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Music Appreciation

gohuskies

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1. Steely Dan

Reply to exboyfil (Original post)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 12:50 PM

Jan 2021

Excluding the obvious top of my list, The Beatles, my list goes 7 deep. All the albums by the Band and Fagen/Becker had great music and excellent sound but for the fiasco on Katy Lied that still does not affect the quality of the songwriting and performance. Here's the list:

Can't Buy A Thrill
Countdown to Ecstasy
Pretzel Logic
Katy Lied *
The Royal Scam
Aja
Gaucho

I would probably include Dire Straits in this survey but the Dan is my personal choice after The Fab Four...

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Pick the five best studio albums that appear sequentially for your favorite bands [View all] exboyfil Jan 2021 OP

Steely Dan gohuskies Jan 2021 #1

Funny thing about Dire Straits is that they only have six studio albums exboyfil Jan 2021 #2

By the rules you have to include Katy Lied exboyfil Jan 2021 #3

True :) gohuskies Jan 2021 #4

Whatchoo talkin' bout on the Beatles? Montauk6 Jan 2021 #5

Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn Turn Turn, 5th Dimension, Younger than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Bros Hoyt Jan 2021 #6

yellow sub is not really a "beatles" album, I would ignore it for this OP purpose nt msongs Jan 2021 #7