First heard this song in the eve of the 1940's. Back when Myself and Stanley Kubrick first put out casting calls for the Original Steely Dan. It wasnt until we realized the embryos of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker where sunken thousand of leauges below the Indian ocean. Ainsley Dunbar had lent a hand, as well as Jimmy Carl Black. Eventually we did ungodly amounts of peyote with Salvador Dali, and thus the production of this classic was spawned.
@politicalanimallll Yea man, Porcarro had the best grove of them all. I like it when he changes the time signature from 4/4 t0 3/4 after the intro. He played drums on this entire album. He is my favorite drummer. R.I.P.
The album cover by itself is haunting and enigmatic, but directly so... like you're shaking hands with something oddly other, yet comfortably yourself. Katy truly did lie. At least that's one way I see SD, and this song.
This has to be one of my favorite Steely Dan songs. There is absolutely nothing else like it. It brings me up every time like almost nothing else i can listen to. Brilliant!
Check out this track. It is one of many tracks that Steely Dan has produced that provides so much technique and finesse and is one of the more contemporary jazz pieces with a be-bop backbone that has won over many jazz traditionalists and rock fans over the years. I believe it is a quintessential Steely Dan song that pushed them into Jazz territory and showcased their arranging and compositional talents outside of the Pop song structure and progressive rock genre.
Donald loaned Jeff a Charles Mingus album with Dannie Richmond drumming to help him achieve the be-bop drumming groove he was looking for. (Dannie Richmond drummed for Charlie Mingus and was one of the best Be-Bop/Post Bop drummers in recent American Jazz history.)
Denny plays this solo with passion and goes up and down the major and minor scales without bending a single note. One has to admire the dexterity, timing and precision of his playing as the solo is just nailed as soon as you hear the first few notes. On this particular track, drummer Jeff Porcaro had a lot of trouble laying down the drum part. Instead bringing in another drummer
he guitar solo and the underlying drum part are the highlights and placed front and center from the middle to the end fade-out for the song. The showpiece of this song hands down is Denny Dias' masterful guitar solo that pays tribute to Django Reinhardt. The guitar notes ring out and are clearly picked with a precision and jazz feel that any professional guitarist would appreciate
Deconstructing this song is fun because it fuses together so many classic jazz elements in a song that has weird lyrics to say the least. The arrangement is deceivingly simple and elegant with the piano, bass and drum parts that blend seamlessly throughout the track.
Steely Dan (Donald Fagen and Walter Becker) composed and recorded Your Gold Teeth II almost thirty-six years ago on their Katy Lied Album (MCA Records) and the track sounds as if it were recorded today, fresh, tight, and with a be-bop groove that is unforgettable and will always be burned into my musical psyche as one of their very best jazz compositions and studio performances.
@odnog hey odnog buddy- Steely Dan was awarded a "best jazz group " of the year award back in the day -to which Donald Fagen said" I did'nt know this was a Jazz band". It ain't jazz my friend -it contains elements of Jazz, Blues, BeBop -.
25 years ago in an intro to music theory class at a University in New Orleans, I made the mistake selecting this song to write a 5 page paper about. My music major room mate and the proffessor could not even figure out the meter. I got an A-. The professor commented that it was in some crazy time like 9/13. Drummers, does that even exist?
I first heard this song as part of a muzak rotation in a McDonald's. It was serch time. I looked all over on Amazon.com. I found it by happenstance. and bouht it. I haven't regretted it since. I played it until. I seem to never get tired of this song.
@IRONMANHONDO87 Strange song to hear in a McDonalds, there again,I'm looking up Dan's music after I heard 'Bad sneakers" playing in a home depot! I always loved this band's sophisticated sound, their music was something I always would stop what I was doing just to listen to.
@Oldbmwr100rs Strange but true. It a long search, but I found it. It's on the Kady Lied cd/album. Their music is unique. As well as the song writting. They 're in the same genre as Elton John. Lyrics that make a little sense but lead to somewhere. Like the tune F.M. it's there but it has no rhyme nor reason. But yet, it just makes sense.
Yes i agree. No comparison. Elton is more a pop performer to me. He has written mostly very corny stuff although his early songs were fairly good. SD are excitingly dangerous. They were part of the counter culture that gave us William Burroughs, Kerouac, plus they mixed in the 1960s Jazz scene of Horace Silver.
The Dan write clever, dark, nightmarish lyrics and surround themselves with the finest session musicians.
Such a great song: the sublimely jazzy opening, the heartfelt verses and choruses with that funky drumming underneath, the virtuosic solos, could a track get much much better? Can't believe Walt and Don were unhappy with how Katy Lied came out... Doctor Wu for instance is probably my favourite Dan track of all time!
@jorjohnson Hey....I bought the album 35 years. I still have it. But I just don't have a turntable to play it on anymore. So lighten up. Just becuase technology changes,doesn't mean we should have to constantly buy new licenses to listen to music we already bought.
This is my husband's favorite song. He is so stuck in the 70s that it isn't funny. It's not bad for it's time, but some of the piano music sounds like the background of a Peanut's special. I definitely wouldn't consider this piece timeless like he does, but that's just my meager opinion!
It took me more than ten years to find this song. I first heard as part of a muzak rotation in a McDonald's and had been looking for it since. Now here it is. It is now downloaded. I love the jazz sound of this piece. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are straight ill.
why waste your time bantering about this song guys? just tell us whether or not you like it and leave it at that......
if you don't happen to like the intro/guitar solo, then get out your guitar and post a better one on here and we'll just SEE which is better....lol........
youtube comments can be SO antagonistic so often, what a waste of a typewriter..
@CrimsonKing73 My friend, this is what the youtube vehicle is all about. We're not antagonistic. We're passionate about our love of music. We will disagree, but yet we will agree. It's the American way. We can't go with like/dislike. Passionate people just don't operate that way. I sorry if you're in disagreement with this.
that intro was actually tacked on this piece......it came out of live performances from march- june 1974.....ONLY the intro....not the rest of the song.
@jorjohnson Can you even buy "albums" anymore? I had the vinyl twice, the cd twice, and this song in compilations at least 3 times, so I feel I've done my part supporting Citizen Dan.....that, and everything else they ever recorded.
Uh yuk yuk yuk. Eff you. First of all, I never professed to be a fan. Second, what was the point smart guy? You might just be able to school me instead of trying to diss me.
Saw this band just a few years back at the whitewater amphitheater in Washington. Best concert of my life and the girl I met that night I married and we now have a beautiful 2 and a half year old boy. Music is magic folks.
I'm buying each Steely Dan album in order of their release. I 'm up to Katy Lied and am loving it. This song is excllent! Love the intro part (seems there a similar, but truncated variation at the beginning of Dr. Wu...?)
After about six listens to Kay, I decided to get Royal Scam and Aja on Amazon. They're in transit. I can't wait!
The Power chords in the intro are Genius...The mood change took me some adjusting at first....but thats the beauty of it ! The Drum Shuffling is Marvelous..and lets not forget the Almost tear jerking guitar Solo......OMG ! This one is Fighting to be an all time Dan favorite of mine !
@jorjohnson -- I'm mooching. But the mooching is likely to be followed by a buying spree in a month or so. Seems to be the way it goes for me. Besides, the audio is better when you buy the records.
También es para mí el tema más bonito de S. D....Me gusta mucho " Your Gold Teeth " ,del disco "Countdown to Ecstasy" . Además pienso que estos dos álbumes tienen las mejores portadas de la toda la historia ...Inquietantes. Sublimes.Bonitas, como la música de esta banda.
intro to this is soooo god damned brilliant. same with the guitar solo, who im assuming larry carlton or denny dias did. jeeze, what a band, there is no band that can compare...
@69acoustic69 Sitting here becomming rapidly and totally addicted to this brilliant intro. Does anyone know who the pianist is here? Although this is an intro, the pianist lays it down commandingly from the first chord.
A really good investment would be "Citizen Steely Dan", pretty much a complete anthology. I think I counted 60 songs that I liked. I think it has every song from every album from 1972-1980. As a kid, the only Dan I knew of were their hits along with the songs from Can't Buy a Thrill.
One of my five favorites, but I'll be honest...I listen to everything from 'Can't Buy a Thrill'...to 'Two Against Nature'...NON-STOP, The Dan is just 'like that'. ...life IS unreal.
That is just some flat out tight quality music. A joy to the ears. The Katy lied album is my favorite they did, though Countdown to Ecstasy is a close 2nd.
I have somewhere in storage on CD, but want to listen when I want to. It seems like every Dan song except this one was on youtube. I had gotten used to listening to that teenager in South America singing the song while playing the piano.
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ephemerealfox 3 days ago in playlist music3
First heard this song in the eve of the 1940's. Back when Myself and Stanley Kubrick first put out casting calls for the Original Steely Dan. It wasnt until we realized the embryos of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker where sunken thousand of leauges below the Indian ocean. Ainsley Dunbar had lent a hand, as well as Jimmy Carl Black. Eventually we did ungodly amounts of peyote with Salvador Dali, and thus the production of this classic was spawned.
311Ceriah 1 month ago
Got married last month...Wife and I are both 50.
Any Major Dude played as she walked down the aisle...
I play this for my high school senior students- they rolls their eyes, but at least they might get a taste of true talent...
sheracad 1 month ago 4
This is the Dan have some respect.........
MultiShades 2 months ago
Delightful song,band.
Porcara was fab,so was Purdie,so were they all.
Enjoy!
MrPablobass 3 months ago
Notice No Dislikes.. Just How A Steely Dan Song Should Be..!!
czifrik68 3 months ago
Saw them live in 2010 at the Bob Carr in Orlando. Front row seats. Worth every penny.
jdoggybizzle 3 months ago
Porcaro..wow
politicalanimallll 3 months ago
@politicalanimallll Yea man, Porcarro had the best grove of them all. I like it when he changes the time signature from 4/4 t0 3/4 after the intro. He played drums on this entire album. He is my favorite drummer. R.I.P.
caveman735 3 months ago
They played this Friday night at Rincon Cassino and they did it sooo good. Steely Dan hasn't lost a thing. They're still GREAT!
SavageRick 4 months ago
The album cover by itself is haunting and enigmatic, but directly so... like you're shaking hands with something oddly other, yet comfortably yourself. Katy truly did lie. At least that's one way I see SD, and this song.
adamstokke 4 months ago
My favorite SD cd - rich from first cut to last....
MANHATTANBEEFMAN 5 months ago
This has to be one of my favorite Steely Dan songs. There is absolutely nothing else like it. It brings me up every time like almost nothing else i can listen to. Brilliant!
LionheartVegas 5 months ago
spectacular album
bradmonium1 5 months ago in playlist Family members
Denny Dias played the solo.
Transterra55 6 months ago
@inzevortex it's the piano playing... just like the cartoon.. this song really grows on you
bradmonium1 6 months ago in playlist Katy Never Lies
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One of my all time favorite Steely Dan Songs. Check out my article on this song:
Deconstructing Your Gold Teeth II at:
wlbloguno.blogspot.com/2011/05/deconstructing-steely-dans-your-gold.html
odnog 6 months ago
Check out this track. It is one of many tracks that Steely Dan has produced that provides so much technique and finesse and is one of the more contemporary jazz pieces with a be-bop backbone that has won over many jazz traditionalists and rock fans over the years. I believe it is a quintessential Steely Dan song that pushed them into Jazz territory and showcased their arranging and compositional talents outside of the Pop song structure and progressive rock genre.
odnog 6 months ago
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jazz4asahel 5 months ago
Donald loaned Jeff a Charles Mingus album with Dannie Richmond drumming to help him achieve the be-bop drumming groove he was looking for. (Dannie Richmond drummed for Charlie Mingus and was one of the best Be-Bop/Post Bop drummers in recent American Jazz history.)
odnog 6 months ago
Denny plays this solo with passion and goes up and down the major and minor scales without bending a single note. One has to admire the dexterity, timing and precision of his playing as the solo is just nailed as soon as you hear the first few notes. On this particular track, drummer Jeff Porcaro had a lot of trouble laying down the drum part. Instead bringing in another drummer
odnog 6 months ago
he guitar solo and the underlying drum part are the highlights and placed front and center from the middle to the end fade-out for the song. The showpiece of this song hands down is Denny Dias' masterful guitar solo that pays tribute to Django Reinhardt. The guitar notes ring out and are clearly picked with a precision and jazz feel that any professional guitarist would appreciate
odnog 6 months ago
Deconstructing this song is fun because it fuses together so many classic jazz elements in a song that has weird lyrics to say the least. The arrangement is deceivingly simple and elegant with the piano, bass and drum parts that blend seamlessly throughout the track.
odnog 6 months ago
Steely Dan (Donald Fagen and Walter Becker) composed and recorded Your Gold Teeth II almost thirty-six years ago on their Katy Lied Album (MCA Records) and the track sounds as if it were recorded today, fresh, tight, and with a be-bop groove that is unforgettable and will always be burned into my musical psyche as one of their very best jazz compositions and studio performances.
odnog 6 months ago
@odnog hey odnog buddy- Steely Dan was awarded a "best jazz group " of the year award back in the day -to which Donald Fagen said" I did'nt know this was a Jazz band". It ain't jazz my friend -it contains elements of Jazz, Blues, BeBop -.
bellavia5 3 months ago
@bellavia5 for the first two or three albums, they were an actual rock band, believe it or not.
dkroll92 3 weeks ago
@bellavia5 If it has more than 3 chords, it's jazz. - Lou Reed.
rollinmark 2 weeks ago
@inzevortex
It's Denny Dias.
hklinker 7 months ago
one of the must have tunes you'd need if stranded on an island i.e. cant live w/out
TheCat1dog 7 months ago
Exceptional...
rameus779255 7 months ago
Trying my hand at Dias's solo....and boy are my finger tips purple !
And his part is child's play in comparison to Becker's....(sigh)
WISH ME LUCK !
311Ceriah 7 months ago
No such thing as 19/13....Great tune!!
MickChiltone 7 months ago
25 years ago in an intro to music theory class at a University in New Orleans, I made the mistake selecting this song to write a 5 page paper about. My music major room mate and the proffessor could not even figure out the meter. I got an A-. The professor commented that it was in some crazy time like 9/13. Drummers, does that even exist?
wavedonkey 7 months ago
@wavedonkey They're what we call in Australia "educated idiots." They've been in the class room too long. The majority of it is in 6/8
TheBalcom 7 months ago
trochę jak z simsów na początku. steely dan, no offence;)
kamaszysz 8 months ago
Is that a Vibraphone in the begining?
Frach438 8 months ago
@Frach438 I think that was Jazz vibe player Victor Feldman.
SD are really Jazz Punks rather than rock musicians...they've continually said this in interviews.
Denny Dias's guitar is pure Jazz.
taildragger53 8 months ago
@taildragger53 Thanks!
Frach438 8 months ago
Steely dan were definitely not afraid to take people for a ride.
tyleryesta1 9 months ago
I first heard this song as part of a muzak rotation in a McDonald's. It was serch time. I looked all over on Amazon.com. I found it by happenstance. and bouht it. I haven't regretted it since. I played it until. I seem to never get tired of this song.
IRONMANHONDO87 10 months ago
@IRONMANHONDO87 Strange song to hear in a McDonalds, there again,I'm looking up Dan's music after I heard 'Bad sneakers" playing in a home depot! I always loved this band's sophisticated sound, their music was something I always would stop what I was doing just to listen to.
Oldbmwr100rs 10 months ago
@Oldbmwr100rs Strange but true. It a long search, but I found it. It's on the Kady Lied cd/album. Their music is unique. As well as the song writting. They 're in the same genre as Elton John. Lyrics that make a little sense but lead to somewhere. Like the tune F.M. it's there but it has no rhyme nor reason. But yet, it just makes sense.
IRONMANHONDO87 10 months ago
@IRONMANHONDO87 Much better than Elton John. but that's just my opinion.
mightyafrowhitey 9 months ago
@mightyafrowhitey
Yes i agree. No comparison. Elton is more a pop performer to me. He has written mostly very corny stuff although his early songs were fairly good. SD are excitingly dangerous. They were part of the counter culture that gave us William Burroughs, Kerouac, plus they mixed in the 1960s Jazz scene of Horace Silver.
The Dan write clever, dark, nightmarish lyrics and surround themselves with the finest session musicians.
To me, they are unique.
taildragger53 8 months ago
Being a Jazz fanatic, there were never many bands in the 70s that thrilled me.
That was until i heard Steely Dan's "Do It Again" in 1972.
I've been hooked ever since. They are fascinating!
They fuse Jazz, rock, country, blues and throw in spooky lyrics directly from 'The Naked Lunch'.
Throw in also guitarists like Larry Carlton, Denny Dias, Elliot Randall and you've got a masterpiece situation.
taildragger53 8 months ago
Feck the CD, I have this bad boy on vinyl!
GoGoGadgetBeer 10 months ago
Ive owned everything they ever made on VINYL- do there!
8281956 11 months ago
very majestic sound. cant get enough of them.
save us from lady gaga please put out another album!!!!!!!!
okrabay 11 months ago 9
Such a great song: the sublimely jazzy opening, the heartfelt verses and choruses with that funky drumming underneath, the virtuosic solos, could a track get much much better? Can't believe Walt and Don were unhappy with how Katy Lied came out... Doctor Wu for instance is probably my favourite Dan track of all time!
Krolblach 11 months ago
@Krolblach Doctor Wu is a good song off this same album.
IRONMANHONDO87 7 months ago
@IRONMANHONDO87 That's why I mentioned it in my comment...
Krolblach 7 months ago
@Krolblach You mad scientist, you!
IRONMANHONDO87 7 months ago
Beautiful Jazzy chords. Love it.
Lawlz0rz 1 year ago
this is some graduate level Dan. just incredible playing. what a creative piece of music.
Badmolar 1 year ago
@jorjohnson Hey....I bought the album 35 years. I still have it. But I just don't have a turntable to play it on anymore. So lighten up. Just becuase technology changes,doesn't mean we should have to constantly buy new licenses to listen to music we already bought.
spectrum7virkeytroni 1 year ago
OH THE VERY VERY BEST!!! THANk YOU SO MUCH! Needed this right now! MORE LOVE, thank you so much!
molinmusic 1 year ago
Arguably the greatest drummer in the history of recorded music...Jeff Porcaro.
justinbronson1969 1 year ago 9
@justinbronson1969 100% agreed!
moparcruisin 1 year ago
@justinbronson1969 Defenitly had the best groove.
caveman735 3 months ago
Happy Birthday Donald. Maybe a new album for 2011?
Sunflower0122Z 1 year ago
joi de vivre!
1akarma 1 year ago
One of my favorite songs ever written...
seansurlow 1 year ago
Steely Dan forever! Chicago, is where I learned Steely Dan.
AllAmericanFiveRadio 1 year ago
This is my husband's favorite song. He is so stuck in the 70s that it isn't funny. It's not bad for it's time, but some of the piano music sounds like the background of a Peanut's special. I definitely wouldn't consider this piece timeless like he does, but that's just my meager opinion!
savesprinkles5678 1 year ago
@savesprinkles5678 I agree with you on one thing... its a meager opinion
JerichoDitch2 1 year ago
@JerichoDitch2 Lol! Are you friends with my husband! :)
savesprinkles5678 1 year ago
@savesprinkles5678 I love the fact that the piano sounds like a peanuts special. Haha.
Timoth1983 1 year ago
It took me more than ten years to find this song. I first heard as part of a muzak rotation in a McDonald's and had been looking for it since. Now here it is. It is now downloaded. I love the jazz sound of this piece. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are straight ill.
IRONMANHONDO87 1 year ago
why waste your time bantering about this song guys? just tell us whether or not you like it and leave it at that......
if you don't happen to like the intro/guitar solo, then get out your guitar and post a better one on here and we'll just SEE which is better....lol........
youtube comments can be SO antagonistic so often, what a waste of a typewriter..
CrimsonKing73 1 year ago
@CrimsonKing73 My friend, this is what the youtube vehicle is all about. We're not antagonistic. We're passionate about our love of music. We will disagree, but yet we will agree. It's the American way. We can't go with like/dislike. Passionate people just don't operate that way. I sorry if you're in disagreement with this.
IRONMANHONDO87 9 months ago
that intro was actually tacked on this piece......it came out of live performances from march- june 1974.....ONLY the intro....not the rest of the song.
CrimsonKing73 1 year ago
@jorjohnson Can you even buy "albums" anymore? I had the vinyl twice, the cd twice, and this song in compilations at least 3 times, so I feel I've done my part supporting Citizen Dan.....that, and everything else they ever recorded.
pretorious700 1 year ago
One of my favorites. Thanks for posting...
mriseborough 1 year ago
that intro doesn't belong...but then again....life is unreal, that guitar solo doesn't belong either...
OneBillyTurner 1 year ago
@OneBillyTurner Hmmm, says you. I think you are conditioned by homogenous mediocrity
pretorious700 1 year ago
@pretorious700 ...Hmmm, think you missed the point
OneBillyTurner 1 year ago
@OneBillyTurner Nah, those are the best parts of the song.
oRuTRa45 1 year ago
@oRuTRa45 ha ha, so called dan fan...you missed the point as well!
OneBillyTurner 1 year ago
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oRuTRa45 1 year ago
Uh yuk yuk yuk. Eff you. First of all, I never professed to be a fan. Second, what was the point smart guy? You might just be able to school me instead of trying to diss me.
oRuTRa45 1 year ago
@oRuTRa45 Yo! what wif you? you fik or sumfin, point is ya missed it LOL!
OneBillyTurner 1 year ago
@OneBillyTurner School me dude lol. Come on, stop holding out!
oRuTRa45 1 year ago
@oRuTRa45 Tell me you aint some dumbass, an I'll say but, you are?
OneBillyTurner 1 year ago
Saw this band just a few years back at the whitewater amphitheater in Washington. Best concert of my life and the girl I met that night I married and we now have a beautiful 2 and a half year old boy. Music is magic folks.
earthlyinfodotcom 1 year ago
Relatively new fan here.
I'm buying each Steely Dan album in order of their release. I 'm up to Katy Lied and am loving it. This song is excllent! Love the intro part (seems there a similar, but truncated variation at the beginning of Dr. Wu...?)
After about six listens to Kay, I decided to get Royal Scam and Aja on Amazon. They're in transit. I can't wait!
jonanjello 1 year ago
Everything this band created was Great!
pigletized 1 year ago 3
The Power chords in the intro are Genius...The mood change took me some adjusting at first....but thats the beauty of it ! The Drum Shuffling is Marvelous..and lets not forget the Almost tear jerking guitar Solo......OMG ! This one is Fighting to be an all time Dan favorite of mine !
ceriah311 1 year ago
@ceriah311 then surely you'll love aja!
PPG4ME 1 year ago
@PPG4ME Are you kidding ? LOVE Aja !!!! Nothing Compares to that musical experience....
ceriah311 1 year ago
@jorjohnson -- I'm mooching. But the mooching is likely to be followed by a buying spree in a month or so. Seems to be the way it goes for me. Besides, the audio is better when you buy the records.
lbphilly 1 year ago
Is that the late Victor Feldman on vibes? My uncle had "Katy Lied" on vinyl, but I don't remember all the musician credits.
Meridian83West 1 year ago
♫ '..tobacco they grow in Peking.."♫ Hmmm, now what could THAT be?
nipseysdad 1 year ago
@jorjohnson
LOL
bought em all
too great not to.
amazing
still after 37 years.
Thanks jor.... well done on the sound
fluffythecat2 1 year ago
Precioso ,esta portada,junto con la del álbum Countdown to Ecstasy,las mejores del Mundo mundial...Augusto de Tafalla.
Berzonian 1 year ago
También es para mí el tema más bonito de S. D....Me gusta mucho " Your Gold Teeth " ,del disco "Countdown to Ecstasy" . Además pienso que estos dos álbumes tienen las mejores portadas de la toda la historia ...Inquietantes. Sublimes.Bonitas, como la música de esta banda.
Augusto de Tafalla.
Berzonian 1 year ago
u la laaaaaa..
renzoslim 1 year ago
@jorjohnson Right... better yet, get your hands on the vinyl and spin it! The quality of analog sound is without equal...
deweypug 1 year ago
"...the answer they reveal, Life is unreal..." Brilliant.
deweypug 1 year ago
what's the time signature on this?
septip123 1 year ago
@septip123 3/4
metsfan421 1 year ago
@septip123 whatever Jeff Porcara played...the genius on drums ...
Wacokid48 1 year ago 2
Jor, thanks for posting this.
This song will be remembered in 100 years.
glasshammer52 2 years ago 4
@glasshammer52 1,000..!
BeezoHow 2 years ago
In '75 I went insane,"The answer they reveal,life is unreal"!
admiralcraighill 2 years ago 3
i love this song, this album, and this cover
EMPower08 2 years ago 13
intro to this is soooo god damned brilliant. same with the guitar solo, who im assuming larry carlton or denny dias did. jeeze, what a band, there is no band that can compare...
69acoustic69 2 years ago 8
@69acoustic69 What about Zeppelin maaan? lol
StandardUnit 2 years ago
bloody well right
Drjebus 2 years ago
@69acoustic69 Sitting here becomming rapidly and totally addicted to this brilliant intro. Does anyone know who the pianist is here? Although this is an intro, the pianist lays it down commandingly from the first chord.
jazz4asahel 5 months ago
@jazz4asahel Gotta be Fagan
WMAGene 4 months ago
@jazz4asahel why would'nt it be Fagen- he does play keyboards?
bellavia5 3 months ago
I'll mooch for now. I bought 6 tapes/cds and saw them in concert 4 times. I'm done contributing. They are the best though!
rabe56 2 years ago
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How the hell did this band make it into the Rock Hall of Fame and a band like DEVO can't??
Steely Dan's music was the norm for that day and is nothing original. Devo's music and influence can be heard in today's music.
I can name you over a hundred bands who said DEVO inspired/ influenced them, but can't name one band who said the same about Steely Dan...
raggabass 2 years ago
wow!! great upload..been searchin' for this version for yonks!! thank you.
splashy44 2 years ago
A really good investment would be "Citizen Steely Dan", pretty much a complete anthology. I think I counted 60 songs that I liked. I think it has every song from every album from 1972-1980. As a kid, the only Dan I knew of were their hits along with the songs from Can't Buy a Thrill.
jwmellott 2 years ago
One of my five favorites, but I'll be honest...I listen to everything from 'Can't Buy a Thrill'...to 'Two Against Nature'...NON-STOP, The Dan is just 'like that'. ...life IS unreal.
oldschoolruler 2 years ago
@oldschoolruler Totally!!!
BeezoHow 2 years ago 3
...life is unreal...
kermankalle 2 years ago
This is simply an amazing song... if music were chemicals, SD are alchemists
fuzzyprism 2 years ago 4
The time signature on this song is bannanas!
DarrylM65 2 years ago 2
and banana look-alikes.
Drjebus 2 years ago
That is just some flat out tight quality music. A joy to the ears. The Katy lied album is my favorite they did, though Countdown to Ecstasy is a close 2nd.
abcbraveheart 2 years ago 2
just wonderful stuff..........this and Gaucho are my favorite Dan songs.....
jacopman 2 years ago 4
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did13frico 2 years ago
Best album they ever made...perfect
Laynefreeborn 2 years ago 3
who are these children who scheme and run wild. as soon as i first heard that lyric i had already decided i loved this song.
lordsamhain 2 years ago 4
THANKS for posting this.
I have somewhere in storage on CD, but want to listen when I want to. It seems like every Dan song except this one was on youtube. I had gotten used to listening to that teenager in South America singing the song while playing the piano.
jwmellott 2 years ago 4
Along with "Third World Man", one of SD's underrated songs.
Thanks for posting it.
glasshammer52 2 years ago 6
always will be "The Dan"........I mean really,......The Allman Brothers of the north
calerouan 2 years ago 3
What a great analogy calerouan! They are 2 of the greatest, most creative American bands ever.
skydogblues 2 years ago 3
calerouan, Great comment! Will definitely be placing in my "Wish I'd said That!" file ;-). Cheers.
WNM52 2 years ago
classic . just love this tune
mrmanrules 2 years ago 15
This is one of my favorite SD tunes.
Thanks for posting, Jor!
SaxyDan54 2 years ago 16
Ditto, Mine too.
mugrdichyan 2 years ago