Music Appreciation

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts) Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:59 PM Oct 2020

How about a music poll to help with this anxiety! What is your favorite Steely Dan album?

Why?

Some of your favorite songs from the band

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How about a music poll to help with this anxiety! What is your favorite Steely Dan album? (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 OP

For me, album Aja - and song Aja NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #1

Same here. klook Oct 2020 #3

yes, they were really starting to lean into jazz on that album NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #4

All are great DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #2

I love that song! Worked on my guitar licks listening to that and so many others NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #6

So I guess we now call you "Skunk"? DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #8

I could do some of the leads, not all - my biggest issue was always with chords NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #10

Am lucky to get an Em right on the gitbox! DonaldsRump Oct 2020 #15

Never cared for SD personally -I've always thought they were self-important and overrated. flibbitygiblets Oct 2020 #5

start a poll! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #7

Took me a few years to realize just how GOOD they really were! lastlib Oct 2020 #18

Pretzel Logic dweller Oct 2020 #9

I love that whole album NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #11

here dweller Oct 2020 #14

Album: Aja. Songs: Deacon Blues & Josie. Quemado Oct 2020 #12

I love Aja and all their 70s albums. ClimateHawk Oct 2020 #13

The Royal Scam House of Roberts Oct 2020 #16

I think Carleton did lots of the solos on Katy Lied as well. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #17

just found this NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #19

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

1. For me, album Aja - and song Aja

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:00 PM

Oct 2020

klook

(12,921 posts)

3. Same here.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:02 PM

Oct 2020

Guest appearance by jazz great Wayne Shorter, IIRC.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

4. yes, they were really starting to lean into jazz on that album

Reply to klook (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:03 PM

Oct 2020

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

2. All are great

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:02 PM

Oct 2020

But my fave rave from SD is "My Old School"...great anthem for so many reasons. Any album that has that gets my vote.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

6. I love that song! Worked on my guitar licks listening to that and so many others

Reply to DonaldsRump (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:05 PM

Oct 2020

Kid Charlemagne and Don't Take Me Alive and Black Friday....Boddhisatvah, Your Gold Teeth II - guitar player's dream (and nightmare - such amazing solos!)

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

8. So I guess we now call you "Skunk"?

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:08 PM

Oct 2020

meaning that as the highest compliment!

I had the opportunity to see Donald Fagen live about 20 years ago, and he closed the concert encore with "My Old School". Little known fact: "Daddy G" was G. Gordon Liddy!

SD gets mega-bonus points for working that in, especially in 1973!

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

10. I could do some of the leads, not all - my biggest issue was always with chords

Reply to DonaldsRump (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:09 PM

Oct 2020

I am an ear player, don't read music - so figuring out all of those suspended complex chords wasn't easy for me

Good anecdote about Liddy!

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

15. Am lucky to get an Em right on the gitbox!

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #10)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:28 PM

Oct 2020

I did actually get George Harrison's acoustic solo in the Beatles' "And I Love Her" down, but was told by many that I lacked passion! That was the closest I ever came to playing something on the guitar besides chords.

Other than being a medical doctor, I think being a musician is the finest thing one could be. I was hopeless at both, so settled for the law (or these days, the lack thereof).

And b/t/w, "Hey Nineteen" is another super great SD song.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

5. Never cared for SD personally -I've always thought they were self-important and overrated.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:04 PM

Oct 2020

Just MHO. Let's talk favorite Led Zeppelin album!

NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

7. start a poll!

Reply to flibbitygiblets (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:05 PM

Oct 2020

lastlib

(25,061 posts)

18. Took me a few years to realize just how GOOD they really were!

Reply to flibbitygiblets (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 11:05 PM

Oct 2020

Overrated? Not a chance. It was pure genius to fuse jazz and rock the way they did.

dweller

(25,270 posts)

9. Pretzel Logic

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:09 PM

Oct 2020

for this song ...
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NRaleighLiberal

(60,623 posts)

11. I love that whole album

Reply to dweller (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:10 PM

Oct 2020

The poll I created is really quite impossible for me to answer - up to Gaucho I loved everything they did. After Gaucho....not so much

dweller

(25,270 posts)

14. here

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #11)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:27 PM

Oct 2020

https://m.

🙏

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Quemado

(1,262 posts)

12. Album: Aja. Songs: Deacon Blues & Josie.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:12 PM

Oct 2020

Aja is a great song, too.

ClimateHawk

(344 posts)

13. I love Aja and all their 70s albums.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:25 PM

Oct 2020

It's hard to pick a favorite SD album. Here lately I can't get enough of Two Against Nature and this song "West of Hollywood". What draws me to SD is their production. I can understand why audiophiles used to bring SD records into stores to test the speakers. Listening to SD through some good headphones is quite an experience. Their sound quality, along with the catchy hooks/melodies, and cryptic lyrics, make SD a truly unique musical journey. No other band sounds like SD.