Steely Dan - Kitchen Listening

Today I had to put a little Steely Dan on for my Kitchen Listening experience and it was really great. Well, actually it was a lot of Steely Dan. It was a good way to relax after a week on vacation in the Adirondacks and a couple more days in Scotia. Lots of time with grandkids. Steely Dan hit the spot. I haven't listened to any albums by this band in quite some time. Now I do have many of the songs scattered among dozens of mixes but it's been a while since I put their albums on the stereo and especially in some chronological sequence.

That means I first listened to Can't Buy A Thrill that was originally released in late 1972. I got my copy in late 1973 when I got out of the Navy along with their second record Countdown To Ecstasy released in 1973. Of course I listened to that one immediately after the first one. Just like back in the day. Next up came Pretzel Logic. I couldn't stop there and my Steely Dan listening became a three hour experience of five albums when I added Katy Lied and The Royal Scam. 

I think the last time I listened to this much Steely Dan was a bunch of years ago when I had the Steely Dan 4 CD box set lined up on a flash drive to play in our car.

Back in the 70's I was a big Steely Dan fan and we played these albums all the time at the house on Seymour Street in my old neighborhood in Philly that I bought in early 1974. It was a party house and I lived there while going to Temple University. When each of these albums were released I went out and got a copy and I had them all. 

They stopped touring in 1974 and regretfully I never got to see this band in concert.

 

• Can't Buy A Thrill, 1972
• Countdown To Ecstasy, 1973
• Pretzel Logic, 1974
• Katy Lied, 1975
• The Royal Scam, 1976
• Aja, 1977
• Gaucho, 1980

Many years later I added their albums to my collection Two Against Nature from 2000 and Everything Must Go from 2003.