"Deacon Blues" is just too long to respond to. It's a great song for chilling or driving for long distances, but to be on screen having people stare at you for such a long time would be a bit much.
The 1960s and 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by a myriad of great bands and artists! You could hardly change the channel without finding a GREAT song! 👍
Aja is definitely great but we had it on a 8 track. 😂. We had a bunch of 8 tracks but I can only remember America’s Greatest Hits and Aja for some reason.
They started as a band I remember their 2nd tour still pretty much a band, then they started moving to using studio musicians both in studio and live. They've moved on now to mainly pro touring musicians and occasionally when available some of the studio musicians that were on the albums. But like most band there are the core members who wrote and produced most the music. Pretty much all bands since the earliest days members come and go and sometimes hired guns become "members". Look at the Rolling Stones still called a band, but they've a lot of people in and out of the band over the years, but as long as Jagger and Richards are still the key members they are a band. Steely Dan it was Fagan and Becker now it's just Fagen doing a mix of his solo work and old "Dan" songs the people want to hear. Band has a lot of meanings.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!! Thank you for doing this one !!! edit - Walter Becker on the guitar solos!
Nobody fuses jazz, rock, and funk better than Steely Dan, what a class act! Fun fact: Chevy Chase, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker played in the same college band named “The Leather Canary.” After Chevy left the band, the remaining two band members would go on to form Steely Dan. ✌️
Other Steely Dan you'd probably like would be, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, FM, Aja, Pretzel Logic, Caves of Altamira, Royal Scam, The Fez, Hey Nineteen, Time out of mind, Babylon sisters
Their long time keyboardist recently passed away. May he and Walter Becker rest in peace. I was supposed to see them last fall with The Eagles but Donald Fagen was recovering from illness. Fabulous band. Have loved them since the 70s as a child.
Steely Dan. The perfect fusion of rock, jazz and funk! Their adept ability at producing such iconic music is phenomenal! Ive never been disappointed. Enjoy.
So glad you're getting into their later music. Next: Black Cow and Deacon Blues from the same album, and Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters and Glamour Profession from the Gaucho album. All of these have that same groovy/funky vibe!
IMHO, this album is their finest and that's saying a lot because all of their albums are great. Please check out the title track next. You'll be blown away.
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums ever. Every song is a gem. "Josie" and the title track are my most favorite songs on top of favorites. I do agree with Amber though, that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is still my #1 Steely Dan song. 😄
The most perfectly recorded pop album of all time. The best of many dozens of studio players trying their hand at creating this incredible Jazz /blues/ rock /greasy / funky fusion. There is a documentary about the making of this famous record.
Steely Dan is currently on tour with the Eagles. I saw them Monday night in concert!!! Steely Dan was the opening act. They performed for an hour. And yes, they played this song!!! What a fun coincidence for me to find you two reacting to a group that I saw in concert only a few days ago!!! 😂🎉❤
@@brendarogers1036 gonna have to give that a miss, I’m in London 😂.. I see that they will be in Manchester later in the year, 4 hrs away. I’m surprised they’re not doing Wembley 😞
Aja the track is my favourite. It’s a masterpiece of jazz rock music. The best musicians. Who knew a duet between a drummer and a saxophone would make such a great combo.
Steely Dan's Aja album is one of the most perfect records ever made. Not a single hair (note) is out of place. It's everything you want music (art) to be. I have treasured it.
Love that you love Steely Dan and are finally taking in a song from their Aja recording, which is so jazzy and still sounds fresh today. Next, you’ll have to listen to Deacon Blues from the same album, which I guarantee you’ll love.
AJA album should be done in its entirety as a vinyl party!!!!!!!! then you will understand why you never put them into anyone else’s category. They are their own.!! ☮️❤️🙏🌏🌎🌍🇺🇸❤️☮️ Peace, love, and prayers to the world from America with love and peace
Good choice, picking "Josie". "Aja" is one of the greatest albums anyone ever produced. Next time, please try "Home at Last"; it is absolutely beautiful.
Steely Dan is a legendary Jazz group with an R&B feel! I see you've also shared your reactions to the group's most successful single, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100) and Peg. Stella Dan's other hits include: Hey 19 and Deacon Blues....if you haven't reviewed them already.
I Saw the Dukes of September with Donald Fagen ,Micheal McDonald and Boz Scags and eight other musicians and back up singers . Me and my girlfriend left smiling . It was a feeling of being lucky enough to see it live and know how special it was
Good seeing the squad again... Josie was the pride of `77 disco lighted dance floor and Chuck Rainey slappin on that bass is that groove people, so get your hips on the floor I mean the disco floor, giddyup Squad
I recently got into Steely Dan, even though I heard them my whole life. Just was always not paying attention, I was just always kind of strolling by Steely Dan. And then I started paying attention, and I was like, hello, WHAT is THIS?!? And I started noticing that no one, who knows anything about music, dislikes Steely Dan. And lots of people who have great taste in music, absolutely adore them. And I watched the Rick Beato video about this song not that long ago, and that got me even more into them. His video was about how this song might have the weirdest pop song intro, ever. And it might actually be.
A number of years ago, I was at the international steel guitar convention in St Louis. I had watched a couple of guys playing "Realing in the Years" on steel and it was awesome. At a dinner party I sat and talked to one of the musicians for quite a while. After he left, my buddy said that it was cool that I got to talk to that guy. I asked who he was and he told me it was Dean Parks who played a lot of guitar for Stealy Dan. Dean played guitar on this song.
The thing about Steely Dan and Donald Fagen is that they're all just so damn well educated. Musically and stylistically. Often times I need some education just to interpret their work -for which I am then grateful. Academically, I'd say Steely Dan is tops. And you cannot take that away from them. All I can do is listen and learn.
One of my favorite bands. Love all their music. And even though I've heard this song a gazillion times, enough to be sick of it, it's still my favorite Steely Dan tune.
Man, this time in music. Steely Dan brought jazz ideals back to us. Weather Report was another as was Boz Scaggs. Great time be getting into music. Heavily influenced my choice to learn to play sax.
Donald Fagen - synthesizers, vocals Walter Becker - guitar solos Victor Feldman - electric piano Larry Carlton - guitar Dean Parks - guitar Chuck Rainey - bass Jim Keltner - drums, percussion Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals
My CZcams name says it all. My favorite band of all time including Donald’s solo stuff. There isn’t a bad song. I routinely play their entire discography from beginning to end.
It’s encouraging to see young people broadening their horizons in the world of music which is a universal language.There’s a song called Poison Glenn song by a group named Clannad.Moya Brennan, who is the big sister of Enya,has the most beautiful haunting voice you will ever hear. Hope you find the time to check this one out.
The best album dropped in 1978, AJA, when purchasing this masterpiece, I can remember I said and thought WOW to myself, each single song was so so precious, best !!! PS, in the background vocals of "Josie", there was Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles !!!
Given your taste for Steely Dan songs I feel that "Aja", "FM (No Static at All)", "Hey Nineteen", "Deacon Blues", "Black Cow" and "Time Out of Mind" fit your taste fantastically. Especially for Amber.
The Eagles reference of the Dan in Hotel California is just pay back for the Dan's reference of the Eagles in the song Everything You Did... 'Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.'
You are right!
You can’t go wrong with Steely Dan!
It’s seriously time for “Deacon Blues”!
Yes, please! I could listen any time.
Deacon Blues is a definite winner. I hope they get to it.
"Deacon Blues" is just too long to respond to. It's a great song for chilling or driving for long distances, but to be on screen having people stare at you for such a long time would be a bit much.
They already did "Deacon Blues."
I guess it was removed then because it is not listed when you do a search.@@rlwetz4317
When someone says you can never go wrong with Steely Dan, they mean it…..and they’re right!! What a GREAT song this is!!
Amen! Every SD track is outstanding. Never a bad tune from them. Night by Night is excellent.
Reelin in the Years is my favorite...
Great choice 😊
The best!
True, So Very True!
"Aja" Is one of the best albums ever! The 70's were such a great time for music!!
The 1960s and 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by a myriad of great bands and artists!
You could hardly change the channel without finding a GREAT song! 👍
Aja is definitely great but we had it on a 8 track. 😂. We had a bunch of 8 tracks but I can only remember America’s Greatest Hits and Aja for some reason.
Josie has always been my favorite song from that album.
@@MegaSammy70 I have a hard time picking a favorite from that album, so many great songs!
Greatest decade ever!
Steely Dan one of the greatest Rock bands ever!!!
For sure!
Uh, not really a Band... research them.
@@eldandonsmith5372 um, not really a rock band...better
They started as a band I remember their 2nd tour still pretty much a band, then they started moving to using studio musicians both in studio and live. They've moved on now to mainly pro touring musicians and occasionally when available some of the studio musicians that were on the albums. But like most band there are the core members who wrote and produced most the music. Pretty much all bands since the earliest days members come and go and sometimes hired guns become "members". Look at the Rolling Stones still called a band, but they've a lot of people in and out of the band over the years, but as long as Jagger and Richards are still the key members they are a band. Steely Dan it was Fagan and Becker now it's just Fagen doing a mix of his solo work and old "Dan" songs the people want to hear. Band has a lot of meanings.
It is closer to jazz fusion
Three Steely Dan bangers you might not have done yet: "Black Friday," "Bodhisattva," "Green Earrings."
Boom!
I concur 100%....
glamour profession is terrific
@@LSorr3
Right you are! Odd, isn't it, that so few people react to that one?
"Don't Take Me Alive"
She's the raw flame.
She's the live wire,
She plays rock n' roll,
With her eyes on fire.
Every guy needs this kinda woman in his life somewhere.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!! Thank you for doing this one !!!
edit - Walter Becker on the guitar solos!
FM is cold
And Black Cow
I remember the Movie FM, haven’t watched it in a while, but great movie
FM is the tune I have been looking forward to!
❤ No static at all!
Steely Dan - Home At Last
Steely Dan - King Of The World
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Midnight Cruiser
Steely Dan - Dr. Wu
I don't think they've reacted to "FM" yet either. That's one of their very best!
I second "Home at Last"!
No static at all
Home At Last in my favorite song by them.
Home At Last
Caves Of Altamira
Third World Man
Bad Sneakers
Nobody fuses jazz, rock, and funk better than Steely Dan, what a class act! Fun fact: Chevy Chase, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker played in the same college band named “The Leather Canary.” After Chevy left the band, the remaining two band members would go on to form Steely Dan. ✌️
Wow! What a wonderful story! Thanks so much.
Other Steely Dan you'd probably like would be, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, FM, Aja, Pretzel Logic, Caves of Altamira, Royal Scam, The Fez, Hey Nineteen, Time out of mind, Babylon sisters
YES to all!!!!
Agree to all of the above. ❤
Their long time keyboardist recently passed away. May he and Walter Becker rest in peace. I was supposed to see them last fall with The Eagles but Donald Fagen was recovering from illness. Fabulous band. Have loved them since the 70s as a child.
RIP Jim Beard :(
I saw Steely Dan and the Eagles at Madison Sq Garden in NYC on that tour. Just incredible...both bands.
@@daler4911 I'm sure. I will say The Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald were a great substitute.
RIP Ted Baker.
Steely Dan. The perfect fusion of rock, jazz and funk! Their adept ability at producing such iconic music is phenomenal! Ive never been disappointed. Enjoy.
And BLUES!
Steely Dans keyboardest Jim Beard died just 3 days ago.
Him and Lyle Mays with Pat Metheny Group, underrated.
So sad. 😥 ~thank you for letting us know.
We're losing them all. Real talents who were all about the music.
Rest in Shalom, Jim Beard. May his music and work continue to bless us. May his family be comforted for their loss.
The Eagles lyric in Hotel California ‘ They stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast ‘ is a reference to this great band
R.I.P. Jim Beard. He was with Steely Dan for the past 15 years or so and such a great talent. He will be missed.
Finally!!! Steely Dan!! You have to do more!!!
They've done Steely Dan several times over their 3 year run.
Yes please!
Aren’t they just the best. Been listening and Re listening to them for over 40 years. Never get tired of them.
FM was my intro to FM radio and Steely Dan.
Can't get any cooler than Steely Dan
Steely Dan is the reason there’s two o’s in the word smooth !!!🎸🤘🎶😄
Another Steely Dan song with great bass and horns is Peg. Thanks for this one too.
Not only a great album musically but it's also one of the best recorded and mixed albums of all time.
Steely Dan "Aja" is one of my all time favorite albums. Every track on that album is greatness.
Kid charlemagne should be in your list
Jay will love that one guaranteed
Kid Charlemagne next please. Trust me.
Steely Dan is your favorite bands favorite band 🔥✌🤘
The entire Aja album is spectacular. Not a bad song on the entire album.
Steely Dan = Jazz/Rock Fusion! The bomb!
That drumming! Lets give credit to groove that elevates the song to another level.
Steely Dan. The collection of the greatest musicians any generation has ever known.
Absolute truth! You don't get to play with Steely Dan unless you're the cream of the crop.
🤔When I first heard of Steely Dan, and their style of play, I didn't know they were playing a form of Jazz!!🧐I love the band!!😁
Someone said Steely Dan is your favourite band's favourite band.
Also, every rapper steals from the Dan!
So glad you're getting into their later music. Next: Black Cow and Deacon Blues from the same album, and Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters and Glamour Profession from the Gaucho album. All of these have that same groovy/funky vibe!
IMHO, this album is their finest and that's saying a lot because all of their albums are great. Please check out the title track next. You'll be blown away.
Agree 100%
All my life, the Beatles were my fave band. At my age SD are right up there. Still not ready to make Beatles #2, but SD are truly great.
Sometimes you forget HOW good The Dan are.
I'm making music myself since I was little, but this is another dimension.
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums ever. Every song is a gem. "Josie" and the title track are my most favorite songs on top of favorites. I do agree with Amber though, that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is still my #1 Steely Dan song. 😄
My favorite Steely Dan song. I grew up in the 70s and had all their albums. Josie. She prays like a Roman, with her eyes on fire
The most perfectly recorded pop album of all time. The best of many dozens of studio players trying their hand at creating this incredible Jazz /blues/ rock /greasy / funky fusion. There is a documentary about the making of this famous record.
Josie and the album Aja is the jewel in Steely Dan's crown - a one of a kind record from artists in a class of their own.
Such a fabulous, funky sound; great, quirky lyrics and wizardry in the playing and production. Everything they did was stellar. I love The Dan!
Steely Dan is currently on tour with the Eagles. I saw them Monday night in concert!!!
Steely Dan was the opening act. They performed for an hour. And yes, they played this song!!! What a fun coincidence for me to find you two reacting to a group that I saw in concert only a few days ago!!! 😂🎉❤
Lucky you, where are they playing?
They’re gonna be in Charlotte North Carolina on the 16th.
@@brendarogers1036 gonna have to give that a miss, I’m in London 😂.. I see that they will be in Manchester later in the year, 4 hrs away. I’m surprised they’re not doing Wembley 😞
Chuck Raney a brother from Cleveland. The man was a master bass player.
Still is
Good timing. In four days I’ll be at the Eagles and Dan show in Toronto. Can’t wait.
Do give the title track, Aja, a whirl….one of my faves.
Aja the track is my favourite. It’s a masterpiece of jazz rock music. The best musicians. Who knew a duet between a drummer and a saxophone would make such a great combo.
The time is always right for Steely Dan. Great song!
Steely Dan's Aja album is one of the most perfect records ever made. Not a single hair (note) is out of place. It's everything you want music (art) to be. I have treasured it.
You were hooked real quick on this one, Amber! This album is one of the all-time classics of the '70s. Every song is artistic genius.
Love that you love Steely Dan and are finally taking in a song from their Aja recording, which is so jazzy and still sounds fresh today. Next, you’ll have to listen to Deacon Blues from the same album, which I guarantee you’ll love.
AJA album should be done in its entirety as a vinyl party!!!!!!!! then you will understand why you never put them into anyone else’s category. They are their own.!!
☮️❤️🙏🌏🌎🌍🇺🇸❤️☮️
Peace, love, and prayers to the world from America with love and peace
the whole AJA album is one of the biggest masterpieces of modern music. FULL STOP
Their instrumentation is always perfection.
Every musican of the day wanted to be on a Steely Dan album....perfectionists only.
I am older and feel glad I grew up and experienced the BEST music this world has ever seen!
YAYYYYY Josie !!! One of my favorite Dan Songs......Its so good!
Good choice, picking "Josie". "Aja" is one of the greatest albums anyone ever produced. Next time, please try "Home at Last"; it is absolutely beautiful.
When I go on a long road trip, I make sure to take my Steely Dan’s Greatest Hit CD along
I came home from my Freshman year of college and my mom had put a Blaupunkt tape system in my car as a surprise and the first tape I bought was Aja!
Steely Dan. A style all their own. No sound like a Steely Dan tune
Amber was GROOVIN on this one!!
Steely Dan is a legendary Jazz group with an R&B feel! I see you've also shared your reactions to the group's most successful single, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100) and Peg. Stella Dan's other hits include: Hey 19 and Deacon Blues....if you haven't reviewed them already.
Every Steely Dan album is a gem. They were on a level all their own in the 70’s. The music still sounds amazing 40+ years later.
I Saw the Dukes of September with Donald Fagen ,Micheal McDonald and Boz Scags and eight other musicians and back up singers . Me and my girlfriend left smiling . It was a feeling of being lucky enough to see it live and know how special it was
One of the best recorded bands in the studio. Everything's so clean and precise.
Good seeing the squad again... Josie was the pride of `77 disco lighted dance floor and Chuck Rainey slappin on that bass is that groove people, so get your hips on the floor I mean the disco floor, giddyup Squad
I recently got into Steely Dan, even though I heard them my whole life. Just was always not paying attention, I was just always kind of strolling by Steely Dan. And then I started paying attention, and I was like, hello, WHAT is THIS?!? And I started noticing that no one, who knows anything about music, dislikes Steely Dan. And lots of people who have great taste in music, absolutely adore them. And I watched the Rick Beato video about this song not that long ago, and that got me even more into them. His video was about how this song might have the weirdest pop song intro, ever. And it might actually be.
oh, and you've got to listen to their "FM", if you like a funky groove
A number of years ago, I was at the international steel guitar convention in St Louis. I had watched a couple of guys playing "Realing in the Years" on steel and it was awesome. At a dinner party I sat and talked to one of the musicians for quite a while. After he left, my buddy said that it was cool that I got to talk to that guy. I asked who he was and he told me it was Dean Parks who played a lot of guitar for Stealy Dan. Dean played guitar on this song.
I was lycky enough to see these two together right before half of this Iconic sound/band passed. So Amazing live.
The thing about Steely Dan and Donald Fagen is that they're all just so damn well educated. Musically and stylistically. Often times I need some education just to interpret their work -for which I am then grateful. Academically, I'd say Steely Dan is tops. And you cannot take that away from them. All I can do is listen and learn.
One of my favorite bands. Love all their music. And even though I've heard this song a gazillion times, enough to be sick of it, it's still my favorite Steely Dan tune.
One of the best studio albums ever made 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Growing up in Gary, Indiana in the late 70's, Steely Dan was bad-ass. Everyone loved them. A fusion of jazz, funk, and rock. What's not to love?!
Love this song. My cousin named her daughter Josie after this song.
Definitely check out "FM", "Deacon Blues" or "Black Cow" next time.
Man, this time in music. Steely Dan brought jazz ideals back to us. Weather Report was another as was Boz Scaggs. Great time be getting into music. Heavily influenced my choice to learn to play sax.
I was 15-16 around that time. So much great music coming out at the time you couldn't keep up with it.
A smooth funky tune by SD is LUNCH WITH GINA. You’ll love it, I guarantee 100%.
Donald Fagen - synthesizers, vocals
Walter Becker - guitar solos
Victor Feldman - electric piano
Larry Carlton - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar
Chuck Rainey - bass
Jim Keltner - drums, percussion
Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals
One of my top 5 Dan songs (and that harder to pin down than it seems!).
LOVE the way you two swing and move. You are totally JAMMIN' to these guys! Great reaction!
Such a cool groove. The Aja album is pure genius all the way around!
My CZcams name says it all. My favorite band of all time including Donald’s solo stuff. There isn’t a bad song. I routinely play their entire discography from beginning to end.
All right my babies.... I can feel that smooth jazz in those harmonies. This is a good band and reaction ‼️💯🔥😁👍🏻
FM next please ya'll, then maybe Don't Take Me Alive one of their kinda forgotten songs from The Royal Scam album , but all their jam is the heat 🔥
My fav album. I named my 1st pup after this, Josie, many years ago, sweet girl. 🐶
SD is perfection.👌🏽
Have you done "Deacon Blues" yet? 👍🏽
This is my favorite SD song for its lively energy. But they have many bangers, like Peg - idk if you reacted to that one yet. Great reaction to Josie!
Next to The Beatles, Steely Dan is the 2nd greatest band ever!!!! RIP Jim Beard.
In my family the sound of Steely Dan bring up memories of picnics & bbq’s.
It’s encouraging to see young people broadening their horizons in the world of music which is a universal language.There’s a song called Poison Glenn song by a group named Clannad.Moya Brennan, who is the big sister of Enya,has the most beautiful haunting voice you will ever hear. Hope you find the time to check this one out.
Ha! I just saw them in concert last night with the Eagles and they were awesome!
Y’all are right on, must listen with eyes closed, Steely Dan= immaculate vibes 🖤
Love this song! Always think of my Mom. Her name was Josie! And she definitely was a live wire and pride of the neighborhood!
Bodhisattva, try it. Not sure if that's how it's spelled. I'm 64 and love all the old ones. The 70's rocked!
I love their groove! Always ❤❤
This was a great album. I have it on a CD. THIS WAS MIXED VERY WELL IN THE STUDIO. THANKS FOR ANOTHER AWESOME REACTION. HELLO FROM PA USA 🇺🇸 ❤❤❤
It won a Grammy for the production values. Sounds a perfect album to test a a system.
Just got to see them live, they opened with this song. Great band, wow. Lots of votes for Deacon Blues, I agree, you’ll love that song too.
I love Amber’s take on this song. Steely Dan takes you on a musical journey.
A jazzy and funky banger for sure!!!!
Okay, found them. I requested you listen to Steely Dan and you have. I could watch you two all day. LOVE how you love classic music!
The best album dropped in 1978, AJA, when purchasing this masterpiece, I can remember I said and thought WOW to myself, each single song was so so precious, best !!! PS, in the background vocals of "Josie", there was Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles !!!
Ahhhhh, Steely Dan! Ultra superb.
Given your taste for Steely Dan songs I feel that "Aja", "FM (No Static at All)", "Hey Nineteen", "Deacon Blues", "Black Cow" and "Time Out of Mind" fit your taste fantastically. Especially for Amber.
The Eagles reference of the Dan in Hotel California is just pay back for the Dan's reference of the Eagles in the song Everything You Did... 'Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.'