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Steely Dan — Don't Take Me Alive
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: May 18, 2013 - 19:34
 
These guys were so good it's hard to call them rock or popular or ... really anything.  But they know how to write a lyric, don't they?  And their buddy sidemen were always top-shelf.  My kids like their stuff; nuff said.

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: May 13, 2013 - 19:42
 
This song, this album, WOW; this band boasts some of the most blistering guitars and trippiest lyrics ever...LOVE 'EM!  Got tickets to see them at Red Rocks August 8th; hell yeah, can't wait!  I also echo the request for "Your Gold Teeth" -- what a fantastic groove that one is!

buddy
Posted: May 13, 2013 - 19:41
 
Awesome!  Now how about "Your Gold Teeth"?

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Apr 22, 2013 - 18:04
 

This classic song is good for the ears...
 

birdland
Posted: Apr 22, 2013 - 18:01
 
Ah, what's up Bill? Fourth time I've heard this since early March. There's a lot more 'dan out there.

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 12:07
 
What a great song off an awsome album....9

tomcool
(Palm Coast, Florida)
Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 12:04
 
Bill doesn't play too much SD; I suspect that he was probably burned out on them during one or more FM station DJ gigs, back in the 1970s.

SD is great, though, and I'd love to hear more of them here on RP.

This is probably my favorite SD album: like most classic SD albums, great from track first through track last.

ncollingridge
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 01:09
 
Bliss
unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 20:31
 
 gjeeg wrote:
A song for the Madness of Today.
"A man of my kind could do anything..."
 
Amen.  And the Madness that was 1976 as well.  Sadly, some things don't seem to change.

oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 16:06
 
I'm riding my Kawasaki H-2 down Highway 1 out of Monterey in 1976 and this song is on a loop banging around in my noggin...

*edit* I miss that day, and that dude with his spunky little putter...well, at least the song remains the same...{#Lol}

gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 08:23
 
A song for the Madness of Today.
"A man of my kind could do anything..."

daedalus
(Over your hill)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 10:01
 
 coloradojohn wrote:

agreed...a mind-bending album — powerful, utterly staggering in its brilliance; the music and vision realized, crystallized, and expressed to the true height and depth of its luxuriant fullness...
  Well said CJ.



daedalus
(Over your hill)
Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 10:00
 
Larry Carlton is masterful in the wonderful liquid intro and everything he touches in this great track.
I loved Steely Dan for their cool, their resolute professionalism, and nose thumbing to just about everybody !

They were apparently very difficult task masters for the stellar line-up of session musicians who guested for them. but the results are enduringly brilliant.

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 00:51
 
 lily34 wrote:
nothing compares.
 
agreed...a mind-bending album — powerful, utterly staggering in its brilliance; the music and vision realized, crystallized, and expressed to the true height and depth of its luxuriant fullness...

lily34
(GTFO)
Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 19:33
 
nothing compares.

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 11:09
 
I love Steely Dan but I should would like to hear different songs of theirs on RP.  Seems like it's only this one or Aja.

karljonasson
(Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 11:08
 
Yes! Please play often. Like any Dan song, automatic 10.

tulfan
(Still in SE MI)
Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 05:45
 
One of my favorite guitar intros to a song ever...great disk

jim1964
(1379 miles to Wall Drug)
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 21:57
 
 Hasan wrote:

Steely Dan - The quintessence of posing.
 
They seem like the real deal to me.

Gregorama
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 10:38
 
A theme song for mass shootings, back before they were so common.  It's sad that there are so many any more.  And summer's not over yet.

Soodonym
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 10:36
 
guitar intro has to be one of the best short ones- love to hear other contenders for that category

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 18:27
 
Hurry up Ricky, gimme that number!
 

Hasan
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 19:16
 
 daedalus wrote:
Steely Dan - The quintessence of cool.
 
Steely Dan - The quintessence of posing.

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 19:14
 
The quintessence of cool alt-jazz rock party music — but I was never a fan. Except for when I was dancing my ass off to Reelin in the Years with a red hot honey at a college party in 1975. Wow. 

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 09:03
 
 oldsaxon wrote:

I agree...petty is petty
 

This does not sound anything like Tom Petty or Richard.

daedalus
(Over your hill)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 01:09
 
Steely Dan - The quintessence of cool.

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: May 11, 2012 - 13:54
 
 CalOF wrote:
Surprised by all the flak about mispronouncing Oregon.  Why so picky?  Do all of you pronounce New Orleans just like the natives do?  Maybe you say New Jersey while some of the locals say "joisey"  Maybe you see Cairo and say it like you say the capital of Egypt (I have no idea how those locals say it), but in IL they say it like Karo syrup.  If in Lima, do say Lee-ma Ohio , or Lye-ma, like the locals?  What about  Lima, Peru? 

Give it a rest.

Oh, and a great number by a great group.
 
I agree...petty is petty

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: May 11, 2012 - 13:54
 
 swell_sailor wrote:

Only a fool would say that. 
 


nicely done.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: May 11, 2012 - 13:53
 
just listened to this in my car the other day. love the whole cd so much.

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 14:24
 
 OCDHG wrote:
Don't take me alive... yes please put me out of my misery (or make it stop, please)
 
Fully Agree...never got what peeps see in this band..bland white person watered down jazz w the same vocal harmonies on every song...don't like

Dave_Mack
(Ball of Confusion)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 13:21
 
 swell_sailor wrote:

Only a fool would say that. 
 
Well written, sir! {#High-five}

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 04:13
 
 neuticle wrote:
"Don't take me alive"..uh..ok , no problem. Hate these guys
 

Hahaha! You just don't want to confess that these guys really rule!!! No problem.

impediguy
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 22:06
 
 Cynaera wrote:
The only think that keeps me from giving this a 10 is that Fagen consistently mispronounces "Oregon."  It's pronounced "Orry-gun," not "Aurie-gone." {#Lol}  And the residents of Oregon are not "Oreganos."  {#Sunny}
 



I have a friend from Ohio who thought it was odd how we Californians pronounced "Orragen". He thought it should by pronounced "Orry-gone". So he asked me "what do you call that five sided building in DC? The 'pentigen'?" I guess it al depends where you come from. Isn't Fagen from "joisey

meinthecorner
(Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries)
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 21:52
 
Killer segue from Simple Minds' "Alive and Kicking" to this!!!!!!!

CalOF
(Central CA)
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 20:13
 
Surprised by all the flak about mispronouncing Oregon.  Why so picky?  Do all of you pronounce New Orleans just like the natives do?  Maybe you say New Jersey while some of the locals say "joisey"  Maybe you see Cairo and say it like you say the capital of Egypt (I have no idea how those locals say it), but in IL they say it like Karo syrup.  If in Lima, do say Lee-ma Ohio , or Lye-ma, like the locals?  What about  Lima, Peru? 

Give it a rest.

Oh, and a great number by a great group.

ziakut
(Unmoon)
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 19:58
 
Man...these guys really have it together. Such sophistication and musicianship! Always a pleasure to hear something like this...which doesn't see the light of day too often. Not a huge Donald Fagan fan...but I really appreciate this band...even with Donald.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 11:25
 
 cogbehaviour wrote:
Picked up for Public Intoxication many years ago in Atlanta I sang the refrain over and over again much to the dismay of the others in the holding cell. I was young and brash and didn't give a damn. "Don't take me alive."  Today I still have a fantasy of going out like Dillinger - with a whore on each arm and gat in hand.
 
Gotta have goals, my man!

cogbehaviour
(Finger Lakes of NYS)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 11:15
 
Picked up for Public Intoxication many years ago in Atlanta I sang the refrain over and over again much to the dismay of the others in the holding cell. I was young and brash and didn't give a damn. "Don't take me alive."  Today I still have a fantasy of going out like Dillinger - with a whore on each arm and gat in hand.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 11:09
 
Love the wide range of music on this site!

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 05:35
 
 Cynaera wrote:
The only think that keeps me from giving this a 10 is that Fagen consistently mispronounces "Oregon."  It's pronounced "Orry-gun," not "Aurie-gone." {#Lol}  And the residents of Oregon are not "Oreganos."  {#Sunny}
 
So whuddyawant, already? He's from Passaic.


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 05:33
 
 Darlington wrote:
Been on a major Steely Dan  kick lately....this is excellent.
 
Did that once on vacation years ago. Restless night reading something utterly engrossing and the Dan on a portable CD player with Grado SR60 headphones. Started with Can't Buy a Thrill and played 'em consecutively through Aja. Becker and Fagan had extremely high production values, so the sound of the CDs through the Grado cans was sublime.


OCDHG
(High on a mountain)
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 16:15
 
Don't take me alive... yes please put me out of my misery (or make it stop, please)

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 17:14
 
 TonySkiens wrote:
Steve Gadd on drums?
 
The two drummers listed in the liner notes are Rick Marotta and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. This sounds an awful lot like Marotta

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 17:13
 
 swell_sailor wrote:

Only a fool would say that. 
 
Only a fool would say only a fool would say that..which means...


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 17:12
 
"Don't take me alive"..uh..ok , no problem. Hate these guys

swell_sailor
(The Gorge)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 06:40
 
 redmachine wrote:
god this is awful.
a perfect example of the crack music fell in between the 60s of The Dead, Dylan, The Doors and the Velvets and the birth of punk.
utter shite.
 
Only a fool would say that. 

BigTimber
(Fort Collins)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 06:33
 
Low rating for pronunciation of "Orygun".  Just think internal ORGAN when you say it.
Rogue Valley, B&R


TonySkiens
(Brussels, EU)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 06:30
 
Steve Gadd on drums?


katiediddler
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 06:29
 
All hail Larry Carlton


Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 02:38
 
 QuestionMark wrote:
MORE "Dan" Bill !!!!! Saw them in K.C. end of August ...Not too many any better than Becker and Fagan. Great music tight band. See them if you can!
 
I wish they'd visit Europe more often!