listen to the first few bars - these guys are soo gentle with the music...but so complex with the arrangement....the audience never notices.....ii am carried away every time i listen to Steely.
uhmm samedwards...a Kiss song?? wo, you must be really snort-flying...Kiss does 3 chords with the ocassional minor and amps at 80 - 100 distortion/crunchy, Steely is 180 degrees from Kiss (that means totally different). No 4 pounds of greasepaint makeup.. no large hats.. no 3 foot tall boots...no flames onstage..OH Wait, I get it, youre one of those troll things?
@newfuckingwave Steely Dan were SoCal guys too...not sure what it has to do with kiss being americans..wtvr, this is awesome comforting social introspective life meaning and fun sounds forever
Top caliber Musicianship, writing, production and creativity, find any current artist with all of these attributes............... That's what i thought,......... goose eggs :)
amazing....every single comment i have read on this youtube post is so right and that doesnt happen. This song and these guys had some magic and talent, I think Bellavia said it " Like the sentiment. Steely Dan seems tailor made to sooth the brooding spirit. bellavia5 5 days ago "
Any major Diva will tell you that the Dan stands the test of time.This music is so
beautiful that it makes me cry . I feel for todays youth who may only get glimpses of such soul searching lyrics as these . These men were trully a blessing for the musical world in that time and thank God for modern technology , we all can still be enlightened by these brilliant Geniuses.
Driving in my 70 Javelin down back roads in Maryland going to college listening to Steely Dan was nothing more than pure heaven. Keeps a perspective on the world around you without you even knowing it.
These creapy little easterners wrote the sound track to my life. I was the only one around me who liked the Dan which kinda gave me a weird spin in highschool, when no one else could even start to understand all the references. I more than made up for it in college, where it was starting to become super cool to be a Dan junkie. This meant I didn't have to hide away to listen to the Dan. I loved the attack on Dr Moon in their song, Barry Town except I had to explain who the moonies were.
Once upon a time I was 23 or 24 years old and I got this album. It 1974-75. It was my second or third Steely Dan album. Dude, you cannot go wrong with this shit. Mood music, party music, background cocktail music, especially conversation music.
They make you think about it. Without really having to think.
@timpaterco Fagen and Co. were masters of putting poetry into the mold of modern lyrics and rythym. Each and every one of these songs reads like a classic American poem to me.
While plowing acres of land and planting tomatoes and papayas I listened to these guys music. That was in the early seventies, and they were so encouraging in a world that seemed to have forgotten we are here to celebrate life not to destroy and cover it with cement. Love their music now just as much, it seems so appropriate. May you live for love, within the spirit of love within which your love will live forever.. ...seek the truth in all things and live within it's spirit, thanks S D
hey frank - If the guy gets something out of listening to the music then leave him alone. I think Steely Dan would apppreciate the sentiment from the guy .
See, Steely Dan could make pretty songs when they wanted to. Nice melody, music and no sarcastic lyrics. This is probably their most underrated song in my opinion.
I'm so glad to hear that Steely Dan has touched you and other people in younger generations in a profound way, egyptianminor! SD was seminal in my musical and cultural upbringing and growth of consciousness. I'm 57 and have had some wild, wild, great accomplishments in my creative career for 36 yrs in arts, media including film; SD's music has always been a great inspiration for me. Their music is more than music...it's alchemy.
@frankc32 I feel sorry for you. According to the way you put your words, you must live a truly miserable life. You also haven't understood the least of what Steely Dan stands for. Their lyrics tell stories about a.o. losers, or to put it clearly, about sorry folks like you.
Some of the other commentators have said it as well or better than I could. Steely Dan DID inhabit their own unique and unequaled place in music. I agree - thank God they decided to write and play music!! Timeless music that I will never tire of listening to again and again. ;) :)
Yes Live! "74 Swing Aditorium" , "93 Blockbuster Pavilion " , "06 Santa Barbra Bowl" with my 18 year old son. Thank You ! SD you've made my life comeplete.
Whenever someone is feeling down I prescribe this song to them. I've asked my kids to understand and live by these lyrics. This is such a beautiful and timeless song.
Have you ever seen a squank's tears well look at mine. Nearly forty years later and this album is as fresh as it was back in 1974. You can try to run but you can't hide from what's inside of you.
This song is so melodic ,with the sweetness thruout this classic.It makes me want to cry just going down memory lane .what can i say i"am still in love with this music .Which stands the test of time..................you will live on in music history a very long time my brothers...........
This is so it,,with out this I would have caved in years ago,this world has to have some Dan in it - is it the mirror or that one does not look into it..peace
The sentiment expressed in this son has soothed me many times over the years...and it came into play again last night....felt better this morning....this is a classic example of the healing power of great music.
July 4th, 1974, Steely Dan perform at the Santa Monica Center. Guitarist Jeff Baxter thereupon leaves to join the Doobie Brothers and drummer Jim Hodder quits as well. Following this tour, the group does not perform again under the Steely Dan rubric until 1993. ☺
don't you ever presume to chastise me, you ozzy twat. how dare you try to school me about my country? what i know and what you would boast to know, would curdle your kangaroo milk. careful who you fuck with...they just may knock the wind out of you, ya dig mate? i am plenty aware of my country's leaders and their treasonous actions
@ultrakool What you are doing is called baiting or projection. I am not sure which. You worship yourself and your pretzels... that is your problem. Don't drop your shit in my lap, "pal". "Daddy don't live in new york city no more..." ROFL.
There are lots of bands that we call the best. BUT ! There is always something special about Steely Dan that sets there music apart from the best. They came up with everyday types of rythims that blended together into rock music unlike any others and added in the jazz. The vocals are everyday as well and finished it off.
******************************** THE GREATEST **************************************
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'll add that most people either LOVE them, or HATE them. And thats part of what makes them so appealing to me, the fact that they are an acquired taste. They are the most.
@royzone12 Well, with a dude like Larry C doing the arranging and the choice of two sets of session muzos, they had the clout to polish the songs to a very high shine. I liked the doco on making Aja. They were obsessive, like Zappa, only serious and without the smut / deviation. Love SD and Zappa.
I´m brazilian, 32 yo, and music was always a priority to me.
I first heard about Steely Dan aboout one year ago, and to be honest I can´t remember listening to anything else during this past 12 months (ok, maybe a little Joss Stone).
Sticked to Can´t Buy A Thrill for 3 months, then picked up the other albums - I could take any of them to the desert island...
Steely Dan changed my world.
Inspiration, irony, extreme competence... they´ve reached perfection on pop music.
@egyptianminor They are not underrated at all.... kn own and revered by musicans and music lovers the world over... but like all true greats, its a minority compared to the bullshit mainstream, who feel your only any good if you sell 9 trillion albums, have endless no1's and have 12 nights at Hyde Park....
@bongoloid77 That's what I meant by underrated, mate. Underrated= underestimated;tons of people who like good 'rock' stuff fail to 'get' the Dan. That means they are underrated. Cheers.
@Norocmorth I disagree, I meant audience wise - they were never platinum seller in the '70s (w/ the exception of Aja) R&R hall of fame is not a parameter of popularity - a ton of people never even heard of them, they're still a demi-cultish band - it's not for everyone's taste, they're far from your typical rock band - everyone knows KISSS and kiss is not in the R&r hall of fame. My comment meant: not enough people have had the opportunity to know and earned to love this fantastic band. Peace.
@TheSPACECOWBOY68 your problems, traumas, neuroses, nightmares, any person/thing that is a negative influence - at least that's my interpretation, '' ...you can try to run ,but you can't hide from what's inside of you"
@frankc32 LOL If you look again on the bottom sign with chestnuts and peanuts "pretzels" is actually spelled correcty. So I'll agree its 1st spelling is an obvious pun at something. What? I haven't quite figured out yet. Anyone got any ideas? XD BTW don't sell yourself short. I've got the album on vinyl still & I suspect peachhead3 does as well. Together we team up to 104, so you've got a real long ball to throw to reach 100 yet. Enjoy your youth while you still can friend. ;)
This tune reminds me of driving from Ft. worth to Houston...in December, with the top down on the car and drinking tanqs and tonics .Those college days were awesome.Thanks for posting this.
Great song and great album. I mean, really, how many pop/rock bands of the 1970s paid tribute to jazz great Charlie Parker?..."Parker's Band"...on the same album. This album came out when I was in college. I played it for some of my frat brothers, but unfortunately they just couldn't get into it, with their testosterone-pumped musical tastes. Their loss. And, yes, I could easily get along without Blue Oyster Cult. Hehehe! And, no, I'm not gay...just like Steely Dan!
Let me ask you all...has there ever been another band where each and everyone one of their songs is a true gem the way Steely Dans songs are? These guys were and are truely remarkable! Let us then go out into the world and make it our duty to enlighten those who are truely ignorant of the boys and perhaps they will someday realize the perpetually uplifting groove that is Steely Dan. Amen.
The cover of Pretzel Logic always reminds me of my mom taking me to downtown philadelphia as a child and seeing all of those soft pretzel vendors. Truly an everlasting icon of my youth.
@Timoth1983 yeah, but philly soft pretzels are elongated. this vendor is obviously a new yorker (round pretzels). probably in battery park, that's where a lot of them were...any major dude will tell you ;p
@absolutelyfree1963 butt out, captain horatio obvious. who asked you? go make your flippant comments to a culture who cares. if it weren't for our most astute culture, you'd all have been speaking deutsch by now, at the least or would've been sunk to the bottom of the north atlantic. so, piss off
@ultrakool So you too entertain quaint, ignorant fantasies that you saved the world?
Get some history, you son of a bitch....
Apart from the fact that Prescott Bush bank-rolled adolf H anyway and that you all came late after baiting the nips into doing Pearl Harbour, then jumping on the manufactured band-wagon to "save the world" single-handed (the other hand free to masturbate with, which you did.... or rather your fore-fathers).
Go choke on your bagel, you useless ignorant uncool thing.
@ultrakool Every textual fuckup you utter is your bad. Clean you act up you useless tool. You are the last person to talk about culture.... with any authority at least. So desist from tainting this thread with your nonsense or I shall get nasty and you will wish you never ever met me here in the threads you insignificant ignorant worm.
ANY MODERN WORLD that falls apart will fall together again. I can telly You all I know the where to go or what to do You can try to run but You cant hide from whats inside of You. ANY major dude with half a heart will tell You so. great lyrics for sure.
If I ran a sports stadium or arena, this is the song I would play after the home team lost. Yankee Stadium plays Liza Minelli's "New York, New York" after a loss -- I think this song is several trillion times better.
It sets just the right mood: The demons got us tonight -- but we will be back tomorrow.
People don't have a clue how many songs Steely Dan had on air as I grew up very early at 10 years old I was listening to every steely LP out to that point! OMG when AJA & Gaucho came out Roger Nichols studio polish was so ahead of it's time! I would put AJA up sonically against any cd made today! Because it was in the heyday of ANOLOG recording! ,warmth and clarity!
@roderickgful Yeah the vinyl audio was very well cut. I A-B compared the 12" black against the CDs when they came out ('85) and there was no audible difference. And I used decent "cans" (Stax Sr-5 electrostatics).
On Katy Lied they comment about the cutter lathe and it's strange logic (how well it cut their masters). They liked the technology... which I appreciate, having designed and built precision audio gear myself. Yes, analogue is nice. That's how you spell it.
what? 2 dislikes? obviously they never asked the major dude or he would have told them
batman66ism 21 hours ago
Dislikes? HERE? Silly Justin Bieber fans, you got lost, no?
fl6stringer 2 days ago
Fab song!!
borgduck 4 days ago
I love this album and this song.
Kovna 1 week ago
ﾄﾞﾅﾙﾄﾞ･ﾌｪｲｹﾞﾝらしい独特節回しの切ない哀愁曲"AnyMajorDudeWillTellYou"３作目S･ﾀﾞﾝ”ﾌﾟﾚｯﾂェﾙ･ﾛｼﾞｯｸ"の不思議ﾓｰﾄﾞ､ｽｶﾝｸのｷﾞﾀｰもｴﾛｲ
blackandtanful 1 week ago
Only 110,600 views? Criminal.
bazzabaz 1 week ago
The sound of good times, as soon as it starts
Huija 1 week ago
great licks and tasteful arrangements aside, steely dan was always about the lyrics and this song is a standout in a long tradition of great lyrics
mispistoleros 1 week ago
any major dude with half a heart...
froggleg1 3 weeks ago
to say this song saved my life would be a bit dramatic,but it did help enlighten me
froggleg1 3 weeks ago
@froggleg1 Funny how beautiful music has a habit of doing such glorious things... I find this song to be one of this bands' finest...
deweypug 3 weeks ago
Hey steely dan telling you shit happens but it will work out ok with your friends help..whats not to like.
husker666 4 weeks ago
listen to the first few bars - these guys are soo gentle with the music...but so complex with the arrangement....the audience never notices.....ii am carried away every time i listen to Steely.
fuzzypige222 1 month ago 2
Time is alot of what I hear --when I was and I remember --This is the Dan have some respect.
MultiShades 1 month ago
uhmm samedwards...a Kiss song?? wo, you must be really snort-flying...Kiss does 3 chords with the ocassional minor and amps at 80 - 100 distortion/crunchy, Steely is 180 degrees from Kiss (that means totally different). No 4 pounds of greasepaint makeup.. no large hats.. no 3 foot tall boots...no flames onstage..OH Wait, I get it, youre one of those troll things?
fuzzypige222 1 month ago
@fuzzypige222 plus KISS are goddamn yankees . . .
newfuckingwave 1 month ago
@newfuckingwave Steely Dan were SoCal guys too...not sure what it has to do with kiss being americans..wtvr, this is awesome comforting social introspective life meaning and fun sounds forever
fuzzypige222 3 weeks ago
@fuzzypige222 Donald Fagen was from New York... born and bred... but they certainly sounded like they were from Southern Cal!
deweypug 3 weeks ago
@deweypug thanks for taking the time to send me a hi.....Steely is one of the best of all time
fuzzypige222 11 hours ago
This sounds like a KISS song
samedwards196 1 month ago
@samedwards196 Kiss my ass, this is the Dan have some respect.
MultiShades 1 month ago
I won't be born until November of 2053 and this song kicks ass.
MisterGris 1 month ago 3
@MisterGris The Shape of Things to Come- A history of the future. Dude.
lauriecolson 3 weeks ago
15cents for a pretzel? god those were the days 15 cents you can't even get gum
batman66ism 1 month ago
Top caliber Musicianship, writing, production and creativity, find any current artist with all of these attributes............... That's what i thought,......... goose eggs :)
maxdamusicman1 1 month ago
my god, if this was released today it would shock the shit out of everyone.......so far above anything out there.....i miss these guys
fuzzypige222 1 month ago
this was the B side to Rikki dont lose that number, my first 45
i love this song
Kiernan007 1 month ago
my funky one :)
jmms429 1 month ago
Any major mentor's mantra.
honypoboy 2 months ago
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amazing....every single comment i have read on this youtube post is so right and that doesnt happen. This song and these guys had some magic and talent, I think Bellavia said it " Like the sentiment. Steely Dan seems tailor made to sooth the brooding spirit. bellavia5 5 days ago "
fuzzypige222 2 months ago
Any major dude will tell you modern music sucks.
jdoggybizzle 2 months ago 7
Any major Diva will tell you that the Dan stands the test of time.This music is so
beautiful that it makes me cry . I feel for todays youth who may only get glimpses of such soul searching lyrics as these . These men were trully a blessing for the musical world in that time and thank God for modern technology , we all can still be enlightened by these brilliant Geniuses.
alicesnow100 2 months ago 3
This song was made for walking through the streets of wintertime 1970s NYC, just BROODING about stuff.
alexmortland 2 months ago
@alexmortland Like the sentiment. Steely Dan seems tailor made to sooth the brooding spirit.
bellavia5 2 months ago
Genius is always underrated.... any major dude would tell you.
alanparsonsfan 2 months ago 20
love this song...
feenxrising 2 months ago
The solo in this is only 25 seconds, but the phrasing is perfect - I often play it over and over
TheGlatisant 2 months ago
This song got me through many tough times...there was no one like the Dan and there never will be again...amazing tunes.
redone2422 2 months ago
Driving in my 70 Javelin down back roads in Maryland going to college listening to Steely Dan was nothing more than pure heaven. Keeps a perspective on the world around you without you even knowing it.
bil56 3 months ago
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Absolutely. Let no one speak otherwise in my presence either. Dan all the way.
SallySatisfied 3 months ago in playlist SallySatisfied's favorites
Absolutely. Let no one speak otherwise in my presence either.
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This song is a life changer. It made me a major dude. Thanks for the post.
PlymouthVT 3 months ago 2
when the demon is at your door,,knocking I LOVE THIS BAND for ever
MultiShades 3 months ago
This song, as magnificent and multi-faceted as it is, boils down to one simple word: Truth.
doorswhofan 3 months ago
The one dislike must not be a major dude.
september29ification 3 months ago
These creapy little easterners wrote the sound track to my life. I was the only one around me who liked the Dan which kinda gave me a weird spin in highschool, when no one else could even start to understand all the references. I more than made up for it in college, where it was starting to become super cool to be a Dan junkie. This meant I didn't have to hide away to listen to the Dan. I loved the attack on Dr Moon in their song, Barry Town except I had to explain who the moonies were.
vasallizinni 3 months ago
Once upon a time I was 23 or 24 years old and I got this album. It 1974-75. It was my second or third Steely Dan album. Dude, you cannot go wrong with this shit. Mood music, party music, background cocktail music, especially conversation music.
They make you think about it. Without really having to think.
Love them.
timpaterco 3 months ago 17
@timpaterco well put
rekfan59 2 months ago
@timpaterco Fagen and Co. were masters of putting poetry into the mold of modern lyrics and rythym. Each and every one of these songs reads like a classic American poem to me.
tacoland2000 2 months ago 5
While plowing acres of land and planting tomatoes and papayas I listened to these guys music. That was in the early seventies, and they were so encouraging in a world that seemed to have forgotten we are here to celebrate life not to destroy and cover it with cement. Love their music now just as much, it seems so appropriate. May you live for love, within the spirit of love within which your love will live forever.. ...seek the truth in all things and live within it's spirit, thanks S D
alohaservant 3 months ago 7
hey frank - If the guy gets something out of listening to the music then leave him alone. I think Steely Dan would apppreciate the sentiment from the guy .
bellavia5 3 months ago
Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again
Fizzy5pringwater 3 months ago
See, Steely Dan could make pretty songs when they wanted to. Nice melody, music and no sarcastic lyrics. This is probably their most underrated song in my opinion.
Tuzotonic 4 months ago
I'm so glad to hear that Steely Dan has touched you and other people in younger generations in a profound way, egyptianminor! SD was seminal in my musical and cultural upbringing and growth of consciousness. I'm 57 and have had some wild, wild, great accomplishments in my creative career for 36 yrs in arts, media including film; SD's music has always been a great inspiration for me. Their music is more than music...it's alchemy.
zenbear008 4 months ago
"You can try run but you can't hide from what's inside of you"
Tell that to the world we now live in!
The wouldn't understand
panlemans 4 months ago
@panlemans, this motherfucker has nothing to do with current text, it is all about facing oneself!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 4 months ago
@frankc32 If you need some good advise: you'd better start facing yourself a.s.a.p. then. Looks like you need it.
panlemans 4 months ago
@panlemans, do not try to call me, punk, you sound like a little faggot...
I will fuck you in your punk ass, how's it?
Cheers,
FrankC32
frankc32 3 months ago
@frankc32 I feel sorry for you. According to the way you put your words, you must live a truly miserable life. You also haven't understood the least of what Steely Dan stands for. Their lyrics tell stories about a.o. losers, or to put it clearly, about sorry folks like you.
panlemans 3 months ago
Some of the other commentators have said it as well or better than I could. Steely Dan DID inhabit their own unique and unequaled place in music. I agree - thank God they decided to write and play music!! Timeless music that I will never tire of listening to again and again. ;) :)
cbl1948 4 months ago 2
this band beats it up on stage... donald is the greatest songwriter of his time
ghostofjackie 4 months ago
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My friend has been down in the dumps and we smoked a joint and listened to this and everything was all good.
andyman311 4 months ago
My friend has been down in the dumps and we smoked a joint and listened to this and everything was all good.
andyman311 4 months ago
Steely Dan inhabits its own unique little universe, & I thank God they share it with us
abs0luteabsence0 4 months ago
@abs0luteabsence0 Forgive the bad reference, but perhaps this is the world that the Dan is welcome to.
Mikemaniax 4 months ago
"Have you ever seen a squonk's tears?" Only Steely Dan could work a reference to the mythical beast into a song.
Zehbron 4 months ago 2
Did I say 06 I ment 2011 , July 6th ,. Best outdoor venue ever". The Santa Barbra Bowl"
adrdude1 4 months ago
Yes Live! "74 Swing Aditorium" , "93 Blockbuster Pavilion " , "06 Santa Barbra Bowl" with my 18 year old son. Thank You ! SD you've made my life comeplete.
adrdude1 5 months ago
.....A Lullaby!!!
OlymPigs2010 5 months ago
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jon48point5 5 months ago
Whenever someone is feeling down I prescribe this song to them. I've asked my kids to understand and live by these lyrics. This is such a beautiful and timeless song.
jon48point5 5 months ago
Have you ever seen a squank's tears well look at mine. Nearly forty years later and this album is as fresh as it was back in 1974. You can try to run but you can't hide from what's inside of you.
Tubernaut 5 months ago
@Tubernaut
Ever see these guys live in concert? Its amazing!!! Better than the albums for sure. If you ever get a chance, see them LIVE!!!
jgarcouda 5 months ago
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Tubernaut 5 months ago
This song is so melodic ,with the sweetness thruout this classic.It makes me want to cry just going down memory lane .what can i say i"am still in love with this music .Which stands the test of time..................you will live on in music history a very long time my brothers...........
alicesnow100 5 months ago 2
A friend reaching out to another - and written in such a cool way. I love this song. One of my all-time favorites.
TheLadyBugg8 6 months ago 2
This is so it,,with out this I would have caved in years ago,this world has to have some Dan in it - is it the mirror or that one does not look into it..peace
MultiShades 6 months ago
i so love this song
batman66ism 6 months ago 2
The sentiment expressed in this son has soothed me many times over the years...and it came into play again last night....felt better this morning....this is a classic example of the healing power of great music.
BartA22 6 months ago 2
Wow I just got transported back to 1974 and I love it!
MrVeesworld 6 months ago
Beautiful lyrics
CassandraAntares 7 months ago
July 4th, 1974, Steely Dan perform at the Santa Monica Center. Guitarist Jeff Baxter thereupon leaves to join the Doobie Brothers and drummer Jim Hodder quits as well. Following this tour, the group does not perform again under the Steely Dan rubric until 1993. ☺
StLouisEarl 7 months ago
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don't tell me what to do
ultrakool 7 months ago
don't you ever presume to chastise me, you ozzy twat. how dare you try to school me about my country? what i know and what you would boast to know, would curdle your kangaroo milk. careful who you fuck with...they just may knock the wind out of you, ya dig mate? i am plenty aware of my country's leaders and their treasonous actions
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool Go choke, you stupid wank.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
@absolutelyfree1963 go worship yourself, attention whore. you're welcome
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool What you are doing is called baiting or projection. I am not sure which. You worship yourself and your pretzels... that is your problem. Don't drop your shit in my lap, "pal". "Daddy don't live in new york city no more..." ROFL.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
See if you can catch all the times the Dan gets "sampled" by today's so-called "artists"
fagenmeister 7 months ago
Zero people have decided to not be a major dude....
toolkien 7 months ago
'the people on the street have all seen better times' . true enough
ethandune1 7 months ago
There are lots of bands that we call the best. BUT ! There is always something special about Steely Dan that sets there music apart from the best. They came up with everyday types of rythims that blended together into rock music unlike any others and added in the jazz. The vocals are everyday as well and finished it off.
******************************** THE GREATEST **************************************
royzone12 7 months ago 4
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'll add that most people either LOVE them, or HATE them. And thats part of what makes them so appealing to me, the fact that they are an acquired taste. They are the most.
tyleryesta1 7 months ago
@royzone12 Well, with a dude like Larry C doing the arranging and the choice of two sets of session muzos, they had the clout to polish the songs to a very high shine. I liked the doco on making Aja. They were obsessive, like Zappa, only serious and without the smut / deviation. Love SD and Zappa.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
i'm burning my Steely Danolanterns
lauriecolson 8 months ago
I will totally get LOUD if any one disses the Dan
CF77777 8 months ago 2
@CF77777 NO ONE DISSES THE DAN, OTHERWISE THEY IMPERIL THEIR ASS.
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are as shrewd, sly, and smart as they come, as musicians and lyricists.
Period. End of Fucking story.
STEELY DAN IS simply the best.
FrankC32
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 8 months ago 6
People think the 70s sucked? You're full of it ...
ysonyou 8 months ago
Any major dude will still abide !
jsilence418 9 months ago
This is how you write a good song. Make it sound like this, and it's good.
alexmortland 9 months ago
I heard someone say something cutting about SD the other day...don't know if that means I'm old..or they're stupid..
dustbowl424 9 months ago
@dustbowl424, they are stupid, trust me!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 9 months ago
what r the chords for this?
Psionicman2000 10 months ago
I´m brazilian, 32 yo, and music was always a priority to me.
I first heard about Steely Dan aboout one year ago, and to be honest I can´t remember listening to anything else during this past 12 months (ok, maybe a little Joss Stone).
Sticked to Can´t Buy A Thrill for 3 months, then picked up the other albums - I could take any of them to the desert island...
Steely Dan changed my world.
Inspiration, irony, extreme competence... they´ve reached perfection on pop music.
Long Live Dan!!!
MsJagatjit 10 months ago 15
@MsJagatjit cool
jointhemodernworld 10 months ago
@MsJagatjit BUMP from eyptianminor, this tune is so PROFOUND!!!
I welcome all to frolic about the fields, no bullshit, any major dude will tell you"...
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 10 months ago
@MsJagatjit wonderful to hear! :-) timeless music
rintintin7529 4 months ago
Pop Gem- Steely Dan is the most underrated band in the world.
egyptianminor 10 months ago 22
@egyptianminor Definitely...no one else like them before or since...great stuff!!
LIgirl527 10 months ago
@egyptianminor, puh-lease, this is the FUCKING UNDERSTATEMENT of the world!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 4 months ago
@egyptianminor They are not underrated at all.... kn own and revered by musicans and music lovers the world over... but like all true greats, its a minority compared to the bullshit mainstream, who feel your only any good if you sell 9 trillion albums, have endless no1's and have 12 nights at Hyde Park....
bongoloid77 4 months ago
@bongoloid77 That's what I meant by underrated, mate. Underrated= underestimated;tons of people who like good 'rock' stuff fail to 'get' the Dan. That means they are underrated. Cheers.
egyptianminor 3 months ago
@egyptianminor they arn't underrated they are in the rock and roll hall of fame
Norocmorth 3 months ago
@Norocmorth I disagree, I meant audience wise - they were never platinum seller in the '70s (w/ the exception of Aja) R&R hall of fame is not a parameter of popularity - a ton of people never even heard of them, they're still a demi-cultish band - it's not for everyone's taste, they're far from your typical rock band - everyone knows KISSS and kiss is not in the R&r hall of fame. My comment meant: not enough people have had the opportunity to know and earned to love this fantastic band. Peace.
egyptianminor 3 months ago
@egyptianminor yea i have to agree with that
Norocmorth 3 months ago
So what does he mean by "when the demon is at your door"?
TheSPACECOWBOY68 10 months ago
@TheSPACECOWBOY68 your problems, traumas, neuroses, nightmares, any person/thing that is a negative influence - at least that's my interpretation, '' ...you can try to run ,but you can't hide from what's inside of you"
egyptianminor 10 months ago
@TheSPACECOWBOY68 So what do YOU think it is? Everybody has their own Daemon.
23moksha 9 months ago
MY FAVE STEELY DAN TUNE. Not sure why. I love all of them. But this is IT.
shelley9000 11 months ago 3
I still have this album but haven't played it in years!! Pretzels 15 cents -- That was about 1973 or so I think.
peachhead3 11 months ago
@peachhead3, yup, album came out in '74. Geez, "album"? What, am I a hundred fucking years old?
Also, gotta love the way this vendor spelled "PRETZELS" on his cart! There's no way the boys in editing missed that one. Classic!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 11 months ago
@frankc32 LOL If you look again on the bottom sign with chestnuts and peanuts "pretzels" is actually spelled correcty. So I'll agree its 1st spelling is an obvious pun at something. What? I haven't quite figured out yet. Anyone got any ideas? XD BTW don't sell yourself short. I've got the album on vinyl still & I suspect peachhead3 does as well. Together we team up to 104, so you've got a real long ball to throw to reach 100 yet. Enjoy your youth while you still can friend. ;)
MrAmberRocker 11 months ago
@MrAmberRocker, I DID notice that, but I stand by my original statement.
the discord is why I chose to use the snide "boys in editing" line...
here's to nuance!!!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 11 months ago
This tune reminds me of driving from Ft. worth to Houston...in December, with the top down on the car and drinking tanqs and tonics .Those college days were awesome.Thanks for posting this.
Kayakiran1 11 months ago
All-time favorite since it first release, still have this album, Steely Dan forever!
molinmusic 11 months ago
Great song and great album. I mean, really, how many pop/rock bands of the 1970s paid tribute to jazz great Charlie Parker?..."Parker's Band"...on the same album. This album came out when I was in college. I played it for some of my frat brothers, but unfortunately they just couldn't get into it, with their testosterone-pumped musical tastes. Their loss. And, yes, I could easily get along without Blue Oyster Cult. Hehehe! And, no, I'm not gay...just like Steely Dan!
zildj1an 11 months ago
@zildj1an Are you looking to be congratulated for not being gay?? Like you had a choice! Otherwise I'm with you.
dermotwalker 10 months ago
One of their gr8's...thank walt & don.....
JoshGold34 1 year ago
MaximusRelaximus
gdmn fkin demon is here, too...dude at my front door
(myfriendtackledheralliswell)
JJJZANESVILLE2 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant stuff..........but hell, it's Steely Dan so, that goes without saying, doesn't it........
jeffthrow6892 1 year ago
Another Awesome Classic! Love the Guitar& Keyboards!
My1968FireBirdConv 1 year ago
Patriots Design......"Any Major Dude" will tell you that Steely Dan is truly Inspired and in a musical, cultural class by themselves..
naryaquid 1 year ago
Let me ask you all...has there ever been another band where each and everyone one of their songs is a true gem the way Steely Dans songs are? These guys were and are truely remarkable! Let us then go out into the world and make it our duty to enlighten those who are truely ignorant of the boys and perhaps they will someday realize the perpetually uplifting groove that is Steely Dan. Amen.
patriotsdesign 1 year ago 3
Didn't know the demon left in the morning, learn something knew every day.
mustwinder 1 year ago
LSD and Pretzels - What could be better??
Love this totally perfect song.
And Fagen's perfect "Brooklyn-ese!!"
lateforthesky61 1 year ago
The cover of Pretzel Logic always reminds me of my mom taking me to downtown philadelphia as a child and seeing all of those soft pretzel vendors. Truly an everlasting icon of my youth.
Timoth1983 1 year ago
@Timoth1983 yeah, but philly soft pretzels are elongated. this vendor is obviously a new yorker (round pretzels). probably in battery park, that's where a lot of them were...any major dude will tell you ;p
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool I didn't think he was a Philly vendor, it just makes me remember the ones that I used to see.
Timoth1983 7 months ago
@ultrakool That is what makes you yanks so great. You know about the important shit, like pretzels....
Pretzel Logic (is shit....) You dig? ROFL... (go eat a bagel...)
Long Live the Dan.... (Steely dan was the Dildo from Burroughs novel Naked Lunch...)
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
@absolutelyfree1963 butt out, captain horatio obvious. who asked you? go make your flippant comments to a culture who cares. if it weren't for our most astute culture, you'd all have been speaking deutsch by now, at the least or would've been sunk to the bottom of the north atlantic. so, piss off
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool alright, i've just discovered you're not a prisoner of mother england, so that's different. my bad
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool So you too entertain quaint, ignorant fantasies that you saved the world?
Get some history, you son of a bitch....
Apart from the fact that Prescott Bush bank-rolled adolf H anyway and that you all came late after baiting the nips into doing Pearl Harbour, then jumping on the manufactured band-wagon to "save the world" single-handed (the other hand free to masturbate with, which you did.... or rather your fore-fathers).
Go choke on your bagel, you useless ignorant uncool thing.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
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@absolutelyfree1963 alright, i've just discovered you're not a prisoner of mother england, so that's different. my bad
ultrakool 7 months ago
@ultrakool Every textual fuckup you utter is your bad. Clean you act up you useless tool. You are the last person to talk about culture.... with any authority at least. So desist from tainting this thread with your nonsense or I shall get nasty and you will wish you never ever met me here in the threads you insignificant ignorant worm.
I am being nice.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
@absolutelyfree1963 nice try, puke
ultrakool 7 months ago
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absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
@absolutelyfree1963, I feel 100% in agreement with you, bro', but the lesson to be learned here is to simply ignore a stupid motherfucker like this!
do not waste ANY of your time or energy hating on a piece of shit like this guy. Fuck him, he will end up fucked anyway, count on it!
Cheers!
FrankC32
frankc32 5 months ago
Refined!
mtfsant 1 year ago
nice...thnx
bigbadfnmonkey 1 year ago
Beautiful song.
Teflon65 1 year ago
My favorite Steely Dan Song
panlemans 1 year ago
Obama Logic= Pretzel Logic
yuritim 1 year ago
To my Bro DT. Perhaps a song to myself-I'm a happy fool after all.
k2aileron 1 year ago
ANY MODERN WORLD that falls apart will fall together again. I can telly You all I know the where to go or what to do You can try to run but You cant hide from whats inside of You. ANY major dude with half a heart will tell You so. great lyrics for sure.
THEPOCONOJOECHANNEL 1 year ago
All squonks everywhere love this song...& all other mythical creatures, my funky one...
greenwoodwalker 1 year ago
the ultimate drinking tune... kick back and enjoy will ya??
jgarcouda 1 year ago 2
If I ran a sports stadium or arena, this is the song I would play after the home team lost. Yankee Stadium plays Liza Minelli's "New York, New York" after a loss -- I think this song is several trillion times better.
It sets just the right mood: The demons got us tonight -- but we will be back tomorrow.
ZydecoNova 1 year ago
great Wurlitzer on this one. the korg sv1 sounds just like it.
tyleryesta1 1 year ago
this major dude will tell you that nothing compares to the mood, feel, vibe of this tune. nothing
ultrakool 1 year ago 3
People don't have a clue how many songs Steely Dan had on air as I grew up very early at 10 years old I was listening to every steely LP out to that point! OMG when AJA & Gaucho came out Roger Nichols studio polish was so ahead of it's time! I would put AJA up sonically against any cd made today! Because it was in the heyday of ANOLOG recording! ,warmth and clarity!
roderickgful 1 year ago 6
@roderickgful Yeah the vinyl audio was very well cut. I A-B compared the 12" black against the CDs when they came out ('85) and there was no audible difference. And I used decent "cans" (Stax Sr-5 electrostatics).
On Katy Lied they comment about the cutter lathe and it's strange logic (how well it cut their masters). They liked the technology... which I appreciate, having designed and built precision audio gear myself. Yes, analogue is nice. That's how you spell it.
absolutelyfree1963 7 months ago
I'm a Minor dude..
But I will still tell ya.
cruxto 1 year ago 46
@cruxto I'm an out ot tune dude and I'll tell ya.
Khultan 1 year ago
@cruxto LMAO
mustwinder 1 year ago
@cruxto and I will listen.
mindyspark 11 months ago
@cruxto admitting that gets you on the road to majorness
JoeyPencils 5 months ago
This is where it starts --The Dan takes you from here to the next step
MultiShades 1 year ago
Yes, this one is not at the top of my list, but I always, always have to listen to this one.
AbiolaAbasi 1 year ago
this is music...
geeter68 1 year ago 2
yeah, I can hear them knocking too. Gotta shake them off!!
hughburston 1 year ago
Damn....*shakes head in quiet satisfaction*....that's smooth.
lednails 1 year ago 4
One of their best ones!
stone529 1 year ago
this song is dedicated to my kids and my last son anthony. god bless you nick rest and sleep in peace. love pop
fila32 1 year ago 2
@fila32 God speed young man. RIP
bennettdrew 1 year ago
eventually got to see these play few years back in dublin...xcellent gig but sadly didnt play this...great tune..
kevos65 1 year ago
steely dan amazing
stephanie4and3 1 year ago
goddam fkn demon is STILL at the door.
MaximusRelaximus 1 year ago 33
@MaximusRelaximus
I hear ya Max..........
fluffythecat2 1 year ago