WHAT A VIBE!!. | FIRST TIME HEARING Steely Dan - Do It Again REACTION
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- WHAT A VIBE!!. | FIRST TIME HEARING Steely Dan - Do It Again REACTION
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Every Steely Dan song is like a Faberge egg. Exquisitely crafted, intricate and possessing a timeless elegence.
Amen Brother!
This does however, mean they're no good for omelettes.
This!
Well said
Well-put!
Man, we were spoiled in the 70s!
We could tune in to ANY AM or FM station and find great music! 🎶
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Amen to that…,grateful and sad!
70s was my time of getting into music people who could sing and play instruments, they met at school or college and formed bands, Im sad its so many manufactured groups now hardly play any instruments and your in if your good looking we will teach you to sing
So true...we were definitely spoiled by the sheer volume of exquisite sounds & musicianship during the 70s, via the radio or vinyl. I don't think we realized at the time just how lucky we actually were! I'm so grateful to have been around then to have experienced it. Even today, 90% of the music I listen to is from this era.
Oh yeah!
Great music of all types on the same station.
Talent not heard in today’s music. Steely Dan being one of the most sophisticated and groups of the 70’s with their own sound.
Todays excuse for music SUCKS!
Absolutely!
@@johnlevison9552 what's on the radio, sure. There's lots of killer indie music today. Check out the Warning, Liliac, Greta Van Fleet, etc.
The sweetie girl on this reaction is reaching for the "New York" sound. During these times (70s-80s) so much was gifted to us from the Melange of the The Big Apple. Check out some of the early Deborah Harry/Blondie and others. Just wow.
One of their albums took 6 months to record and they called it a rush job. These guys were the absolute perfectionists.
These guys were some of the most talented songwriters and studio musicians to ever put on a set of headphones. This earlier stuff is a bit psychedelic and the would get a little jazzier the "Aja" LP, which is my fave. Been a faithful listener for many years and they never get old. Try "Peg" or "Deacon Blues" from Aja. You won't be disappointed. Cheers, guys!
Peg is my favorite!
Deacon Blues is fantastic!
Totally agree!
Aja...
My favorite 2 Steely Dan songs.
‘Hey Nineteen’ is another great Steely Dan hit.
I remember hearing that song as a kid and not getting any of the references. Listened again as an adult, and...
Fast time at ridgemont high classic.
Hey that was my suggestion 🙂 Don't know for sure, but when Fagan says "nice" it's just after the drummer added a funky accent on the hi-hat. Great song.
MY FAVORITE!!
"The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing"
Rob & Amber when you do this song - catch the story in it. It's about a older guy meeting this younger girl and they don't have any thing in common because of age difference. Ahhhh... but "The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian" always make things work out. 😉
Fun fact: In Eagles "Hotel California" the famous lyric "They stab it with their STEELY knives, But they just can't kill the beast". That's a nod to Steely Dan. 🎵❤
Yes indeed. Well noted! 🍻
Now I feel enlightened! 😃 Coool
Do you know why it’s a nod to SD Becker’s Girlfriend at the time was a huge Eagles fan and every time they had an argument she would turn up the volume on an Eagles record so people couldn’t hear them argue which pissed B off even more. So on the Royal Scam album on the song tell me everything you did the line is turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. So when HC was released they asked Felder who wrote the best lyrics and he said Steely Dan they are a BEAST; so they stabbed it with their steely knives but they could not kill the beast.
I don't think so. "Steely Dan" refers to and is the name of a silver steel sex toy for the ladies.
@danabuch324 Steely Dan's 1976 song “Everything You Did” included the sardonic line, “Turn up The Eagles, the neighbors are listening.” The Eagles answered - on “Hotel California,” released later that year - with “They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.” -wiki
Get ur mind out of the gutter 😂
Hey Rob and Amber, I just watch to give a “shout out” to you two.
First……for playing my music.
Second……for doing it with style, class, and humility.
Third…and most importantly…….for trying to spread love, peace, harmony and unity. At a time when a great many people are all about, hate, division and discord.
You give me hope that there is an America that is still worth saving. I am 69 years young and love watching your reactions to the best music ever made.
Thank you, you are good people.😍
Cheers!
The best 10 years ever EASY THE 7DZ
Amen
Amen Raymond all this music I/we listen to Growing Up never grows old it's soothing peaceful informative they don't make music like that no more or I can't find it
Great comment. I'm 34 and I got into music like this from playing guitar hero believe it or not. Regardless I'm very appreciative and so happy that i heard this song young. Steely Dan is amazing
Steely Dan is worthy of a DEEP dive. Try Peg, Deacon blues, Hey 19, Reeling in The Years. Cant really go wrong when you have some of the best musicians and song writers of the 20th century.
“Peg” is one that NO CZcams reacter can resist.. gets em every. single. time.
Reeling in the years
Yall already did reading in the years oops sorry
Kid Charlemagne, Bad Sneakers, Josie, My Old School, Haitian Divorce, Black Cow
Danny Dias on Electric Sitar, Walter Becker on guitar and bass, Jeff [PENTAGON National Defense planner] Baxter on guitars, Fagan on “plastic” combo organ and vocals, and Victor Feldman playing congas. Their drummer is in there someplace, and Baxter fils Maraca's. Baxter went from amazing session guitarist and Doobie Brothers plater to security clearances well above top secret in the decades after.....
Gotta do more Steely Dan! Rikki Don't Lose That Number, FM, etc.
Yes - FM, it's got sax!
Peg, Black Cow, Aja...
Love “Rikki”… one of my faves by them!
Steely Dan isn't one person but rather basically i think a duo of two guys who brought in amazing session players. They were arguably groundbreaking in combining jazz chords and elements with harmonized vocals. They're an amazing artist. I was fortunate to see them twice in concert some years ago.
so jealous omg
Exactly right!
Great ending to this song. The Dan is/was great at ending songs ❤
You don't want it to end
Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker (R.I.P. 🌹)
Steely Dan were obsessive perfectionists. Every note your hear is precisely where they placed it. They're so precise, their album Aja is used by major auto makers to evaluate car stereos. Sound engineers worship these guys.
Indeed
AND HOW COOL WAS THAT !!??
Steely Dan were the absolute peak of sound production quality, for sure!
Let’s not forget, Skunk Baxter, the lead guitarist, was also the Doobie Bros lead guitarist for many years. Excellent in either group!
Boy, you said it.
He's a great bass player also...
Jeff is his name.
Wasn’t he the 7th guitarist they auditioned before deciding on him?
Denny Dias plays that first "electric sitar" solo. I don't think there's any Baxter lead on this song.
Steely Dan is worth a deep dive. Probably my favorite rock band. The musicianship and production are second to none. Then there’s the writing. Worth a deep dive for sure. As they move towards the disco era, their sound changes and yet it’s always unmistakably Steely Dan, which is a band btw, not a dude. Named after a marital aid from William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch, Steely Dan is one of a kind. These two songs you reacted to are their earliest stuff. I know you guys like horns. Steely Dan’s later stuff is filled with horns. They are also heavily sampled in hip hop and are beloved by so many hip hop producers and really all music producers who know how good and innovative they were. I know that feeling like there’s this deep well there when you first listen to them. Indeed there is.
Yes, Jesse!
Danny Dias on Electric Sitar, Walter Becker on guitar and bass, Jeff [PENTAGON National Defense planner] Baxter on guitars, Fagan on “plastic” combo organ and vocals, and Victor Feldman playing congas. Their drummer is in there someplace, and Baxter fils Maraca's. Baxter went from amazing session guitarist and Doobie Brothers plater to security clearances well above top secret in the decades after.....
My all time favorite song! This song takes me back to 1973. My parents bought me a transistor radio for Christmas. I would lay in bed every night and fall asleep with the ear piece in my ear. The song was in heavy rotation at that time and it would always play around the same time every night. This song NEVE gets old and whenever I hear, it transports me back to great memories. Thanks Rob and Amber for playing my jam! You two are a Blessing!
Looked it up, the solo 'guitar' on this track is actually an electric sitar, played expertly by a fellow named Denny Dias. Not familiar with DD, but he sure rips it up on this track. The synth-sounding organ solo just after is played by Donald Fagan, who is also singing lead. I've always loved this track! Gives me hope that people your age can dig it too...:)
There are so many good Steely Dan tunes: Peg and Josie are musts. Also Time Out of Mind, Aja, Kid Charlemagne, Babylon Sisters, Black Friday, FM, Black Cow, My Old School, Deacon Blues, Dirty Work. Like someone else said, you could do one Steely Dan tune a week and have great songs for months.
Peg is my favorite!
To me you can start and finish with Babylon Sisters, just a cool vibe and deep groove.
So true!
@@5yearsout Agree, I just LOVE that track!
Don't forget Doctor Wu, Bad Sneakers
THE STEELY DAN CHALLENGE: Find a track you don't like. With their catalog, you could do a track a week for YEARS.
For Amber, the album is "AJA". Horns kiddo, horns.
Came here to say the same - Amber would love Aja.
I am almost positive that back in 1979, some company was running commercials advertising Pink Floyd The Wall, Steely Dan Aja, and Toto's debut album all in one ad. But the weird thing is that The Wall was 79, Aja was 77, and Toto was 78. I was only 12 so I know I wasn't high. Maybe it's just a testament to how albums would chart for weeks, months, and even years back then.
They're intriguing because they ARE FREAKING INCREDIBLE MUSICIANS...so many intricacies....those bass lines were crazy good...
Steely Dan was one of the most successful group to fuse a lot of jazz elements into their rock arrangements.
Steely Dan is an amazing "rabbit hole" to go down. Basically, the group is Walter Becker & Donald Fagen and the very best drummers and guitarists that are brought in to play for what they are specifically trying to accomplish. Creative and crazy good.
If only a shade overproduced...
NO...Crazy Crazy Good!
@@jazzyboy7784 Not really disputing that.
They even had Michael Mc Donald before he joined the Doobie Brothers
@@cainealexander-mccord2805 I'm sure they would have benefitted from your expertise.
The entire album Aja is one of the few perfect albums ever.
Yup 👍
My "desert island" album.
And Gaucho, and Katy Lied, and Countdown to Ecstasy, and most of Can't Buy a Thrill, and most of The Royal scam... Just saying
I don't know why but I really love this song's lyrics, it paints such a great story of how we can tend to repeat our mistakes in life.
Having listened to this song for decades, I can tell you that it's about recidivism - swearing off the stupid things that are ruining your life, and then turning around and doing those same stupid things again.
I do think that the first verse is best thought of in an Old West setting - someone steals your water while you're riding the trail, you catch up to him and shoot him, etc. The other two verses can easily take place in modern times.
I'm really enjoying your reactions to the music that I grew up with - and especially the lack of profanity. Thank you for that.
The solo isn't a guitar, it's a Danelectro Coral Electric Sitar, an electric version of a classic Indian instrument, which has a really unique tone. It's played by Denny Dias. The keyboard solo right after it is played by the lead singer Donald Fagen. The rest of the group on this song is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on guitar, Walter Becker on bass, and Jim Hodder on drums.
I used to hang with Dan Electro at his bar in Houston!
@@lucasroth7922
😄
I wonder whatever happened to Denny Diaz
@@peacefulpossum2438
Fagan and Becker answering an ad by guitarist Denny Dias actually started what became Steely Dan. Denny was a member at the time of this album and until Fagan and Becker broke it up with the plan to use session musicians. Then he continued to work with them on an as-needed basis for a long time, as well as with others. Being a founder of Steely Dan doesn't hurt your rep.
However, he worked other jobs as well, principally computer programming. He was one of the designers of Nantucket Clipper 5 xBase compiler, if you remember that.
Among other guitar gigs, he toured with Toto in 1991.
In 1999 he recorded a CD of his original tunes titled "Matter of Time."
In 2012 he was part of a tour group supporting Spanky McFarlane, whose 1960s group "Spanky and Our Gang" made a bit of a splash when I was in high school. I don't know if they have done that since. Apparently they had fun though.
In 2014 he gathered people for a similar tour as "Denny Dias and Friends" doing mainly early Steely Dan tunes he was originally part of. Again, not sure of current status but you can find some of these performances on CZcams, notably from a 2016 gig at the Iridium, such as:
m.czcams.com/video/VxsjEccHEwU/video.html
It's just a loose, good-time performance, not an attempt to duplicate Steely Dan.
and Victor Feldman on Kongos, and probably numerous other thing's.
Steely Dan is your favorite band’s favorite band. They are peak musicians and song writers.
often said, never backed by evidence
My only regret (musically) was never getting to see the Dan. The two most technically gifted musicians I've ever heard. Thanks STEELY
Steely Dan is the name of a band
not a person
And man they sure know how to occupy themselves into the music it's very admirable , pleasant & very contagious .....please don't stop do some FM also by them
Actually a reference to a dildo in a book....
Steely Dan is not a person. It’s just the name of the band. They started out as a band and toured for a few years. In 1974, the band stopped touring and Fagen and Becker turned Steely Dan into a studio band using only the best session musicians to record every album from Katy Lied through Gaucho. The guitar solo is an electric sitar played by Denny Dias. Good reaction.
In fact the name of the band was actually the name of a dildo
@@danlindberg7681 right you are
No.
Came from out a classic novel.
Thename escapes me.
@@c.e.anderson558 No, what? It is just the name of the band. Fagen and Becker got the name from William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. Steely Dan was a dildo.
Steely Dan (not a person) was my all time favorite band. There should be a reaction channel just for their work alone.
I was thinking something similar for Chicago. Jay could do all the songs before Terry Kath dies and Amber gets all the stuff after.
@@chetstevens4583 That is an awesome idea!! Did you hear that Rob Squad? 😁
Yup 👍
I love the idea of a Steely reaction channel..
Every single time I see a new reaction channel, I find myself wondering when they’re gonna get around to Steely, and then I always wish they would hurry up and go down that rabbit hole like Jamal did with Steely and the Dead and so many others.
Steely always gets em though, I haven’t seen a single react to them where people were just blown away by their genius, precision, and smooth swagger.
"not a person" and we won't speak of *what* Dan was… ;-)
Hearing this when I was 7 years old in 1973 and then the GUITAR SOLO completely mesmerized me , I realized how much I TRULY LOVED music and I was different from that day forward 😊
Steely Dan will always be one of the coolest bands ever. I listen to their music often. Great road music.
Every time I hear a Steely Dan song, I regain a lost brain cell.
Next recommended Steely Dan song:
“FM (No Static at All)”
The founders of Steely Dan Fagen & Becker surrounded themselves with the world's best studio musicians. Music doesn't get any more sophisticated.
Donald Fagen . His solo lp Nightfly AMAZING
@@conniehodges3848 the Nightfly is incredibly good
One of the best songs ever came out the year I was born!
Steely Dan is all about the vibe.
You could strand me on a deserted island with "Josie", "FM", and "Don't take me alive" to listen to and I probably be ok with that.
"Peg" is another definite Steely Dan to react to, while "Bodhisattva" is a wild ride
One of Steely Dan favorite song! Those instrumentals solo were outrageous. Can’t go wrong with the phenomenon talents that this band has. Yes they were using Maracas and Congo 🪘 drum.
Sign In Stranger, Fire in the hole, and Your Gold Teeth are a few of my fav Steely Dan keyboard solos.
This song is about basic human behavior. Even though we realize our actions are wrong or a mistake, we go back Jack and "Do It Again". 🤔🤔🤔😎🤗
It's also about the wheel of suffering concept in buddhism and reincarnation; that's the turning wheel. When you're enlightened, you get off the repeating wheel of suffering that is human life.
A dog turns around to eat its own vomit
Prov 26:11
Yep!
You will never regret going down the Steely Dan rabbit hole. One of the greatest bands of all time.
One of the most mind-blowing guitar solos in a Steely Dan song ever
So great to see how much you guys enjoyed Steely Dan , I’m 54 and grew up listening to them since I was 5 . Their music is not only amazing but timeless as well . Unlike a lot of classic rock that in my opinion is way overplayed , I never get tired of these guys . They are certainly my favorite classic rock artist of all time . Thanks for reacting to them and by all means keep doing more of their stuff , u won’t be disappointed !!
This band is pure genius. Journey with every single song. 💕 I love the reaction. They will leave you wanting more. You should definitely go down the rabbit 🐇 hole.
Absolute genius band. Rikki Don't Loose That Number, Don't Take Me Alive, Caves of Altamira....the list of great songs is almost endless. Best record production along with the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. So complex, tight and clear.
I second Rikki Don't Lose That Number! Classic!
Green Earings
Really just pick any SD album and then select any song - you'll be fine. There are no wrong answers.
I LOVE Caves of Altamira. One of my favorite S.D. songs.
@@7gelis
And great horns for Amber to get into
Steely dan was just so funky, hip and unique. Truly one of my favorites all time.
I was 18 when this album was released. They have dozens of great songs. Instrumentals are second to none. Ah memories...
J&A, Their "Aja", "Josie" and "Deacon Blues" are next for you!!! They are in their own class in music, and perfectionists: Donald Fagan(vocals, keys) Walter Becker(guitar). Most of their albums they used a series of great session musicians, to fill out the band. Steely Dan is ALWAYS smooth.
Michael McDonald sings background on quite a few songs!
I would wait on Aja or Deacon Blues as they may be a bit too "cerebral" at this early stage of listening.. but most definitely "Peg" and "Josie". "Kid Charlemagne" and "Don't Take Me Alive" are 2 other bangers they would absolutely love.
@@jonathantucker1125 Amber is going to lose her mind if/when they get to some of the Steely Dan tunes with horns.
Josie is a fun song!
I must have heard this song at least 1000 times plus in my lifetime. Never read the incredible lyrics before. You guys are helping me appreciate the ‘music from the soundtrack of my life’. Yes, steely Dan is a band. The name has an interesting backstory, so do look that up. #robSquad rules! 🥰😍🥰❤️❤️❤️
2000 for me
Please go down the Steely Dan rabbit hole! You know you want to, so just do it!
This song is like a gourmet gumbo recipe, with a dash of Hendrix, splash of Doors, a pinch of Beatles, Brazil, Shankar... exquisite.
Steely Dan is unique and timeless. I was chilling on an air mattress in the pool this past Sunday, a little high on legal cannabis and listened to a Steely Dan playlist for hours. Never gets old. Love your channel & reactions!!
You sound alot like me LOL I'm an old guy living in Washington state getting high right now 🚬🚬💨💨
Love that it’s legal now, about damn time!! and Kenneth, bong for me😵💫
Steely Dan 'are'
just a quick but heartfelt THANK YOU for letting the instrumental bridge run its course before y'all stopped it. interrupting it would be a crime! :)
Steely Dan's (i.e. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker) compositions, chord progressions, chord variations, etc. are some of the most complex in rock history.
Gotta check "Boddhisattva" from these guys, "My Old School," and definitely "Pretzel Logic" - Incredible musicians, all 4 thousand of them (lots of studio musicians and other band's members recorded with them)
SUCH a good jam! “I don’t think I’ve heard the keyboard played like that” Yeah we’re still waiting for a Yes reaction lol “Roundabout” to start off with 😊🙏🏼
Yes!!
Yes🙂
Absolutely.
Yes!
This is THE most sophisticated music you will ever hear ~ Take a Dive into The Dan!!!
You have to dig deeper into this amazing group. So many top-shelf albums. Look up the origins of the name.
Is a pleasure to see young people like you, guys, listening to a golden american bands pieces of master tunes like this one. I`m from south america, and for me, this music is for ever, timeless. There is another one from this talented Steely Dan duo, the tune called "FM, no static At All", from a movie sound track picture, "FM". The sax solo in the song bridge is simply, amazing!!!.
Steely Dan, one of the best bands to ever hit their airwaves. They blended funk, jazz, R&B, Blues and every other genre you can imagine. Great musicianship, great songwriting.
The entire Aja album is on fire.
The Guitarist is Denny Dias
Here's a bit of obscure trivia: Walter Becker (ETA NOT the guitarist you went crazy for) and founding partner Donald Fagen got the name Steely Dan from a sex toy mentioned in the novel Naked Lunch. 😂
They're one of my all-time favorite bands. I saw them in concert about four years ago, and even short Becker, who died from esophageal cancer in 2017, just before that concert, they were still absolutely amazing. RIP, Walter Becker.
Becker did not play the solo here. He played bass on the first 3 albums, then played several guitar solos later on when Steely Dan became a studio band.
Think that was Denny Dias on electric sitar.
I thought about mentioning where the band name came from, but didn't want to shock the kids. :D
@@lisaarmato6911 Yeah, I'm with you on that one. The lyrics are enough.
Definitely Denny Diaz playing the electric sitar
This song was always played at my parent’s house parties. The 70’s was a great decade for music.
I try telling my wife that often!! She’s a product of the 80’s, snd thinks that decade had better music. I am ten years her senior and disagree wholeheartedly. I think what messed up the 70’s legacy was disco. I almost vomited while typing the word. Lol
@@chuckhutton5087 THERE WAS WAY MORE MUSIC IN THE 70s THAN DISCO You are being a ?
@@chuckhutton5087 AS a mater of FACT the 70s have 8 of the top 25 biggest selling LPS in the USA ,,,, A True fact ,, 4 in the top 10
@@theodoreritola7641 sounds about right, Ted. Not surprised.
I M O THE BEST ,,,,,,,, EASY
Someone said we were spoiled in the '70s but in reality the '60s '70s and '80s produced more music more quality music than the '90s through today... Can anyone answer the question why?
Elvis The Beatles Motown and rock and European invasion like the fix, Duran Duran, The clash and on.
This was the first "hit" by Steely Dan. Definitely a rabbit hole you want to go down. Trust us SD fans.
Another great organ sound.try ron argent with the Hof zombies. I know you'll like that name amber .
100% agree with this statement
The greatest guitar solo in rock, Kid Charlemagne, Larry Carlton. So many great guitar solos though, a true collective of the greatest session musicians.
“Is there gas in the car?”
Yes there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall know who you are!
Careful what you’re saying.
One of the greatest for sure...
Musical genius right here. Steely Dan is your favorite bands favorite band. Production and arrangement is off the charts good. The sounds of the 70's.
You guys got me started on a Steely Dan rabbit hole. Almost done listening to their entire catalogue.
That look on Amber's face is priceless! THAT'S the way to enjoy Steely Dan! Let their music take you...
Still my favorite Dan tune is "Kid Charlemagne", Larry Carlton put one of the tastiest solos ever recorded down on that track.
Larry Carlton is the man! His solo intro to Don't Take Me Alive is legendary. It’s as good as it gets.
Headphones and getting baked music at its best. The 70's was chock full of songs like this. Steely Dan was next level.
Yep, you get it! That guitar solo is EASILY a top-10 all-time guitar solos. Nothing ever sounded like that, before or since, that's for sure. Yes, it also brings in some killer keyboard to complement the guitar, but it just makes that solo all the better! Steely Dan's "Do It Again" is just a phenomenal, groovin' rock tune from back in the day, and glad you got turned on to the band and this tremendous song, because they could play their asses off! ;)
Every album Steely Dan did is good. You can't say that about too many bands.
^^^ Facts ^^^
No Cap
What’s crazy is they haven’t done any RECENT remastered vinyl releases in quite a long time.
I can’t think of too many bands who earnestly deserve such treatment for their entire catalogue. 🤷
I mean, I would be snatching up 180g remasters and paying double even for some limited edition colored vinyl remasters if they ever got the notion to press em.
A couple of other bands I’ve noticed haven’t been remastered or reissued in ages are Journey and Heart too.. I’m sure there’s quite a few more I can’t think of now, but wish this would happen with all of these great classic rock bands.
Zeppelin, Chicago, Journey, Karen Carpenter
Other bands I can think of who do too are The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Police and Maybe Rush
Steely Dan has got to be my all time favorite 70s band, bar none. They're just incredible!! And yes, that's the name of the BAND. Made up of two talented musicians, Walter Becker(now deceased) and Donald Fagen, plus a whole slew of session musicians.
I was fortunate enough to catch them live before Becker died. Even decades after their initial success they were still amazing. Love the song Kid Charlemagne.
Same! During their residency at The Venetian in Vegas, just before Walter passed. I’m sooo glad we did!
Why do you want to see them live. The absolute g.o.a.t. of studio bands ever. The recordings are a lot of the experience guys. So clean crisp and well-played. Put your headphones on and revel in their masterpieces all.
This band is actually just two guys. In the early years, like this song, they had a set band so to speak to play on the record and tour. But they then moved on to just hiring different studio musicians to play on their album and that gave the music a totally different feel.
And the big thing for them was the production. The album Aja is lauded as being sonically one of the most sophisticated records ever. Its almost like the studio was an instrument iteself with this band. Their music had such a specific crispness. Many classic hip hop producers credit this band for lots of inspiration and samples.
Those studio musicians were by and large amazing, like Larry Carlton. Many of them deserve songwriting credit, they were so involved. Bernard Purdie brought his “Purdie Shuffle” to Babylon Sisters and Home at Last. Groovy stuff.
@@1dkappe yup couldn't agree more
Great choice! They sing "you go back Jack, do it again." Each verse is about someone who keeps repeating bad behaviors, even though they lead to misery. Violence in the first verse, getting involved with women who will two-time you in the second verse, and gambling in the third verse. Great song! Btw, yes, Steeley Dan is the name of the group.
Careful what you wish for!!! That “rabbit hole” is a oneway street…and there’s NO WAY OUT! Enjoy.
Yes... I know... this comment is about a year too late, but I can't help it!
This is the very 1st track that I EVER HEARD from Steely Dan & I was HOOKED from the get-go! At the time that it was released, there was nothing else like it & it still sound great even to this day. It has everything that you could ever want,
a spooky, funky kind of groove,
hip... very hip lyrics,
BOTH, the guitar and keyboard solos were very unique, and *tastefully* done.
For me, this is one of *those songs* that is good... good to the last drop!
THANK YOU GUYS for your reaction... you're both such beautiful people... peace.
Two guys writing all the songs, best studio work ever, from musicians to engineers. All about vibe. Often the lyrics give you a time and place, but based on the content, you hope they are all completely fictitious. Every album is great. Every song is great. Some of my favorites , Kid Charlemagne, Deacon Blues, Josie, Haitian Divorce, Hey Nineteen
Steely Dan, like many 60s/70s bands, had their own 'sound'. That's what was so great about the music from that era.
Steely Dan's music is simple and easy to understand. It sticks in your mind after it's done and you have it in your heart for the whole day and for the rest of your life - I think. These guys should be in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame :) Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)!
I grew up in this era. Steely Dan was always one of my favorites.
So glad you're listening to the album version. The radio version is shorter and doesn't have the wonderful organ solo.
The thing about steely Dan that I really appreciate is the way they layer their intros. They start out simple and then just slowly but surely adding just little bits and pieces of other instruments. I like the chimes that come in for just a little bit. They know how to color with music.
Without a doubt the MOST complete and underrated Band of ALL Time !!!! Hands down , something for everyone !
Grew up listening to those guys.. The original and unbeatable jazz rock fusion.. Every song they do is killer
One of Steely’s earlier pieces. Denny Dias played that amazing solo on an electric sitar and Fagan followed up on the keyboard solo on a plastic organ with a pitch bending control.
Thank you for answering those questions..for me.
Never really knew..how they were making some of these sounds.
Denny Dias played the solo on Electric Sitar. He was a frequent contributor to the band. Walter Becker played guitar, seldom played the solos.
Impeccable musicians who were perfectionists and it shows(or sounds)!!
Steely Dan certainly are a rabbit hole kind of a band, not a huge favourite of mine as a whole but they definitely did some amazing tracks and this is absolutely one
You make this old lady SO happy with your song choices! I get to re-live my youth almost every day. Your enthusiasm for all the music puts a big smile on my face and I feel like I am introducing you to my music. Thanks again.
The unboxing from earlier was fun and getting to see Luca was definitely a bonus.😎😎😎😎
One of the great things about Steely Dan is that you can dive nearly as deeply into their lyrics as you can into their arrangements.
They were session musicians hence the clarity of the music some people think they sounded to perfect but I like the precision and sharpness of their sound that still sounds great today.
Walter Becker guitar, and Donald Fagen vocals. Unique duo that collaborated with awesome jazz, rock musicians. Haven't heard a bad song👍
So much ear candy in the production on this one (maracas, chimes, things that catch/tickle your ear. Flava.) Man, I love Steely Dan. I loved them in the 70's and still do. Next dive should definitely be "Peg", my favorite pop song of all time. Peg. Peg. Peg. Peg. Peg.
Suggest THE PRETENDERS "Back On The Chain Gang", "Brass In Pocket" "Don't Get Me Wrong". Dig it! Good stuff.
My favorite version of "Brass in pocket" is from the VH1 fashion awards, and i would add their acoustic version of "Creep" from the Jacob street studios. and "Middle of the Road."
Yes back on the chain gang!!!
Pack it Up is one of their best for me!
This song was years ahead of it's time. Great to see your reactions 👋👋
Your reactions are priceless I've been watching both of you for at least 2 hrs straight u guys remind me of me when I would get turned on to music I had never heard