Back in the day, there was AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulation) radio. Without getting technical, AM had a lot of static, but FM radio was crystal clear and was usually the home of what I would say was more classic rock, rather than pop, common on AM. Fire up a cigar, pour a glass of whiskey and put on Aja (and press repeat)…the ultimate jazz lounge track.
@@JaDav40 Yeah, I remember my favorite music station in the 70s being on AM radio, but then everything switched to FM with a bunch of new stations to enjoy ... with no static!
In San Francisco AM radio was king through the mid 1970s with crazy DJs like "Dr" Donald D Rose and others ; then in the mid to late 1970s FM stations took off . Clear sound . Stations like KMEL, KOME , KYA took over . Pretty much same story in every American metro area .
I was absolutely very surprised the other day when I found that Rob and Amber still haven't reacted to this song yet. If this isn't their biggest hit, it's got to be at least in Steely Dan's top 3.
You have no idea how incredible FM sounded to those of us who grew up on AM with our little transistor radios. We were so used to static and buzz with the music. And when the sun went down there would be pops and whistles as we toyed with the dial to bring in the signal as strong as possible. And then came "FM"!!!!!!! Wow, so smooth and quiet! It really was an incredible shift in listening. The one thing AM had over FM in those days for those of us who lived way out in the sticks was that after sundown we could pick up radio stations via skip signals after sunset and suddenly far away cities like Chigaco and Indianapolis were within listening reach. FM was a cataclysmic shift and Steely Dan captures it really well with this song!! Thanks for the review guys!
Agreed. I grew up in Chicago and could hear stations from way far away. I remember growing up listening to music on WLS on AM. FM only had classical and easy listening Jackie Gleasonesque music. When other kinds of music showed up on FM it was AMAZING!!
@JaDav40 Same. This song came out before I hit high school. Not only did it spark my love for them, it led to my first conversation about frequency and amplitude and carrier signals. Before that, I thought AM & FM were networks, with local radio stations being affiliated channels.
I was 13 when this song hit the airwaves here in the UK,right at the start of the school summer holidays in 1978. London's Capital Radio played it a lot then.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja" and "Deacon Blues" !!!!! The song FM was created for the movie FM (1978). The FM Soundtrack is one of the best of all-time! edit- Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone solo, Walter Becker - electric guitar and bass. They only toured about 2 years initially, so when people left who wanted to tour, they just brought in the best session musicians around for each song. Donald and Walter were basically Steely Dan.
A'ja Wilson, Olympic gold medalist and WNBA superstar of the Las Vegas Aces, was named after that album. Her dad was such a huge fan of Steely Dan that he said if he had a daughter he would name her A'ja. She is going to win MVP this year.
Just to try to explain: The leap in technology that FM music stations was, was epic. AM radio was filled with RFI (radio frequency interference = electrical noise caused by just about every mechanical item) and could only carry Mono transmission (All music though recorded in stereo had to be down-mixed into only one channel losing the stereo effect as well as most fidelity.) So when Fm radio came around it was quite literally a revolution. I hope that bit of context helps.
Just a couple of points: AM can broadcast in stereo; WJR in Detroit (and, I think, WQXR in New York) tried it for a while back in the '80s or '90s, but due to the aforementioned RFI and scarcity of high fidelity AM receivers it really didn't make sense. AM does have some advantages, such as reaching greater distances at the same power level, especially at night; superior ability to penetrate objects like buildings and hills; and requiring less bandwidth. All that being said, FM is without a doubt much better for music.
@@Yaktahbay I may have made some minor errors in my effort to get a somewhat complex matter simplified for all to understand but basically on point. I was in the buffalo N.Y. radio market and AM was a mess. Still is for anyone still trying to use citizen's band but DX land can be fun. If you know, you know. LoL
@@steverey8362 Yeah, I was just trying to add something to your comment. I grew up not far from Buffalo and my favorite thing was sitting for hours with a little transistor radio moving along the dial DXing. Fun times for a nerd.
AND, fm signals traveled in a vertical manner so werent as prone to mountain,bldg. interfernce where as am signals travel in a straight line, making the signal vulnerable to mountain and bldgs. blocking the signal which pissed you off .
This song was the theme to the movie "FM" which has kind of disappeared, but it was a cool movie about a struggling FM radio station. Wish I could see it again. The entire sound track was great.
This song didn't originally appear on an album but was in the soundtrack of the movie FM-- which you should watch/ react to-- and later it was included in greatest hits collections.
As an old guy (71) I'm SO glad the two of you like Steely Dan!!! Their muusic is so good it reaches across generations! Now, you have to Google the name of the band and see how they got their name!😃
Groovy baby! Amber, you get it girl! There was a movie called "FM" about the goings-on at a radio station. That movie inspired a popular TV sitcom called "WKRP in Cincinnati" (1978-1982).
I remember listening to my AM transistor radio until 7th grade (1977) when I learned about FM and discovered stereo music. Music would never be the same.
Sometimes forget this track as it wasn't on any of their studio albums. Just noticed how much the tail end with that guitar solo sounds alot like Pink Floyd. Thanks for this one (really dug that sax solo too---never was much into sax back in the day). Cheers, T
"FM" was a movie from 1978 and this was used as the title theme song. The story revolves around a FM radio station and includes concert footage with special appearances by Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Petty, and REO Speedwagon. Great soundtract album from the movie including The Eagles, James Taylor, Bob Seager, Dan Fogelberg, Billy Joel, and Queen.
This song is near & dear to my heart, my father loved music, like I do. When the movie "FM" came out on video, my father & I watched it together, when the movie started, this song was playing, my father looked at me & said "I really like this song, who sings it?" I told him "Steely Dan". He went out & bought the soundtrack a week later. My dad passed away in 2019 & everytime I hear this song, I miss him deeply. We may of had our differences, but one thing we had in common was great musical taste, thanks dad for letting me hear all your wonderful albums when I was growing up, RIP dad.
If you want to hear a band that sounds like Steely meets Hall n Oates with a female lead singer, check out Lake Street Dive. They're one modern band that is carrying the torch.
My dad was a radio DJ in San Francisco during the 60's &70's. He was one of the early pioneers of FM radio! Back in the day, FM was for Rock and just kinda "freeform", where anything goes. You could play the Grateful Dead, and the next track was John Coltrane, followed by Bob Marley & The Wailers, and then some Willie Nelson! AM was reserved for News radio and "Pop" music of the day, like The Carpenters, Three Dog Night, Tom Jones, Linda Ronstadt etc.
wow, those were the good old days. Now, you get programmed to death and songs in the rotation like several times in a few hours, ugh! I wish the dj's had the freedom to turn you on to something new. I miss the free format!
I recall listening to our college radio station late one Saturday night/Sunday morning. Back then the DJ's also did "rip and read" news reports at the top of the hour, off the AP teletype machine, which automatically printed out any incoming news stories from the Associated Press. That night there was a story about a high school principal that had been arrested for molesting a student. Of course, the DJ began the next music set with "Touch Me", by the Doors. You could get away with that stuff back then!
For a similarly short song title, there is Toto's "99". We know you guys love some Toto. Also, their "I Won't Hold You Back" is beautiful. You have yet to do that one as well.
Back in the 60s especially, but even in the 70s, FM radio in a car was an upgrade which cost extra money, so many cars only had an AM radio, which was prone to static. When we cleaned out my parent's estate a few years ago, we even came across a cartridge that fit into an 8-track player to give you an FM tuner. FM didn't have the static that AM was prone to.
FM is for frequency modulation. Before FM stations became popular as in the 60's to early 70's all we had was AM. And it was very staticy, if that's a word.
So glad to see another reaction of Steely Dan. This track, as many of you know, was part of the soundtrack of the movie "FM". I believe it was released later on an album called "Gold". Take care...
FM means Frequency Modulation. A radio signal that follows the line of sight, or a straight line, producing a clearer sound than AM. AM means Amplitude Modulation. The radio signals bounces up and down off the Earth. That's why you can sometimes pick up an AM radio station, at night, from up to a thousand miles away. Pre Internet, Pre Digital world!! It's what we had! I worked in Radio for many years and it was the best job ever for me. Most fun and just the greatest co-workers.
Steely Dan just have a musical gift with their sound and flow. Fagan and Becker had exactly what they wanted in their head long before it was ever laid down. They were geniuses in the production room
So much great music from the 70s, but Steely Dan is one of the most consistently excellent, most recognizable and eclectic sounding bands. It is the soundtrack of my youth. Love you guys back ❤
Another remarkable (but completely different) song about listening to music is "Life is a rock (but the radio rolled me) by Reunion, released in 1974. I would love to the the looks on your faces as you start to listen to it!
In the 1960's the cool music stations were on AM. The signal went much farther (sometimes hundreds of miles) but there was more static & interference. In the 70's the pop & rock stations on FM became popular. The FM signal has a left & right side (which is what stereo means) and much less static & interference.
This was Steely Dan distilled down to the basics - Donald Fagan on vocals and piano, Walter Becker on bass and all guitar parts, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Pete Christlieb on sax, and the Eagles (Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Tim Schmidt) on backing vocals. So good...
I´m from Brazil and i LOVE this song for decades now. Thanks for the video and also it´s the first time I get the awesome lyrics too! Steely Dan is so classy, so elegant. Pure musical pleasure.
I've been watching you guys since the beginning, and really I should say I've been watching J since the beginning, and then Amber would pop in every now and then there were the child birth eras and everything. But you guys are such a fantastic couple to this day. A good team, and I still love how you interpret and explore these things and, Amber dang it, I'm sure your chair dancing is demure in comparison to actual dancing but I know you both love that kind of thing so anyway it always just gives me such a good feeling. And it often resonates with exactly the way I would move to it, and somebody that grew up with this, somebody that's a musician my whole lifetime, and yet so much of it is still about being able to feel it and move to it.
This is a very special song to people living in Perth, Western Australia. Back in 1980, we got our very first FM stereo radio station - 96fm - and they were incredibly wise enough to choose this so aptly named song as the first song ever broadcast in Perth in FM stereo (which represented a monumental step change from the crappy old mono AM stations (d/w static) we had been brought up on
Steely Dan always had great production values that really highlighted the top-notch musicians that they brought in to their albums. The groove they brought was just mesmerizing.
AJA is also a stellar album! So many hits it plays like a greatest hits album! And in case you didn't know it this was the title cut for the film FM which was an interesting look at 70's radio station. And of course had a killer soundtrack! Should check it on your movie channel.
back in the day,A.M. was what most listened to but it was filled with noise and staticand signal fades pissing you off in the car,until F.M. showed up hence no static at all. ;)
Ooooh great choice! Love this song! Check out Deacon Blues. Back in “the day”, FM played stereo, and AM was mono. AM had longer range, but FM was a better sound; but it was very susceptible to static. Finding a strong signal was special.
This song is kinda of a love letter to the early FM radio station. When this song came out FM was not the overpowering dominant radio format it is today ... At the time AM was still King. Even with all the Static. Getting a FM radio was usually more expensive and only the audiophiles were willing to spend money on them. I remember riding in cars from the late 60s and early 70s that only came had AM radios. So the stations on FM were more likely to be new smaller and more progressive. Which led to the emergence of the Album Orientated Rock (AOR) stations. frequently the DJ would play any track off and album they wanted or liked and not just 45 singles. Steely Dan was a perfect fit for FM. Their clear clean recordings were a perfect pairing for the newish FM radio
This song is a cultural touchstone for us old folks. I remember growing up in the 1960s, when AM radio played our songs, but it was in mono and reception was plagued with atmospheric interference. When FM came along, suddenly we had stereo, and unexpected clarity of sound! We got the chance to appreciate the complex sounds of our favorite artists.
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Every Day...is a Dan Fine Day!🎉
Back in the day, there was AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulation) radio. Without getting technical, AM had a lot of static, but FM radio was crystal clear and was usually the home of what I would say was more classic rock, rather than pop, common on AM.
Fire up a cigar, pour a glass of whiskey and put on Aja (and press repeat)…the ultimate jazz lounge track.
Aja ❤️❤️❤️ Agreed ✌️
Yep...FM only reached dominance in the mid to late 70s, around the same time as color television did.
@@JaDav40 Yeah, I remember my favorite music station in the 70s being on AM radio, but then everything switched to FM with a bunch of new stations to enjoy ... with no static!
Also, it seemed that all the crappy stations were AM, and all the cool ones were FM.
In San Francisco AM radio was king through the mid 1970s with crazy DJs like "Dr" Donald D Rose and others ; then in the mid to late 1970s FM stations took off . Clear sound . Stations like KMEL, KOME , KYA took over . Pretty much same story in every American metro area .
"Hey Nineteen" is a great Steely Dan song.
That and Toto's "99" and Prince's "7" could be a Sesame Street themedreaction day.
I was absolutely very surprised the other day when I found that Rob and Amber still haven't reacted to this song yet. If this isn't their biggest hit, it's got to be at least in Steely Dan's top 3.
The non - jailbait version of Everyone's Gone to the Movies.
Agreed... wonderful groove! 😎
Every song is a great Steely Dan song.🎼🎤🎸
You have no idea how incredible FM sounded to those of us who grew up on AM with our little transistor radios. We were so used to static and buzz with the music. And when the sun went down there would be pops and whistles as we toyed with the dial to bring in the signal as strong as possible. And then came "FM"!!!!!!! Wow, so smooth and quiet! It really was an incredible shift in listening. The one thing AM had over FM in those days for those of us who lived way out in the sticks was that after sundown we could pick up radio stations via skip signals after sunset and suddenly far away cities like Chigaco and Indianapolis were within listening reach. FM was a cataclysmic shift and Steely Dan captures it really well with this song!! Thanks for the review guys!
Well said from New England😉
I remember listening to those far away stations at night too. From New England also.
Agreed. I grew up in Chicago and could hear stations from way far away. I remember growing up listening to music on WLS on AM. FM only had classical and easy listening Jackie Gleasonesque music. When other kinds of music showed up on FM it was AMAZING!!
And then groups like Kansas and Boston would record in stereo. LIstening on headphones was awesome
I thought that FM was some sort of magic...how did they do that, make the music sound so different than on AM.
Deacon Blues by Steely Dan, that's the one you need to hear next!
Anything from the Aja album!
@@tomhartley9001 absolutely!
@@tomhartley9001everything from Aja would be my approach
Deacon Blues for sure!
Possibly the chillest band on the planet. Can't ever be stressed when listening to them!
The way Amber was groovin’ to the music is how I feel every time I hear this song. Steely Dan is always, always a great vibe. 😎🍺☮️
Old enough to remember when FM radio and color TV were still highfalutin.
@JaDav40 Same. This song came out before I hit high school. Not only did it spark my love for them, it led to my first conversation about frequency and amplitude and carrier signals. Before that, I thought AM & FM were networks, with local radio stations being affiliated channels.
@@elebenty5709 Yeah I was 13 when the film FM came out
So true! I do feel AjA was their best album.IMO
I was 13 when this song hit the airwaves here in the UK,right at the start of the school summer holidays in 1978. London's Capital Radio played it a lot then.
Every Steely Dan song is my favorite Steely Dan song... but this one might be one of my favorite favorites.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja" and "Deacon Blues" !!!!! The song FM was created for the movie FM (1978). The FM Soundtrack is one of the best of all-time! edit- Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone solo, Walter Becker - electric guitar and bass. They only toured about 2 years initially, so when people left who wanted to tour, they just brought in the best session musicians around for each song. Donald and Walter were basically Steely Dan.
It has the lyric "learn to work the saxophone" - Amber should be on board.
@@JaDav40 yes, in Deacon Blues
Fagen described his track ''Aja'' as being a journey through space and time. Very fitting.
Yes! Deacon Blues if you please! ❤❤❤
A'ja Wilson, Olympic gold medalist and WNBA superstar of the Las Vegas Aces, was named after that album. Her dad was such a huge fan of Steely Dan that he said if he had a daughter he would name her A'ja. She is going to win MVP this year.
Steely Dan is always a great choice of music for a long drive.
Just to try to explain: The leap in technology that FM music stations was, was epic. AM radio was filled with RFI (radio frequency interference = electrical noise caused by just about every mechanical item) and could only carry Mono transmission (All music though recorded in stereo had to be down-mixed into only one channel losing the stereo effect as well as most fidelity.) So when Fm radio came around it was quite literally a revolution. I hope that bit of context helps.
Just a couple of points: AM can broadcast in stereo; WJR in Detroit (and, I think, WQXR in New York) tried it for a while back in the '80s or '90s, but due to the aforementioned RFI and scarcity of high fidelity AM receivers it really didn't make sense. AM does have some advantages, such as reaching greater distances at the same power level, especially at night; superior ability to penetrate objects like buildings and hills; and requiring less bandwidth. All that being said, FM is without a doubt much better for music.
@@Yaktahbay I may have made some minor errors in my effort to get a somewhat complex matter simplified for all to understand but basically on point. I was in the buffalo N.Y. radio market and AM was a mess. Still is for anyone still trying to use citizen's band but DX land can be fun. If you know, you know. LoL
@@steverey8362 Yeah, I was just trying to add something to your comment. I grew up not far from Buffalo and my favorite thing was sitting for hours with a little transistor radio moving along the dial DXing. Fun times for a nerd.
AND, fm signals traveled in a vertical manner so werent as prone to mountain,bldg. interfernce where as am signals travel in a straight line, making the signal vulnerable to mountain and bldgs. blocking the signal which pissed you off .
This song was the theme to the movie "FM" which has kind of disappeared, but it was a cool movie about a struggling FM radio station. Wish I could see it again. The entire sound track was great.
Steely Dan is so distinctive and technically perfect while laying down some seriously soulful music. 🤚
Jeff Porcaro on drums...enough said. EVERYTHING in this song IS the grooooooove!
went to hi school wth him(u.s. grant hi) class of 75
I was about to say that.
This song didn't originally appear on an album but was in the soundtrack of the movie FM-- which you should watch/ react to-- and later it was included in greatest hits collections.
I remember that movie.
its in the Blu Ray version
Cult classic wasn't it?
Definitely you guys should watch the movie. Featuring the great Martin Mull.
It's a pretty terrible movie.
FM was king in my day in the 70s/80 s. Great song
Wasn't there a movie to go with this song, if I remember?
But they still have AM radio stations
@@JimmyJolly-d8v they're all news/talk
But FM WAS STEELY IN THE 70s pardon the punn lol.
In the 80s, college FM stations could play full albums as a scheduled feature. Audio quality was in the same league as LPs on my modest system.
Steely Dan is one of my all-time favorite band. Very very top tier!!! Simply Perfection!!! Great Reaction!!!!
absolutely IS my all time fav band after having many fave bands, i've settled on these guys.years ago
As an old guy (71) I'm SO glad the two of you like Steely Dan!!! Their muusic is so good it reaches across generations! Now, you have to Google the name of the band and see how they got their name!😃
Troublemaker!!😆 in the words of Monty Python, "It's people like you what cause unrest!"🤣
One of my favorites of theirs! Been requesting this forever.
Groovy baby! Amber, you get it girl! There was a movie called "FM" about the goings-on at a radio station. That movie inspired a popular TV sitcom called "WKRP in Cincinnati" (1978-1982).
"I thought turkeys could fly."
One of my favorites. You can never go wrong with Steely Dan, no matter what mood you’re in.
Best studio band in history
Except for The Beatles!
Put in Steely Dan's Greatest Hits, dim lights, light candles, open the wine, and surprise your girl......Nothing gets any better🎶
100% No static at all!
that bass! That has got to be the funkiest, slinkiest groove ever.
My favorite Steely Dan song! Such a cool groove.
I remember listening to my AM transistor radio until 7th grade (1977) when I learned about FM and discovered stereo music. Music would never be the same.
Yeah...I had one in eighth grade. A mini boom box
Sometimes forget this track as it wasn't on any of their studio albums. Just noticed how much the tail end with that guitar solo sounds alot like Pink Floyd. Thanks for this one (really dug that sax solo too---never was much into sax back in the day). Cheers, T
"FM" was a movie from 1978 and this was used as the title theme song. The story revolves around a FM radio station and includes concert footage with special appearances by Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Petty, and REO Speedwagon. Great soundtract album from the movie including The Eagles, James Taylor, Bob Seager, Dan Fogelberg, Billy Joel, and Queen.
Steely Dan sounds like..... Steely Dan. Steely Dan is your favorite bands favorite band.
God this is a excellent song 🎸🎷🥁 🎶🎵🎼
From an excellent album 🎸🎶🥨🇺🇸🍷🧃
Steely Dan = perfection.
There's cool and then there is Steely Dan cool 😎
You could never ever go wrong with Steely Dan!! ❤
This song is near & dear to my heart, my father loved music, like I do. When the movie "FM" came out on video, my father & I watched it together, when the movie
started, this song was playing, my father looked at me & said "I really like this song, who sings it?" I told him "Steely Dan". He went out & bought the soundtrack
a week later. My dad passed away in 2019 & everytime I hear this song, I miss him deeply. We may of had our differences, but one thing we had in common was
great musical taste, thanks dad for letting me hear all your wonderful albums when I was growing up, RIP dad.
You have to check out “Black Cow” next. You will recognize the opening riff immediately
“Black Cow” is always a prime choice.
No, seriously Jay. You have to check out Black Cow
Another great Steely Dan song! Maybe someday 2020s’ music artists will listen and learn how to make great music.
They are out there but the studios don't want them
@@yaimavol Music has a social agenda now. It's not really about good music anymore. It's being used to dumb down the masses. It's very sad.
If you want to hear a band that sounds like Steely meets Hall n Oates with a female lead singer, check out Lake Street Dive. They're one modern band that is carrying the torch.
My dad was a radio DJ in San Francisco during the 60's &70's. He was one of the early pioneers of FM radio! Back in the day, FM was for Rock and just kinda "freeform", where anything goes. You could play the Grateful Dead, and the next track was John Coltrane, followed by Bob Marley & The Wailers, and then some Willie Nelson! AM was reserved for News radio and "Pop" music of the day, like The Carpenters, Three Dog Night, Tom Jones, Linda Ronstadt etc.
Who is your dad ?
@paulwerner3259 Scroll down to the "Cast of characters at KFML".
Reno X Nevada was my dad. Buffalo Chips was my uncle.
wow, those were the good old days. Now, you get programmed to death and songs in the rotation like several times in a few hours, ugh! I wish the dj's had the freedom to turn you on to something new. I miss the free format!
I recall listening to our college radio station late one Saturday night/Sunday morning. Back then the DJ's also did "rip and read" news reports at the top of the hour, off the AP teletype machine, which automatically printed out any incoming news stories from the Associated Press. That night there was a story about a high school principal that had been arrested for molesting a student. Of course, the DJ began the next music set with "Touch Me", by the Doors. You could get away with that stuff back then!
"Deacon Blues" is another good song.
Funk jazz. No one does it better than Steely Dan!
“Hey 19” from them is fantastic
Their music was very unique, a rock/jazz fusion that pulled the listener in with great guitar work.
For a similarly short song title, there is Toto's "99".
We know you guys love some Toto.
Also, their "I Won't Hold You Back" is beautiful. You have yet to do that one as well.
From the FM Movie Soundtrack 1978. Awesome song.
AM was the rock and roll king in Boston in the early 70’s. FM was reserved for classical and jazz back then. Until the 80’s
Back in the 60s especially, but even in the 70s, FM radio in a car was an upgrade which cost extra money, so many cars only had an AM radio, which was prone to static. When we cleaned out my parent's estate a few years ago, we even came across a cartridge that fit into an 8-track player to give you an FM tuner. FM didn't have the static that AM was prone to.
Anything Steely Dan is awesome!
FM is for frequency modulation. Before FM stations became popular as in the 60's to early 70's all we had was AM. And it was very staticy, if that's a word.
And AM was amplitude modulated. With frequency modulation being a better quality way to hear music radio waves!
It's a word, but with an extra K added right where you think it would go.
I love Steely Dan!!! And this song is the ish!!! Love your appreciation of this era of music!!!
Steely Dan, your favorite bands favorite band 🔥🤘✌
LOVE FM....I've often felt I could have the instrumental version playing as the background music for my life
Yet another example of this: Me" What song?" then: "Oh, THAT song!! YES!!"
This song is quite the vibe. 🎷
Smooooooooth
So glad to see another reaction of Steely Dan. This track, as many of you know, was part of the soundtrack of the movie "FM". I believe it was released later on an album called "Gold". Take care...
The Eagles' Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Timothy B. Schmit on backing vocals.
“They stabbed it with their Steely knives…”
"Turn up the Eagles"
Steely Dan has such a diverse sound like Amber mentioned, but you can almost always tell that it's them.
FM means Frequency Modulation. A radio signal that follows the line of sight, or a straight line, producing a clearer sound than AM. AM means Amplitude Modulation. The radio signals bounces up and down off the Earth. That's why you can sometimes pick up an AM radio station, at night, from up to a thousand miles away. Pre Internet, Pre Digital world!! It's what we had! I worked in Radio for many years and it was the best job ever for me. Most fun and just the greatest co-workers.
I forgot how good that song was,,, thanks for reminding ME,,,,💖💕💞💞💞💕💖
Anytime you guys,,, the old music is Soo much better than the new stuff,,,,,
Steely Dan just have a musical gift with their sound and flow. Fagan and Becker had exactly what they wanted in their head long before it was ever laid down. They were geniuses in the production room
So much great music from the 70s, but Steely Dan is one of the most consistently excellent, most recognizable and eclectic sounding bands. It is the soundtrack of my youth. Love you guys back ❤
Oh you are in for a treat! What a great song!
Guys, Steely Dan, Haitian divorce next. The best reggae and a great story too. Larry Carlton goes wild with the Talkbox.
Love steely Dan! One of my favorites!
Another remarkable (but completely different) song about listening to music is "Life is a rock (but the radio rolled me) by Reunion, released in 1974.
I would love to the the looks on your faces as you start to listen to it!
Steely Dan is adult music. Others have mentioned it you two have to get to "Deacon Blues."
In the 1960's the cool music stations were on AM. The signal went much farther (sometimes hundreds of miles) but there was more static & interference. In the 70's the pop & rock stations on FM became popular. The FM signal has a left & right side (which is what stereo means) and much less static & interference.
Bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Yes used stereo mixes for trippy effect too. Something that hadn't been done before.
Check out their song Third World Man, from their Gaucho album. Very simple arrangement for them, but well done and a deep message too.
Thats a dig out of the obscure but i agree, that is world music.
Omgeee....I would (and still do) play their Aja album all the time 🎹🎶🎙🎸🎷🥁
This was Steely Dan distilled down to the basics - Donald Fagan on vocals and piano, Walter Becker on bass and all guitar parts, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Pete Christlieb on sax, and the Eagles (Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Tim Schmidt) on backing vocals. So good...
They have such great music. Love all of their songs
The smile on Amber's face, when the sax kicked in !!
I´m from Brazil and i LOVE this song for decades now. Thanks for the video and also it´s the first time I get the awesome lyrics too! Steely Dan is so classy, so elegant. Pure musical pleasure.
The best chill music. Follow up with Deacon Blues!
Deacon Blues & Hey Nineteen are a couple of NICE tunes!!😉
I've been watching you guys since the beginning, and really I should say I've been watching J since the beginning, and then Amber would pop in every now and then there were the child birth eras and everything. But you guys are such a fantastic couple to this day. A good team, and I still love how you interpret and explore these things and, Amber dang it, I'm sure your chair dancing is demure in comparison to actual dancing but I know you both love that kind of thing so anyway it always just gives me such a good feeling. And it often resonates with exactly the way I would move to it, and somebody that grew up with this, somebody that's a musician my whole lifetime, and yet so much of it is still about being able to feel it and move to it.
Definitely one of my favorite Steely Dan tunes.
This is a very special song to people living in Perth, Western Australia. Back in 1980, we got our very first FM stereo radio station - 96fm - and they were incredibly wise enough to choose this so aptly named song as the first song ever broadcast in Perth in FM stereo (which represented a monumental step change from the crappy old mono AM stations (d/w static) we had been brought up on
Smooth as it gets. Pete Christlieb on sax. Also on Deacon Blues
One if my favorites
Love to listen to them and throw my head back and soak it in
Becker and Fagan we're too cool. That's the band two men.
Steely Dan always had great production values that really highlighted the top-notch musicians that they brought in to their albums. The groove they brought was just mesmerizing.
Such a great song. takes me back to my childhood. Great Memories.
AJA is also a stellar album! So many hits it plays like a greatest hits album!
And in case you didn't know it this was the title cut for the film FM which was an interesting look at 70's radio station. And of course had a killer soundtrack! Should check it on your movie channel.
Steely Dan....so outrageous....Black Cow reference. ❤
So smooth. Love the Dan. Rock on.
back in the day,A.M. was what most listened to but it was filled with noise and staticand signal fades pissing you off in the car,until F.M. showed up hence no static at all. ;)
My favorite Steely Dan song by far!
Ooooh great choice! Love this song! Check out Deacon Blues. Back in “the day”, FM played stereo, and AM was mono. AM had longer range, but FM was a better sound; but it was very susceptible to static. Finding a strong signal was special.
Absolutely my favorite!! 😊
Another great one. Next try "Daddy Don't Live in NYC No More", "Showbiz Kids" and "Chain Lightning". Thanks!
My favorite SD song! I love the strings on this track. That’s Johnny Mandell orchestra.
There so such thing as "too much Steely Dan" ...... Love it all........THANKS GUYS
Hey Nineteen is a MUST reaction for this band!
I wish you guys would do "Hey Nineteen" that's my favorite Steely Dan song. So many of their songs but you guys have never gotten to that.
Name drops Cuervo Gold and 'retha Franklin...
@@JaDav40 Love it so much. Cuervo gold acholic drink and Aretha Franklin. That song makes me feel mellow and nostaligic.
Love Steely Dan. You should check out My Old School. Another great one!! Hook ‘em Horns!!
Green Earrings by The Dan. My favorite....so funky.
One of the greatest bands… There is no bad track when it comes to The Dan!
Always just great music from Steely Dan !
That logo at the end was from the Movie "FM" which features this song and many hits from artists at that time (1978).
So was TOTOs HOLD THE LINE FROM 78
Steely Dan is my all time favorite band, and FM is in my top 5 especially with that guitar solo outro
This song is kinda of a love letter to the early FM radio station.
When this song came out FM was not the overpowering dominant radio format it is today ... At the time AM was still King. Even with all the Static. Getting a FM radio was usually more expensive and only the audiophiles were willing to spend money on them. I remember riding in cars from the late 60s and early 70s that only came had AM radios. So the stations on FM were more likely to be new smaller and more progressive. Which led to the emergence of the Album Orientated Rock (AOR) stations. frequently the DJ would play any track off and album they wanted or liked and not just 45 singles.
Steely Dan was a perfect fit for FM. Their clear clean recordings were a perfect pairing for the newish FM radio
This song is a cultural touchstone for us old folks. I remember growing up in the 1960s, when AM radio played our songs, but it was in mono and reception was plagued with atmospheric interference. When FM came along, suddenly we had stereo, and unexpected clarity of sound! We got the chance to appreciate the complex sounds of our favorite artists.