This was for a movie soundtrack. The movie flopped but the song lives on!! Members of The Eagles are singing back up and Jeff Porcaro of Toto is on drums. There is no such thing as a bad Steely Dan song.
You're too young to remember what it was like to listen to AM radio. All the crackles and static. If there was a storm anywhere near you it was popping and crackling so bad you couldn't hear the music. Then along came FM radio! It was so clear and in stereo! It changed the world.
And the person who transcribed the lyrics for the video is too young to remember Muzak. Everywhere you find these lyrics on line, it says "funked up music." I guess no one under a certain age knows what Muzak is, and just assumes he's saying "music" in a funny way. The same goes for most lyrics on line - they are submitted by users, and there are a lot of errors. Especially with older songs where people don't get the references.
@@Revelwoodie Yeah, Fagen often acknowledged that he and Becker were not true jazzers, just tourists. Fake-jazz, or "jazzy" like a lot of Muzak, but they did bring funk into it.
This song has it all: funky bass line, soaring strings, vocal harmonies, blistering solos on sax and guitar and bongos! You could groove on Steely Dan for a very long time and never get bored! 😎
🎼🎶 Yes honey, this song is a vibe...The Dan lives on...No Static At All....Glad a young lady your age can appreciate music 20+ your senior...!! Get it Girl.....🎶🎸
This track was released in the late 70s when Pink Floyd was at its peak in terms of popularity, and you can hear the Pink Floyd influence in the guitar solo toward the end.
I was 16 at the time and grabbed a guitar for the first time after listening to this tune. The fills and outro solo made such a strong impression on me
FM radio got popular nationwide through the mid-70s. In the sticks of the midwest and plains states it was finally available by the mid 70's. My first three cars had only AM radios. It's funny how far tech has come in 50 years.
this is one of the most influential and largely underrated bands in history. hundreds of performers have cited Steely Dan as influence. they've had events (at least 2) after the band stopped playing called "Steely Damned" where the members of the original band and a mass of other performers who loved their music got together to recreate some of their greats.. This is my favorite of theirs.
Everyone notices the bass in SD songs. That is because Walter Becker (RIP) was a MONSTER player. He lays it down on every track he plays on, and if he didn't lay it down personally, he got the best to do it for him (Chuck Rainey springs to mind for all the bass work he did with SD). If you want to hear bass and drums that is just nothing but pocket all the way down to the ankles, check out his groove on Gaucho (from the album Gaucho). The first album to use a drum machine, and it is TIGHT for it, blows me away to this day. Story goes it took something like 40 or 50 takes to get all the samples for the drum track for Gaucho (the song) alone.
Edit: btw, I'm pretty sure that bass was thumped by Walter Becker. I'm delighted that you so deeply appreciate The Dan's musical collaborations and Fagen & Becker's genius. I used to play in a "fusion" (we used to call it confusion) band in the Pac NW. Though the songs were so incredibly detailed, requiring LOTS of rehearsal time, I never had as much FUN playing an entire set of Dan material. The other sets were fine, but I couldn't really get into them like those SD masterpieces. Yeah, I miss it terribly, primarily because I lucked into a group of really good musicians who were serious performers. You GET the intricacies of the arrangements, next: breaking down and analyzing the lyrics...a rabbit hole unto itself. KEEP ON ROCKIN' YO' BAD SELF, DARLIN"!
I see you really like steely Dan. Check out Donald Fagan's songs he sung when he went solo( He was the lead singer of steely dan). IGY- New Frontier-Night Fly- The Dunes- Mona- Snowbound, and plenty other songs by him. Here's one song by Steely Dan from the animated movie Heavy Metal called True Companion.
Doctor Wu, Katie Lied album, which has a picture of a katydid (bush cricket grasshopper) on its front cover (imho genius album art) has superb sax work...You’ll love it😎👍
I don't care what anybody says.. it could be Verdi's various librettists, the authors of Schumann's last liede, Ivor Novello, Gershwin's Dubose Heyward, Hal David... but 'play her some funked up musak, she'll treat you nice.. play her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice' - jaded and cynical though it might be - it's right up there.. right up there.. RIP Walter..
One thing about every Steely Dan Jam is that at the end when it's fading out...that guitar solo is still going and I want it to keep going. Am I right?
you're doing good kiddo......ya did 5 ....only 45 more hits to go......love ya girl....it moves you now like it did to me 45 yrs ago......keep it alive baby for this audience.....love the dribble cup....lol
That's Walter Becker on bass. I think this is probably the last track he played bass on they used Chuck Rainey for most everything after this. He did play on a couple Gaucho tunes.
@@alrivers2297 Very true. You are correct. However, they were both close enough in time (airplay wise) that you couldn't fault me confusing which came out first, since they both came out over 40 years ago. Especially when you consider how ABITW overshadowed most everything else, commercially, at that time, including FM...I'm still a bigger fan of SD than I am of PF...Btw, I wasn't trying to say that Becker stole it from Gilmour. Not at all. Just that it sounded like him. I could have just as easily said that Gilmour reminds me of Becker, comparing both songs.
O yeah the good ole days I guess I'm old but I remember when FM came out..we had WZZQ they partied so hard in the station they burnt it down lol. But for real if you like them percussions you should check out Santana "oye como va" mine blown..
Seems like one of the few songs where Fagan & Becker played most of the music-as far as piano, bass & lead guitar anyway. Man this song has freaking legs. STILL an addictive groove! LOVE your wide ranging taste in music, you are straight up RIGHTEOUS which is why I subscribed the first time I saw one of your vids. Keep on keeping this up, LOVE your take on this stuff! And you're DEAD ON with AM radio! You had not just static, but they tended to have a pretty tight rotation. Where as the EARLY FM stations tended to have wide open formats and of course much more clear sound!
I really wish you had reacted to the "extended version" and not this "radio version." Check it out on your own, longer jam near the end and outro. Still a great reaction to a Great band. It's been said "This is your favorite band's favorite band." Long live "The Dan!"
Ok. You got me at Baptist church vibe!🤓. May I suggest Bonnie Raitt. My favorite songs are”I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “ Opening Farewell, live with Jackson Brown.” God bless.
Oh yeah baby you know my brother had this band back in the Midwest and I talked him into dealing this song covering this one you know? Cuz they had a good horn section and Paul did a lot of the other stuff on keyboard they had an alright guitarist and every once in a while I'd sit in and play the drums it was just the bomb everybody loved it they all knew the song pretty much see that was a soundtrack for a movie and all the other music on there was a double album the soundtrack record now the cool part is if you have that album on the very last side there's an instrumental version like a FM reprise so there's a little Hidden Gem for ya all right as Pootie Tang with say Dillie. On
Chicago "25 6 to 4" or "I'm a man" another one nobody ever brings up to reactor is "three dog night" "mama told not to come" or my all time favorite Friday night cruising song..WAR lowrider
If you like Steely Dan, I'd recommend the Cold War early 60s style video: New Frontier (based on a speech by President Kennedy). ua-cam.com/video/qBruAooXPNU/v-deo.html. The video is a mini-movie.
The Dan just never looses its magic even after 42 years ... what a class act ...
Totally agree. Seem to just get better the more I listen. Like you I was there from the beginning. Great band. Sad to see Walter go.
Well put this band did it’s own thing and it was great!
Steely Dan rules
This was for a movie soundtrack. The movie flopped but the song lives on!!
Members of The Eagles are singing back up and Jeff Porcaro of Toto is on drums.
There is no such thing as a bad Steely Dan song.
Facts
I loved the movie...the opening, when he gets on time for his slot, 10 minutes after waking up
I enjoyed the movie and wish they would re-release it. But I'm good with this song.
Didn't the movie inspire WKRP in Cincinnati? I remember hearing that once.
Bible. This was a great cut.
1000 years from now Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Steely Dan will still be playing
You're too young to remember what it was like to listen to AM radio. All the crackles and static. If there was a storm anywhere near you it was popping and crackling so bad you couldn't hear the music. Then along came FM radio! It was so clear and in stereo! It changed the world.
And the person who transcribed the lyrics for the video is too young to remember Muzak. Everywhere you find these lyrics on line, it says "funked up music." I guess no one under a certain age knows what Muzak is, and just assumes he's saying "music" in a funny way. The same goes for most lyrics on line - they are submitted by users, and there are a lot of errors. Especially with older songs where people don't get the references.
@@Revelwoodie I noticed that too.
revelwoodie yep. Nailed it.
I literally just learned more than I ever learned in high school history in a sexy riff of a saxophone in ten seconds.
@@Revelwoodie Yeah, Fagen often acknowledged that he and Becker were not true jazzers, just tourists. Fake-jazz, or "jazzy" like a lot of Muzak, but they did bring funk into it.
This song has it all: funky bass line, soaring strings, vocal harmonies, blistering solos on sax and guitar and bongos! You could groove on Steely Dan for a very long time and never get bored! 😎
The magic of Pete Christlieb on Tenor Sax 🎷👍
When you hear Steely Dan, you just know you are not in their league and you accept it.Because if you love music you can''t deny talent. Holy hell.
Baby! You got that Steely Dan stank face and so do I! I’m loving this. Can’t get enough of the Dan!😎
Can never go wrong with Steely Dan! Thanks for listening and reacting!
🎼🎶 Yes honey, this song is a vibe...The Dan lives on...No Static At All....Glad a young lady your age can appreciate music 20+ your senior...!! Get it Girl.....🎶🎸
This track was released in the late 70s when Pink Floyd was at its peak in terms of popularity, and you can hear the Pink Floyd influence in the guitar solo toward the end.
The joys of FM , I remember climbing trees to rigg a Yankee antenna to escape my parents music...
lol..excellent ! it's amazing what we're capable of when in survival mode ;)
"Yankee antenna," dying, lol
I remember Hey Jude came out about the same time and FM would play the long version.
Walter's outro solo is epic.....so tasty.
I was 16 at the time and grabbed a guitar for the first time after listening to this tune. The fills and outro solo made such a strong impression on me
The solo guitar here is the late great Walter Becker, one half of Steely Dan.
Better than anything David Gilmor of Pink has done.
"The Royal Scam" title song from the album!!
Steely Dan always throws those little fills in to the mix that turns the groove around and makes it more interesting.
Man, that guitar is so big. I mean, the bongos sweet in the background, but damn!
I love how you spilled just a little of your drink as you were groovin.... Very steelydanesque!
FM radio got popular nationwide through the mid-70s. In the sticks of the midwest and plains states it was finally available by the mid 70's. My first three cars had only AM radios. It's funny how far tech has come in 50 years.
this is one of the most influential and largely underrated bands in history. hundreds of performers have cited Steely Dan as influence. they've had events (at least 2) after the band stopped playing called "Steely Damned" where the members of the original band and a mass of other performers who loved their music got together to recreate some of their greats.. This is my favorite of theirs.
Steely Dan are so amazing, that it almost drives me mad. Since I was a teenager in the mid 70,s.Immortal.
You are hysterical. Nice to see a young woman appreciating SD!
Everyone notices the bass in SD songs.
That is because Walter Becker (RIP) was a MONSTER player. He lays it down on every track he plays on, and if he didn't lay it down personally, he got the best to do it for him (Chuck Rainey springs to mind for all the bass work he did with SD). If you want to hear bass and drums that is just nothing but pocket all the way down to the ankles, check out his groove on Gaucho (from the album Gaucho). The first album to use a drum machine, and it is TIGHT for it, blows me away to this day. Story goes it took something like 40 or 50 takes to get all the samples for the drum track for Gaucho (the song) alone.
another great tune is Steely Dan Hey Nineteen
Anything worth doing, is worth doing to excess. What a band. Dark, funny and sinister lyrics
This IS Where I Learned FUNK
Edit: btw, I'm pretty sure that bass was thumped by Walter Becker. I'm delighted that you so deeply appreciate The Dan's musical collaborations and Fagen & Becker's genius. I used to play in a "fusion" (we used to call it confusion) band in the Pac NW. Though the songs were so incredibly detailed, requiring LOTS of rehearsal time, I never had as much FUN playing an entire set of Dan material. The other sets were fine, but I couldn't really get into them like those SD masterpieces. Yeah, I miss it terribly, primarily because I lucked into a group of really good musicians who were serious performers. You GET the intricacies of the arrangements, next: breaking down and analyzing the lyrics...a rabbit hole unto itself. KEEP ON ROCKIN' YO' BAD SELF, DARLIN"!
She got EARS folks!
and they ain't just grab handles
@@jimcarlson6157 "c'mon man....."
@@jimcarlson6157wack
Here are some more: Bodhisattva, Don't Take Me Alive, Green Earrings, Haitian Divorce, West of Hollywood
Just the whole Steely Dan pantheon, every song a winner
I was a kid when this song came out. I liked it, but had no idea how much of a masterpiece it was. Thanks for reacting!
I know right?! 🎶 🇺🇸
There's another longer version of this
Hear that guitar solo at the end? Want to know where David Gilmore got his guitar ideas for The Wall? Now you know.
I see you really like steely Dan. Check out Donald Fagan's songs he sung when he went solo( He was the lead singer of steely dan). IGY- New Frontier-Night Fly- The Dunes- Mona- Snowbound, and plenty other songs by him. Here's one song by Steely Dan from the animated movie Heavy Metal called True Companion.
Doctor Wu, Katie Lied album, which has a picture of a katydid (bush cricket grasshopper) on its front cover (imho genius album art) has superb sax work...You’ll love it😎👍
After leaving Steely Dan Donald Fagen dropped a few solo albums check out his song New Frontier song was so smooth my laptop slipped off the table
It is the title track to the movie soundtrack for the 1978 film "FM"- which centers around a FM station in Los Angeles.
"HAITIAN DIVORCE" by Steely off Royal Scam.
I love when I find cool channels like this early on, and then they start blowing up. It makes me feel smart or something, lol.
Yep. The memories of being a kid listening to the radio. All that static. I wouldn't trade those memories for the world
“My old school”
Already done
You should do “do it again” or “deacon blues” by steely Dan next
Awesome Scribe🌷《☆》FM🔊This one always relaxes me & reminds me of simpler times dear :*: Greetings from⛾Florida🤳my friend🤓🎱🔊☮✌👍🏾
FM got static too..... but it's in STEREO !!!!!
Now when "dialed in". 😊
Steely Dan was deeply inspired by gospel and blues
She not wrong..vibe
I don't care what anybody says.. it could be Verdi's various librettists, the authors of Schumann's last liede, Ivor Novello, Gershwin's Dubose Heyward, Hal David... but 'play her some funked up musak, she'll treat you nice.. play her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice' - jaded and cynical though it might be - it's right up there.. right up there.. RIP Walter..
Only released on the soundtrack of the movie FM
One thing about every Steely Dan Jam is that at the end when it's fading out...that guitar solo is still going and I want it to keep going. Am I right?
Verily❤
Got to buy a steely Dan for my car my Fleetwood mac one wore out this is some funk up music is that goats milk 😁
you're doing good kiddo......ya did 5 ....only 45 more hits to go......love ya girl....it moves you now like it did to me 45 yrs ago......keep it alive baby for this audience.....love the dribble cup....lol
Gotta check out Steely Dan- Home at Last. One of there smoothest funkiest tracks
There was a certain hill we used to go to to catch the radio station to listen to music with no static...at all back then.
God I love your reactions!
You do know I love jazz by now. Baby please don't go.
That's Walter Becker on bass. I think this is probably the last track he played bass on they used Chuck Rainey for most everything after this. He did play on a couple Gaucho tunes.
Good work girl..best band ever...
If you like the saxophone, listen to the extended version, which has about two minutes of additional sax play on it.
I'll keep bringing up Green Earrings. You won't regret reacting to it.
I second this. Super funky tune
Yes!!! That would be my suggestion.
Love this song, one of the top 5 to me, Steely Dan wrote this song for a 70' s dated movie, not bad?
I always thought Becker's guitar in this sounds like David Gilmour Another brick in The Wall. Anybody else?
You beat me to it. Almost feels like homage to Gilmour.
Except this came out in 78. Over a year before the wall came out in 79
@@alrivers2297 Very true. You are correct. However, they were both close enough in time (airplay wise) that you couldn't fault me confusing which came out first, since they both came out over 40 years ago. Especially when you consider how ABITW overshadowed most everything else, commercially, at that time, including FM...I'm still a bigger fan of SD than I am of PF...Btw, I wasn't trying to say that Becker stole it from Gilmour. Not at all. Just that it sounded like him. I could have just as easily said that Gilmour reminds me of Becker, comparing both songs.
O yeah the good ole days I guess I'm old but I remember when FM came out..we had WZZQ they partied so hard in the station they burnt it down lol. But for real if you like them percussions you should check out Santana "oye como va" mine blown..
"Reeling in the years"
Seems like one of the few songs where Fagan & Becker played most of the music-as far as piano, bass & lead guitar anyway. Man this song has freaking legs. STILL an addictive groove! LOVE your wide ranging taste in music, you are straight up RIGHTEOUS which is why I subscribed the first time I saw one of your vids. Keep on keeping this up, LOVE your take on this stuff! And you're DEAD ON with AM radio! You had not just static, but they tended to have a pretty tight rotation. Where as the EARLY FM stations tended to have wide open formats and of course much more clear sound!
right on cue with bury the bottle taking a swig
Try on some Joe Jackson “Look Sharp” “Stepping out” you’ll be boppin in that chair
Ginny What thanx
Love when Scribe grooves....nice reaction!
Wayne Shorter..... His sax work should ALWAYS be credited as; Wayne Shorter on Tenor S-E-X
Check out "Night by Night" it's sick.
Great yacht rock
I love watching you
They have so many. “Bodhisattva is a great song!
I really wish you had reacted to the "extended version" and not this "radio version." Check it out on your own, longer jam near the end and outro. Still a great reaction to a Great band. It's been said "This is your favorite band's favorite band." Long live "The Dan!"
You're the only One who gets the title of this song: FM radio vs AM radio ("no static")💃
Ok. You got me at Baptist church vibe!🤓. May I suggest Bonnie Raitt. My favorite songs are”I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “ Opening Farewell, live with Jackson Brown.” God bless.
Love seeing someone get turned on by Steely Dan.
Hey check out something from their Two Against Nature album or Nightfly album
The Nightfly was Fagen solo album.
You want a good laugh, search where their name came from. :D
Oh yeah baby you know my brother had this band back in the Midwest and I talked him into dealing this song covering this one you know? Cuz they had a good horn section and Paul did a lot of the other stuff on keyboard they had an alright guitarist and every once in a while I'd sit in and play the drums it was just the bomb everybody loved it they all knew the song pretty much see that was a soundtrack for a movie and all the other music on there was a double album the soundtrack record now the cool part is if you have that album on the very last side there's an instrumental version like a FM reprise so there's a little Hidden Gem for ya all right as Pootie Tang with say Dillie. On
And if you like that you’re going to love Fresh Air by Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Chicago "25 6 to 4" or "I'm a man" another one nobody ever brings up to reactor is "three dog night" "mama told not to come" or my all time favorite Friday night cruising song..WAR lowrider
Love the Chicago songs. Jamel_AKA_Jamal and JayveeTV have reacted to "Mama Told Me Not To Come"
No static at all.....
Check out Donald solo, Morph The Cat Album
People My age grew up with static prone AM
16 when FM played in Calgary
BETH HART..AM I THE ONE..LIVE AT THE PARADISO..DURATION TIME 11:45....This is my one request...that you owe me
What song is left by them for you to react to? I think it's time for some Ziggy.
static free
Gimme some almond milk, some protein powder and air sax...I'm in.
If you like Steely Dan, I'd recommend the Cold War early 60s style video: New Frontier (based on a speech by President Kennedy). ua-cam.com/video/qBruAooXPNU/v-deo.html. The video is a mini-movie.
AM also tended to play more "poppish" music, while FM also included more off beat and cutting edge music.
Hey love
Love your reactions to SD. Wish you drink before you react,
Hey stevie wonder i wish video reaction please
Lately
Good Day beautiful
Listen to Bozz Scaggs Low Down trust me
Apparently I'm subscribed! You are a dork 😜! A nice one, though. How about some stuff you love.
Do HAITIAN DIVORCE!
What is the 409 for?
Cleaning
No Static AT ALL...