What Is Your Favorite Steely Dan Album?

[Ted Barchetta]

Mine has to be Countdown to Ecstasy...one perfect song after another; just flawless.

 

So which is your favorite?

[Imaginos]

Royal Scam is the only one that I own (and as far as I can recall Aja is the only other one that I've heard).

[Mystic Slipperman]

Lots of the 70s Dan albums are classics. Royal Scam gets my vote.

[ozzy85]

Aja is a good one, but I went with Pretzel Logic.

[Tick]

Didn't they put out another album after "Everything Must Go"?

[Tick]

Aja, by the way.

[Tinwoodsman]

Aja for me ... I guess I grew up in a different time zone, because I didn't get much of their early stuff lyrically. I always did enjoy their musicianship though.

[tangy]

Katy Lied followed by The Royal Scam.

[GeddyRulz]

I'm going with the obvious: Aja.

 

 

 

 

[thizzellewashington]

Has to be Aja.

[ghostworks]

QUOTE (Mystic Slipperman @ Mar 14 2011, 03:06 PM)

Lots of the 70s Dan albums are classics. Royal Scam gets my vote.

The Royal Scam (1976)

 

there are individual 'songs' that are better than some on TRS, but nothing else in their catalog comes even remotely close to being a perfect 'album'

 

[Principled Man]

Can't Buy A Thrill still dominates my world. Pretzel Logic comes after that.

 

Do It Again

Dirty Work

Reelin' In The Years

Rikki Don't Lose That Number

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

 

Pure, unmitigated perfection.....

[Bastille Dave]

I never owned and Steely Dan so I dont know any of their albums start to finish and I'm not that familiar with the less popular and more obscure songs but I've always liked what I heard on the radio and here and there. Wait, i do have a couple on vinyl *thumbing through records....* ah, right here I have "Aja" and "Greatest Hits", a double LP of all their popular tracks and a bunch I dont recognize. But I'm sure it's all good. I oughta break it out sometime. Steely Dan is a cool jazzy vibe and those two guys sure have a great band backing them up.

[tangy]

QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Mar 31 2011, 04:26 PM)

Can't Buy A Thrill still dominates my world. Pretzel Logic comes after that. Do It Again Dirty Work Reelin' In The Years Rikki Don't Lose That Number Any Major Dude Will Tell You Pure, unmitigated perfection.....

hard to argue with that.

 

Midnight Cruiser and Brooklyn are other standouts from the first disc too.

 

Second only to Rush in my book.....................

[Earthshine]

Probably Pretzel Logic . Got it for my 14th birthday. Love them all until after Aja.

[Silas Lang]

QUOTE (Bastille Dave @ Mar 31 2011, 05:03 PM)

Steely Dan is a cool jazzy vibe

Exactly why I don't get into them very much. Like a lot of other bands their first album for me is their best though I like some stuff on the second one too. And 'Rikki'.

[Shifty]

Aja. A perfect 10 of an album.

[micgtr71]

Pretzel Logic has some of the most Danified Badass Grooves ever! Monkey in your soul! Aside from that, Diaz's solo on Night By Night is one of the best phrased solos ever.

[ghostworks]

QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Mar 31 2011, 04:26 PM)

Do It Again Dirty Work Reelin' In The Years Rikki Don't Lose That Number Any Major Dude Will Tell You Pure, unmitigated perfection.....

^ hard to argue with that, except:

 

Kid Charlemagne

The Caves of Altamira

Don't Take Me Alive

Green Earrings

The Royal Scam

 

[ghostworks]

QUOTE (Shifty @ Apr 1 2011, 03:48 PM)

Aja. A perfect 10 of an album.

Aja is a great 20 minute e.p.

 

IMO it's constantly and consistently over-rated

 

now Aja, Deacon Blues and Peg are above reproach, no question

 

but Black Cow is just 'ok', especially when considered against their entire catalog to that point - it's a little too laid back, and the pre-chorus/chorus doesn't develop... ever

 

Home at Last is a little better than Black Cow, but as soon as it's over I completely forget it - pleasant but unmemorable

 

I Got the News takes the great drum groove from Green Earrings then grafts a rather uninteresting modified blues riff over the top

 

Josie (you know what - ok, Josie is pretty awesome... I just forgot about it )

 

so, I stand corrected:

 

Aja is a great 25 minute e.p.

 

[tangy]

QUOTE (micgtr71 @ Apr 1 2011, 04:02 PM)

Pretzel Logic has some of the most Danified Badass Grooves ever! Monkey in your soul! Aside from that, Diaz's solo on Night By Night is one of the best phrased solos ever.

nice!

 

skunk baxter is great on that disc and the first.

 

I love the whole disc but my two faves are Any Major Dude Will Tell and Barrytown.

 

I have never meet Napoleon.............

[summer_sky]

To make one choice in this poll was very difficult for me, but ultimately I voted 'Katy Lied'.

I really dig Steely Dan's sound.

[tangy]

QUOTE (summer_sky @ Apr 3 2011, 03:12 PM)

To make one choice in this poll was very difficult for me, but ultimately I voted 'Katy Lied'. I really dig Steely Dan's sound.

are you crazy? are you high?

[RUSHHEAD666]

Tangy and I are huge Dan Fans!

 

Had to go with the given: "AJA"

[Xanadoood]

AJA