Are you familiar with the duo Eye To Eye? Deborah Berg's voice is wonderful. They are known for their top forty hit "Nice Girls" (1982). They have a song called "Falling For A Funny One" Larry does a nice guitar solo and overall guitar work on their song. Eye To Eye were also produced by Gary Katz and many musicians who played with Steely Dan also help them with their songs even Donald himself. Give them a listen if your not familiar. They were not Steely Dan but very influenced by them.
Amber & Jay, here are some other good Steely Dan songs to react to: "Only a Fool Would Say That", "Doctor Wu", "Kid Charlemagne", "Black Cow", and "Hey Nineteen".
Between 1972 and 1980, Steely Dan made seven perfect albums. They were taskmasters and produced a technically superior product every time. Some songs are better than others, but you can't go wrong with any song from any of them.
Steely Dan is always a treat you guys, lots more to discover as well. And the great thing is that listening to their music is like investing in your future. The value never goes down.
That's a good way of putting it. I'm currently on my Steely Dan journey at age 38. Going through each album chronologically, solo albums too. Currently on Walter Becker's 11 Tracks of Wack. I've discovered so many cool songs I'll keep in rotation forever.
@@derekd1997 That's awesome Derek. I like how you're going through the albums in a logical way. For me it was in 1999 when I bought a best of Steely Dan CD. The only titles I recognized were ''Ricky Don't Lose That Number'' and ''Hey Nineteen''. Didn't realize they had done other familiar songs like '' Do It Again'', ''Peg'', ''FM'' and the rest just blew me away. Cheers brother!
Or a song about a drug dealer (Kid Charlemaign), porn star probably (Peg), collrge professor relationship with 19 year old student(Hey 19), desired incestuous relationship that (thankfully) doesn't materialize (Cousin dupree), child m--lester (Everyone's gone to the movies) etc... Virtually every Steely Dan song has very dark lyrics on top of a jazz/pop/rock fusion feel good sound. You've got to love the combination
This was their mid-level time period. I was living in Oregon when the Royal Scam came out (1976) and a local FM station would do an entire album review, and I heard it there first - Loved this track. Try KID CHARLEMAGNE from this next.
Am so happy the gist of the lyrics were understood. Steely Dan will always have top notch musicians. Even their worst song musically (can’t think of one) is better than any other band. The fact that their lyrics always made the fans (like myself) try to ascertain what the plot was. The combination musical excellence, with lyrically cryptic, is what separates them, and puts them in the top tier.
One of my four favorite Steely Dan tunes, the other three being "Kid Charlemagne," "Haitian Divorce," and "Dirty Work." I think y'all have hit them all now. Good job.
Same album, Kid Charlemagne. Larry Carlton's solo is epic. Lyrics as always take you deeper into the story - this time about Owsley Stanley, the top LSD producer in the Bay area.
You've finally found it! The best pop music guitar intro of all time. A masterpiece. Larry Carlton is a virtuoso. (BTW, it's "bookkeeper's" son.) Thank you!
Great song. It is about a real life event. A guy named David Fine was one of four men that bombed Sterling Hall, a building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that housed the Army Mathematics Research Center in 1970 as a Vietnam War protest. One researcher was killed, 3 others were injured. He was finally found by the FBI in 1976 in California holed up in a room.
I had never heard that this was about the Sterling Hall bombing. There were actually four men involved. Karelton and David Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt. The first three were eventually captured but Leo Burt, now almost 54 years later, has never been found.
I've heard the lead guitar player was Larry Carlton, an ace player on several Steely Dan cuts. On the Aja LP he arranged Becker and Fagen's songs for the band. Listen to "Deacon Blues" from that LP. The Royal Scam was met with faint praise from the critics when it came out. I think it's been underrated over the years. But "Kid Charlemagne" "Green Earring" and "Sign In Stranger" are great cuts.
"Agents of the law, luckless pedestrians, I know you're out there with rage in your eyes and your megaphones" I think is the coolest opening line ever. Also Larry C on guitar!
@@kevinmcpartland7639 His father worked for the mob doing their books, he stole money from him and went on the run. Now he's holed up in a building with hostages and doesn't want to be taken alive because his father and the mob are after him.
Saw them at Gorge at George, WA, where Donald Fagen introduced the song apologizing that they NOW know how to pronounce Oregon correctly. The Pacific Northwest crowd knowingly went wild with appreciation. (It’s pronounced Ore-eh-gun, not Ore-ah-gone). Thanks for pronouncing it correctly, Jay!!!!
Giants of jazz/blues/rock fusion. Awesome innovators. Everything they did was musically excellent and had head , heart. and balls. May they never be forgotten!
There's such a great revival in this kind of music right now, from the likes of Young Gun Silver Fox, State Cows, Super DB, Page 99 and more. Great to see new artists emulating this and even putting a fresh take on it.
That succulent lead guitar throughout this song is played by Larry Carlton. He has recorded with many others including Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Bobby Bland, Sammy Davis, Jr., Paulinho Da Costa, Charly García, the Fifth Dimension, Herb Alpert, Christopher Cross, Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, and the Partridge Family.
I am so excited you finally listened to this one. This is my favorite Steely Dan and one of my top ten of all time. Wrote a screenplay from the lyrics when I was very young.
Great song, nice reaction, indeed sumptuous guitar work from Larry Carlton. Agree that "FM" would be a great next one to react to from them, but try to pick the version from "A Decade of Steely Dan" with the Walter Becker lead guitar ending (opposed to the one with the sax).
What they all said. Steely Dan is ah-mazing, for sure up there in top favorite artists ever. The entire Royal Scam album is sooooooooo good. Do the title song!!
Fagen called Carlton back to improve the intro to the song. After several versions, Fagen said 'just give me a crazy-ass chord'... which is what we hear.
Steely Dan are such amazing musical geniuses that I can't think of one song that I don't love. Every song is different....jazzy, bluesy, funky. I'm a music fanatic and love all genres from Etta James to Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Andrea Bocelli, Charlie Rich, Dave Matthews Band, Pink Floyd, I could go on and on but these 2 guys and amazing studio musicians are in a league of their own.
One great song that most people don't know/play unless they are Steely Dan followers is "SHOW BIZ KIDS"" from their secong album 1973 Countdown to Ectasy. Rickie Lee Jones does an amazing slower version of the song in 2000 as well for you Steely Dan fans who I haven't heard. it.
Everyone is digging up some music I forgot. Thanks to all for bringing Steely Dan back. Thanks to Jay and Amber Also,. Love to the family. Your faithful follower. 🫶👏🎤🎼🎵🎶
Steely Dan's standards for a performance were off the charts. A collection of music professionals that strived for perfection in everything they did. Amber feels the vibe of this one.
The thing is, Steely Dan songs stand alone, as part of an album, as part of their experiments, as part of an enormous body of work. That is why they are geniuses. My first album, Countdown to Ecstasy, is my favourite, not because it is the best, but because it is the one I played to death. The best songs from that album are Razor Boy, King of the World, Boston Rag and Your Gold Teeth. But like every song, they are all so very good.
When people ask what song do you turn up as soon as it comes on the radio, it's this for me. By the time they've played through that first arpeggio, I've got the volume up.
I really like this song. I'd never heard it until I bought their greatest hits CD 12 years ago. I've loved this band since "Hey Nineteen" came out when I was 16.
The great Larry Carlton on guitar.
My favorite of their studio guitarists 😎
Absolutely
Are you familiar with the duo Eye To Eye? Deborah Berg's voice is wonderful. They are known for their top forty hit "Nice Girls" (1982). They have a song called "Falling For A Funny One" Larry does a nice guitar solo and overall guitar work on their song. Eye To Eye were also produced by Gary Katz and many musicians who played with Steely Dan also help them with their songs even Donald himself. Give them a listen if your not familiar. They were not Steely Dan but very influenced by them.
I still consider his solo on Kid Charlemagne one of my top five.
The truth is whatever Steely Dan song you're hearing will be your favorite!
"Cousin Dupree"? 🙃
I am guilty of that!
So true. I love Steely Dan and I love Donald Fagen’s albums too
That is SO TRUE!!!
it is more difficult to find the Dan song you don't like:)
One of the best opening guitar solos ever!
- The - best, I would say.
True
That and Kid Charlemagne.
Deacon Blues by Steely Dan, that's the one you need to hear next!
agree
@@rulebs green earrings fm glamour profession
Yes, “Deacon Blues”! Another great noir story, but this time about someone who is willing to bet it all on playing the saxophone.
@LSorr3 FM was going to be my next suggestion. Some people list a bunch of songs. I think they notice it more when you just list one song at a time.
@@magneto7930 Nothing but (Deacon) blues and Elvis and somebody else's favorite song!
Steely Dan is my "stranded on a desert island with only one group's music" band. Endless perfection.
I'll take the Beatles or the Doors 🚪
I would probably go with Mozart....but I know what you mean...
Absolutely. If I get only one pick, it's SD. Zero hesitation.
Literally one of my favorite Dan tunes!!!
Maybe the best guitar intro ever!! Larry Carlton is a beast!!
Steely Dan is brilliance on all levels.JMO.
Yes. They are to jazz what Zep is to the blues.
"It's Steely Dan. That's how you make music." Best quote ever!
Larry Carlton on guitar.
Yup, The Royal Scam album had some real gems. Check out Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne." A very famous artist took a sample from it. Great music! 💯🔥🌟
YES!!!!!!!!!PLZ!!!!!!!!
Amber & Jay, here are some other good Steely Dan songs to react to: "Only a Fool Would Say That", "Doctor Wu", "Kid Charlemagne", "Black Cow", and "Hey Nineteen".
Black Cow has the funkiest bassline!
Hey Nineteen...LOVE it!😊
I want them to do Haitian Divorce
Love Black Cow
What he said…
This is so overwhelming after all these years. It brings tears to my eyes.
That is one hell of an album
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!!
Also… Babylon Sisters & Bodhisattva & more. There are so many AMAZING SD songs. 🎶💙
Steely Dan has nothing but good music.
Them sweet 70s 4 Sure
Up to Gaucho. Went downhill after that.
@@Coowallsky I didn't know that. I just started listening to Donald Fagen after awhile.
REALLY!@@Coowallsky
It’s often been said that Steely Dan is your favorite band’s favorite band. ❤️🎸✌🏼😎🇺🇸
Between 1972 and 1980, Steely Dan made seven perfect albums. They were taskmasters and produced a technically superior product every time. Some songs are better than others, but you can't go wrong with any song from any of them.
Love how the song opens with the guitar solo...dark lyrics for sure, love you two!
Top 5 all time favorite songs. Glad you got to hear this for the first time!
Steely Dan is always a treat you guys, lots more to discover as well. And the great thing is that listening to their music is like investing in your future. The value never goes down.
That's a good way of putting it. I'm currently on my Steely Dan journey at age 38. Going through each album chronologically, solo albums too. Currently on Walter Becker's 11 Tracks of Wack. I've discovered so many cool songs I'll keep in rotation forever.
@@derekd1997 That's awesome Derek. I like how you're going through the albums in a logical way. For me it was in 1999 when I bought a best of Steely Dan CD. The only titles I recognized were ''Ricky Don't Lose That Number'' and ''Hey Nineteen''. Didn't realize they had done other familiar songs like '' Do It Again'', ''Peg'', ''FM'' and the rest just blew me away. Cheers brother!
Outstanding album. Outstanding group. RIP Walter.
Steely Dan = Epic!
I listened to this album back to back, over and over and over…♥️🙌
intro chord and solo with no blues notes whatsoever... just brilliant
G7#9
My mom had this album,Haitian Divorce is another banner from The Royal Scam album
OOOHH! That guitar solo at the end, how can one not crank that up!
I will put in a vote for Haitian Divorce too.
Amber nailed the meaning.
My first apartment life I had a neighbor who played “Peg” on repeat back in 1978. He must have had a broken relationship with Peg.
One of their best songs. Great album too. Check out "The Royal Scam"...the song.
Steely Dan has a HUGE selection of great tunes....keep going.
Larry Carlton playing his 335 guitar into a cranked Fender Deluxe tweed amp. Maybe my favorite lead guitar tone ever recorded.
Only Steely Dan can write about a guy who is in a standoff with the police and make it sound catchy.
Or a song about a drug dealer (Kid Charlemaign), porn star probably (Peg), collrge professor relationship with 19 year old student(Hey 19), desired incestuous relationship that (thankfully) doesn't materialize (Cousin dupree), child m--lester (Everyone's gone to the movies) etc... Virtually every Steely Dan song has very dark lyrics on top of a jazz/pop/rock fusion feel good sound. You've got to love the combination
This was their mid-level time period. I was living in Oregon when the Royal Scam came out (1976) and a local FM station would do an entire album review, and I heard it there first - Loved this track. Try KID CHARLEMAGNE from this next.
That's a must!!
Am so happy the gist of the lyrics were understood. Steely Dan will always have top notch musicians. Even their worst song musically (can’t think of one) is better than any other band. The fact that their lyrics always made the fans (like myself) try to ascertain what the plot was. The combination musical excellence, with lyrically cryptic, is what separates them, and puts them in the top tier.
One of my four favorite Steely Dan tunes, the other three being "Kid Charlemagne," "Haitian Divorce," and "Dirty Work." I think y'all have hit them all now. Good job.
Your favorite band's favorite band.
Same album, Kid Charlemagne. Larry Carlton's solo is epic. Lyrics as always take you deeper into the story - this time about Owsley Stanley, the top LSD producer in the Bay area.
This IS how you make music. Truer words were never spoken.
FM....
The Royal Scam....
Both are incredible!
Larry Carlton on the guitar.. amazing!
I have most of their music but Royal Scam and Aja are my favorite Steely Dan albums.
Same here!
Even by the standards of a Steely Dan album, Aja is nothing but wall-to-wall bangers.
The entire Royal Scam album is excellent!
You've finally found it! The best pop music guitar intro of all time. A masterpiece. Larry Carlton is a virtuoso. (BTW, it's "bookkeeper's" son.) Thank you!
Perfection as always from the Dan
One of their Best Albums.. Royal Scam and Kid Charmelon along with Big Black Cow!
Kid Charlemagne.
@@dggydddy59 They got the idea I think...
Great song. It is about a real life event.
A guy named David Fine was one of four men that bombed Sterling Hall, a building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that housed the Army Mathematics Research Center in 1970 as a Vietnam War protest. One researcher was killed, 3 others were injured. He was finally found by the FBI in 1976 in California holed up in a room.
Thanks for that info. Their lyrics really make us listen, and try to figure out wtf they mean! ❤😂
Good to know, thanks!
Indeed!
Wow, thanks for the info.
I had never heard that this was about the Sterling Hall bombing. There were actually four men involved. Karelton and David Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt. The first three were eventually captured but Leo Burt, now almost 54 years later, has never been found.
I'm a bookkeepers son, I don't want to shoot no one
Incredible, Incredible band. The talent of Steely Dan will never be equaled. I cannot live without their music!! ❤❤❤❤
I've heard the lead guitar player was Larry Carlton, an ace player on several Steely Dan cuts. On the Aja LP he arranged Becker and Fagen's songs for the band. Listen to "Deacon Blues" from that LP.
The Royal Scam was met with faint praise from the critics when it came out. I think it's been underrated over the years. But "Kid Charlemagne" "Green Earring" and "Sign In Stranger" are great cuts.
"Agents of the law, luckless pedestrians, I know you're out there with rage in your eyes and your megaphones" I think is the coolest opening line ever. Also Larry C on guitar!
The entire album is genius! Please do the whole album!!!!!!
He's a book-keeper's son, not a wood-maker's...
They are clueless
I use to think it was "bull-keeper's son. "
I’d assumed pool keepers until I recently heard otherwise.
@@kevinmcpartland7639 His father worked for the mob doing their books, he stole money from him and went on the run. Now he's holed up in a building with hostages and doesn't want to be taken alive because his father and the mob are after him.
@@kevinmcpartland7639 I thought if they sung, " I'm a pool hall hustlers son " that would be a great lyric.
My favorite Dan song!!!! Great solo at the start.
Yes!
Way to go you two this is one of my favorite Steely Dan tunes. Next from them you should do Here At The Western World. 👌🏼🙏🏼
There are those who love Steely Dan and those who are wrong.🖖🏼
Saw them at Gorge at George, WA, where Donald Fagen introduced the song apologizing that they NOW know how to pronounce Oregon correctly. The Pacific Northwest crowd knowingly went wild with appreciation. (It’s pronounced Ore-eh-gun, not Ore-ah-gone). Thanks for pronouncing it correctly, Jay!!!!
Giants of jazz/blues/rock fusion. Awesome innovators. Everything they did was musically excellent and had head , heart. and balls. May they never be forgotten!
Nobody riffs like Steely Dan! Classic and unique signature sounds. My all time favorite is, 'Do it Again' !
Steely Dan popped off from the 1970s, that's when all the jam bands started appearing. Like the Doobie Brothers.
There's such a great revival in this kind of music right now, from the likes of Young Gun Silver Fox, State Cows, Super DB, Page 99 and more. Great to see new artists emulating this and even putting a fresh take on it.
Larry Carlton's guitar work here is legendary in the guitar playing community. It's the Holy Grail!
Not many songs start out with a guitar solo. One of my favorites of SD. Larry Carlton is amazing on guitar.
That succulent lead guitar throughout this song is played by Larry Carlton. He has recorded with many others including Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Bobby Bland, Sammy Davis, Jr., Paulinho Da Costa, Charly García, the Fifth Dimension, Herb Alpert, Christopher Cross, Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, and the Partridge Family.
I am so excited you finally listened to this one. This is my favorite Steely Dan and one of my top ten of all time. Wrote a screenplay from the lyrics when I was very young.
The Royal Scam is a great tune as well.
Great song, nice reaction, indeed sumptuous guitar work from Larry Carlton. Agree that "FM" would be a great next one to react to from them, but try to pick the version from "A Decade of Steely Dan" with the Walter Becker lead guitar ending (opposed to the one with the sax).
What they all said. Steely Dan is ah-mazing, for sure up there in top favorite artists ever. The entire Royal Scam album is sooooooooo good. Do the title song!!
Fagen called Carlton back to improve the intro to the song. After several versions, Fagen said 'just give me a crazy-ass chord'... which is what we hear.
Please please do FM No Static at All
Finally! My favorite song by them. ❤❤❤
Steely Dan are such amazing musical geniuses that I can't think of one song that I don't love. Every song is different....jazzy, bluesy, funky. I'm a music fanatic and love all genres from Etta James to Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Andrea Bocelli, Charlie Rich, Dave Matthews Band, Pink Floyd, I could go on and on but these 2 guys and amazing studio musicians are in a league of their own.
From the Aja album. Deacon Blues, Aja and Black Cow. The whole Album is Fantastic.
One great song that most people don't know/play unless they are Steely Dan followers is "SHOW BIZ KIDS"" from their secong album 1973 Countdown to Ectasy. Rickie Lee Jones does an amazing slower version of the song in 2000 as well for you Steely Dan fans who I haven't heard. it.
Love that song!
My favorite Steely Dan song.
Steely Dan kicks! KISS-I Still Love You/MTV Unplugged
Keep the Dan coming
Everyone is digging up some music I forgot. Thanks to all for bringing Steely Dan back. Thanks to Jay and Amber Also,. Love to the family. Your faithful follower.
🫶👏🎤🎼🎵🎶
This is a great album. My favorite song on it is the Caves of Altamira. I highly recommend reacting to it.
this is my #1 favorite Dan song. It just has it all.
One of their rockers
I’ve become a huge Steely Dan fan over the past year. SO MANY great songs. This is by far my favorite. That guitar solo intro…..
steely dan's "King of the World" is a peppy little number about the end of the world and last man standing.
Amber and Jordan you may like Mountain (Mississippi Queen). Keep up with the good work 😎👍
I agree! It really started A new angle for the metal sound!
Favorite tracks from this album are "The Caves of Altimira" and the title track "The Royal Scam". The entire album is exquisite, however.
My favourite tracks too.
You're missing out! You need to hear more Steely Dan ;) I love their rock/jazz/pop songs!
One of Steely Dan’s absolute best songs!!!! Period! How about that opening guitar solo? Amazing!
Steely Dan's standards for a performance were off the charts.
A collection of music professionals that strived for perfection in everything they did.
Amber feels the vibe of this one.
Try "King of the World" Steely Dan...great song
The Royal Scam album is a true gem by anyone's standard. Not a single weak track to be found.
I love this song!!! FM is definitely up your alley!!!
The thing is, Steely Dan songs stand alone, as part of an album, as part of their experiments, as part of an enormous body of work.
That is why they are geniuses.
My first album, Countdown to Ecstasy, is my favourite, not because it is the best, but because it is the one I played to death.
The best songs from that album are Razor Boy, King of the World, Boston Rag and Your Gold Teeth. But like every song, they are all so very good.
It's about a 'Dog Day Afternoon' type of situation.
Check out 'FM'. Great late night, slinky kind of funk.
I crossed my old man Back in Oregon! Please listen to" Peg" by Steely Dan !!!!!!
I think they did already
@@LSorr3 oh ok!
Donald Fagen is a fantastic singer. One-of-a-kind voice. Fun to watch him sing, too. Very unusual looking individual.
When people ask what song do you turn up as soon as it comes on the radio, it's this for me. By the time they've played through that first arpeggio, I've got the volume up.
Steely Dan is great. Kind of jazzy. kind of pop. Very groovy.
Love you two, not only are you both nice, the music you pick is amazing and makes me feel great, keep leading on.
The whole album is great
"FM" is another great song ( with a Horn solo), "Black Friday", & Kid Charlemagne, "Hey 19" are also good
I really like this song. I'd never heard it until I bought their greatest hits CD 12 years ago. I've loved this band since "Hey Nineteen" came out when I was 16.
The legendary Larry Carlton on lead guitar. Check out some of his work with The Crusaders. Great stuff.
Crusaders rule!
@@danmayberry1185 One of my fave tracks is Spiral off of the Those Southern Knights album. Larry's guitar work is fire.
Probably my favorite song from The Dan.
That opening guitar solo is nasty