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Steely Dan: A Deep Dive focuses on the music of Steely Dan: consisting of Donald Fagen, Walter Becker and anyone else they wish to play with. From Can't Buy A Thrill through Everything Must Go, join me for a trip through every Steely Dan album, as I break down the wit, wisdom and wizardry of Steely Dan!

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Can't Buy A Thrill: the album that started it all. Many Steely Dan fans--and Fagan and Becker themselves--felt the band hadn't hit their stride yet on this LP, as they would on later Steely Dan albums. But I still marvel at the songwriting, which repeatedly rises above its execution:
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Katy Lied is currently my favorite Steely Dan album (my fave changes week to week!):
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Countdown To Ecstasy was NO sophomore slump. In fact, it's got several of my all-time favorite Steely Dan songs such as Bodhisattva, The Boston Rag and... well, ALL of side two!:
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Pretzel Logic cemented Steely Dan's reputation as ingenious purveyors of thinking-person's pop music, and it's hard to find a better collection of songs on one album in 1974:
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Where did I get my awesome T-shirt inspired by the title track of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly?
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Submitted for your bemusement, here's Donny and Marie massacring Reelin' in the Years. Don't say I didn't warn you:
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Check out the opening to Horace Silver's Song for my Father, and tell me that you don't want to launch into the lyrics to Rikki Don't Lose That Number:
   • Horace Silver - Song for My Father (Origin...  

Here's the soundtrack to You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lose That Beat), featuring some great early Becker/Fagen songs:
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Here's the earliest Steely Dan release, the single Dallas:
   • steely dan - dallas (best quality)  

Dallas was covered by the band Poco, and the song fit them like a glove:
   • Poco - Dallas (1975)  

Here's the B-side to Dallas, Sail the Waterway:
   • Steely Dan - Sail the Waterway (Better Qua...  

Here's Denny Doherty (of the Mamas and the Papas) covering Sail the Waterway. Denny recorded this demo (along with another Becker/Fagen song, Giles of the River) in the hopes of receiving a solo record deal. He didn't get one at the time, but Denny did a fine job:
   • Sail The Waterway  

You tell me... Doesn't this synth solo sound like it could blend perfectly into the old "In Search Of" theme?
   • King Of The World  

And here is the "In Search Of" theme:
   • In Search Of... (Opening and Closing Credits)  

Finally, here's the ending to the Bad Brains song that I have always suspected was "inspired" by the very end of Bodhisattva. You've gotta want to hear it, but I think it's there:
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Jump to your favorite album:
00:00 Intro
02:20 You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lose That Beat)
03:22 Dallas/Sail The Waterway
04:06 Can't Buy A Thrill
12:09 Countdown To Ecstasy
16:33 Pretzel Logic
23:48 Katy Lied
28:51 Outro




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