The Purdie shuffle is the best and most copied drum beat of all time! Bernard Purdie is the best. Here is the legend showing how to perform the Purdie Shuffle: ua-cam.com/video/T1j1_aeK6WA/v-deo.html
It was far from effortless, read some of the stories, like how they obsessed over the fade-out on this song. I know what you mean, though. They just worked so damn hard on it that it sounds effortless.
@@philiproach2537 Yeah, I should have been more clear, Becker and Fagan were notorious perfectionists. I meant the way it sounded, so unforced, just flowing smooth.
So happy that you've been turned on to Steely Dan. As a "boomer", I'm so happy to pay forward the music of our generation of the 60's, 70's and and 80's.
This was my stepdad's favorite Steely Dan song, and we used to sing along and play air drums to that nasty groove. He passed away last year, and your reaction reminds me of how I used to feel about this song. Thanks for doing this, and bringing that feeling back.
I'm a 61 year old African American grandma. My 12 year old grandson and his 5 year old sister love this song! They always ask to hear it when they ride with me and they sing along every time!
This song gets my nomination for the most perfectly engineered record of all time. On a great sound system it's just astonishing how intoxicating that production is. You just sink into it like a warm bath with a couch-lock high.
@@UnicornOfDepression Wow! Where did you hear speakers like that? I'm sure they're great speakers, but I tend to think people that spend that money on audio have more money than brains. Unless you need to fill a gigantic room with sound, you can get a setup that measures near perfectly for under $10k, and probably even half that if you buy used. I'd gladly take a pair of KEF R11s or Perlisten R7ts or Revel F228's, a pair of good subwoofers, Dirac room correction, and probably have sound that would beat most systems costing 10x more in blind tests.
As for the groove, it's so good it has a name. "The Purdie Shuffle". Bernard Purdie is the drummer. Drummers practice it to this day. Very hard to play.
He's singing "Drink kirschwasser from a shell." Kirschwasser is a cherry brandy. Please react to Green Earrings by Steely Dan. You're going to love it.
I'm not exaggerating when I say this song changed my life. Made me pick my piano back up and start taking music lessons. Every time I hear it I get chills. Steely Dan is different.
The great Valerie Simpson always in the studio with the boys, killing those backing vocals. This song is about knowing "I know I'm too old for this hedonistic threesome trist...but what a way to go. It's cheap, but it's not free."
I love it when you react to Steely Dan. There's just a joy on your face that isn't usually there with other bands. I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for Time Out of Mind again, and I.G.Y.
Brotha I love your reactions to one of my favorite groups. Steely Dan is THE TRUTH!!! They are REAL MUSICIANS and Writers. Keep on posting S.D. music their catalog is filled with nothing but Gems!!!
I hope people noticed that Steely Dan pays close attention to the background singers. Some of the best in the business. Worthy of Donald Fagen’s lyrics.
The title song is a jewel, but it was a "steal" from a number penned by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Jarrett sued for "plagiarism" and won. The lyrics are Fagen's and the arrangement is different from Jarrett's, but the court accepted his complaint.
Steely Dan is one of my all time favs. I have ALL of their music. I love your reactions to their music!!!!! The writing is amazing. They are geniuses with their jazz mixes...
Ok, I can die happy now; THANK YOU BROTHER! Your reactions ( to these Steely Dan songs especially) makes our quarantine days so entertaining! Thank you for just being you & doing your thing with an open mind. I wish more people would be that way. I knew you would dig it & grove to it too. This song just takes you way from any problems you may be dealing with. That's why like so many others have commented, is one of their best! I gotta do some thinking on my next request, but keep up the good work! These videos got me even more into different types of music, I had no clue about either, sometimes. Peace!
Oh, you are on a roll today!!’ Babylon Sisters!! This is the kind of song that you ride through downtown late at night with your sunroof open and the street lights just shining into the car. Just you, the night and Steely Dan. Oh yes!! Don’t forget to review The Fez by them also.
One hell of a sophisticated song. Love that “Purdie Suffle”. You will also here it on Toto’s “Rosanna” and Led Zepplin’s “Fool in the Rain”. It’s those drums.
A kirschwasser (/ˈkɪərʃvɑːsər/, UK also /-væsər/; German: [ˈkɪʁʃvasɐ], German for "cherry water") or kirsch is a clear, colorless brandy traditionally made from double distillation of morello cherries, a dark-colored cultivar of the sour cherry. However, it is now also made from other kinds of cherries.
They are one of those artists that as soon as the song starts you know it’s Steely Dan immediately! They have their own unique sound that is so smooth and so sweet! They are amazing with great song after great song! Love, love, love them!
Actually it sounds like Purdue but it's really a drum machine. They built it for this album and that's why it took so long for this album to come out. I believe the drum machine actually won a Grammy. I think it's name was Melvin. It was a groundbreaking piece of technology at the time.
@@lorenzobaines6222 The Wendel drum machine (the first ever drum machine!) was built by engineer Roger Nichols during the middle of recording of the album. Therefore some of the songs like this one, Gaucho, and Third World Man (which was actually a leftover from the Aja sessions) are 100% natural drums. Other songs like Hey Nineteen, Glamour Profession, Time Out Of Mind, and My Rival have the Wendel drum replacement machine in place, where they took the drum grooves played by a real drummer and replaced the sounds with samples to make every snare hit sound identical and fix tiny timing mistakes, etc.
Great response and reaction my brotha! I had that very same feeling...smoove and funky. Well done. This cut is timeless. 100 years from now it will be just as fresh.
Yeahhhhh!!!! Been checking on you for this one everyday since you started Steely Dan. This is one of my faves!! Here come those Santa Ana winds again.... Love all the CA in there.
The story about this song is an older guy on his way to a 3-Way with younger girls. Donald seems to be saying that the reality of a Me'nage a' Trois doesn't match up to the hype, or that he just couldn't perform to the level required?
Think it's sorta both. If you make that kind of thing a habit, you're definitely playing with fire. It's that 'cotton candy': pretty, delicate, too sweet to last forever
"Don't you know what it means to become an orgy guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions...." ~Seinfeld
Scrolling through the comments I finally found someone who explains this to Jamel. He couldn't understand sisters not sister! It must be his clean lifestyle!!
My man, I love Steely Dan, I'm 61 years old and when I was in high school I was turned on to them. We used to play basketball and afterward chill out by getting high and putting Steely Dan on and man oh man. They are one of my favorite bands, some of the best music, loved your reaction.
Man, I really enjoy your videos, especially the Steely Dan reactions. I've been a fan of theirs for many years and to see you react allows me to react to them again and I thank you for that. Be cool, man and keep going.
When you have Patti Austin and Lani Groves as your background singers You know you’re going to get some stuff happening. Loved your reaction and I just subscribed to your channel. Oh yeah also Bernard Purdie on drums. So that’s pretty funky
Yessir! Kirsch, also known as Kirschwasser, is a clear fruit brandy distilled from cherries. Unlike other cherry-flavored “brandies,” Kirsch is not sweet. A good Kirsch should have pronounced cherry flavor and aroma as well as a subtle, bitter flavor that comes from distilling the pits with the cherry juice.(Copied from a Google search)
Gotta love that horn section, accent with out changing the focus of the music. The harmony is transcendent. SD's music of crime and the underside of society and the great moral facade that is who we really are, awe inspiring.
Just watched one of your Steely Dan videos. The joy on your face as you heard this song for the first time actually brought tears to my eyes. I am a 50 yr old white man who states playing guitar and singing at age 16 and started playing along with my parents records. Then I would borrow records from the library. I’m still trying to perfect the Steely Dan guitar work. I love you channel on you tube. Thank you for what you do! Keep it up
How about Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren he influenced the Hall & Oats sound and King Of The World by Steely Dan is one of their best songs that's why they put it on the Steely Dan Gold album.
@@murraywestenskow2896 I did say title track from "That" album, meaning The Royal Scam Album, yes this is obviously Gaucho. I just wanted to clarify that the album has a song with the same name. I am sure He can figure it out
It is raw and real when watching musically skilled people experiencing great music for the first time. A 90s band that were so talented but had a tortured lead singer called Blind Mellon. A must first listen is “I Wonder”. Enjoy the unique music and talent of these boys. All the best
Nice!!! Check out "I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) and "New Frontier" both songs are by Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan). Please give us your reaction. Thanks.
@@scoonman TBH, I feel that way about most of Steely Dan. I've put both Aja and The Nightfly on loop in the past while gaming and just listened to them for hours. Really, SD is my go to if I want to just feel really, really good.
So glad you can enjoy some Steely Dan! 70s music, often characterized by slow song buildups. Sometimes complex lyrics, complex intros or outros, long wandering melodies. Usually less repetitive than current pop music, though not always.
Bought the album (still have the vinyl!) the day it was available, when we used to have these quaint things called open stores and those included some that sold 33 1/3 rpm discs that included things that amazed you. Like this and pretty much every other song contained therein. Jamel, thank you "muchly" for all of your content when we can't seem to get out of the house.
I just came looking for this reaction to this song by you.. its my fav Steely Dan groove, maybe one of my most favorite songs ever. I love your channel! I'm glad we are on the same page about this song.
When I was studying for a masters cert at Berklee College of Music for mixing and production, Steely Dan and Donald Fagen albums and tracks were used as a reference on how to mix. Fagen apparently is notorious with how tracks are mixed and mastered and will spend forever working to get it just right.
Loving the reactions as alway Jamal. The groove is the fabulous "Purdie Shuffle". You need to treat your ears as Bernard was also on Kid Charlemane... Go on give it a listen. You know you want to.. Take care.
I was gonna recommend Babylon Sisters a few weeks back after I saw the "Peg" reaction, But, I figured somebody would eventually get around to it. My very first CD I bought for my very first CD player, back in 1986, was a Steely Dan CD. I love'em that much!
Yay Jamal! What a blast to watch & listen to w/ you, a favorite of mine, smooth as melted butter. Watching your face @ end, just when song is on the fade out, you get wave of fresh "you've got to shake it babies"-LOL- wonderful to see sweet surprise on your smiling face! Thank you, again, so much, for spending the time & opening the mind, experiencing other genres, offering genuine emotion, solemn respect & infectious curiosity for this music. Many of us, like myself, grew up w/a lot of this, took for granted it's only a radio dial away & slowly drifted away from my roots. Listening w/you, brought me back to basics, w/newfound respect, awe in some cases (the very young ages of Gregg Allman, along w/ Led Zeppelin, these guys blow doors off absolutely anyone today musically @ same age, hell, most musicians entire career can't do what Led Zeppelin did on debut album). I promised Led Zeppelin that if they forgave me for leaving, that I'd never, never, never gonna leave you, never leave you when the summer comes along
@@gracejaskot1547 Also I believe he's missed "Black Friday." He won't want to wrap up Steely without it. I'm still so proud of him for nabbing "Haitian Divorce"! 😃
@@barryanderson3910 Personally I don't think they ever made a bad track. My gosh..."Bad Sneakers." "The Fez." "Green Earrings." "Only A Fool Would Say That." But! "Bodhisattva" is a jam. It's a level-up. 😉
I remember pulling the plastic off this one and hearing it for the first time...it took so long to come out. Felt like we'd been holding our breath for years. And this was the first tune. We were going off like Jamel.
Gotta love them drums with the Purdie shuffle! There's a whole video out there on that alone. Definitely worth watching. Also, the backup singers really deserve a hand on this one. Well done. Hope you'll consider "My Rival" next. Steely Ben's done a video to it.
Glad you were digging one of my favorite songs by the Dan! FYI yes it really is "sisters" plural - the singers on the recording are just sliding that final s on the end of "sisters" into the start of "shake it" -- it's a standard singers' technique when you want a really smooth line, I was schooled in it by several choir directors :-D ... If you want to see Don and Walt do this one live with a really tight fabulous band, check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/JMVKAOyTUe4/v-deo.html ... carry on, man!
It's worth reading the Songfacts channel's description of this song. At this point, Donald Fagen's perfectionism had reached a new level. He mixed the song 274 times before he was only dissatisfied with one bass note, so he flew the tapes back to L.A. to get the bass player to redo that one note.
Bernard Purdie, (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time keeping, his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat, known as the "Purdie Shuffle." He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
Jamel - might be interested to know that in many music production classes they study this cut as one that is the benchmark for studio production. Also the very distinctive and razor sharp tenor sax tone was generated by none other than Tom Scott, maybe the second (after John Klemmer) boomer saxman to put out his own popular records. Who himself populated Joni Mitchell's records and many others.
Love watching your reaction to "The Dan of Steel"! Have you ever covered any of the songs from Donald Fagen's (half of the Steely Dan duo) first solo album The Nightfly? Check out the title track and New Frontier. Fagen uses some of the world's best studio musicians! Great stuff! Thanks again!!
Sweet dude glad you're digging into a little of the old school fusion jazz rock and roll. I saw these guys 2 times in the eighties to the best shows I've ever seen other than Led Zeppelin
Wrong decade, my friend. Steely Dan did not perform live in the 80's. Steely Dan took that decade off, didn't return to live performances 'til the 90's
Then 79. Dude!!. Stop being the police. Steely Dan got together in 1967. Don't try to police people dude! just enjoy jthe music. And I love young people's reaction to music that I've seen before. So get a life
Yes! Love that you got around to reacting to this. Can't wait for when you do Gaucho, with the beautiful Jeff Porcaro on drums (the guy who played Lido Shuffle, Lowdown, FM, Africa, Rosanna plus a whole lot of other tunes you've reacted to).
About 11 years ago, they did an album tour. The night we saw them in Akron, it was Aja night. They performed the songs as they appeared on the album. One of the backup singers started the show by walking onto the stage and putting the album on an old record player. After they performed the songs from that side of the album, she walked out and turned the record over. A good night was had by all.
You wanna know how much I love "Gaucho"? I flew from California to NYC for Gaucho Night during their 10-night residency at the Beacon Theatre. I thought drummer Keith Carlock did a fantastic job interpreting Jeff Porcaro's immortal drum track. My heart was full after hearing Gaucho in 2016.
Steely Dan entered my soul very much. First band that made me cry because it was just so damn good. That album was Aja. Love your videos man. I so badly want to experience it all for the first time again but watching you do that is giving me a lot of joy.
Oh my gosh I have heard this song the last 30 years.. my dad was a huge steely dan fan.. never til tonight realized they were singing about hookers! This video gave me such a great laugh.. love your reactions to steely dan especially! Glad you have an appreciation for the music I grew up with.. I was an 80s kid but grew up on 70s music from my parents 😁
Gaucho and Aja, two of the finest recorded albums ever.
ANYTHING by the Dan!
Amen!
That's a double amen here!
Don't forget Royal Scam.
@@slow71971 Royal Scam is my favorite album of theirs but it’s recording is not as clean as the 2 mentioned to my ear.
Bernard Purdie is such a great drummer. The Purdie Shuffle.
Todd S that’s the main thing I listen for in this song. Love it!
A groove master extraordinaire!
Not only is he an incredible drummer, but his performances and mannerisms and expressions are intoxicating.
He murdered that groove
The Purdie shuffle is the best and most copied drum beat of all time! Bernard Purdie is the best. Here is the legend showing how to perform the Purdie Shuffle: ua-cam.com/video/T1j1_aeK6WA/v-deo.html
Only Steely Dan can pack THIS much smooth, and THIS much cool, into ONE song... effortlessly
True, but it literally makes sense with or without the s.
It was far from effortless, read some of the stories, like how they obsessed over the fade-out on this song. I know what you mean, though. They just worked so damn hard on it that it sounds effortless.
@@philiproach2537 Yeah, I should have been more clear, Becker and Fagan were notorious perfectionists. I meant the way it sounded, so unforced, just flowing smooth.
They were perfectionist and toiled over every song. Never without tons of effort.
Totally.
One of Steely's most harmonically interesting songs. Such a great groove that one almost doesn't notice all the other shit goin' on.
You got that right Richard, ohh yes mate.
Babylon Sisters gets a lot of airplay on SiriusXM Yacht Rock Radio. One of the grooviest songs I've ever heard.
So happy that you've been turned on to Steely Dan. As a "boomer", I'm so happy to pay forward the music of our generation of the 60's, 70's and and 80's.
This was my stepdad's favorite Steely Dan song, and we used to sing along and play air drums to that nasty groove. He passed away last year, and your reaction reminds me of how I used to feel about this song. Thanks for doing this, and bringing that feeling back.
Your Dad must have been a cool guy , God Bless him 🙏
Bless ya man
Step Dad , love it ! Respect for the men that step up. The men that step down have created our societies problems
I'm a 61 year old African American grandma. My 12 year old grandson and his 5 year old sister love this song! They always ask to hear it when they ride with me and they sing along every time!
We are still looking for. Black Friday, to see your reaction. 💕
This song gets my nomination for the most perfectly engineered record of all time. On a great sound system it's just astonishing how intoxicating that production is. You just sink into it like a warm bath with a couch-lock high.
Get the vinyl on the tube amp and the goosebumps don’t stop
I listened to Aja on the BeoLab 90 speakers. *orgasmic*
@@UnicornOfDepression Wow! Where did you hear speakers like that? I'm sure they're great speakers, but I tend to think people that spend that money on audio have more money than brains. Unless you need to fill a gigantic room with sound, you can get a setup that measures near perfectly for under $10k, and probably even half that if you buy used. I'd gladly take a pair of KEF R11s or Perlisten R7ts or Revel F228's, a pair of good subwoofers, Dirac room correction, and probably have sound that would beat most systems costing 10x more in blind tests.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 I used to work for an AV Design/Build company. We were the B&O reps for San Diego.
As for the groove, it's so good it has a name. "The Purdie Shuffle". Bernard Purdie is the drummer. Drummers practice it to this day. Very hard to play.
Yeah, Purdie has a vid on the shuffle... just great stuff...
Met Purdie in the early 90’s. Asked if Becker & Fagen gave him a hard time in the studio? He said and I quote, “I didn’t pay them fools no mind”.
Do a reaction on Purdie, please. ua-cam.com/video/T1j1_aeK6WA/v-deo.html
Not the Purdie Shuffle.
JJ Uh... Yeah it is...
It’s sisters, that’s why “loves not a game for three” and there are harmonized multi voices for “tell me I’m the only one”
He's singing "Drink kirschwasser from a shell." Kirschwasser is a cherry brandy. Please react to Green Earrings by Steely Dan. You're going to love it.
This!
How about The Fez?
@@truthdweller3454 the whole Kid Charlemagne album!
@@TooBigToRig2024 He already did Peg
Green Earrings = my favorite Steely Dan guitar solo!
I'm not exaggerating when I say this song changed my life. Made me pick my piano back up and start taking music lessons. Every time I hear it I get chills. Steely Dan is different.
The great Valerie Simpson always in the studio with the boys, killing those backing vocals. This song is about knowing "I know I'm too old for this hedonistic threesome trist...but what a way to go. It's cheap, but it's not free."
The groove in this song is beyond believable. The banter between vocals and instruments..there are no words.
I love it when you react to Steely Dan. There's just a joy on your face that isn't usually there with other bands.
I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for Time Out of Mind again, and I.G.Y.
I would like to see this as well 👌👍
Definitely, "Time Out Of Mind."
Yup and Yup
IGY is Fagen solo from the Nightfly, not the Dan but still... great tune and yeah, he should listen to it cause he'd dig it.
@@cactaceous Yeah, I know. Note, I never said "I.G.Y. BY Steely Dan.
Brotha I love your reactions to one of my favorite groups. Steely Dan is THE TRUTH!!! They are REAL MUSICIANS and Writers. Keep on posting S.D. music their catalog is filled with nothing but Gems!!!
The Fez! Green Earrings. Grooves a Mile deep!!!
Doctor Mu yaaasss!!! THE FEZ
I remember
Sign in stranger!
I hope people noticed that Steely Dan pays close attention to the background singers. Some of the best in the business. Worthy of Donald Fagen’s lyrics.
They got the best of the best in Michael McDonald on I Got the News and Peg!
Those background singers are Patti Austen and Valerie Simpson....Some of best singers EVER....
This was their final album in their '72-'80 run. Possibly my favorite. The title track is a great song. So is Third World Man...try that one Jamel.
The title song is a jewel, but it was a "steal" from a number penned by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Jarrett sued for "plagiarism" and won. The lyrics are Fagen's and the arrangement is different from Jarrett's, but the court accepted his complaint.
Steely Dan is one of my all time favs. I have ALL of their music. I love your reactions to their music!!!!! The writing is amazing. They are geniuses with their jazz mixes...
Ok, I can die happy now; THANK YOU BROTHER! Your reactions ( to these Steely Dan songs especially) makes our quarantine days so entertaining! Thank you for just being you & doing your thing with an open mind. I wish more people would be that way. I knew you would dig it & grove to it too. This song just takes you way from any problems you may be dealing with. That's why like so many others have commented, is one of their best! I gotta do some thinking on my next request, but keep up the good work! These videos got me even more into different types of music, I had no clue about either, sometimes. Peace!
I love those unexpected melodies from the chorus or how the Dan mixes the backing vocals with the lead. Pure genius. Always with the unexpected.
Oh, you are on a roll today!!’ Babylon Sisters!! This is the kind of song that you ride through downtown late at night with your sunroof open and the street lights just shining into the car. Just you, the night and Steely Dan. Oh yes!! Don’t forget to review The Fez by them also.
Jamel, one more thing... This a band that refused to play live for a long time... They did but it was later in their careers and it was AMAZING!
Steely Dan...Exceptional music. Once heard never forgotten. Lives on in the heart and in the soul.
I love your Steely Dan reaction videos. They are one of my favorite bands. It brings me joy to see another person diggin' on The Dan.
Anybody else waiting for Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu"?
William Jud Weiksnar Still waiting 😞
Yes.
ME!!!
Yes!
Yeah, good suggestion. Jamel - over to you.
One hell of a sophisticated song. Love that “Purdie Suffle”. You will also here it on Toto’s “Rosanna” and Led Zepplin’s “Fool in the Rain”. It’s those drums.
A kirschwasser (/ˈkɪərʃvɑːsər/, UK also /-væsər/; German: [ˈkɪʁʃvasɐ], German for "cherry water") or kirsch is a clear, colorless brandy traditionally made from double distillation of morello cherries, a dark-colored cultivar of the sour cherry. However, it is now also made from other kinds of cherries.
At last: someone who knows. And it tastes delicious!!
That's the stuff traditionally used to soak a Black Forest cake.
@@edwardq6697 You made a yummy sound.
@@edwardq6697 So that's what a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is called in the US/UK?
They are one of those artists that as soon as the song starts you know it’s Steely Dan immediately! They have their own unique sound that is so smooth and so sweet! They are amazing with great song after great song! Love, love, love them!
I think you’d enjoy the song “Spill the Wine” by Eric Burdon and War (1970)
Catchy 70s tune with some crazy flute loops ✌🏻
Agreed!
Amazing song & must play Jamal✌😎
"Boogie Nights " soundtrack!! 👍 GREAT 70S authenticity!
Flute loops ? 😁
Peter Maxwell 😁
I could see and feel how it punched you in the face with how slick and smooth. Bless you, brother. Love.
That's that "Purdie Shuffle"
Yes yes yes that Purdie Shuffle on the drums!
Yes it is
Actually it sounds like Purdue but it's really a drum machine. They built it for this album and that's why it took so long for this album to come out. I believe the drum machine actually won a Grammy. I think it's name was Melvin. It was a groundbreaking piece of technology at the time.
Lorenzo Baines Perdie plays on the album. But wendell was the drum machine. Not used on every song
@@lorenzobaines6222 The Wendel drum machine (the first ever drum machine!) was built by engineer Roger Nichols during the middle of recording of the album. Therefore some of the songs like this one, Gaucho, and Third World Man (which was actually a leftover from the Aja sessions) are 100% natural drums. Other songs like Hey Nineteen, Glamour Profession, Time Out Of Mind, and My Rival have the Wendel drum replacement machine in place, where they took the drum grooves played by a real drummer and replaced the sounds with samples to make every snare hit sound identical and fix tiny timing mistakes, etc.
This is my favorite Steely Dan song. I have memories of listening to it with my dad on road trips.
You are my favorite YT reactor. So much fun watching your enjoyable personality being released during my favorite band's songs. What a great combo!
Great response and reaction my brotha! I had that very same feeling...smoove and funky. Well done. This cut is timeless. 100 years from now it will be just as fresh.
Yeahhhhh!!!! Been checking on you for this one everyday since you started Steely Dan. This is one of my faves!!
Here come those Santa Ana winds again.... Love all the CA in there.
And we told you about this song for like a year, Jamel/Jamal. I love seeing it at last. Peace and be safe. You are a treasure to me.
The story about this song is an older guy on his way to a 3-Way with younger girls. Donald seems to be saying that the reality of a Me'nage a' Trois doesn't match up to the hype, or that he just couldn't perform to the level required?
Think it's sorta both. If you make that kind of thing a habit, you're definitely playing with fire.
It's that 'cotton candy': pretty, delicate, too sweet to last forever
"Don't you know what it means to become an orgy guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions...."
~Seinfeld
Scrolling through the comments I finally found someone who explains this to Jamel. He couldn't understand sisters not sister! It must be his clean lifestyle!!
This is the Steely Danverse, anything good is followed by crushing existential depression
@@brianm6530 He's just playin' cool I bet, I seen the way he looks over his glasses sometimes LOL
My man, I love Steely Dan, I'm 61 years old and when I was in high school I was turned on to them. We used to play basketball and afterward chill out by getting high and putting Steely Dan on and man oh man. They are one of my favorite bands, some of the best music, loved your reaction.
"ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU".......Please!!!!
Quite a short track but one of the best, with great guitar solo. i hope he plays it as well Nick.
LOVE that track!
Love Any Major Dude
That's flat out one of Steely Dan's best. And man, they got a loooot of top shit.
yep one of their very best
Man, I really enjoy your videos, especially the Steely Dan reactions. I've been a fan of theirs for many years and to see you react allows me to react to them again and I thank you for that.
Be cool, man and keep going.
Love watching your show. Yop've actually given me an even greater appreciation of Steely Dan, and I've been listening to them since the 70's.
When you have Patti Austin and Lani Groves as your background singers You know you’re going to get some stuff happening. Loved your reaction and I just subscribed to your channel. Oh yeah also Bernard Purdie on drums. So that’s pretty funky
Yessir!
Kirsch, also known as Kirschwasser, is a clear fruit brandy distilled from cherries. Unlike other cherry-flavored “brandies,” Kirsch is not sweet. A good Kirsch should have pronounced cherry flavor and aroma as well as a subtle, bitter flavor that comes from distilling the pits with the cherry juice.(Copied from a Google search)
You have a better ear that I do! The closest I got Brazillian rum. Touche Bebbis77
Gotta love that horn section, accent with out changing the focus of the music. The harmony is transcendent. SD's music of crime and the underside of society and the great moral facade that is who we really are, awe inspiring.
Yeah Jamal Steely Dan is heaven's Muzak! "is there gas in the car?, "is there gas in the car?"
My favorite Fagen lyric ever
I think the people down the hall know who you are.
Yes there's gas in the caaaaaaaaaaaa
OMG - and kid Charlemagne!!!
You are so spoilt for choice with Steely Dan! And every song so different ! It’s like starting over ! All over again!
Careful what you carry...
Just watched one of your Steely Dan videos. The joy on your face as you heard this song for the first time actually brought tears to my eyes. I am a 50 yr old white man who states playing guitar and singing at age 16 and started playing along with my parents records. Then I would borrow records from the library. I’m still trying to perfect the Steely Dan guitar work. I love you channel on you tube. Thank you for what you do! Keep it up
How about Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren he influenced the Hall & Oats sound and King Of The World by Steely Dan is one of their best songs that's why they put it on the Steely Dan Gold album.
I love King Of The World! One of my favorites.
Yes...when Todd was with The Nazz❤
@@anneaires3984 sounds good to me
Hello, its me ❤
Todd Rundgren's Utopia!!!
When Pitchfork gave this album a perfect 10 the reviewer said that this song enters the room “like a toxic fog.” It’s perfection.
Wait until you hear "The Royal Scam" title track from that album.
Wrong album - this was from Gaucho.
@@murraywestenskow2896 I did say title track from "That" album, meaning The Royal Scam Album, yes this is obviously Gaucho. I just wanted to clarify that the album has a song with the same name. I am sure He can figure it out
@@michaelyork4554 good taste-- I am a 100% Dan fanatic, but the Royal Scam album is my fav out of sooo many good ones!!!
The whole album is MURDER!
It is raw and real when watching musically skilled people experiencing great music for the first time. A 90s band that were so talented but had a tortured lead singer called Blind Mellon. A must first listen is “I Wonder”. Enjoy the unique music and talent of these boys. All the best
Nice!!! Check out "I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) and "New Frontier" both songs are by Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan). Please give us your reaction. Thanks.
Great choices
I.G.Y. is so underrated as a SD tune.
Great album.
Art of Free Speech I can listen to The Nightfly on a loop. That album is fantastic.
@@scoonman TBH, I feel that way about most of Steely Dan. I've put both Aja and The Nightfly on loop in the past while gaming and just listened to them for hours. Really, SD is my go to if I want to just feel really, really good.
So glad you can enjoy some Steely Dan! 70s music, often characterized by slow song buildups. Sometimes complex lyrics, complex intros or outros, long wandering melodies. Usually less repetitive than current pop music, though not always.
Bought the album (still have the vinyl!) the day it was available, when we used to have these quaint things called open stores and those included some that sold 33 1/3 rpm discs that included things that amazed you. Like this and pretty much every other song contained therein. Jamel, thank you "muchly" for all of your content when we can't seem to get out of the house.
I just came looking for this reaction to this song by you.. its my fav Steely Dan groove, maybe one of my most favorite songs ever. I love your channel! I'm glad we are on the same page about this song.
One of my all time favorite Steely Dan songs - LOVE the Hammond B3 organ! Another good one is "Black Cow"....xo
There's no organ on this?
Jamal did black cow already--look in his video history
When I was studying for a masters cert at Berklee College of Music for mixing and production, Steely Dan and Donald Fagen albums and tracks were used as a reference on how to mix. Fagen apparently is notorious with how tracks are mixed and mastered and will spend forever working to get it just right.
It's funny how much you love Steely Dan. Cant fight the smooth groove Jamal
Loving the reactions as alway Jamal. The groove is the fabulous "Purdie Shuffle". You need to treat your ears as Bernard was also on Kid Charlemane... Go on give it a listen. You know you want to..
Take care.
Whoooo hooooooo Steely Dan baby!!!!! I knew you'd like Babylon Sisters! That song is outrageous live! I hate the Santa Ana's too.
Part of the Steely Dan Charm is they just do their thing and stay true to it Without getting caught up in trending changes like other artists
the song's title is Babylon Sisters, the guy doing the video was correct with the title.
Yep....and song is about him going to a 3-way hook-up. Noticed that Steely Ben shows 3 dancers in the video. 😂😂😂😂
@@darlenedejohnette5180 love’s not a game for three
Bootsy Collins said." Sometimes the groove is so deep... you can't get out"
This is one of those times 😎😎
I was gonna recommend Babylon Sisters a few weeks back after I saw the "Peg" reaction, But, I figured somebody would eventually get around to it. My very first CD I bought for my very first CD player, back in 1986, was a Steely Dan CD. I love'em that much!
They sure do know how to create a groove.
Yay Jamal! What a blast to watch & listen to w/ you, a favorite of mine, smooth as melted butter. Watching your face @ end, just when song is on the fade out, you get wave of fresh "you've got to shake it babies"-LOL- wonderful to see sweet surprise on your smiling face! Thank you, again, so much, for spending the time & opening the mind, experiencing other genres, offering genuine emotion, solemn respect & infectious curiosity for this music. Many of us, like myself, grew up w/a lot of this, took for granted it's only a radio dial away & slowly drifted away from my roots. Listening w/you, brought me back to basics, w/newfound respect, awe in some cases (the very young ages of Gregg Allman, along w/ Led Zeppelin, these guys blow doors off absolutely anyone today musically @ same age, hell, most musicians entire career can't do what Led Zeppelin did on debut album).
I promised Led Zeppelin that if they forgave me for leaving, that I'd never, never, never gonna leave you, never leave you when the summer comes along
You are amazing! Your reaction is so wonderful! You remind me why true music fans all over the world have been loving this song and album for decades.
It is time for "Bodhisattva." That's top shelf stank face.
I agree. Bodhisattva!
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Also I believe he's missed "Black Friday." He won't want to wrap up Steely without it. I'm still so proud of him for nabbing "Haitian Divorce"! 😃
How about "King of the World". Maybe apropos for these times?
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Personally I don't think they ever made a bad track. My gosh..."Bad Sneakers." "The Fez." "Green Earrings." "Only A Fool Would Say That."
But!
"Bodhisattva" is a jam. It's a level-up. 😉
@@rlwetz4317 Beat me to The Fez!
I remember pulling the plastic off this one and hearing it for the first time...it took so long to come out. Felt like we'd been holding our breath for years. And this was the first tune. We were going off like Jamel.
Gotta love them drums with the Purdie shuffle! There's a whole video out there on that alone. Definitely worth watching. Also, the backup singers really deserve a hand on this one. Well done. Hope you'll consider "My Rival" next. Steely Ben's done a video to it.
Hell yes!!! You kick ass, Jamel AKA Jamal. Thank you for doing what your doing. Very entertaining.
My favorite Steely Dan song. This band was made for headphones.
Contrary....SD is best when played on a real hifi system.
Glad you were digging one of my favorite songs by the Dan! FYI yes it really is "sisters" plural - the singers on the recording are just sliding that final s on the end of "sisters" into the start of "shake it" -- it's a standard singers' technique when you want a really smooth line, I was schooled in it by several choir directors :-D ... If you want to see Don and Walt do this one live with a really tight fabulous band, check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/JMVKAOyTUe4/v-deo.html ... carry on, man!
When i was in LA, had to put this tune on driving westbound on Sunset. SD just keeps bringing it all.
"Hold on. Drink WHAT?!?!" LOLOL I've been wondering that for 40 years....
Bruh, welcome. Steely Dan is tight!!! Been listening to them for literally decades now. Even saw them in concert. Killed it!
Was waiting for this one!! You cracked me up big time lol my man was FEELING THE DAN.
How in the World can anyone not LOVE " Steely Dan" This Music is like fine wine , it gets better with age ... VIVE S.D.
Hall and oats “one on one “
But the Daryl's House version with Cee-lo
@@dalisllama Exactly.....that was the SHIT.
It's worth reading the Songfacts channel's description of this song. At this point, Donald Fagen's perfectionism had reached a new level. He mixed the song 274 times before he was only dissatisfied with one bass note, so he flew the tapes back to L.A. to get the bass player to redo that one note.
"The kid will live and learn, as he watches his bridges burn. From the point of no return"
1:05 What a great way to put what happens to most of us who heard this song for the first time. The sheer beauty of the music just draws you in
Musically, I think this was their best composition.
Paul Hogue for me it’s a tie with Black Cow.
It’s a tough field to choose from... but good choice 🤘
Any man that can love Steely Dan as much as you do has my full respect.
This whole album is amazing... Gaucho is their second album after they moved to LA from NY and you can hear the California influence.
Bernard Purdie, (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time keeping, his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat, known as the "Purdie Shuffle." He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
oh YEAH--BEEN WAITiNG FOR THIS!!!
Jamel - might be interested to know that in many music production classes they study this cut as one that is the benchmark for studio production. Also the very distinctive and razor sharp tenor sax tone was generated by none other than Tom Scott, maybe the second (after John Klemmer) boomer saxman to put out his own popular records. Who himself populated Joni Mitchell's records and many others.
And on drums, the great Bernard “Pretty” Purdie. You may remember him from Home At Last.
Did he already do Home at Last?
Love watching your reaction to "The Dan of Steel"! Have you ever covered any of the songs from Donald Fagen's (half of the Steely Dan duo) first solo album The Nightfly? Check out the title track and New Frontier. Fagen uses some of the world's best studio musicians! Great stuff! Thanks again!!
Sweet dude glad you're digging into a little of the old school fusion jazz rock and roll. I saw these guys 2 times in the eighties to the best shows I've ever seen other than Led Zeppelin
Wrong decade, my friend. Steely Dan did not perform live in the 80's. Steely Dan took that decade off, didn't return to live performances 'til the 90's
Then 79. Dude!!. Stop being the police. Steely Dan got together in 1967. Don't try to police people dude! just enjoy jthe music. And I love young people's reaction to music that I've seen before. So get a life
@@brianwhitney5441 well said.... Boom!💯
@@cd1857 You might want to let the fact that Steely Dan didn't form until 1972, or that they stopped touring in 1974 slide, officer.
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Steely Dan..so much talent and so much Groove! They are Amazing
Yes! Love that you got around to reacting to this. Can't wait for when you do Gaucho, with the beautiful Jeff Porcaro on drums (the guy who played Lido Shuffle, Lowdown, FM, Africa, Rosanna plus a whole lot of other tunes you've reacted to).
About 11 years ago, they did an album tour. The night we saw them in Akron, it was Aja night. They performed the songs as they appeared on the album. One of the backup singers started the show by walking onto the stage and putting the album on an old record player. After they performed the songs from that side of the album, she walked out and turned the record over. A good night was had by all.
I was hoping you’d listen to this one! Definitely one of the best jams.
This song is on replay in my car. I have listened to this song many many times.
Making a request for a reaction for Steely Dan "Gaucho". More SD magic.
That whole album is straight through for me. My fav.
Yes, please. On Gaucho, the backing choir is quite spectacular
That song actually helped me get a final Jeopardy question about Argentinian cowboys. Thanks Steely Dan!
You wanna know how much I love "Gaucho"? I flew from California to NYC for Gaucho Night during their 10-night residency at the Beacon Theatre. I thought drummer Keith Carlock did a fantastic job interpreting Jeff Porcaro's immortal drum track. My heart was full after hearing Gaucho in 2016.
Who is your gaucho amigo?
Steely Dan entered my soul very much. First band that made me cry because it was just so damn good. That album was Aja. Love your videos man. I so badly want to experience it all for the first time again but watching you do that is giving me a lot of joy.
Oh my gosh I have heard this song the last 30 years.. my dad was a huge steely dan fan.. never til tonight realized they were singing about hookers! This video gave me such a great laugh.. love your reactions to steely dan especially! Glad you have an appreciation for the music I grew up with.. I was an 80s kid but grew up on 70s music from my parents 😁