What is the best Steely Dan album? - Compilation albums don't count.

[holyhandgrenade]

whichever album reelin in the years was on
saw a homeless man playing it flawlessly in the nyc subway once good times
Edit: tom petty was the superior folksy rocky musician js

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It's tough but I'll go with The Royal Scam.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

The Royal Scam is my favorite but they are all almost just as good.

 

[MAAAD]

 

[Hazel Motes]

Pretzel Logic is the greatest, Katy Lied is the personal favourite. But then again, Countdown to Ecstasy has My Old School... I like Gaucho but I always feel I am going to fall over whenever I listen to it, it is just too damn smooth. But fuck, Glamour Profession is so good that I want to boogie in a three piece every time it comes on.

FM is a parody of Steely Dan. I like it, but if you put every Steely Dan album in an AI generator, that is what it would come out with.

Haitian Divorce seems to be the Steely Dan song for non-Steely Dan fans. It is the only song by them friends and family will abide.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Citizen, easily. Why have one hit album when you can have the majority? It counts.

 

[Peep Plops]

It's obviously Aja. They're all pretty great but also kinda shit depending on where I am in life. I'm Just glad to have them all on cd ready to go whenever I need a dose of the dan.

 

[Cancer Man]

Aja's excellent, but once you get over the hype then you'll realize that Gaucho is better

 

[WSPWSPWSPWSP]

Aja for me. Guacho is when they tried too hard to reach perfection that it started impacting the songs. Royal Scam is a close 2nd.

Donald Fagen's album 'The Nightfly' would easily be 3rd for me.

 

[Seafarer]

it's Can't Buy A Thrill

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that “Can’t Buy a Thrill” essentially has a John Lennon diss track in the form of “Only a Fool Would Say That”, made as a direct response to “Imagine”. That alone makes it pretty based.

 

[Hazel Motes]

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that “Can’t Buy a Thrill” essentially has a John Lennon diss track in the form of “Only a Fool Would Say That”, made as a direct response to “Imagine”. That alone makes it pretty based.

Zappa did the same thing on Weasels Ripped My Flesh with Oh No, responding to All You Need Is Love

 

[Clown College 2nd Year]

I'm torn between Pretzel Logic and Aja. Overall, I think Pretzel Logic edges Aja out by just a hair since it has Night by Night a song that is very near and dear to my heart.