RANK THE DAN

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Can't Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied
Countdown to Ecstacy
Pretzel Logic
Aja
The Royal Scam
Gaucho
Everything Must Go
Two Against Nature (I am going by the songs from it on the TAN DVD, it might raise in stature once I finally get around to buying it.)

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I'd actually rank The Royal Scam at least third, probably second behind Aja. The rest of the rankings, I dunno.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

didn't we do this?

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I searched for "rank steely dan" in keywords. Hmm.

I like the lyrics and singing on Aja a lot. If the production sounded like CBAT it would be my number one.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

You can never have enough threads about Steely Dan.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, there was an OPO recently. This was my post:

"If I had heard Katy Lied or Pretzel Logic first I doubt I would have bought the others..."

Ha - those were the first two I heard!

Same here,
KATY LIED

-- Dr. Z Indahouse (aaronh...), February 1st, 2005.

I do like CBAT slightly more at this point. Katy might make a comeback.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

My OPO song? Fuckin' BARRYTOWN.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Should I buy Aja besides the fact that I have the same name. Is it really good?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

It beats Nirvana.

(kidding; it's great. Get it/download it)

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather buy it.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

1. Countdown to Ecstasy
2. Can't Buy a Thrill
3. Pretzel Logic
... the rest

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

(Though if I had to include The Nightfly it would probably go between 2 and 3 on that list.)

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

ooh this is hard! I might end up posting a completely different ranking later...

Pretzel Logic
The Royal Scam
Katy Lied
Aja
Countdown to Ecstacy
Can't Buy A Thrill
Gaucho

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

1.Countdown to Ecstasy
2.Everything Must Go
3.Gaucho
4.Katy Lied
5.Aja
6.Pretzel Logic
7.Can't Buy a Thrill
8.The Royal Scam
9. Two Against Nature

opo: Pixeleen or Doctor Wu or Your Gold Teeth.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 10 April 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

1. Katy Lied
2. Aja
3. Gaucho
4. Countdown To Ecstasy
5. Pretzel Logic
6. The Royal Scam
7. Can't Buy A Thrill
8. Everything Must Go
9. Two Against Nature

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 10 April 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

1) The Royal Scam
2) Aja
3) Gaucho
4) Pretzel Logic
5) Katy Lied
6) Can't Buy A Thrill
7) Two Against Nature
8) Countdown To Ecstasy
9) Everything Must Go

― bahtology, Sunday, 10 April 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Countdown
Pretzel
Thrill
Aja
Katy
Scam
Gaucho
Everything
Two Against

I guess that's a fairly typical critical consensus kind of ranking. Maybe I'd rank "Pretzel" #1 if I had it on CD.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 10 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing wrong with ranking Countdown first. Bodhisattva contains their best actual music.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

OPO as song Barrytown
OPO as music Bodhisattva

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

This is not about Dan Perry?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 10 April 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

It could be if you want it to be.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

1. Gaucho
2. Aja
3. The Royal Scam
4. Katy Lied
5. Countdown To Ecstasy
6. Pretzel Logic
7. Can't Buy A Thrill

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to read this thread as "Rank, The Dan." Rank indeed.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

this is madness; you all need to spend more time listening to 'Everything Must Go'

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Will do. Right now.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

All right, fuck it. Six bars in it's already better than Gaucho.

Can't Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied
Countdown to Ecstacy
Pretzel Logic
Aja
The Royal Scam
Everything Must Go
Gaucho
Two Against Nature

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't have either of the last two albums, is why they're not on my list. I might get around to them one of these days, but I really hated the song "Cousin Dupree," so I'm skittish.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Can't Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied
Countdown to Ecstacy
Pretzel Logic
Aja
Everything Must Go
The Royal Scam
Gaucho
Two Against Nature

Holy shit. derrick is OTM.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

X-post yeah all the songs i heard from that record are kinda eh

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

"Pixeleen" still sounds like the best track. Everyone download that one if you haven't heard it.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah, 2AN isn't so good, with a couple exceptions(almost gothic, west of hollywood), but EMG is totally solid.

Pixeleen is INCREDIBLE! there's an old dan thread around where i go on and on about it. It sounds like a luxury sedan. is it about pornography? there's definitely something exploitative going on. and so so smooth. 'symmetrical and clean'.

The lyric to the title track is great too. Also search an old thread where j0hn and jody try to work out The Last Mall, IIRC. wonderful imagery, very apocalyptic, shopping as religion/religion as shopping: which is the conflation? at the end of all things, we make our amends not with the priests, but with the checkout girls.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

those guys are so fucking good at lyrics. Is it mostly Fagen or do they bounce things off each other a la TMBG? I think I used to know the answer to this but I spaced it.

― @@r0n h. z@nd3r$ (AaronHz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

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