Steely Dan ~ Do It Again ~ Can't Buy A Thrill (HQ Audio)

[@donthompson1608]

March 1973 I had just completed US Air Force Basic Training. I was waiting to start Security Police Tech School at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. Back then we got paid in cash. I went to the BX and bought a mid-sized portable AM/FM radio. As I was walking across the pedestrian bridge to the barracks I switched it on and this song started at the beginning. Perfect timing and burned into my brain. This song always takes me back to my carefree 19 year old self just starting out on the adult portion of life. It’s been a great journey.

[@richardmaffett2738]

Keep those positive vibes forward. You’re on your way!

[@matthewsims9469]

Love that story!

[@santosgurrola578]

I was in basic training from the end of June till the middle of August,we might have crossed paths,I also was 19,I can get mistey eyed listening to these tunes,I don’t think the now generations get it,don’t get me wrong I love how my life turned out,3 kids and 6 grandkids,thanks for the memories…

[@kurtgeorge5022]

Awesome bro!

[@gregkoepke1439]

Wtg

[@lesaoun4952]

I am 66 years of age . Our generation lives through the best decades of music evolution

[@wg8834]

Well I'm 81

[@Rhanda-z4z]

They will never make music like they did in the 70s man those were the days❤

[@j.dunlop8295]

Definitely, the terrifying changes taking place were corporations (military industrial complex!) tail wagging the dog!

[@austinthompson165]

for a young man to be born in 78 , my dad had a great taste for music, guess what it rubbed off on me ,,, Do it again

[@LynRoberts-n4v]

❤

[@LynRoberts-n4v]

@@austinthompson165

[@scottmagri6306]

I’m afraid you are right 😢

[@steelyman08]

In the mornin' you go gunnin' for the man who stole your water And you fire 'til he is done in but they catch you at the border And the mourners are all singin' as they drag you by your feet But the hangman isn't hangin' and they put you on the street You go back, Jack, do it again, wheel turnin' 'round and 'round You go back, Jack, do it again When you know she's no high climber then you find your only friend In a room with your two-timer, and you're sure you're near the end Then you love a little wild one and she brings you only sorrow All the time you know she's smilin' you'll be on your knees tomorrow, yeah You go back, Jack, do it again, wheel turnin' 'round and 'round You go back, Jack, do it again Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas with a handle in your hand Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able In the land of milk and honey, you must put them on the table You go back, Jack, do it again, wheels turnin' 'round and 'round You go back, Jack, do it again Songwriters: Donald Fagen / Donald Jay Fagen / Walter Carl Becker Do It Again lyrics © Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc

[@andya857]

After all these years , still fucking cool...

[@dalehaarman1682]

i agree, but we didn't need the F bomb.

[@michaeljohnson9089]

Damn Straight Brother "Steely Dan" Rules!!!

[@michaeljohnson9089]

BTW...I'm About Be 72 in few 😊😅😂

[@isaettawalton4286]

Better than that!!

[@guymankiker5661]

Awesome

[@ashleyupshall7641]

What a song to open your debut album with. Songsmiths genius.

[@ChrisJowett-d2y]

❤❤ Amen

[@ChrisJowett-d2y]

Donald Fagan is nice

[@ChrisJowett-d2y]

❤❤back Jack do it for Jesus Christ amen

[@susanneellison8374]

Steely Dan was very on heavy FM radio rotation when I was between 7 and 10 years old. At that time, I only wanted to hear the Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, and really anything disco. My young mind couldn't appreciate the brilliance that is Steely Dan. Fast forward to the year 2000 and my best friend asked if I would go see SD with her. I was completely blown away. The absolute precision, not to mention the nostalgia...one of the best concerts ever.

[@SweetUniverse]

Same. I didn't like them when I was a kid. I do now! 😅

[@fdntef21]

I'm almost 73 and I'm still rocking to this song!

[@slyspy9819]

Why shouldn't you ...after all it is the music of your life....(and mine)

[@fdntef21]

@@slyspy9819 no reason not to!

[@RickQuick-p1l]

72 here. Love the band and all their songs love affair since the 70’s

[@TonyQuintero-kf7wh]

Rock on😂❤

[@richardgraff1145]

❤

[@tamaralinekar2904]

2025 Im listening ❤whos here as well

[@TexasRose50]

I am! 74 year old lady that remembers the days of these priceless songs.

[@pierreblanchard6173]

In France

[@ThePudge35]

how about 80 and still rocking

[@scoobydooman554]

Find better engagement bait

[@keirstonrose6656]

One of the coolest songs of all time, hands down.... Long live rock and roll!! 🤟😁

[@mottahead6464]

And it was the band's first album? Really ? And no filler songs, only great ones? I'm a late fan..... yet I'm catching up real fast.

[@steelyman08]

Truly. They only had three full band albums, and then Fagen & Becker stopped touring and brought in session musicians. Aja is considered the best of the lot. I like them all. Enjoy the journey.

[@michigandersea3485]

Not Fagen and Becker’s first songs, that’s for sure

[@btinsley1]

every time i vacation-travel to pensacola / navarre beach, i traditionally rock ONLY SD in my 76 MG. My earthly pleasure.

[@steelyman08]

I grew up in the UK during the seventies. Saw quite a few of those at that time. I just Googled some images to remind me of them. Very nice indeed. Enjoy the ride 🙂

[@naturalsovereign9761]

Im 54 and i love yacht music, whatever bullshit name they put on it, its classix rock to me.

[@jonidawn3668]

Every song conjures up so many memories. Part of the DNA for a certain subset of . you'd almost say, true believers.

[@DaveLL500]

The first Steely Dan song I ever heard on the radio was Do It Again. As a 12 year old kid, this haunting song captivated me and I've been a Dan fan ever since.

[@jennydefilippi]

The beginning of my high school years..... God I miss those days......😂

[@MichaelHatzi-v6s]

Sitting here ouzo and beer chasers listening to steely Dan and others of days of old remembering the good old days when good music was plentyful with meaning soul

[@chrxmeface]

Steely Dan is un-fucking-matched in sound quality and engineering. These guys were strict AF in the studio and it shows. No one comes close to the quality

[@karenmenta5852]

Been brung up with steely!!! love it still in2025

[@pameladepaulo5298]

This was our jam in the 80’s 😎🌬️☮️⚖️🩵🇺🇦

[@josephgiunta6732]

In 1972 what group could add Ravi Shankar, Wes Montgomery/Kenny Burrell, Elvin Jones, Ron Carter and Dr. Lonnie Smith to a rock/pop jazz influenced song and get air play on every radio station in LA and knock it out of the park in every way? Steely Dan that's who!!!!!!

[@HarmonicHeart4Women]

Sick as a dog...I drove from Denver to Phoenix in my big emancipation move 1975...22 years old and freshly divorced😊 All I had to listen to was this Steely Dan cassette! All 16 hours it was on. I made it and still love Steely Dan! Thanks!!!?

[@Haring51]

How many of us can relate to our youth and remember when we were warned about dangers to avoid? And we went 'back, Jack, do it again". We kept doing things again and again, wheels turning round and round. Until we STOPPED finally. But so many of our friends did not. And we lost them.

[@Torgo1969]

Bowling FTW!

[@teresaoconnell4790]

that is deeep!

[@chrissimpson3273]

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[@BrianChristensen-x8h]

I’m 64 and this was one of my favorite bands

[@angievega3128]

Still one of my fave will turn 63 in a couple of weeks

[@kevinlooby5570]

I’m 70. First time I heard this in 73 was a great conclusion to Woodstock!

[@Robbielou-t1u]

I didn’t do Woodstock, but I loved the music. Still do. Makes me remember worry-free days. When the parents paid the bills!! 😅

[@daveski7]

@@Robbielou-t1u Definitely the parents fault and not the rapidly increasing bills and cost of living

[@mavenowa]

1969 Woodstock.....

[@daveboy108]

❤ Pops would pick me up from work in Westwood Village in his 1970 Dodge Coronet with a 440 engine you could hear him coming Steely Dan would be playing on the radio station REST IN PEACE POPS ❤😢

[@ordon3858]

I lost mine TOO. My best friend!! SD genius says a Black older lady.

[@austinthompson165]

where is the car , man I just picture that in my mind,,,

[@daveboy108]

@@austinthompson165 in the garage every time I work on it I break down with tears loosing him was heart breaking unbearable

[@PeterRees-d2t]

One of the greatest songs of all time, definitely top 10 from the seventies. Lyrics, music, vocals, brilliant

[@1971wendi]

I was only 2 in 73, these songs are from the best ERA. Before the music industry was a joke!

[@johnhardesty3167]

Songs deport you to the best places, many are back in time. And this one especially, to an America who loved everyone.

[@NatureBoy420]

america never loved ANYone

[@ThomasJones-sz3sx]

@@NatureBoy420 Why So Bitter!

[@NatureBoy420]

its the truth. not bitter at all. your assuming

[@eugeniopannozzo4217]

Steely Dan of the seventies

[@carolcastro7290]

Let's not ever forget !

[@reachlove6779]

How to justify Love 💕

[@rickcipriani2616]

First song first album first side and this is what they come out with just amazing

[@Haring51]

..Their lyrics can fill a book of poetry. The song above illustrates good writing. The meter in each line matches the one above. The flow is smooth. The rhyming pattern is A-B-A-B. You don't NEED melody or sound to read the lyrics and appreciate great writing skills. That's one reason I've always been a fan. I'm a writer so I have to highlight anyone with skills who practices creative writing. Compare this with other song writers. You'll see the huge difference in the quality of the lyrics. Most are forgettable, Fagan & Becker's words come easily even if we haven't heard the song in years.

[@danielramey-u4n]

as far as I'm concerned top 10 in the history of music

[@franciscocastillo4687]

i was 11 when this song hit the air waves now i/m 63 and still sounds good club classic

[@koro287]

me too dude

[@saltygrandpajoe6375]

👍🏻

[@Cartier_specialist]

This song was on high rotation on the radio when I was about 12 or so. They played AM radio on the school bus and this was one of the songs I remember most from then.

[@paulmiller7413]

72 YR old old fart from Scotland says along with Sinatra this is ,along with music of it's time, is the best.

[@JeffLivesGood]

60 here in small town Ontario Canada, still loving me some Steely Dan from 78

[@sillyconenavia]

He'll Yeah, mad rockin rollers from the 70's.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I clearly temember this song when i was 12 back then, what a cool groove snd melody/lyrics, first time i heard of steely dan, bbecaame one of my fav bands of alltime, imagine this is your first notable song, always in the radio, it still holds up over 50 yrs later.

[@ThomasJones-sz3sx]

Me Too.....!

[@davidbass7593]

What a beautiful time to be alive❤

[@angelatravers7290]

Every time I'm in Vegas they play this sOng . Yeah!

[@DarlaKroupa]

I was 10 y/o at that time and dug this tune

[@kevinberry6734]

We grew up in a good time.They can't even make a good movie anymore

[@sallyweinreich5769]

I was 16 years old when this song came out, my boyfriend was 20 years old and deployed in Vietnam🇺🇸

[@lookwhoslaughingnow2355]

16 dating a 20 year old what in the actual fuck

[@Chippingonin]

Nice bait

[@AlfredoAlvear-jl1gr]

Good song 🎵

[@DannyVanRensburg]

Ì have been listening to this number for years it's a great number

[@thierrypetitjean]

Je l'écoute et ça n'a pas bougé, toujours sensationnel ❤ 😂

[@TheMouko]

afternoon delight anyone 2024 enjoy,,,,,

[@tonywelch8431]

I was 10 when this came out, it's a jam that i listen to with my 40 year old son to this day. Great catalog

[@marileocam]

La amo ❤preciosa canción 🎵 excelente ritmo es universal aquí en CDMX🇲🇽

[@douglasmontgomery4256]

I mean the music is incredible, but the lryics. Truth & beauty. Thanx youtube.

[@EDDIETRUJILLO-q8p]

Timeless.

[@AlejandroChavarro-ot5xf]

Steely Dan Top notch musicians !!! Great listening 🎵🎵

[@lucyhallis9814]

My older brother listened to Steely Dan, so I remember when this song came out. Liked the music to the song. I was 10 to 11 years old in 1972/1973.

[@matambale]

First album I ever bought, from Skaggs Drug Store, 1973, in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, Denver, Colorado.

[@edgartaylor5259]

You've got that right, that music is one of a kind.

[@ambushedimagination1931]

Yes, all I know to say to hearing this is, YES.

[@yvonbakker9256]

This music gived me the best time in my life,and the memorie of that days,gives me a ..

[@tronagraves]

Oh I do love me some Steely Dan !!!!

[@dankaradave]

Pure smoke)

[@ThomasJones-sz3sx]

I Was Listening To This Tune On 99.1 WPLR NEW HAVEN, CT. @ 13 Years old!! 1972!!

[@MarkCramer-ge2px]

Be 67 in a few.. Still rocking out to this song 😅

[@LuisMendoza-o4q]

An awesome song by steely dan

[@JULIANMARTINEZ-tk5mo]

This song right here just hits different I’m 24 going on 25 and this music just don’t get any better man I wish I live in this time to hear all the good music 💪🏼💪🏼 my mother and father are about 60 something years old and this is all I grow up listening to beside oldies

[@gregwingrove6161]

Happy memories of my youth 😁👍

[@cacornhusker2940]

Amen Brother. i was 10 in '70 and listened to my older sibs spin 45's during the 60's, but the 70's with Albums and the Evolution of The Stereo, Musicians and Talent was like the 60's were Black and White and the 70's Became Neon Lites and Full Cinematic Color....And the Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill changed Lives.

[@pameladepaulo5298]

So prophetic -as our world 🔥

[@esthergarcia1373]

Love Steeley Dan’s unique original sound. Also love Rikki don’t lose her number and Hey Nineteen among others. ❤🙏🌟🎹🎸🎼🥁💎

[@suzyQsz]

A true classic that never gets old. ❤

[@Kitty3761]

I love this song ❤ steely dan

[@lesleyblack5722]

Let’s Not Ever Forget !!!

[@reachlove6779]

❤

[@anthonythomas5054]

When I was a young Marine, an old Japanese Lady turned me out to this and some weed. Growing up fast is shocking but it sho was fun, lol

[@wespaul9345]

The quintessential 70s song. We all heard it on the radio.

[@johnlayman6405]

You don't get bands that play these good music anymore/ Good old days/ where were you people/ my time /😂❤❤❤

[@johnlayman6405]

Steely Dam is one of the best best bands/ and their music is affective and thrilling. 😊❤❤❤😂

[@luciuscorneliussulla5182]

God, I love this song. The were masters of their craft.

[@LuisMendoza-o4q]

51 yenes ago and still rocking!

[@mariadepaula8541]

Ouço essa música VIP, todos os dias no meu trabalho, Radio Ouro Verde Curitiba PR, Brasil... lindíssima....

[@DennisCharette]

Groovy smoke a Doobie Brother Music 🎶 🎵 👌

[@WorkforGOD91]

Best fking sexy guitar solo around period!!

[@latoshawhite8495]

Best song in 1972 🪘🎸🥁🎺🎤🪘☮️

[@rickhuff2026]

Love me some Steely Dan

[@lovetroublecat]

Smoothest intro😊

[@juanlauda2300]

I pity the youth. They don't know...

[@ordon3858]

If you’re here- you’re a genius!

[@jenniferburchill3658]

And have good taste in real music!

[@pauladamo2841]

Do It Again....

[@KarlosOrellana]

Sick ass jam

[@eman244tx]

Brother just do it again! That's my song!!! 🤩

[@bobwirth9256]

Wow this song brings back memories from me in the my 20's . Didn't make to much money on the black cards . but made a few bucks racing my camaro back in the day 😜😜

[@bobwirth9256]

It's worth being older now ,to have been young then, great era of music and times 🎸🎸

[@robveltman9134]

You can definitely buy it

[@elabidmohamed9539]

Pocos.and.logrado la gran calidad. De esta musica

[@LuisMendoza-o4q]

Music genious steely dan

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Up north camping trips in Michigan in the 70s, this song brings back memories

[@toad4ever103]

This is the one that always gets me!

[@michigandersea3485]

This song is about the futile nature of pursuing sustained pleasure in this world. The wheel of samsara (bhavacakra) turns round and round.

[@paulsherman51]

... and not having made enough merit นุญ to break out of that cycle on way to that ultimate quest of nirvana, it's those three defilements that get us all the time: greed, anger, and jealosy. up and down, all the time. that merry-go-round called denial. if "Do It Again" doesn't speak closest to the Four Noble Truths, I really don't know what does. deep here.

[@mariodutra656]

@@paulsherman51 Great explanation and meaning of this song that came out when I was 8 years old.

[@mavenowa]

Cambodia : with my brother gladiators 1972 …

[@lyndahutcheson577]

⁷4 old lady that relates to Deacon Blues, scotch and all 🎉

[@annamosier1950]

Great song

[@billturnbull7016]

Great band. Love them. Easy listening.

[@RolandoSalvador-md2gh]

Éste hermoso tema musical lo escuché en el año de 1,993, en la Radio de Lima Perú, Stereo100.00

[@CharlieLemonrose]

Fun track