller

Kebabkid said:

As a lot of people have mentioned "Haitian Divorce", it's hard to imagine all those guitar fills, and there's a lot of them, being in the song without the voice box. And, let's not forget that originally, the guitar didn't have that  effect treatment and Walter Becker went in afterwards and added the voice box - genius.

The guitar in that track is some of the most tasteful on a Steely Dan album.  I didn't know that about the voice box, but it fits the song perfectly.  

Bucket

Whitecat said:

"IGY" is one of those songs that grizzly old-school FOH mixers like to balance a PA system on before they run a sound check, apparently. 

Indeed - because it's mixed so well. Aja is also a good one for that.