Drummer reacts to "Kings" & "Change of the Guard" by Steely Dan

Where the hell have y'all been hiding these two tracks?? This debut gets better and better to me with each song I hear. I only have one more to go and we will be done with this album! Both of these tracks were absolutely blistering for them.... so damn good. Elliot Randall in the first track is fire!! and Jim is just steady as she goes... such a great combo.
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[@robertpearson8798]

Simply one of the best debut albums ever. I’ve been enjoying it for most of its 50+ years.

[@wendellwiggins2900]

❤ I REPEAT!!!!! TO BE 16 years old in 1972 WAS A GIFT of incarnation & great timing. The most GROUNDBREAKING EXPLOSIVE🎉 year in music across all genres! 😮

[@donnakubiski5572]

My birthday is in July so I was 17 and 18 that year and I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. We may be old now, but we had the best music when we were young.

[@SeaMark782]

Same age, SD changed my auditory world, I got born again!

[@Coquinagirl]

I started hearing this album from the hits on the radio in 1972, and finishing now. Do It Again and Reeling in the Years were the ones then.

[@jimmoore8951]

Wasn’t a bad time to be 14 either…

[@geob3963]

Kings is one of my favorites Steely Dan songs. It’s so much fun to sing along with. That guitar lead is unbelievable. 40 some years of listening to it I still hear subtleties for the first time, every time.

[@gillwaugh7212]

Yea verily we did groove.

[@ExpatBear-58]

This album is in my top 5 all time. Thanks for celebrating it!

[@jameskaminski-dc5jw]

Their first album and a masterpiece!

[@bryanschuler7158]

Lee, your reactions and critiques are some of the best on KZbin. you are getting such an education and understanding of some of the best music ever produced. It blows me away someone as young as you appreciating music that I have been listening to for my 65 years of life. you are spot on on most of your reactions. I am looking forward to when you feature the Doobie Brothers. Of course they have some great hits, but they’re deep cuts are probably some of their best stuff and I would put them in a similar genre of music as Steely Dan. Please start featuring the Doobie Brothers, you won’t regret it. I promise you. Much success to your channel. I always look forward to seeing you.

[@kualua6612]

We grooved to this back in the day, and we still are grooving. SD never gets old. You’ll be grooving to them when you’re over 60!

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

So dang good I have to throw my head back & howl at the moon. I always loved Steely Dan, but since coming to your channel I've become obsessed with them. Wowser, I'm gobsmacked. Great reaction, Lee. Indeed fully satisfied...maybe I'll give a second listen. Blessings all.

[@chrismorrow3723]

Kings is really one of their best. glad you checked it out

[@michaelbadyna1715]

THE SONGS, THE TIMES,IM GLADE I WAS IN MY TWENTIES IN THE 70S NOW IM IN MY 70S IN THE 20S LIFE MOVES ON ENJOY THE RIDE

[@MichaelTrogdon1990]

My favorite part of "Change of the Guard" is that scrape effect that pans from right to left. Very cool.

[@srj108]

Brooklyn is amazing! You have to check that one out.

[@johnroyalmills-33]

Two of my favorites. Great grooves and incredible guitar solos. I still put both of these songs in playlists all the time.

[@mattreynolds612]

Two Bangers!!! They just don't miss much. Woo Hoo!!! 🎶🎶🎵🎶☮️🕊️✌️🇺🇸

[@joelliebler5690]

Great from their first to their last album!

[@lakersouthpaw]

I think Kings probably isn't one of their most popular, but it's definitely one of my favorites. Just a very unique song and I love the lyrics and chorus.

[@steelyd2]

Absolutely unhinged, incredible guitar solos on both of these. Kings is played by Elliot Randall (who did Reelin in the years, Green Earrings among others) and Change of the Guard is Skunk of course.

[@tiluriso]

'Kings' has lead guitar by studio ace Elliott Randall - note how he starts with a chromatic moving downward idea, then soon follows it w/ an ascending whole tone scale pattern phrase towards the end. 'Change Of The Guard' has IMHO one of Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter's finest Steely Dan solos. Their 1972 debut album is their most Rock n Roll oriented record.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Dan did a Schlitz beer commercial around this time. It’s on KZbin.

[@paulehney4581]

Good start for today's premiere

[@shereewilson6278]

Midnight Cruiser really grows on you the more you listen to it.

[@GrowingUpJersey]

Deep cuts and lesser known bands fueled the rise of FM radio in the 70s. It was called Underground and lead to the AOR (album oriented radio) format later in the decade.

[@corawheeler9355]

Such a good album

[@Coquinagirl]

I started hearing this album on the radio in 1972, and I’m finishing it now, with L33. Do It Again and Reelin’ In the Years were the ones then. I always loved Fagen’s vocals and Steely Dan’s swing. Dirty Work and these two are enjoyable, also. What a great album.

[@hampyonce]

Two that are going to blow your mind.

[@TerryKrysinski]

The early albums are well worth checking into front to back,bro. Can't lose with any of 'em.. T

[@charleswagner2984]

The debut album by Yes is criminally underrated. If I remember correctly, you loved almost every song on Yes. I was in 8th grade when Can't Buy A Thrill came out. The radio stations didn't play hardly anything as I was too busy buying Chicago, Yes, and Neil Diamond at that time. The Royal Scam was my first Steely Dan album. Still their best album.

[@deepermind4884]

Just imagine if this album had the same production clarity of 'Royal Scam' & 'Aja'.........oh well, still great.🎛🎶🎵🎶

[@steelyd2]

I get what you’re saying but it’s almost better that their arrangements got more sophisticated as they went along. Just like the Beatles or any other great band, they kept presenting stuff to the public and saying “oh you like that? Well check this out”. Also if you listen to what was coming out in 72, this sounds pretty damn good. I can’t think of a record from that time that sounded better

[@ubik2388]

I came to the channel for the Phish reacts, I stayed for the Steely Dan reacts. It's nice to hear something from Can't Buy a Thrill, one I never really dug into (other than the tracks on Decade) for some reason. I'm going to have to rectify that.

[@steelyd2]

The first two Dan albums sound so different than a lot of what the public knows (aja and gaucho). It’s almost like two different but equally amazing bands. Songs like Boston Rag, King of the World, etc are so much heavier and edgier than their later stuff

[@IvarMeijer]

Still my favorote Dan album... I'm one of those in awe of later albums but still preferring the debut.

[@kevtruth]

Both guitar solos are perfect. Skunk!

[@MichaelTrogdon1990]

Elliott Randall played the guitar solo on Kings.

[@kevtruth]

@@MichaelTrogdon1990 I knew someone would correct me, ha. Thanks

[@steelyd2]

@@MichaelTrogdon1990got it backwards. Elliot Randall on Kings and Skunk on Change of the Guard

[@MichaelTrogdon1990]

@@steelyd2 My bad. I had that song on my mind.

[@ericbrown2655]

Watch the "Asymmetrical Thinking....." vid. Amazing!

[@thruppence-ys9zp]

If a list is made of the top ten debut pop/rock albums, who else would be there? The Doors, certainly...

[@midnightrambler7716]

Those are my top 2. But I would also add: Music From Big Pink by the Band, Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix, Ten by Pearl Jam, Talking Heads: 77, Pronounced by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Outlandos d’Amour by the Police, Boy by U2 among others.

[@randygray8921]

After owning all of their albums from the beginning my 2 favorite today are two for the road and everything must go! Hope you try some.

[@donholl]

I can't recall the source, but I read where Randall said playing the descending notes in his "Kings" solo was meant to evoke someone caught in a downward fall - whether literal of figurative.

[@TheTransitguru]

Check out THE PRETENDERS first album.

[@bobcorbin3294]

Is kings about Richard Daley or Richard Nixon?

[@steelyd2]

I think it’s from further back in history. King Richard the Lionhearted or something like that. Someone who knows more about history could analyze it better I’m sure. I suspect they liked that one could make the link to Richard Nixon, John F Kennedy as well

[@johnhextall1136]

Could be both. To me, the most important line is - and though we sang their names, we all went hungry just the same.

[@dennisdye7270]

Not a bad song anywhere in the their albums.

[@dannynewman2]

"The Royal Scam" album was my takeoff point with this band, then I went backward and forward...

[@charleswagner2984]

Yep, their deep tracks are better than most of their hits. That's why The Royal Scam is better than Steely Dan's Greatest Hits.

[@paullacroix527]

Great selection bud. I think in regards to the first song Donald was inspired maybe watching an old Robin Hood movie. Love it..

[@trevorward8496]

Absolutely no such thing as a bad steely tune even the solo stuff

[@Moz1011]

Sounds Bowie like.