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Steely Dan — Reelin' In The Years
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funkyalfonso
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: May 07, 2013 - 12:38
 
 ncollingridge wrote:

They don't have Classic Rock Radio in Knebworth, either. Like you, I've always loved this song - I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline in the 70s.

BTW, the tile should be "Reelin' In The Years".



 

But you did have the Knebworth festival in the 70's.. And Radio Caroline was a groove in the 60's but did get a bit odd with their ' loving awareness ' in the 70's.. Y'all remember that ? And reading about Jeff ' Skunk ' Baxter and missile defence here is bizarre. He jammed at my buddie's wedding in Maui and blew everyone away. Geddit?

Bargamon
(Carolina)
Posted: May 07, 2013 - 12:18
 
. DIffernet textures woven create interest.

The classics mixed in with new, the obscure woven with some popular makes it interesting.

As long as its in good taste!  Fagen and Becker are fantastic!

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 08:27
 
 Zep wrote:

Yes it does. 

Ok the classic rock station argument.... RP is not programmed to be a direct alternative to terrestrial radio.  It's not set up to counterbalance what you might hear riding in your car while surfing your local FM.  

RP is just what it says: an eclectic mix of rock music with jazz, classical, world, and others thrown in.  Just because Reelin' in the Years (and many others) is an FM staple doesn't mean it gets excluded here.  To do otherwise is to permit your local FM to influence the programming on RP. 

Now, would you allow that?
 

 
Agreed and yes I would allow that. I've matured a bit since I joined here. I now appreciate even tunes I didn't care for on regular radio here. For some reason, when it's played here on RP there seems to be almost a new validity to a song.   
skooba
(The tip of Americas Wang)
Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 08:25
 
Been Reelin' in the Years for quite some time now.  Me likey!
Stingray
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 04:39
 
GREAT "band".

capandjudy
(Huntington, WV)
Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:55
 
 otis_of_moab wrote:
Saw Steely Dan perform live two weeks ago.  First time live.  Aging but they put on a very good show.
 



I saw them in July 2011 in Portland, OR. They were terrific which surprised because I always considered SD as more studio wizards. This song among many had people up and out of their seats.

n4ku
(Lexington)
Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:51
 
 Mar-tay wrote:
I never tire of hearing these excellent guitar solos.
 


Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:51
 
 ncollingridge wrote:

Amazing - since my last comment the song title has been updated! I never imagined that a song comment would actually get a response...

 
Either that, or Bill andor Rebecca caught that the song title was wrong while putting together a playlist.  Sorry if I burst your bubble.

jeremyleo
(Canada's Capital City)
Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 11:51
 
Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast

Timely.  Kids are back to school next week where I live.  Signifies the end of summer for some.

Great tune from a great disc.  One of my fav Dan tracks.

ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 15:06
 
Not my favorite 'Dan' track, but I'll take it. It's still an excellent tune. No doubt about it!{#Dancingbanana}

musman
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 00:46
 
Gold !

ncollingridge
(Knebworth, UK)
Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 06:05
 
 ncollingridge wrote:

They don't have Classic Rock Radio in Knebworth, either. Like you, I've always loved this song - I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline in the 70s.

BTW, the tile should be "Reelin' In The Years".
 
Amazing - since my last comment the song title has been updated! I never imagined that a song comment would actually get a response...


ncollingridge
(Knebworth, UK)
Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 10:00
 
 Dillinquent wrote:
 ziakut wrote:
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
I never listen to 'Classic Rock Radio' (in fact I don't think we've got one of those in Hertford) and I love this song, always have.
The fact that RP plays this and all those other great tunes, new and old, is why I listen to RP. 
 
They don't have Classic Rock Radio in Knebworth, either. Like you, I've always loved this song - I used to listen to it on Radio Caroline in the 70s.

BTW, the tile should be "Reelin' In The Years".



johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 09:55
 
Skunk is the man
Steely is the band


otis_of_moab
(Aspen CO (in the white room))
Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 06:05
 
Saw Steely Dan perform live two weeks ago.  First time live.  Aging but they put on a very good show.

Mar-tay
(Tucson, AZ)
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 21:24
 
I never tire of hearing these excellent guitar solos.

BobbyCat
(Beyond)
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 21:23
 
A little Steely Dan here and there, never hurts!

guiguy
(Kyoto)
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 21:21
 
 Dillinquent wrote:
 ziakut wrote:
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
I never listen to 'Classic Rock Radio' (in fact I don't think we've got one of those in Hertford) and I love this song, always have.
The fact that RP plays this and all those other great tunes, new and old, is why I listen to RP. 
 
Agree wholeheartedly with Dillinquent!
{#Cheers}


LizK
(Houston, Texas)
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 21:20
 
If I'd known this was on the rota, I'da had time to dread it.

tompoll
(Seattle WA USA)
Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 12:30
 
Just saw The Dan here a couple weeks ago, and they played this. They're fantastic! Try to catch them on tour. They have the great Keith Carlock on drums.

iTuner
Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 12:28
 
 ziakut wrote:
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
 
Well said.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 05:46
 
Ya know, they tried their little hearts out to ruin this song and for awhile I couldn't listen to it, but man is the Dan great!{#Notworthy}

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 03:07
 
Oh that middle breaki!!!!

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 03:06
 
Ahh - the Dan - always welcome on a Friday morning!

lostintokyo
(on the other side of the pond)
Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 19:07
 
Always a sentimental spot for these guys...
Live shows are top-notch, too..


EveryDaySunday
Posted: Dec 06, 2010 - 21:12
 
10.. This song reminds me of summer as I fight the sub freezing temperatures of DC!

Dillinquent
(Hertford, UK)
Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 04:15
 
 ziakut wrote:
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
I never listen to 'Classic Rock Radio' (in fact I don't think we've got one of those in Hertford) and I love this song, always have.
The fact that RP plays this and all those other great tunes, new and old, is why I listen to RP. 



kurtster
(portable)
Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 14:10
 
 Zep wrote:

Yes it does. 

Ok the classic rock station argument.... RP is not programmed to be a direct alternative to terrestrial radio.  It's not set up to counterbalance what you might hear riding in your car while surfing your local FM.  

RP is just what it says: an eclectic mix of rock music with jazz, classical, world, and others thrown in.  Just because Reelin' in the Years (and many others) is an FM staple doesn't mean it gets excluded here.  To do otherwise is to permit your local FM to influence the programming on RP. 

Now, would you allow that?
 
 
{#Whisper}  Friends don't let friends listen to clear channel.  {#Mrgreen}


Zep
(The Big Country)
Posted: Oct 01, 2010 - 11:30
 
 ziakut wrote:
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.
 
Yes it does. 

Ok the classic rock station argument.... RP is not programmed to be a direct alternative to terrestrial radio.  It's not set up to counterbalance what you might hear riding in your car while surfing your local FM.  

RP is just what it says: an eclectic mix of rock music with jazz, classical, world, and others thrown in.  Just because Reelin' in the Years (and many others) is an FM staple doesn't mean it gets excluded here.  To do otherwise is to permit your local FM to influence the programming on RP. 

Now, would you allow that?
 

ziakut
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 17:02
 
With so many good 'Dan' tunes out there...does this one really have to be played? I still like it, but it's wearing on me big time. I always cringe when RP plays stuff that you can hear on 'Classic Rock' radio. Oh well...I suppose this is throwin' some candy to those that don't have tolerance for new music. Then again...if they don't, they wouldn't be here in the first place, right? I confuse myself. Ha.

floydoftherocks
(Frisco)
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 16:59
 
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: May 29, 2010 - 20:58
 
AMAZING segues!!! {#Dancingbanana_2}

floydoftherocks
(Frisco)
Posted: Mar 27, 2010 - 13:11
 
hope we hear 'dirty work' sometime soon... reeling in the years is a better song, tho.. ;)

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Mar 27, 2010 - 13:08
 
 peyotecoyote wrote:


Takes me back to smokin' with the folks (yes, I mean parents) right at our kitchen table back in the 70's. LOVE THIS WHOLE ALBUM!

 

I knew there had to be some familial 'gateway' effect. -lol-

FWIW, agree with the sentiment.



pauleywalnuts
(Ontario)
Posted: Mar 27, 2010 - 13:07
 
Timeless classic.

bachbeet
Posted: Mar 27, 2010 - 13:07
 
Terrific song from a great debut album!  I loved that they brought their jazz influences to rock and really used a lot of great jazz musicians on their albums.

mrdak
(Middle GA)
Posted: Jan 23, 2010 - 12:50
 
Thank you sooooooooo much! I needed to wake up.... {#Clap}

copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 06:26
 
 jedley wrote:
Greatest debut album ever? If not, it's right up there with Are You Experienced, The Clash, Surfer Rosa, Please Please Me, Talking Heads '77, My Aim is True
 

in addition to those you name, The Cars, The Doors, and Look Sharp (Joe Jackson) are also worthy nominees.  

SpamNRice
(Vicenza, Italy)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 05:04
 
When they chronicle my life, I'd like this to be the soundtrack... thank you...{#High-five}


jedley
(milan, italy)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 05:04
 
Greatest debut album ever? If not, it's right up there with Are You Experienced, The Clash, Surfer Rosa, Please Please Me, Talking Heads '77, My Aim is True

birdland
(Right about....here.)
Posted: Jul 18, 2009 - 14:24
 
Just viewed the 'Classic Albums' edition of 'Steely Dan - AJA' - a history of the recording sessions for that vinyl, and incidentally a great retrospective of the bands formation with some great insight into their psyche. Wonderful journey.

rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 09:53
 
 douzzer wrote:


No, not "'nuff" said. The US military's Ground-based Midcourse Defense has achieved crucial successes in the years from 2002 to 2008.

Or maybe you quite fancy the scenario of North Korea vaporizing Seattle, so that the program's successes are, by your account, failures.

 
That is very important and yet completely irrelevant to the discussion here. Save it for a political blog.


douzzer
(Moscow, Idaho)
Posted: Mar 13, 2009 - 21:46
 
toterola wrote:

The GOP-led Congress let a session guitarist for Steely Dan plan strategic missile defense, after 911. They probably let Chuck Norris plan the Iraq invasion.

'Nuff said.


No, not "'nuff" said. The US military's Ground-based Midcourse Defense has achieved crucial successes in the years from 2002 to 2008.

Or maybe you quite fancy the scenario of North Korea vaporizing Seattle, so that the program's successes are, by your account, failures.


toterola
(Further)
Posted: Mar 13, 2009 - 21:37
 
 jagdriver wrote:

= Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who later went over to the Doobie Brothers.

From Wikipedia:

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant, chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense, and he was hired to help compose the theme song of the hit animated series King Of The Hill which he later produced and played with The Refreshments.
 
Ol' Jeff doesn't have much of a sense of humor, any more. He's turned into a real Right-wing blowhard . Sort of a Ted Nugent, who admits to smoking pot.

If you read the hyperlinked article, notice the date. October, 2001.

A prominent U.S. Representative, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), is quoted in the article as saying Baxter "...knows all about weapons technology and has a better understanding of the strategic game going on than I do, and I'm on the International Relations Committee."

Baxter also rode into the Beltway via a shady bastard by the name of former U.S. Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA). Weldon was driven out of Congress on a landslide vote in 2006, and he is under investigation for being an illicit arms merchant and peddling influence for his daughter in the defense industry.

That speaks volumes looking back, doesn't it? The GOP-led Congress let a session guitarist for Steely Dan (and The Doobie Bros.) get hired into the Pentagon, by a guy (Weldon) who's so crooked he has to screw his pants on. Then they let said "guitar hero" plan strategic missile defense, in "a post-911 world". They probably hired Chuck Norris to plan the Iraq invasion, as well.

Sorry to pontificate. I lost a cousin and a family friend in Iraq, and I'll always be a bit raw about it, I expect.

Slainte Mhath, y'all!

{#Drunk} {#Beat} {#Fever} {#Shhh}


RobRyan
(Canyon Country, CA)
Posted: Feb 10, 2009 - 07:51
 
 jagdriver wrote:

= Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who later went over to the Doobie Brothers.

From Wikipedia:

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant, chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense, and he was hired to help compose the theme song of the hit animated series King Of The Hill which he later produced and played with The Refreshments.
 
Actually, the guitar solos on Reelin' are by Elliott Randall. The main solo was ranked 40th all time best of all time by Guitar World readers.


baboo
(behind the white pine tree)
Posted: Feb 10, 2009 - 07:46
 
In high school, my best friend had a serious case of disk-lexia and thought the words to the chorus were "Are you really lebanese?"



beelzebubba
(Where the hell is Walldrug, South Dakota?)
Posted: Feb 10, 2009 - 07:46
 
Is the word "classic" synonymous with "overplayed"?

Who cares? This is classic.


jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2009 - 16:15
 
 nigelr wrote:
Some hot guitar work here, at the very least........personally I love the track and the album.
 
= Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who later went over to the Doobie Brothers.

From Wikipedia:

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant, chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense, and he was hired to help compose the theme song of the hit animated series King Of The Hill which he later produced and played with The Refreshments.

Rickvee
(New Orleans)
Posted: Nov 07, 2008 - 12:41
 
One of the best songs ever!

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Nov 07, 2008 - 12:38
 
 ginniet wrote:
ICK—this makes me think of my first ex-husband!

 
How many "exes" 'ya got?  And what are the names of the songs that make you think of the other one(s)?