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I just thought that I would try and follow up my last entry about my top 10 Steely Dan favourites. I said in the last entry that I couldn't seem to do (or attempt) a top 10 (or any varation of a list anyways) of Donald Fagen or Walter Becker's music since I wasn't really familiar with their solo works per se ...

Well .. until now ..

In order to do this list I did a search for complete track listings for Donald's two solo albums 1982's "The Nightfly" and 1994's "Kamakiriad". I then managed to download both albums (I had most of "The Nightfly") and listened to them both. After heavy consideration and painstaking thought, I in the end determined that these are my top Donald Fagen solo songs (and I should note that the one marked with an asterik * was written for Jennifer Warnes but Fagen did his own version of it).

This list is:

"The Nightfly"
* "Big Noise, New York"
"New Frontier"
"I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year)"
"Confide In Me"
"Tomorrow's Girls"
"Greenflower Street"
"Trans-Island Skyway"