Do It Again Steely Dan Stems

Steely Dan

Do Information technology Over again

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Steely Dan's first striking single and to this day the song nigh associated with the duo (the tagline on ads for the reunion album Two Confronting Nature was "Dorsum, Jack, to do information technology again"), "Exercise It Again" is remarkably odd material for a Summit Ten radio hit. It'south a half-dozen-minute shuffle based on a sleepy bossa nova rhythm tapped out with Latin percussion by expatriate British jazzman Victor Feldman, lacking any kind of span or middle eight. It features not one but two lengthy solos, the first on an electric sitar (by 1972, a hopelessly out of mode instrument last heard on the pop charts on the Box Tops' "Cry Like a Baby" and B.J. Thomas' "Hooked On a Feeling") played past the overall-clad man mountain Denny Dias and the second on what the liner notes termed "an inexpensive, imported plastic organ" (really a Yamaha YC-30, a cheap philharmonic organ with a unique sort of congenital-in theremin characteristic chosen a portamento strip), which Donald Fagen abuses to create an odd, high-pitched wailing effect similar to the odd noises Joe Meek got on the Tornados' "Telstar" a decade before. Bracketing those solos is a trio of lengthy verses filled with the sort of quasi-mystical Americana that covered the first two albums by the Ring, delivered in Fagen's snickering whine of a voice and apropos the seductive ability of addiction. Not much well-nigh this clarification screams "smash hit!," merely "Do It Again" rapidly became both i of the defining soft rock tracks of the '70s and the perfect introduction for a ring that would get on to fifty-fifty odder and more than wondrous creations over the next eight years.

Appears On

Yr	Artist/Anthology	Label	Time
1972	Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill	MCA	5:56
1973	Steely Dan Inaugural to Ecstasy	MCA	0:00
1977	Steely Dan Plus Four	ABC Music
1978	Original Soundtrack FM [Original Soundtrack]	MCA	5:54
1979	Steely Dan Greatest Hits	MCA	v:l
1982	Steely Dan Aja/Can't Purchase a Thrill	MCA
1985	Steely Dan A Decade of Steely Dan	MCA / Universal	5:56
1990	Original Soundtrack Air America [Soundtrack]	MCA	5:01
1991	Various Artists Sounds of the Seventies: 1973 - Take Two	Fourth dimension / Life Music	iv:12
1992	Steely Dan Do It Again	Falcon Domicile Ent.	5:56
1993	Steely Dan Citizen Steely Dan	MCA	5:54
1993	Steely Dan Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan - And so and Now	MCA	5:56
1997	Diverse Artists The Ultimate Rock Collection Gold and Platinum, Vol. two: 1971-1973	Time / Life Music	4:xiii
1999	Original Soundtrack Outside Providence	Warner Bros.	v:56
2000	Steely Dan Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972-1980	MCA	5:56
2003	Original Soundtrack Laurel Canyon	Hollywood	5:56
2003	Video Game Soundtrack NHL Rivals 2004: Xbox	33rd Street Records / Bayside Record Dist.	five:54
2003	Diverse Artists Legends: Do It Again	Time / Life Music	4:13
2006	Steely Dan The Definitive Collection	MCA / Geffen	five:57
2006	Various Artists Cocktail Hour	H2o Music Records	0:00
2007	Steely Dan 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Drove - The Best of Steely Dan	Geffen	5:56
2007	Various Artists Legends Informercial Prepare	Time / Life Music	4:13
2009	Steely Dan The Very Best of Steely Dan	Universal Distribution / Universal Music Idiot box	five:57
	Various Artists 1970s Jams	Universal	5:54
	Diverse Artists 70s Rock Essentials	Universal	5:54
	Diverse Artists Alternative Music Through the Years	Universal	five:54
	Diverse Artists Best of Stone Classics	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Camping ground Music	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Classic Hits	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Classic Rock Mixtape	Universal	five:57
	Various Artists Classics for Kids	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Cocktail Time [Universal]	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Dinner Party Summer	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Easy Listening [Universal]	Universal	5:54
	Diverse Artists Happy Classics	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Hits Rock [Universal]	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists I Middle 70s	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Lunch	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Pasaporte a los 70s	Universal	five:54
	Various Artists Retro Music	Universal	five:54
	Various Artists Rock at Work	Universal	five:54
	Various Artists Stone pra Emocionar	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Stars of the 70s	Universal	5:54
	Various Artists Summer of Rock	Universal	5:54
	Steely Dan The Katy Lied Sessions & More
	Various Artists Viaje A 1972	Universal	5:54