Just heard it on K Hits, dj chimed in with its 41 ( ) years since its release and that one Jimmy Page is on record saying the solo in it is his all time favorite. Elliott Randall should be proud

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Not even the best Steely Dan track, not even the best Can't Buy a Thrill track, but it's good summer music. Used to be a frequent bumper for Cubs games on the radio (as was "Dirty Work," the best cut on the album). Sigh.

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No longer Cubs radio bumper music? I swore I heard it last year. Their choice of tunes surprises me.

Oh, it may well still be, but I haven't been listening to the Cubs like I used to circa 2003-2009. I heard "North American Scum" by LCD Soundsystem coming out of a break a few years ago, and I was pretty wtf about that one.

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Just goes to show you how 2 fans' view of the music can be 180 from each other. Ive always considered Dirty Work one of my least favorite Dan songs. While I ll agree that there certainly are better songs in their oeuvre than Reelin , Id say its still in their top 10. Thats a hell of a compliment from Page though. Reminds me of Jimi Hendrix saying that Chicago's Terry Kath was a better player than him.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Oh, that part where the organ comes in beneath the second chorus of "Dirty Work" just gets me right in the chest (which at this time is hacking up glop. I hate being sick).

Top 10 Steely Dan of the now:

1. Home at Last
2. Doctor Wu
3. Aja
4. My Old School
5. I Got the News
6. Show Biz Kids
7. Dirty Work
8. Kid Charlemagne
9. Haitian Divorce
10. Black Friday

"International Geophysical Year" would slot at #8, and "The Second Arrangement" at #6 if it hadn't been erased.

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Regardless of it's status amongst fans, my opinion is "My Old School" sucks ass.

One doesn't have to work too hard to make a case that their best song was their first song right out of the gate, "Do It Again". Also, IGY is a Fagen solo chart ... as it happens, first one out of the gate as well ... love it.

That said, a top-10 SD list is like a Mt Rushmore for NBA players ... if I may, here's an alternate 10 not in you list that are great as well

Do It Again
Pretzel Logic
Green Earrings
Peg *
Time Out of Mind *
True Companion
Babylon Sisters
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Bad Sneakers
Gaucho

There's also the pre-album chart 'Dallas', which has the country-like twinge one hears out of early Jimmy Buffett, or kinda like their own song 'Brooklyn Owes the Charmer' which for some reason in my head I recall was kind of shoe-horned onto the album ... it's lovely in its own right, but is almost entirely antithetical to the Steely Dan 'sound'.

* - mostly because it's about as clear as one can hear Michael McDonald doing his background vocals ... biggest musical fantasy is if A&M hadn't put him w/ the Doobie's and he would've stayed, and even taken some lead vocals.

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Ive always had a love / hate with IGY. I guess its always seemed to me a little over loved / overplayed whenever anyone talks about Fagen's solo stuff. I know its a good song and was a radio friendly song when it came out and in the ensuing years it remains one of their / his most played. I don't know what else could've been released from The NIghtfly that would've worked for radio ( I guess New Frontier pops up once in a while) . I really enjoy the title track and like The Goodbye Look an awful lot.That being said Im currently in my like phase of IGY again . The " programmed by fellas with the passion and vision " line remains my favorite part of the song.

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Glad to see some love for the Gaucho disc there Don. Pretty solid from top to bottom , love Time out of Mind and Babylon Sisters in particular. Pretzel Logic is my GOAT for their music. The solo on Bad Sneakers is right there with my favorite from any group.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

We have 20 songs and no Bodhisattva? For shame.

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I think Kid Charlemagne is their best track, but I also didn't attend every Steely Dan show for decades and get a scouting report from their manager on all their strengths and weaknesses.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Razor Boy
What a Shame About Me
You Got the Bear
Don't Take Me Alive
Josie (their touring version is something special)
Sign in Stranger
The Caves of Altimira
Century's End
Black Friday
Here at the Western World

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- Henry George

Q4T

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<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Bad, bad, bad ....

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- Henry George

Ken Andrews' version is even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLaOgxsIKms

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