In that case you might to watch this.
Hey, Nineteen.
Hey, nineteen, that’s Aretha Franklin.
She don’t remember the Queen of Soul.
Hard times have fallen, sole survivor.
She thinks I’m crazy, but I’m just growin’ old.
Another Steely Dan song I like is Everything You Did, which namechecks the Eagles.
“Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.”
The Eagles returned the favor in Hotel California with the line, “They stab it with their steely knives.”
Steely Dan has the lowest percentage of bad songs of any band I’ve ever heard.* A couple on Gaucho, maybe, but “Hey Nineteen” and “Time Out of Mind” make up for them.
I didn’t see “Doctor Wu” or “The Royal Scam” mentioned and they are among the greats. And for anybody who doesn’t think they rock, the live version of “Bodhisattva.”
Fagan’s “IGY” and “The New Frontier” have to be mentioned.
*Steely Dan broke up in 1980 and never made another album since. All Dan fans agree on that. There will be no argument.
Every fuckin one of them. Man, I like their music.
No love for Do It Again?
Reelin’ in the years
Deacon Blues
FM
so much incredible music in so little time.
It’s a tough choice between “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Peg.”
Are you with me, Dr. Wu?
AWre you just a fragment of the man whom I once knew
Are you with me doctor?
Blah blah blah and a pina colado my friend
Chain lightning, it feels so good.
Whats that one in e minor with the Maj7 in the melody
Not…Bad sneakers and blah blah blah bah blah blah blah.
The other one
Wait I got it.
Daddy don’t live in that New York City no more…
Fucking Skunk Baxter.
I’l always still love Aja for Steve Gadd on trap drums
I do remember once my ex-wife was talking about football nicknames and, without planning it, said, “They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, right?”
I had an immediate answer. 
I do believe that my favorite Steely Dan song (and it has changed over the years) is now Aja.
if you like Peg, this is interesting
Me, too. But my answer for the thread, due to some pleasant associations is Your Gold Teeth
Haitian Divorce
Hey Nineteen
Deacon Blues
In no particular order, but those are my top three.
Gen X-er here. I don’t get the hate for Steely Dan, I really don’t. Some of the complaints I’ve heard are that the production is “too good”, like they tried too hard? OK, whatever. The other argument is that “they gargle my balls” as Seth Rogen says in Knocked Up. What do Steely Dan haters know that I don’t?
I just discovered King of the World by listening to Jango. It’s my current favorite. I love that arpeggio-type guitar work in the background starting 30 seconds in. It’s a little hard to hear on this version, but it’s great.
Another Gen X-er…we’re supposed to hate Steely Dan?
Aja or Kid Charlemagne. They lose points for Reelin’ In the Years, which I absolutely loathe.
If you’d asked me fifteen or so years ago, I would have said this, my favorite non Steely Dan Steely Dan song. Seriously, listen without watching the cheesy ass video and tell me that doesn’t sound like classic SD.
Anyway, I’d have to go with Hey Nineteen, with *Cousin Dupree *coming in as a close second.
It’s not me hating on the Dan – but just go ask some of your few non-nerd hipster friends with a straighface what they think about Steely Dan? Anybody “cool” is going to say they’re played out and pretentious.
Fuck them, is my attitude (even though I can’t stand Donald Fagen and his shitty piano playing together with his absurd ego and Walter Becker’s butt-rock pretensions). Only people I know IRL who know all the words are (a) drummers (b) bassists and © old people over sixty who listen to the local smooth jazz channel where Steely Dan gets play.
FTR I like smooth jazz – as do all serious jazz musicians I know. It beats the alternative – which means that fag alterna-teen crap with words
FTR I love Steely Dan. Chuck Rainey, Skunk Baxter, Warren Bernhardt, Steve motherfucking Gadd? That’s a fucking band when they did it.
Dirty Work, then Deacon Blues.
Hey. No offense, but she kind of sounded like a keeper, man. That’s cool.