POX: Steely Dan

1. Bad Sneakers.
2. Dirty Work.
3. Barrytown.
4. Night By Night.
5. My Old School.
6. Home At Last. (great pick JBR!)
7. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More.
8. Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
9. Hey Nineteen.
10. Bodhisattva.

1. Bad Sneakers.
2. Dirty Work.
3. Barrytown.
4. Night By Night.
5. My Old School.
6. Home At Last. (great pick JBR!)
7. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More.
8. Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
9. Hey Nineteen.
10. Brooklyn Owes The Charmer (Under Me).

1. Live "Bodhisattva" I have on flip side of "Time Out of Mind" single. Greatest band intro ever--little pretty thing.
2. "Josie." Heard this outdoors at the Fremon St. mall in Las Vegas last month, cool ominous intro.
3. "My Old School." Dig the horns.
4. "Kid Charlemagne." Did Owsley ever hear it?
5. "Bad Sneakers." The pause after "Radio City with a..."
6. "Parker's Band."
7. "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again."
8. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number." Horace Silver=great AM single.
9. "Dr. Wu."
10. "Pretzel Logic."

Yep, when you add that extra note in there--and voice it as a wholetone and not as a ninth, it sho sound fat.

(Alabama's got a nice little crop of state songs, though -- "Stars Fell on Alabama" is now the motto on their license plates.)

An old interweb nickname of mine: "Jodhisattva"

(ducks)

I plan to go out and buy "Countdown to Ecstasy" on CD sometime--feel I should own that one.

"Jodhissatva"--that's good.

Trivia time. Track down an old Charlie Parker number called "Bongo Beep"; the melody's the same as that little throwaway figure at the end of "Parker's Band." I was listening to one of those Dial Sessions comps at someone's house a few years ago and when "Bongo Beep" came on I was floored.

You mean the bit at the very end of the song?

Bridge to "Parker's" is really hard to play right.

And obv you know where "Annandale" is!

Also, Barrytown is just south of Annandale off River Road. The late Fluxus poet/playwright/publisher Dick Higgins lived there (and was landlord to some friends of mine).

I've been listening to the Dan pretty much exclusively for about 2 weeks now -- I'm not sure when that's going to change.

I also went to W&M, and I can testify with some degree of certainty that there's not a frat boy out there without "My Old School" in his mp3 folder -- if that helps. BTW, hi Yancey! Email me sometime...

My gf and I rented "History of Rock-n-Roll: The 70s" from the public library yesterday, which featured a live performance of "Reeling in the Years" -- they were unbelievably static up there, but the playing was awesome. Skunk Baxter said lots of hilarious rockist stuff about disco, too.

Kalamazoo, MI: Classic or Dud?

Just out of curiosity, what are the four artists to the right of your Dan albums alphabetically, and the four to the right?

For me: Soul Center, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Squarepusher, Stars of the Lid... THE DAN... Stereolab, Stockholm Monsters, Stooges, Stravinsky

oh jeez...well they're probably remarkably close to clarkes! (minus squarepusher.)

Spring Heel Jack, Squarepusher, The Static, Jim Staley. . . Stereolab, the Stooges, Storm&Stress, The Styrenes

CDs:

Souled American, Speedranch^JanskyNoise, Alexander “Skip” Spence, Stanley Brothers. . . Stereolab, Stilluppsteypa, Stock Hausen and Walkman, The Stone Roses

But I dunno abt this 'wrong-reasons-for-liking-the-Dan business...' - isn't it nice that there's one group at least that chops-lovin' jazzbos and anti-technique pop types can agree abt?

I've just realized that Katy Lied is by far my favorite of their records.

The Cuervo Gold
The fine Columbian
Make tonight a wonderful thing

Somehow, for me, it suggests (but only suggests) the desperation and loneliness beneath the ol' smoothie routine, but also the gentility of it all, thereby redeeming the cliche for everymore.

Sorta wish they'd left Gaucho as their definitive "last stand"; I'd have preferred to just remember them as a flicker of the past and not have to watch them grow old ungracefully. But there were a few terrific moments on Two Against Nature (the ending of "West of Hollywood" could have been the high-note ending Gaucho chose not to go out on).

Yes. It's a very anti-rockist record -- you have to disabuse yrself of the idea that you're too hardcore and real for it. Put aside what you dislike about that sort of music and listen to the songs.

How? (Honestly.)

Fagen/Becker

http://www.artistdirect.com/showcase//contemporary/photos/steelydan.gif

vs. Hütter/Schneider

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp100/p141/p14111nm95j.jpg

I dunno. It worked for me when I was a bratty little metalhead kid and my dad would play the Steely Dan best-of whenever we were out in the car. The first 25 times I did the usual "Aw, this sucks!" bit, but then I really started to get into it, ESPECIALLY songs like "Babylon Sisters" and "Here at the Western World." I remember thinking how "punk" it was that they'd make music that could stir such violent hatred in people -- Gaucho is bizjazz's very own Metal Machine Music, except people find it too listenable!

Btw. I consider "The Nightfly" even better than any Steely Dan album.

TS: Can't Buy a Thrill vs. Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" ("Well, I ride on a mail train, baby/Can't buy a thrill")

if only, if only...

But isn't this a bit like saying the overlay (the melodies, the lyrics, the wry vocals) "redeems" the rhythm section?

Here's what I'm thinking: we know a lot of people who listen to Steely Dan may have come to it through lite-jazz or MOR. Jess (I think it was Jess) even went to far as to suggest that they might be appreciating S.D. for the "wrong reasons." But have any of us passed through the mirror from the other side, so to speak? Have we been able to listen to "smooth jazz" with more attentive ears as a result of learning to appreciate Gaucho?

I haven't done it lord knows--I still have an instinctual response to cringe or change the channel when WNUA plays nearly anything but S.D. or Sade. I'm wondering if I've so far failed some kind of challenge--even if Becker and Fagen didn't conceive of it in exactly that way.

Fair enough. For me, the Dan somehow equals being in a hatchback in the late seventies as a small child on the way to the doctor because you're sick and it's raining and you're too young to say Mommy turn this fucking lite jazz off! Which I don't think was an actual scenario, but for lack of better words that's what I get when I hear it. I don't doubt that they are good musicians, but that's no solace.

TS: Time Out of Mind. (Obvi.) The album itself is okay, but I have a promo e.p. of live versions of Love Sick, Can't Wait, Million Miles, and Cold Irons Bound which is absolutely fierce (and I'm not a great Dylan fan).

Actually, yeah. I don't love smooth jazz, but Gaucho helped me see that certain musical tropes aren't inherently evil. People hate this stuff because they're taught to, because it's [a] not youth music, and [b] sophisticated in the "wrong" way (setting up a "yuppies vs. hipsters" feud that shouldn't even exist because hipsters ARE yuppies).

It's hard to tell what kind of "coolness" factors I've internalized, but: I don't hate classical music. Or big band, or bop. Or most things. These are not youthful (I'm not sure what the "wrong" sophistication is).

I'm not trying to be a dick--people are obviously permitted to enjoy things I don't. Maybe I'm just missing it like I'm also evidently not "getting" Daydream Nation... :-)

I'm so ambivalent about a lot of '70s music. The Dan included. But I'm telling you, hearing "Josie" emanate from these speakers outdoors in that Vegas mall was an epiphany. Great moment. All these wasted people wandering around and this incredible intro wafting thru the mall--I love America and its indifference to art...

Left and right of Steely D. in vinyl (working frm memory here partly):
3 Stax comps on vinyl (Fantasy reissues). Chris Stamey LPs. Gary Stewart LPs on RCA. "Stiffs Live." A Suicide record.

I did have a problem with them for a while, as I say upthread. But their great subject is reclaiming a bit of history that rock and roll had partly obscured. Post-counterculture. Has anyone else heard the Thomas Jefferson Kaye record on ABC/Dunhill they contributed a song ("American Lovers") to? I read a review of it by Xgau a few years back and found it for about a buck not long after. TJK wrote "One Man Band" which was done by Three Dog Night...

"The Nightfly" is a fine record. "A summer smoker underground." One of those records that most everyone likes--and it's a good record to boot...

Honorable mentions: Haitian Divorce, Kid Charlemagne, Babylon Sisters, The Boston Rag, King of the World, Peg, Third World Man

I don't know about "better than," but it's a great album. I had a pirate radio show for a while, and I was The Nightfly. Seriously, that's what i called myself. I was on between two and four, playing blues and jazz from the 50's, 60's and 70's, from my own collection. (My own collection got huge in this time period.) It was a dream gig, really. No hassles, no responsibilities, just me and this shack and this 100 ft. radio tower in someone's backyard. We reached most of East Austin and all of the campus/downtown area pretty well. People would call in... "Can you play some Bjork?" No ma'am, I cannot. I have nothing against Bjork, mind you, but you're with me tonight. How about some Sister Rosetta Thorpe instead?

I would occasionally sneak in a Steely Dan track. I once got this memorable phone call: I was playing "Your Gold Teeth II," and some girl called in and asked what it was. I told her it was Steely Dan, and she said, in the most disgusted voice she could possibly muster, "Oh." And then quickly hung up. As if she was horrified that this song she liked was by a band that sucks. Old age is wasted on the young.

Kenan, an exam show is actually really kewl -- a three-hour slot during finals in which DJs can play anything they want. I always do themes; I've done a Kraftwerk show, a Miles in the 70s show, and another that I can't remember right now. I know that this Dan show is going to be a blast, though.

In fact, in my mind I always conflate it with "Just the Two of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr. with Bill Withers! That was just a monster hit, and the two them came out roughly around the same time. And they both sort of exemplify the lite-jazz approach. Except that whereas now "lite-jazz" is it's own ghettoized genre, these two songs were bona fide pop hits. You couldn't escape 'em. Actually I'm straining to think of songs since then in the template that achieved similar success. Maybe an interesting topic for further research if I wasn't so wiped out right now.

So anyway, this is all by way of me thinking about Amateurist's question; and thinking that I didn't come to the Dan by way of yupster shite (WNUA), and nor did their music serve to open my ears to the bathos of lite-jazz. I sort of place it in a certain time period and in a certain era of multiplicity in pop music.

Think for a moment: what kind of mind decides to put this kind of music to these lyrics? What are they trying to prove, what are they getting at? It's not about spontaneous release of emotion, obviosly, and it's not even slightly improvised, so it's not rock and it's not jazz. What is it?

Well, duh, it's pop. And any assessment of the band should include the fact that Dan wrote great pop songs. I do say that, but too breifly.

Then again -- and thank you for making me think about this again, because I really enjoy doing so -- the music, while great, is great in a different way than the "hipsters" you dislike so much are used to hearing as "great." Maybe the hipsters didn't grow up listening to Glen Campbell sing Jimmy Webb like I did, so they don't appreciate a clean, tight pop song for what it is. And often the music is great in a way that has nothing to do with emotion. It's often most brilliant to the person who understands songwriting, chords, changes, structure. The music alone sometimes hits on a gut level, is sometimes irresistably catchy, but not always. To FULLY appreciate Dan, you need to understand technique.

An likewise with the lyrics. They're amazing, but not to just anyone. Dan does not write love songs. They write complex layers of meaning.

So they both appeal to both sides, and fail to satisfy both sides. It takes a rare person (I don't mean to overcongratulate myself here) to understand all of what's going on there.

"Non-plussed" does not mean what everyone thinks it means. In fact, it means almost the opposite.

TS: the Louise character in "Pearl of the Quarter" vs. the Louise character in Dylan's "Visions of Johanna"

Anyway:

1) Pearl of the Quarter
2) Dirty Work
3) Everyone's Gone to the Movies
4) Sign in Stranger
5) Any Major Dude Will Tell You
6) Caves of Altamira
7) FM
8) Show Biz Kids
9) Everything You Did
10) Josie

Older friend of mine at the UCI newspaper years back said that for his crew growing up Steely Dan were like XTC were for another time -- an odd bunch of studio boffins who didn't tour and created sometimes wonderfully impenetrable records that you could whistle and hum melodies from. I like that comparison.

-- TMFTML

i like 'josie' and 'peg' and 'showbiz kids' and 'any major dude...'
hey i'm sure there was a thread about best dan lp's but i'm darned if i could find it.

The one I find most often on my turntable in the mornings after long nights of drinking is Katy Lied.

(Those two paragraphs have nothing to do with one another.)

Any Major Dude
Deacon Blues
West of Hollywood
Through with Buzz
Dr. Wu
Aja
Night by Night
Almost Gothic
Everone's Gone to the Movies
The Fez

only a fool would say that
night by night
showbiz kids
any major dude will tell you
dady don't live in that new york city no more
bad sneakers
peg
haitian divorce
brooklyn owes the charmer under me
dirty work

and i have NO IDEA what 'brooklyn owes the charmer under me' means.

Phoenix is approaching this, imo. I really get an updated Steely Dan vibe from them.

My Old School
Only a Fool Would Say That
Barrytown
Hey Nineteen
Showbiz Kids
Razor Boy
Reelin' in the Years
Dirty Work
Boddhisattva
Any Major Dude Will Tell You

1. The Boston Rag
2. Rose Darling
3. Razor Boy
4. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
5. Dr. Wu
6. Barrytown
7. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
8. Dirty Work
9. Show Biz Kids
10. Night By Night

Bonus Track: Rebellion (Lies) by the Arcade Fire--sounds just like The Dan.

1. Hey Nineteen (one of my favorite songs when I was 19; one of my favorite songs now that I'm just a couple of years younger than Donald Fagen was when he recorded it)
2. Time Out Of Mind
3. Kid Charlemagne
4. Barrytown
5. Peg (I love the vocal combination of Fagen and McDonald on this one)
6. My Old School (Had I not spent my undergrad years at Rice, I probably would have gone to William & Mary, so I've always identified with the parts about W&M)
7. Rose Darling
8. Pretzel Logic
9. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (High on the list of "Songs That We'll Never Hear Michael Jackson Cover")
10. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

and, argh, Bad Sneakers and Third World Man.

The Royal Scam (thanks, Dave Q)
Do It Again
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Charlie Freak
Bodhisattva
My Old School
Peg
Bad Sneakers
Haitian Divorce
Dirty Work

(never heard Gaucho, except for "Hey Nineteen")

Pretzel Logic Steely Dan 126
Time Out of Mind Steely Dan 108
Rose Darling Steely Dan 102
Any Major Dude Steely Dan 102
Gaucho Steely Dan 88
With A Gun Steely Dan 82 (I think it's because of the bridge)
The Caves Of Altamira Steely Dan 80
Black Cow Steely Dan 77
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More Steely Dan 74
FM Steely Dan 72

any major dude
black cow
the boston rag
king of the world
gold teeth
barrytown
parker's band
peg
dirty work
kid charlemagne

uptown, baby
uptown, baby
we gets down, baby
for the crown, baby

I saw Donald Fagen on the street earlier this week (on 61st and Madison Avenue). He looks old.

he is old

http://www.steelydandictionary.com/

Man, I was playing some mu chords at band practice the other day. Sounds so good.

Anyone read this??

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51713V739EL._AA240_.jpg

Book Description
This is the story of Eddie Zittner, a 29-year-old New Yorker who is obsessed with the rock group Steely Dan. And his life is going nowhere. An aspiring writer, he hasn't written a word in months. His marriage is on the rocks. He's bouncing from one dead-end job to another. A series of personal crises force Eddie to confront his obsession and the other realities in his life.

isn't this about that guy from "knocked up"?

wow GLAMOUR PROFESSION is really something isn't it?

hadn't noticed before.

The main character in that song: Marlo Stanfield, or more like Nino Brown? Hmmm.

Brut and charisma
Poured from the shadow where he stood
Looking good
He's a crowd pleasing man

:)

My Old School
Reelin in the Years
Boston Rag
Rikki
Dr Wu
Kid Charlemagne
Here at the Western World
Peg
Deacon Blues
FM

Shit, I meant to add Mr. Sam instead of Here at Western World

revive

unpossible

Brut and charisma
Poured from the shadow where he stood

fav dan lyric quoted in this thread, so thread delivers

i wish "kulee baba" had made it to gaucho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtfDT9EEFwM

timely!

i just wrote the following about some of the band's songs:

http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/

Aja
Any World
Bodhisattva
Doctor Wu
Hey Nineteen
Josie
Kid Charlemagne
Peg
Black Cow
Bad Sneakers

Brut and charisma
Poured from the shadow where he stood

I thought he said "brooding charisma"!

good stuff charlie

Midnite Cruiser
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Home At Last
Barrytown
Pearl of the Quarter
Kid Charlemagne
Babylon Sisters
Dr. Wu
Deacon Blues

oh, and re the "could there be an analogue to the Dan in today's debased musical world? query upthread...well, I mean, not really, but my answer would be The Sea and Cake.

"Reelin' in the Years"
"Midnite Cruiser"
"King of the World"
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
"Pretzel Logic"
"Doctor Wu"
"Any World (That I'm Welcome To)"
"Sign in Stranger"

The eight I'm 100% sure of.

King of the World
Babylon Sisters
My Old School
Haitian Divorce
Jack of Speed
This All Too Mobile Home
Reelin' In The Years
Night By Night
Home At Last
Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

no 'any major dude'?

that is one of my SD blind spots, have never especially liked it

not fond of that one either - feel like lyrically pretzel logic is not generally on the level of its neighbors

yeah it was the first SD album i bonded with but it feels kind of minor to me now

i feel like there are no minor SD albums in the original 7, but maybe that's bc each one of them has at some point been my favorite.

oh they're all sacred texts for sure, i just meant relatively minor

wonder if I can even do this.

King of the World
Dr. Wu
Aja
Rose Darling
Jack of Speed
Do It Again
Your Gold Teeth
My Old School
Kid Charlemagne
Josie

That leaves out some I'd be very very sad to lose - "Bad Sneakers," "Reelin' in the Years" which is just such a marvel - all of Gaucho - "Barrytown." But I think I could live with the above

is there a stats guy in the house with time on his hands willing to work for free? would love to see a graphic representation of how people's POXes here play out in terms of which album gets the most representation, etc

In order:

Third World Man
The Boston Rag
Midnight Cruiser
Dr. Wu
Any Major Dude...
Black Friday
Gaucho
Deacon Blues
Godwhacker
With a Gun
King of the World

Boston Rag was on my "nearly" list

is there a stats guy in the house with time on his hands willing to work for free? would love to see a graphic representation of how people's POXes here play out in terms of which album gets the most representation, etc

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:45 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm possibly

hey there's a steely dan poll coming up, only 20 or so more ILM polls to go through til we get there.

kid charlemagne
dr. wu
rose darling
deacon blues
any major dude will tell you
home at last
bad sneakers
king of the world
babylon sisters
rikki don't lose that number

this is also basically impossible

shit...forgot "sign in stranger" too....and "any world"....and "caves of altimara"

and "here in the western world"

and all steely dan songs because they rule

will die during the dan ilm pool, an elaborate death on a mostly deserted island, they find me twelve years later most of my body having produced a new kind of a jewel

^^^ the scenario in "Third World Man"

p sure he goes crazy on a lawn and then dies in a bunker and the neighborhood watches but doesn't care enough

btw brad i never did thank you for being the biggest supporter of @steelydanlyrics - you always retweet me :)

it's the best possible of all twitters

it is maybe true that i don't know how to phrase things now that i'm a drunk guy

last i checked i was up over 650 followers, including -- unless i'm wrong -- fagen's twitter (and chuck klosterman)

it is maybe true that i don't know how to phrase things now that i'm a drunk guy

is this a steely dan lyric?

lmao i was thinking the same thing

Never knew "King of the World" was so loved--thought it was an oddball favourite of mine. Can't think of a more perfect soundtrack for the muck and mire of Watergate.

Reelin' In The Years
The Fez
Peg
Deacon Blues
Any Major Dude
Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Haitian Divorce
My Old School
Kid Charlemange

Can you guys think of *any* modern analogue to Steely Dan? My roommate and I were just talking about this: what would it even mean for a band to resemble the Dan nowadays? Would it even be possible? Don't people ever get tired of unquestioningly valuing amateurism and non-technique?

Phoenix is approaching this, imo. I really get an updated Steely Dan vibe from them.

lol wut

Aja
Home At Last
Pretzel Logic
Third World Man
Doctor Wu
The Boston Rag
Babylon Sisters
Razor Boy
Dirty Work
My Old School

Never knew "King of the World" was so loved--thought it was an oddball favourite of mine. Can't think of a more perfect soundtrack for the muck and mire of Watergate.

― clemenza, Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i first got way into it on the Gold compilation, which for some reason sprinkles deep cuts like that and "Chain Lightening" in with the big hits.

is there a stats guy in the house with time on his hands willing to work for free? would love to see a graphic representation of how people's POXes here play out in terms of which album gets the most representation, etc

Can't believe I did this (skipped the post 1980 picks, sorry)...

Albums by POXes:

Katy Lied
Countdown to Ecstasy
Preztel Logic
Aja
Royal Scam
Can't Buy a Thrill
Gaucho

Albums by POXes per # of songs on album:

Countdown to Ecstasy
Aja
Katy Lied
Preztel Logic
Royal Scam
Gaucho
Can't Buy a Thrill

Pearl of the Quarter
Kid Charlemagne
Any Major Dude
Midnight Cruiser
Home at Last
Rose Darling
Sign in Stranger
Dirty Work
Dallas
Peg

Whoa, "Dallas!"

Beautiful song.

Black Cow
Kings
My Old School
Babylon Sisters
Gaucho
Night by Night
Kid Charlemagne
The Royal Scam
Gaslighting Abbie
Green Earrings

Thank you Sodabox!! Interestingly to me, Albums by POXes per # of songs on album is my top three SD albums, I think in order (Aja and CTE bump back and forth for me)

Your Gold Teeth II
Your Gold Teeth I
Glamour Profession
Time Out of Mind
Green Earrings
Any Major Dude
Bad Sneakers
My Old School
Aja
Hey Nineteen

"glamour profession" is the best

But why can't I just have 'All of Gaucho' as a sing track choice :(

xpost mayyyybe my single favorite dan lyric.

mine too. my other single favorite dan lyric is "my rival"

the milk truck eased into my space
somebody screamed somewhere

Haha me too! Scar across face/hearing aid! Yet I had to leave it out of my POX for fear of underrepresenting the other LPs. Basically Gaucho ties with Marquee Moon, Hex Enduction Hour, Bringing It All Back Home and Golden Age of Wireless for all-time feature-length dizzying lyrical imagination.

' did you mean swag heathen? '

"glamour profession" is the best

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)

I'm no headphone fetishist but, man, my appreciation grew enormously after spending time with this one on a bus ride. So many instrumental parts yet no clutter.

Brad and Jon otm, "My Rival" is a pretty much flawless lyric (and underrated as a song as well). Total gem of economy.

How dope is "Shanghai Comfidential"? It sounds like Wally Badarou with a little yellow magic orchestra flavor.

argh CoNFidential

my friend made an awesome "dan from 1993-2006" playlist on spotify

http://open.spotify.com/user/rend_it/playlist/0LDatHMkKkujGaC9SGJjFq

For some reason, I always imagine My Rival to be about Billy Joel.

obviously not on Spotify but i'm a fan of the '90s era live staple "West Side Story"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyREB7MmvZY

Love "Yo-Yo," like "One Bad Apple," but venture forth at your peril:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDeVAF58jPg

World, I apologize for my part in the great chain of dissemination here.

the comedy segment has you yearning for a return to the full-on assault against one the all-time great tunes, but then the assault is renewed and you yearn for the days of the unspeakable comedy segment

glamour profession
babylon sisters
peg
hey nineteen
the second arrangement
black cow
reelin' in the years
aja
brooklyn (owes the charmer under me)
time out of mind

aja
green earrings
haitian divorce
any major dude will tell you
glamour profession
deacon blues
the boston rag
josie
dirty work
everyone's gone to the movies

Solid list

impossible but

jack of speed
third world man
king of the world
bad sneakers
the boston rag
aja
deacon blues
sign in stranger
your gold teeth ii
barrytown

show biz kids
razor boy
king of the world
any major dude
bad sneakers
doctor wu
your gold teeth ii
peg
gaucho
glamour profession

Aja
Night by Night
King of the World
Gaucho
Doctor Wu
Home at Last
My Old School
Bad Sneakers
Third World Man
Only a Fool Would Say That

^^ totally different from my poll ballot from a couple years ago

Aja
Deacon Blues
Peg
Bad Sneakers
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Night by Night
Barrytown
Show Biz Kids
Dirty Work
Your Gold Teeth