Steely Dan Best Album Poll - 1 of 1

[Music Head]

Can't Buy A Thrill (1972)



Track Listing

1."Do It Again" – 5:56
2."Dirty Work" – 3:08
3."Kings" – 3:45
4."Midnight Cruiser" – 4:08
5."Only a Fool Would Say That" – 2:57
6."Reelin' in the Years" – 4:37
7."Fire in the Hole" – 3:28
8."Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)" – 4:21
9."Change of the Guard" – 3:39
10."Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" – 4:58


Countdown To Ecstasy (1973)



Track Listing

1."Bodhisattva" – 5:19
2."Razor Boy" – 3:11
3."The Boston Rag" – 5:40
4."Your Gold Teeth" – 7:02
5."Show Biz Kids" – 5:25
6."My Old School" – 5:47
7."Pearl of the Quarter" – 3:50
8."King of the World" – 5:04


Pretzel Logic (1974)



Track Listing

1."Rikki Don't Lose That Number" – 4:30
2."Night by Night" – 3:36
3."Any Major Dude Will Tell You" – 3:05
4."Barrytown" – 3:17
5."East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" – 2:45
6."Parker's Band" – 2:36
7."Through with Buzz" – 1:30
8."Pretzel Logic" – 4:28
9."With a Gun" – 2:15
10."Charlie Freak" – 2:41
11."Monkey in Your Soul" – 2:31


Katy Lied (1975)



Track Listing

1."Black Friday" – 3:33
2."Bad Sneakers" – 3:16
3."Rose Darling" – 2:59
4."Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More" – 3:12
5."Doctor Wu" – 3:59
6."Everyone's Gone to the Movies" – 3:41
7."Your Gold Teeth II" – 4:12
8."Chain Lightning" – 2:57
9."Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" – 3:56
10."Throw Back the Little Ones" – 3:11


The Royal Scam (1976)



Track Listing

1."Kid Charlemagne" – 4:38
2."The Caves of Altamira" – 3:33[3]
3."Don't Take Me Alive" – 4:16
4."Sign in Stranger" – 4:23
5."The Fez" (Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin) – 4:01
6."Green Earrings" – 4:05
7."Haitian Divorce" – 5:51
8."Everything You Did" – 3:55
9."The Royal Scam" – 6:30


Aja (1977)



Track Listing

1."Black Cow" – 5:10
2."Aja" – 7:57
3."Deacon Blues" – 7:37
4."Peg" – 3:57
5."Home at Last" – 5:34
6."I Got the News" – 5:06
7."Josie" – 4:33


Gaucho (1980)



Track Listing

1."Babylon Sisters" – 5:49
2."Hey Nineteen" – 5:06
3."Glamour Profession" – 7:28
4."Gaucho" (Becker, Fagen, Keith Jarrett) – 5:30
5."Time Out of Mind" – 4:11
6."My Rival" – 4:30
7."Third World Man" – 5:18


Two Against Nature (2000)



Track Listing

1."Gaslighting Abbie" – 5:53
2."What a Shame About Me" – 5:17
3."Two Against Nature" – 6:17
4."Janie Runaway" – 4:09
5."Almost Gothic" – 4:09
6."Jack of Speed" – 6:17
7."Cousin Dupree" – 5:28
8."Negative Girl" – 5:34
9."West of Hollywood" – 8:21


Everything Must Go (2003)



Track Listing

1."The Last Mall" – 3:36
2."Things I Miss the Most" – 3:59
3."Blues Beach" – 4:29
4."GodWhacker" – 4:57
5."Slang of Ages" – 4:15
6."Green Book" – 5:55
7."Pixeleen" – 4:01
8."Lunch with Gina" – 4:27
9."Everything Must Go" – 6:45

[Music Head]

It is not necessary to post as to why you voted the way you did, but it would be interesting to the rest of us.

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[Tiggi]

Very difficult choice. It was a close run thing between the first four & Aja, but Pretzel Logic wins out.

In fact The Royal Scam is a favourite as well because of my fave SD song Haitian Divorce

[Music Head]

Rose Darling, it sure was a Black Friday when you told me that your Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More, because I knew that in Any World (That I'm Welcome To) I would still be going to see Doctor Wu, adorned with his Bad Sneakers that are decorated with those ridiculous emblems of Chain Lightning, when he goes fishing and says he will Throw Back The Little Ones, even though he knows that Everyone's Gone To The Movies to see the latest sequel, Your Gold Teeth II.

[faaipdeoaid]

Danny Baker often cites Can't buy a Thrill as the greatest album of all time, however Katy Lied beats it into a cocked hat, and whenever I'm feeling low Gold Teeth II, Chain Lightning, and Anyworld are a perfect contiguous trio and always lifts the spirits

I have maybe 8 or 9 perfect albums, Katy Lied is one of them

[Music Head]

:bump2:.....

[Jerome]

Can anybody tell me which album 'Here at the Western World' comes from? It is included in their 'Greatest Hits' album.

And just for amusement - anyone know where they got their name.........

[CRAZY-HORSE]

that song you mentioned Jerome....was an outtake from 76-77 so it was never on a studio album, i believe it appears on several of their compilation albums though...

as for where they they got their name from....i have no idea,sorry

[Jerome]

that song you mentioned Jerome....was an outtake from 76-77 so it was never on a studio album, i believe it appears on several of their compilation albums though...

as for where they they got their name from....i have no idea,sorry

Oh I know where they got their name - I find it quite amusing..............

'After realizing that their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion Becker and Fagen formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed them to ABC as recording artists. Fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after "Steely Dan III from Yokohama", a strap-on dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.[SUP][21][/SUP][SUP][22][/SUP] Palmer joined as a second lead vocalist because of Fagen's reluctance to sing in front of an audience and because the label believed that his voice was not "commercial" enough. Fagen then lacked confidence in his voice and occasionally suffered from stage fright.'