You Got De Steely Dan Mixtape...

I'm test-driving a second one, after beating the following into the ground over the past year (using only their pre-Aja records):

Bodhisattva / Everyone's Gone to the Movies / Barrytown / Green Earrings / Your Gold Teeth II / Peg / Dirty Work / Razor Boy / Deacon Blues / Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) / Rikki Don't Lose That Number / Pearl of the Quarter / Haitian Divorce / Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Thanks to this, I can't hear "Bodhisattva" w/out thinking "Everyone's..." going to follow it. And I'm way too geeked about following a Can't Buy The Thrill track w/ "Razor Boy" ("I hear you are singing a song of the past..."), but it kinda falls to pfft after "Deacon Blues", and "Haitian Divorce" got shit placement.

mod request: pls to make steely dan borad asap as much needed in 2008

I've got a double disc SD mix for the car that I've been lazily assembling in a playlist for the last 2 years, maybe I'll finish it this weekend!

should I stick to my old plan of blocking all songs with prominent Michael McDonald vox together in a row or that idea cheesy y/n

Does Steely Dan hold the ILM record for most threads?

hell no. even by the old metric of Eminem (6 pages of relevant results) vs. Steely Dan (4 pages), they lose.

i think MIA has 47 pages

well, only if you use the search keyword "arulpragasam"

bless you, Al

I can't think of any prominent MM bg vox besides "Bad Sneakers" and "Peg" (duh) -- whatchu got?

y btw

"Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" is my fav MM vox, I checked the liner notes once to try to figure out all the ones he's on but I don't remember if I came up with a definitive list.

ha -- that's on the end of my 2nd mix! (rescreening it right now)

delicious MM song: "rose darling"

ok, here's the mix I finally got around to finishing:

Disc 1:
1. F.M.
2. Babylon Sisters
3. Sign In Stranger
4. My Old School
5. Godwhacker
6. Peg
7. Night By Night
8. The Caves Of Altamira
9. Kings
10. This All Too Mobile Home (live in Memphis, 3/20/74)
11. The Royal Scam
12. Jack Of Speed
13. Through With Buzz
14. Your Gold Teeth
15. Your Gold Teeth II
16. Deacon Blues

Disc 2:
1. King Of The World
2. Kid Charlemagne
3. Black Cow
4. The Second Arrangement (Gaucho outtake)
5. Cousin Dupree
6. Reelin' In The Years
7. Hesitation Blues (live on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, 7/23/02)
8. The Boston Rag
9. Westside Story (live in Manassas, 7/21/96)
10. Dirty Work
11. Bad Sneakers
12. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
13. Pearl Of The Quarter
14. Haitian Divorce
15. Home At Last
16. Pretzel Logic
17. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Babylon Sisters
Bad Sneakers
Barrytown
Black Cow
Bodhisattva
Cousin Dupree
Deacon Blues
Do It Again
Doctor Wu
FM
Glamour Profession
The Goodbye Look
Hey Nineteen
IGY
Josie
Kid Charlemagne
King of the World
My Old School
Only a Fool Would Say That
Peg
Reelin' in the years
What a Shame About Me

alphabetical, interesting. what's IGY? "I Got The News"?

International Geophysical Year, from Nightfly.

"what a beautiful world this could be.."

isn't it? I'm probably wrong.

"...what a glorious time to be free."

Nope. You got it right.

Yea I cheated a bit by using 2 Nightfly tracks (IGY and The Goodbye Look) but what other mix tape would I ever get to include them on? And they're so close stylistically to the Dan that they deserve to be included.

Oh and "I Got the News" probably should be on that list.

yeah, I feel you, Fagen solo is about as close to SD as a side project can get to its parent band anyway.

some dude: your mix is fantasgreat. won't be leaving my mp3 player anytime soon.

thanks! i just got done road testing disc 2, am pretty happy with the sequence i came up with.