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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 07:46 PM
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Your favorite Steely Dan song, and favorite version of it?
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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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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.
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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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
Mistah Steely DAAAAAN!!!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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
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)

Redstone
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 08:08 PM
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4. YUM. Thanks for reminding me!
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 09:03 PM
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9. yep..
Show Biz Kidz...
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Dr Morbius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 10:26 PM
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13. I didn't know, but Rickey Lee Jones covered this tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hw4BIYh-2s

A little slower, but cool.

Also covered by Elvis Costello (not as well IMO):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHJnnE3HqCg&feature=related
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 08:07 PM
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3. Pretzel Logic , no question
Edited on Sat Sep-25-10 08:11 PM by Capn Sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXY_DNVFWVY&feature=related
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 08:11 PM
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5. Kid Charlemagne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS9lTBn0kk
The "gas in the car" line kills me.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 08:15 PM
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6. "Bad Sneakers" from "Katy Lied"...
...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.

:toast:
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDojwQ8cJC4&p=91C749F6C97E2EFE&playnext=1&index=11
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 03:43 AM
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21. Oh. I've seen it, and many, many times...
...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.

:toast:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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!


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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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 08:59 PM
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8. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"
Edited on Sat Sep-25-10 09:02 PM by RagAss
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tXr Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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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Dr Morbius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 10:21 PM
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12. Monkey in Your Soul.
Off Pretzel Logic. Tight, funky, short and sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xm5w_6nww

I am also fond of the show business kids, making movies of themselves; for the coup de gras: they're outrageous.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 11:27 PM
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15. "Kid Charlemagne" and "Peg"
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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IMATB Donating Member (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-10 11:46 PM
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16. Deacon Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0wGO3c2T8
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 12:35 AM
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17. "Dr Wu" or "Reeling in the Years"
the Minutemen do a great cover of "Dr Wu" on "Double Nickels on the Dime"
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704wipes Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 12:46 AM
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18. My Old School
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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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 01:05 AM
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19. Steely Dan - King Of The World - LIVE - Irvine, CA - 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDqn__A0f0&feature=related
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lovemydog Donating Member (414 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 02:48 AM
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20. My Old School
But I love all their stuff.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 03:52 AM
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22. So many great songs to choose from.
It's a tie between Deacon Blues and Dirty Work
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tilsammans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 04:26 AM
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23. "Any World (That I'm Welcome To) . . .
. . . is better than the world I come from."

Gotta love The Dan!
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-10 06:14 AM
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24. Show Biz Kids and/or Haitian Divorce nt
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