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Sat Sep-25-10 07:46 PM
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Your favorite Steely Dan song, and favorite version of it? |
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Me?
It has to be Third World Man from Gaucho. I remember leaving a reversing cassette player of that album going while I slept. I dozed off and woke an hour later with that song playing. As I woke the music helped me rise - and the part where 'I believed that I was dreaming Till the neighbors came out screaming' I felt in my partially conscious brain that it was talking to ME.
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Sat Sep-25-10 07:58 PM
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1. I like a lot of them, but Chained Lightning gets played a lot. |
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And I can never talk about them without asking who's heard the live version of Boddhisatva with the insanely stoned intro. Who WAS that?
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Sat Sep-25-10 09:45 PM
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10. I don't know - but that was a 'B' side and I remember it |
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:02 PM
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2. When the po people sleeping with the shade on the light, when the |
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po people sleeping, all the stars come out at night...
They got the shape-ly bodies; they got the Steely Dan T-shirts...
(I'm off to youtube)
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:08 PM
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4. YUM. Thanks for reminding me! |
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Dr Morbius
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Sat Sep-25-10 10:26 PM
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13. I didn't know, but Rickey Lee Jones covered this tune. |
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:07 PM
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3. Pretzel Logic , no question |
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Edited on Sat Sep-25-10 08:11 PM by Capn Sunshine
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:15 PM
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6. "Bad Sneakers" from "Katy Lied"... |
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...I've always felt that album contained the best singing of Michael McDonald's career, far superior to anything he did with the Doobies.
When he sings (with Fagan):
"And I'm going insane And I'm laughing at the frozen rain And I'm so alone Honey when they gonna send me home "
...you believe it, you know?
Each McDonald-era Doobies album was slicker and colder than the one before it. During his Steely Dan tenure, there was no slick...only soul.
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Sat Sep-25-10 10:33 PM
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14. if you haven't seen this, I'm betting you're going to have yourself a laugh or two: |
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Sun Sep-26-10 03:43 AM
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21. Oh. I've seen it, and many, many times... |
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...I used to be glued to the TV when "SCTV Network 90" came on. I had just purchased a VCR, and in 2010, I'm glad I taped those shows, because when they made it to DVD, some of the music had to be changed for licensing reasons (like the "Gerry Todd Show" with "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" (Bing Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young...they did a mash-up of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes / Ohio / White Christmas" on the original show, and while the sketch made it to DVD, the music was swapped out).
That "Gerry Todd" show with "Michael McDonald" has always been a favorite. Thanks for posting.
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:57 PM
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7. it's very hard to pick just one, esp of the older ones! |
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Bodhisattva - one of my favorite guitar lines, ever.
My Old School
Black Friday.
The newer stuff is great, but I really love the old albums.
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Sat Sep-25-10 08:59 PM
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8. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" |
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Sat Sep-25-10 10:21 PM
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11. A tie between "Your Gold Teeth I" and "Charlie Freak". |
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Sat Sep-25-10 10:21 PM
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Off Pretzel Logic. Tight, funky, short and sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xm5w_6nwwI am also fond of the show business kids, making movies of themselves; for the coup de gras: they're outrageous.
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Sat Sep-25-10 11:27 PM
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15. "Kid Charlemagne" and "Peg" |
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I still remember being a fourteen year old punk lifting the needle on the record again and again and again until I could decipher and play the great bass line laid down by Chuck Rainey on "Kid Charlemagne".
And, "Peg" was on the radio when I woke up to go to High School back in the day.
...another Chuck Rainey masterpiece.
These days the Dan of Steel wouldn't even sniff a record contract from a major label.
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Sat Sep-25-10 11:46 PM
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Sun Sep-26-10 12:35 AM
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17. "Dr Wu" or "Reeling in the Years" |
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the Minutemen do a great cover of "Dr Wu" on "Double Nickels on the Dime"
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Sun Sep-26-10 12:46 AM
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Edited on Sun Sep-26-10 12:48 AM by 704wipes
The original album version with Jeff Baxter on guitar. However there are some good versions on YouTube. such as > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpgE8CpxZFI&feature=related
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Sun Sep-26-10 01:05 AM
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19. Steely Dan - King Of The World - LIVE - Irvine, CA - 1974 |
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Sun Sep-26-10 02:48 AM
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But I love all their stuff.
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Sun Sep-26-10 03:52 AM
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22. So many great songs to choose from. |
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It's a tie between Deacon Blues and Dirty Work
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Sun Sep-26-10 04:26 AM
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23. "Any World (That I'm Welcome To) . . . |
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. . . is better than the world I come from."
Gotta love The Dan!
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Sun Sep-26-10 06:14 AM
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24. Show Biz Kids and/or Haitian Divorce nt |
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