Do you like Steely Dan?

[drastik]

I was listening to several of my Dan albums this weekend, and I was remindeed of how super cool they are, do any of you like Steely Dan?

[Taft]

They are alright. I used to like them more than I do now. Their old stuff is the stuff I like most. Bohesatva, Dirty Work, Do It Again, etc.

Overall, I find them to be too lite-Jazz sounding for my tastes. I think its the chord progressions in their compositions. It just doesn't groove with me.

Taft

[Hemingray]

I've got one question for you:

Are you reelin' in the years? :D

[keltorsori]

Yep. Two against Nature was easily one of their bests. Just wish they'd tour again.

[mrMahann]

"don't take me alive" and "royal scam" but "fm" is a fave as well. aja and gaucho were good, and fagan's solo efforts, esp first one, fun.

[drastik]

Fagan's solo stuff is okay, but not as good as the Dan stuff. Aja, Peg, and Haitian Divorce are probably my favorite tracks.

[Backtothemac]

FM.

That is one of the greatest songs of all time. Beautiful use of jazz cords in popular music.

[3rdpath]

black friday, your gold teeth, king of the world, bodhisatva, rikki don't lose that number, my old school...geez, too many good ones to list(and thats just the early albums).

any of you musicians want to write instant steely dan songs? they used a chord fagen called the Mu major which is a major triad with the 3rd shifted to the second...a C Mu major would be a C-D-G...try it on a piano and randomly throw them around....it works...just add great melodies, wry lyrics, amazing arrangements and blazing solos....

;)

[macsurfer]

YES!!!!!!

Plus LOVE Fagan's "New Frontier" "IGY" and well, the whole album!!!!!!

[mrMahann]

just gotta listen to that every now and again.

[Eliot]

Any Dan is good Dan. If you're learning to solo on guitar, it doesn't hurt to have Larry Carlton, Jeff Baxter, (the wonderful and ever-unappreciated) Denny Dias, Elliott Randall, Dean Parks, Steve Khan, Rick Derringer, Mark Knopfler, Jay Graydon, etc for company and guidance.....