Favorite Steely Dan tunes?

[bassbrad]

With the recent Donald Fagen release "Sunken Condos" that has quite a few tunes I like - I have been spinning lots of other Fagen & Steely Dan tunes. I noticed my favorite tunes lean more to the Apocalyptic, Sci Fi, crime and chick themed tunes. Today's list was:

Green Flower Street
Goodbye Look
H Gang
Security Joan
Jack Of Speed
Green Book
Pixeleen
Godwhacker
Razor Boy
Your gold Teeth
King Of The World
Chain Lightning
Sign in Stranger
The Fez
Green Earrings
The Royal Scam
Aja
Peg

Needless to say SD is one of my favorite bands, even my 79 yo Dad dig's the Dan, took him a copy of Sunken Condos for the holidays.

[joebar]

aja,green earrings

[scottfeldstein]

Black Cow, Deacon Blues, Hey Nineteen, Do It Again, Rikki Don't Lose That Number

[jim777]

Wow, where do you start? I do like Cousin Dupree out of the semi recent stuff though.

[Lesfunk]

The Caves at Altamira

[InQuiet]

Night By Night, Any Major Dude Will Tell You, Any World, Bad Sneakers......... and so many others

[Redhotbassist]

Josie! ..and Babylon Sisters are my two fav's!

[Ricnroll]

Charlie Freak

[SteveC]

Tough to choose.

Peg
Josie
Dr. Wu
Reelin in the years

To hard to do...

[joebar]

so many...
i love the dan
babylon sisters is a musical tour de force

[InQuiet]

Originally Posted by bassbrad

With the recent Donald Fagen release "Sunken Condos" that has quite a few tunes I like - I have been spinning lots of other Fagen & Steely Dan tunes. I noticed my favorite tunes lean more to the Apocalyptic, Sci Fi, crime and chick themed tunes. Today's list was:

Green Flower Street
Goodbye Look
H Gang
Security Joan
Jack Of Speed
Green Book
Pixeleen
Godwhacker
Razor Boy
Your gold Teeth
King Of The World
Chain Lightning
Sign in Stranger
The Fez
Green Earrings
The Royal Scam
Aja
Peg

Needless to say SD is one of my favorite bands, even my 79 yo Dad dig's the Dan, took him a copy of Sunken Condos for the holidays.

H Gang from Donald Fagen's - Morph The Cat, a few years back is an excellent recording

[bass12]

Hey Nineteen
Time Out Of Mind
Pretty much all of Aja and The Royal Scam

[Bassamatic]

Oh Man - there are so many great songs - it is impossible. I am fond of
The GoodBye Look
Kid Charlemagne
Aja
Dirty Work

But some of the new stuff, like Snowbound and Things I miss the Most keep going through my head.

And West of Hollywood with that incredible sax solo? Holy S**t! And what is that diabolical chord progression anyway?

Just BTW - I was very fortunate once when I visited my friend's studio many years ago and found someone else in there mixing, to my surprise. They said I was welcome to stay and and I sat quietly while they finished the last song, and it became apparent after a while that they were Steely Dan!! I'm glad I was sitting down. Then, Roger Nichols cut up and rearranged the master tape and ran it there in the control room, and I was the first non-band person to hear Pretzel Logic. Floored me.

[joebar]

Originally Posted by Bassamatic

Oh Man - there are so many great songs - it is impossible. I am fond of
The GoodBye Look
Kid Charlemagne
Aja
Dirty Work

But some of the new stuff, like Snowbound and Things I miss the Most keep going through my head.

And West of Hollywood with that incredible sax solo? Holy S**t! And what is that diabolical chord progression anyway?

Just BTW - I was very fortunate once when I visited my friend's studio many years ago and found someone else in there mixing, to my surprise. They said I was welcome to stay and and I sat quietly while they finished the last song, and it became apparent after a while that they were Steely Dan!! I'm glad I was sitting down. Then, Roger Nichols cut up and rearranged the master tape and ran it there in the control room, and I was the first non-band person to hear Pretzel Logic. Floored me.

awesome story man

[ugly_bassplayer]

the entire AJA record.

[cloverkeys]

Kid Charlemagne!!!

[joebar]

Originally Posted by ugly_bassplayer

the entire AJA record.

this

[tonybassman]

Unanswerable question is unanswerable!

While you ponder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Yva...feature=b-vrec

[skychief]

Originally Posted by SteveC

Tough to choose.

Peg
Josie
Dr. Wu
Reelin in the years

To hard to do...

I think it was Reelin In The Years that really put this band on the map. I think it made top 40 pop back in '73...

Always liked Steely Dan. Unlike many other band of the era, they sounded pretty much the same live as they did on their studio releases.

edit: Actually, it was "Do It Again" (1972) that put them on the map. But im stickin' with Reelin as my favourite.

[mam1862]

They are all good, but if I have to pick a few they would be

1. I got the news
2. FM
3. My old school
4. Pretzel logic
5. Don't take me alive