Steely Dan - Black Cow Reaction

[@randyfittante]

I always loved the Aja album - it came out when I was a sophomore in college! Black Cow has a great groove. When I was a kid we would order a black cow in a local ice cream shop (vanilla ice cream with root beer). Thank you for the “groovy” reaction! 😊

[@runningcathill]

THANK YOU, LOVE STEELY DAN AND PAUL HARDCASTLE.

[@theivory1]

Please keep the Dan coming. Loved the reaction

[@steved525]

It's actually the woman who is intoxicated with a blend of drugs and alcohol and he is the one who is trying to make everything right but sadly he had to move on as she was beyond his help. The funkiest and coolest break up songs ever!

[@robertholmes6906]

Hey Haniers !! Love this Steely Dan classic !!! "Miss Sun" by the Dukes of September (Boz Scaggs, Donald Fagen, and Michael McDonald) !!!!

[@livenhfree]

And it was mostly the drugs, not the drinking. "On the counter by your keys was a book of numbers and your remedies." Meaning, dealer phone numbers, and preferred drugs. "One of these surely will screen out the sorrow... but where are you tomorrow?"

[@helgar791]

Rudy's Bar still exists here in NYC. The owner just died a few days ago, but the bar is still thriving. It still is, now as it was then, mostly a dive bar. Then, when the pro's still strolled 42nd, it was a hang out for locals, artists, Broadway actors, and pro's who mingled.

[@notanotherenigma7759]

This song has all these great elements that I love, but could be that it's 1:30am on a Saturday and I'm getting ready for work, watching this video with bleary eyes, but it isn't hitting me like it should. I'll have to listen again when I'm properly awake !!!

[@alansmith7626]

always try to remember when this was recorded...Real music...nothing digital, still amazes me all these years later, Never gets old

[@timothystockman7533]

This album was tracked at Producer's Workshop, famous for the Sheffield Lab audiophile stuff.

[@lucabraga3471]

Great reaction! You could react to other songs from them, such as King of the world, The caves of Altamira Fire in the hole, Don't take me alive.

[@ukiahsguitarsolos3436]

Actually, you'll love all of it.

[@davidellis5141]

Aja is one of those albums that everyone I knew liked in the 70's & it was worthy of being liked. Scottish band Deacon Blue took their name from a song on it & future Doobie singer Michael McDonald is prominent on Peg. Great musicianship & harmonies.

[@alanFconrad]

Wait till ya hear the rest of this fantastic album....its an all time great

[@SeaMark782]

Tom Scott on sax along with doing all the horn arrangements on Aja. A real pro.

[@livenhfree]

For those over a certain age (hand raised), a black cow is an old-fashioned fountain drink. Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the top. Pure bliss.

[@hanierfamily]

We just call that a root beer float over here.

[@livenhfree]

@@hanierfamily I'm 66. My Mom (rest in peace) told us about the Black Cow. :-)

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Such a great band, 'Steely Dan', they have many great tracks, I won't suggest any as you have plenty of suggestions from me which you're yet to do. If you're interested in samples, Chris, then I suggest a Northern Soul track I suggested, "Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - Beggin'".

[@wino5086]

Don't blame the man....the woman is the one running around in this one.. The album AJA was sampled extensively.. Black Cow- Sampled in 14 other artists recordings Peg- Sampled in 22 But I prefer to listen to Steely Dan- complete, as created - not just borrowed bits...why have chicken nuggets in cRAP when you can have the whole bird prepared to perfection in it's original source...

[@Allright21]

This song was sampled by Peter Gunz and Lord Tariq. Their song was called Deja Vu.

[@hanierfamily]

@@Allright21 Wow. Missed that shot by a mile. Thanks. Maybe we'll listen to it one day.

[@Allright21]

@@hanierfamily I listened to Black Cow yesterday and I remembered those names. 😀

[@SPKdesign1]

Moo!

[@davidellis5141]

🐄

[@cindipossidento5688]

Steely Dan is without a doubt the BEST group EVER !!!! AJA is great!! Best album ever recorded……… Donald Fagan & Walter Becker, RIP The album is loaded with some of the best studio musicians !!!! Love it 🥰

[@jennythompson1538]

This song is about him and she is the one running around...

[@alansmith7626]

Thank You! 😄

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

.the sampling is so insignificant ....to this group and it's music.. Really

[@davidellis5141]

Drink 🍸 Your Big Black Cow 🐄 & Get Outta Here !! 👍

[@tiluriso]

Cocal Cola (or RC, or Pepsi) and Vanilla ice cream, typical of Soda Fountains of the 1950s, ' 60s and some Diners of the 1970s.... Originally a non alcoholic, but I've heard there are modern, Bar versions w/ added Bourbon or Scotch or Brandy in it.

[@JoeCruz-hs2yt]

with steely dan their music is always jazzy that's what they like and the studio musicians are jazz players more dan !

[@kenrock8692]

a coke or rootbeer float

[@richkurl]

Deja Vu (Uptown Baby) by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz sample the intro in 1998. Very successful track

[@GutsGrizzle]

Would be good if you did the album 'PRETZEL LOGIC' by Steely Dan, in a Patreon, at some stage.. . Love that album.. Love Steely Dan

[@jenniferbabros1985]

Down the Rabbit hole

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

" on yonder hill there stood coo, somdy took it cos it's no there noo" , and in my opinion they should have taken this with it, not for me 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@DamienCalnon-uq7zj]

Soooo smooth... But not for me!

[@michaelbadyna1715]

RUMOR HAS IT THAT THIS IS LOOSLY BASED ON DONALD FAGENS DISSATISFACTION WITH WALTER BEKER WHEN HE WAS HAVIVG LETS SAY A ROUGH PERIOD WITH HIS REMEDIES,AS MENTIONED IN THE SONG

[@colrhodes377]

Being Steely Dan, I was expecting great things, but this is so disappointing

[@scurvybro8850]

You're Steely Dan?

[@colrhodes377]

@@scurvybro8850 Didn't you know? I even have the cape to prove it

[@GutsGrizzle]

@@colrhodes377 PRETZEL LOGIC is a good album.

[@leavemealone344]

@@colrhodes377 I didn't know a dildo required a cape. I must have missed that part when reading 'Naked Lunch' all those years back.

[@colrhodes377]

@@leavemealone344 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏