Best Steely Dan/Donald Fagen/Walter Becker Album

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Katy Lied	19
Gaucho	9
Can't Buy a Thrill	7
Pretzel Logic	7
Countdown to Ecstasy	6
The Nightfly	5
Aja	3
The Royal Scam	2
Everything Must Go	0
Two Against Nature	0
11 Tracks of Wack	0
Kamakiriad	0
Morph the Cat	0

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

Pretzel Logic over Countdown to Ecstasy for me. Wonder if anyone will vote for the latter/solo records? Forgot the none option for the criminally insane. Oh well.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

Gaucho

― baaderonixx, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Gaucho but I think it's the hangover/creeping decay talking.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

I like more or less all, but I prefer "Nightfly" to any Steely Dan album.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 21 April 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Katy Lied.

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Best thing about poll threads: a list of titles at the top followed by people typing out the titles again one at a time.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

i'll be sure to include an essay with my next vote.

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Katy Lied

― van smack, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Look--I'm swaying voters!

― sw00ds, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

C'mon, where's the none option? Bah, you people obviously hate fun, and/or take this shit way too seriously.

-- JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 07:39 (7 hours ago)

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Your point being?

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

NONE

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

As posted above, I simply forgot to add the none option. Sorry.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

You should know how all the pros play the game.

― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Gaucho.

― unperson, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Almost very nearly Aja which I consider a perfect album. But Countdown to Ecstasy, while less perfect, hits harder and bites with fangs.

― Hans Rott, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

i went for pretzel logic

can't quite articulate why. i think it's just the one i return to most

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

xpost x3

You change your name

― JN$OT, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

katy lied just slightly over pretzel logix...

although, I should give some props to The Royal Scam with is the Fair Warning/Presence of this poll.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 22 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Royal Scam has been my favorite since I was a kid. Still my favorite, but it's not like any of the others suck.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 22 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

F.M.

― ghost rider, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

I would say Aja, but I've been listening to Gaucho a lot recently, and think it is on the same level.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 22 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

bump

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Some people set this extremely long voting time.

Btw. is there a way to make out what is the deadline now that the (admittably annoying) addition to the headers with the deadline has been removed from the indexes?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

April 30.

― JN$OT, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Katy wins. No votes for anything released after 1982. Interesting.

― JN$OT, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

These are really weird results. I was certain Pretzel or Aja would top the list.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

No votes for anything released after 1982.

This is hardly surprising. While most of them are still great, it is fairly obvious that they aren't up there with their 70s heyday (and "The Nightly", it must be added, which is my all-time favourite)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

True that.

― JN$OT, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

"Almost very nearly Aja which I consider a perfect album. But Countdown to Ecstasy, while less perfect, hits harder and bites with fangs.

-- Hans Rott, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:21 (1 week ago)"

You're a good composer Hans Rott, and i agree with you re Steely Dan.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thrilled by Gaucho's finishing, but...wow, Katy Lied. That's, um, gotta be wrong.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I know. I never got the mad love for Katy Lied, but I'm glad the oft-dismissed Gaucho placed so high.

Does anyone still listen to Morph the Cat?

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

I sold my copy last month.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I love Katy Lied, it is indeed a mega-classic. But is it really more than three times better than Countdown To Ecstasy? This is probably the most surprising poll so far.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Only 2 votes for The Royal Scam = you are all insane.

― Brent, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think I went with Katy Lied, but I was having a hard time deciding between it and Aja. I'm really surprised at how few votes it got.

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Aja, that is.

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

What's special about Gaucho? I didn't get much out of it the one time I listened to it (which obviously I need to do again). Sounded like a very moderate funk record or something. (Is this another revisionist Tusk-like situation?)

Glad Katy Lied won, but admit it's a bit of a surprise--I pegged (no pun intended) Aja or Pretzel Logic to come out on top.

― sw00ds, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I, too, am a bit surprised at Gaucho's popularity. For a long time it was far and away my least favorite of the 70's records. It's definitely grown on me though, particularly the title track. Also Hey Nineteen & Babylon Sisters are two of SD's strongest...

― will, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

I guess it was just Brent and I pimpin for The Royal Scam. Probably the only one I end up listening to all the way through these days.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

For me, Gaucho is the SD spirit down to its bare bones. The funked-up muzak is often extremely minimal (compared to, say, the more baroque 'Aja' arrngements) and lyrically they pretty much reach the apex of the boomers' Tropicana sleaze.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

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