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Favorite Steely Dan Album

Favorite Steely Dan Album

  • CAN’T BUY A THRILL

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • COUNTDOWN TO EXSTACY

    Votes: 8 10.4%

  • PRETZEL LOGIC

    Votes: 5 6.5%

  • KATY LIED

    Votes: 10 13.0%

  • THE ROYAL SCAM

    Votes: 10 13.0%

  • AJA

    Votes: 22 28.6%

  • GAUCHO

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • TWO AGAINST NATURE

    Votes: 4 5.2%

  • EVERYTHING MUST GO

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    77
modalmood said:
Official members or not, Skunk Baxter and Denny Diaz were, in my opinion, a hell of a lot more important to the sound of early Steely Dan than Becker, may he rest in peace, ever was on any of their albums.
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Dias and Baxter didn't write any of the music. Becker and Fagen did.

That said, in terms of performance Walter had been redundant since Aja, if not before.
 
Karmices said:
Until 1975 (Katy Lied) Steely Dan was a real band. The first 3 albums were made by the band for the most part. Starting with Katy Lied they started implementing studio musicians, but Denny Dias was still around and Michael McDonald was a touring musician with them.
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This is somewhat true but starting with Ray Brown on bass on "Razor Boy" (CTE), SD began using more and more session players, starting them on the path that would culminate in Becker and Fagen and a cast of thousands on Aja.
 
Katy Lied would be right up there for me (if only for Doctor Wu) but I find the SQ really suffers due to Katz and Nichols' overuse of the Kepex, which resulted in an extremely compressed sound that drives me up the wall.
 
All of them are good+ to excellent. Picked Gaucho as it is the one I listen to the most. Must be because it's the first of their albums I owned. The other one I tend to listen to is Gold as it has the non LP tracks FM and King Of The World.
 
ZIP007 said:
The other one I tend to listen to is Gold as it has the non LP tracks FM and King Of The World.
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"King of the World" actually closes out Countdown to Ecstasy. Absolutely killer end track to a fantastic album.

"FM" is a great track as I remember viewing the movie on Qube, an early Columbus, Ohio cable delivery system. My preference is for the concise single version and not the one with the meandering sax solo. To each their own.
 
noogies said:
This is somewhat true but starting with Ray Brown on bass on "Razor Boy" (CTE), SD began using more and more session players, starting them on the path that would culminate in Becker and Fagen and a cast of thousands on Aja.
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Ray Brown was brought in as no one else in band was played string bass. That was more of an added instrument, rather than a move towards using studio musicians over the band at that point.
 
safebet said:
"King of the World" actually closes out Countdown to Ecstasy. Absolutely killer end track to a fantastic album.

"FM" is a great track as I remember viewing the movie on Qube, an early Columbus, Ohio cable delivery system. My preference is for the concise single version and not the one with the meandering sax solo. To each their own.
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My bad I meant "Here at the Western World" that was only on the greatest hits album.
 
Fagen and Becker hated the mastering on "Katy Lied". They wanted it remastered but the record company refused. They never listened to again. I read that on the internet so it must be true.

-Dave
 
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