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Favorite recent slightly alarmed discussion thread subject line -- "I Liked An Eagles Song Today". It's certainly not a song I would've predicted to do the trick, but then again, and on a trivially related note, I'm sure there are many people who would not even be able to field a full team for ...
The Steely Dan Dozen
Aja
Bad Sneakers
Deacon Blues
Do It Again
FM
Hey Nineteen
Josie
My Old School
Peg
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Show Biz Kids
Time Out Of Mind
Yeah, a lot of hits there, but their airplay heyday coincided with my formative serious radio-listening years. And it must've been my initiation to AOR radio in particular, because the best part of the Steely Dan remasters parade several years ago was rediscovering a few songs that I loved hearing as a kid but had completely (I mean completely) forgot about for nearly twenty years. Specifically, a couple on The Royal Scam. And one or two on Katy Lied. OK, and Can't Buy A Thrill really is surprisingly consistent, and ... oh, nevermind.
There's a particular piece of road in my old neighborhood, where I lived in middle and high school. And for some reason, that particular fifty feet or so has separate but direct associations in my head with "Time Out Of Mind" and hearing the DJ say that John Bonham had died.
Hey, look, Aaron Sorkin is coming back. I bet he likes Steely Dan.
(Edit: Can't believe I forgot to link to the considerable Steely Dan Dictionary.)
Again, trying not to be influencd by your picks by averting my gaze...
Everytime I hear "Hey Nineteen", I remember Dick Hungate on 102 talking
about how he agreed that "the Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian make tonight
a wonderful thing". Here's my dozen:
I think Decade Of ... was one of the few discs I bought before I had a CD
player. Great comp. Yeah, I'd say those remasters are sufficiently cheap,
sufficiently well done, and sufficiently superfine to begin with to warrant
the full treatment.
I was always showing up at the XL102 remotes and bugging the DJ's. Wasn't
a huge fan of Hungate... I guess I was put off by his incessant "I was
there" backstage stories. I actually majored in Broadcast Communications
before realizing it was a waste of a college education (IMHO)... Shoulda
gone to H-SC and majored in math or political science... maybe play some
soccer... Gammon can vouch for my mad fullback skills. I do recall one
Dick Hungate remote broadcast at Richmond Camera on Patterson, where the
engineer was doing this off-air bit about meeting Steely Dan... "and I
went, 'Yo! Stee-leey!' and he acted like he didn't even know me!"
Aja // Deacon Blues // Reelin' in the Years // Hey Nineteen // Bad Sneakers
// Rose Darling // Rikki Don't Lose that Number // Any Major Dude Will Tell
You // Barrytown // FM // Slang of Ages // Two Against Nature