No static='no fuss from the ladies tonight' means to me, 'they into it..'

There are two types of people in the world... people that love Steely Dan... and people that have not heard Steely Dan.

Some of us are old enough to remember when FM radio was new!

Steely Dan always invited to the cookout.

Was written for movie. Yes about FM radio. Backup singers in this cut: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B Schmidt.

The more I watch reaction channels, the more I realise that we were absolutely spoiled with all the great music on the radio, groing up in the seventies. What a time to be alive! And how fantastic to see all these young people discovering these treasures.

I love watching this dude discover Steely Dan tunes. I remember hearing these songs and thinking exactly the same thing: "damn.. this shit is tight".

"OH! THEY 'BOUT TO HIT US WITH SOME FUNK!" Love it!

“They’re about to hit us with some funk!” You’re goddam right they are. They’re Steely Dan.

When Jamel gets those shoulders goin...priceless.

They don't make music like this anymore. Just gets better with time.

From an old chick who grew up on this gift from the gods music, yes, FM is a reference to the transition from AM radio dominance to FM in the mid-70's.

Anything Steely Dan does is nothing short of amazing!

Clinical studies have proven that listening to “FM” raises your cool factor by 4.7%

This was in my opinion, Walter Becker’s finest guitar work. He was so highly underrated.

Steely Dan is my fav band of all time….. I never tire of their tunes. So many masterpieces ❤️

You have Jeff Porcaro from Toto on drums, the amazing Pete Christlieb on sax, and the Eagles singing backing vocals; how can this not be a smash...

When I was a kid in the 70s FM radio was a big deal. When my dad bought a new car FM radio cost extra and it was so clear compared to AM. When I got my license I would take the car out just to listen to the radio. That might sound stranger to people that are used to digital sound that is perfect. I loved the FM on the stereo that my parents got me as a gift. It included an eight track tape deck.

Simply the funkiest, jazziest pair of white boys ever: Steely Dan

The engineer won an award for his sound engineering magic on this album FM ROCKS!

I’m not sure music gets any better than this. So glad you love it as much as we do!

Steely Dan is a slept on giant. That's why I love them. They were so good and so funky. The grooves, the funk, their lyrical hooks. They captured the era in their sound.

This was the title theme to a forgotten movie called "FM," about the goings-on at a rock radio station. It was sort of the predecessor of "WKRP in Cincinnati." I randomly found the soundtrack for a dollar in the cutout bin - remember those? - and it's a fantastic 2-disc sampler of all the very best rock and roll that was on the radio around 1979 or so.

This and 3 other Dan songs were played at my wedding. I chose and arranged the entire 8 hour playlist. Three wonderful months it took. My only responsibility.

This song was written for the movie FM, which came out in '78. It's about a radio station where the bosses want to ruin it with more advertising and the DJs fight back. Pretty funny. Martin Mull just makes it good.

One of the best bands ever...everything they did was excellent and always had good grooves...always

It's about FM Radio, but it was actually part of a movie soundtrack, FM.

I have loved Steely Dan since the first time I ever heard them, and I was a hard rock fan back then. I remember when the first FM station in South Texas was operating illegally for the first couple of months because the FCC was holding up issuing their license. They said it was because the authorities wanted to make sure it had sponsors that wouldn't support playing too much rock music. So they responded by playing wtf they wanted to play until their license got issued ! And they played it all night long. Tough to communicate the value of that to today's youth who have everything at their fingertips. RIP Walter. Jam on Donald!

I can't believe there is even ONE person who doesn't like this song!

That is correct my man. It's basically a tribute of sorts to FM radio as opposed to AM. You can't go wrong with Steely Dan.

Us "old timers" (I'm 59) remember that in the 1970's FM (Frequency Modulation) was in a battle with the already established AM (Amplitude Modulation) and AM did not want to give up their dominance in the market. When I was a kid all you could get radio wise, car, house, or otherwise was an AM mono radio, but that's where all the music was at that time anyway. AM just couldn't compete with FM once it was affordable enough to get up and broadcasting, because it wasn't as susceptible to static interference from electric appliances or other sources, and you couldn't broadcast in that new format called "Stereo" on AM radio, you could on FM. AM radio tried, but the best they could come up with for a short time was "dual mono". FM had stereo, and even for a very brief time "Quadraphonic" broadcast capability, but did have shorter range and required more power to broadcast much like a VHF TV signal, but the demise of AM was written on the wall by that time. Take care and thanks for the great entertainment. William C. in Indiana, aka Bionicycle.

When the curtains finally close on me I want this playing. Serenity.

I love Steely Dan, my Uncle turned me on when he came back from overseas early 80's

"Time Out Of Mind" by Steely Dan. Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers) on background vocals.

Man when that sax hits it feels like the convertible top comes off and you're cruising into San Francisco across the bay bridge , warm out late summer evening when the air smells good .

This song has my favourite lyric line ever.... ‘Nothing but blues and Elvis and somebody else’s favourite song.’ The most sophisticated rhyme, finding a match with Elvis!

It’s from the soundtrack of the movie “FM” about a radio station.

When this song came out in 1978, I was a kid that already liked Steely Dan (having heard "Deacon Blues"). I also liked a lot of black bands like Earth Wind & Fire and Chic, so by comparison I never thought of Steely Dan's sound as being funky at all; it was smooth soft rock, and it was rather dark in terms of sound as well as lyrical content, especially this song. So it is interesting to see people hear it as "stank face" funky, and it makes me listen again and appreciate it like that. My favorite part of this song is the strings over the guitar solo. I don't think Steely Dan used strings in any other song. The arrangement was by Johnny Mandel, a famed composer and arranger who had been doing jazz since the 1940s. It's just gorgeous.

"These guys make me look like Bill Cosby" now that is classic.

You missed the ordeal of having to tolerate AM stations with all their limits. Glad you're lovin' SD....

One of the most accomplished bands /musicians EVER THEY ARE AMAZING

Yes, it is about the FM station as opposed to AM...Steely Dan never wrote a bad song 😉

Seeing you dance, groovin, and enjoying Steely Dan makes me feel like a proud parent. It might have taken you a while to get here, but you are here now to stay. LOL

Old college professor loved this piece. Used it to get metaphor through my thick head. There's no static on FM...and there's no static on an evening like this when you cater to the ladies and enjoy an evening with no 'heat'...no 'static'. All good.

THERE ARE 26 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO DON'T LIKE THIS SONG?!?! So it's true...the world has actually gone mad.

"They always make me look like Bill Cosby" OMG, I'm rollin'

Jamal it's already got you groovin!! Love watching your reaction!!

This song makes me think of an LA balmy evening, driving in a car, palm trees, city lights twinkling, nice vibe. I’ve never been there but that’s what this jazzy song makes me think of.

Where is the Steely Dan bands today??? They do not exist. This is why they will always rise to the top in my heart. U got lots of heart too which is why I love u and ur reactions!!! Keep vibing!

FM & AM. FM was the signal that carried the better Rock, Jazz and Soul stations which usually played longer song formats. AM usually had more pop and news.

When I hear this song, I'm immediately transported to my early 30's, working in NYC, going to rock, blues and jazz clubs in the Tri-State area. Great memories of lost friends and forgotten lovers. And who better to "share" them with today then OUR man Jamel AKA Jamal. You never fail to "get it." You aren't listening to these songs, you are LIVIN'ing to these songs. (I do realize I made up a word there, but it had to be done!)

Been grooving to this tune for 43 years. Just realized that the lead guitar sounds like Don Felder(it's Walter Becker). Three other Eagles actually sang background vocals.

Imagine walking into the club while this song is playing.Puts you in a dancing mood.

No kidding. When I worked selling electronic back in the early 80's - ish we would play this song on crappy speakers. THEN we would play it on the speakers we were selling. Huge difference. Made the sale everytime. Love me some Steely Dan!

"FM" is about FM radio, but it's the title song to a 1978 movie entitled....you guessed it..."FM." Great movie sound track.

There’s nothing better than listening to Steely Dan with someone who also gets it.

Steely Dan reminds me of my bff who passed away in 1992. We would drive and listen to Steely Dan albums. Great memories of my youth 🤗😞

So, Jamel, here's the deal. Walter and Donald had a whole bunch of ideas. They were masters of their instruments and masters of composition, but they still felt they weren't good enough. So they went out and look for all the best cats in the biz and actually made them *audition* for each track on each album. They told each cat to read the chart but also put their individual interpretation on it. Some big names were considered and discarded. Others rose to the top and made it on a cut. On most albums, each track had different personnel. What they wound up with is what we have today. Brilliance.

I've been waiting for this, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, .

This song has one of my favorite song lyrics of all time: “Nothing but blues and Elvis, and somebody else’s favorite song.”

Thank you!! You made my listing to a song I've heard a million times like I'm hearing it for the first time.

This cat is fire 🔥 they way he reviews the music he’s got that swag, the way I roll..about to buy his merchandise... big fan already

This song was written for a movie from the 70’s called FM. Probably was the title song.

The string arrangement under the guitar playout is incredible. Goosebumps everytime.

FM to me is their total talent and catalogue of songs all in one song that combined, Rhythm & Blues, Funk, Rock, Pop, Jazz that makes up FM !!

My drummer used to say, "The funk is thick in here...."

It was the title song from the movie “FM” about an FM radio station of the late 70’s, early 80’s. Walter Becker on brilliant lead guitar. Pete Christlieb on sax, who also played sax on Deacon Blues, Black Cow.

My heart skips a beat every time someone discovers Steely Dan. Welcome my friend. There's no turning back now.

Mr.Jamal, as a 71 year old Audiophile, love seeing your reactions to music of my growing period. Those of us born in the '50s, only had several forms of music, Radio, Records or Live. We only had one type of Radio, "AM' during that period, with alot of static. Cars only had one type of radio so as you traveled on the old roads in the State one lived in, you were almost constantly changing the buttons to find something static free. In the late 60's, early 70's, FM came into being, it had longer range for broadcasting the signal but more inportantly, "no static at all", was a big sell. Getting our first cars back then we had to fight to remove the AM unit to put in aftermarket FM , and then finally by end of 70's cars came with both radio frequencies, AM and FM Stereo .Just a quick audio history lesson sir, love your videos, been watching you for over a year now. Keep em coming and thanks for your honest impressions, thoughts about music .

I can still remember when FM stations really gained traction back in the early 70's. The difference in the quality of sound was SO evident.

This here is some smooth-ass funk! Yeaaah! One of my all-time faves. We loved dancing to this in the clubs. And Yes, Jamal... it is about FM radio. (I dated a disc jockey from a popular Connecticut station in the late 70’s. This song was one of our favs.). U can’t sit still with this little groove! It’s finger poppin good! 😎😎😎

I love watching these . Where someone gets what a generation has been missing.

The Dan is the best and good for any occasion. Born in the early 70's and always brings back great memories. I'm old now and miss the time when music was not made by computers😢

For those of us old enough to remember album rock stations, this was our soundtrack. BTW the entire soundtrack to the movie "FM" is amazing.

One of the most precisely timed bass lines ever.

Gotta be honest man, there's not much in life better than getting a little buzz and watching your reactions to some sweet Steely Dan tunes. This is such a great tune, and as always your reaction is so genuine and awesome. Thanks man for being there for us during these crazy times. Much love brother

Notice a trend here, this time it's drummer is Jeff Porcaro(of Toto). It's the drummers that are making you dance like that.

Jamal you make me so happy! I love watching your reactions. When you smile and dance and bounce those shoulders, appreciating the music that I have loved since I was young (50 years ago). Keep doing what you're doing and you and your family stay safe!!! ✌

The end of their songs are like the end of a good smoke or drink you just don’t want to end.

Nothing but blues and Elvis, and someone else's favorite song!!

Jamal, I love Steely Dan and I love you! Your reactions, your shoulders - make the music even better!!!

Trivia: This song was never released on an album. Made for a movie. It’s on greatest hits albums now. Steely Dan...timeless. Love seeing you enjoy them. They’ve been my favorite for 35 years. 🙂

Dude im having a nice beverage and I feel like im hanging out w u chillin to this. thanks man..

After the success of their Grammy-winning 6th album "Aja," Steely Dan had raised the musical I.Q. of radio fans to the point where this jazzy gem featuring tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb actually climbed to #18 on the pop charts … paving the way for jazz fusion artists to get played on Top 40 stations around the country. I've said it for years. Becker & Fagen were the finest composing duo since Lennon & McCartney.

STEELY DAN, AND "FM"... I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT. YES AS IT HAS BEEN SAID. QUITE A FEW OF US MUSIC NUT ELDERS. REMEMBER THE START OF FM RADIO STATIONS... I BELIEVE THIS ALSO WAS THE SOUND TRACK FOR THE MOVIE FM... GREAT REACTION JAMEL AND YES, NO STATIC AT ALL...🤩✌

Rest in Peace Pops... He loved Steely Dan... This is one of my favorites...

"No static at all" is a pun. AM radio is crackly and static-y. FM is smoother, and is better for stereo. And "no static" from the ladies, if you play the tunes they like on FM. FM was just getting more popular than AM in 1978 when this song came out. It's the theme to a film called "FM". The film bombed, but this song was a huge hit. PS: BODHISATTVA, dude! TUNE!

Steely Dan, nothing compares. They were a class of their own. A gift from God.

There was a time when FM was considered alternative. DJ's picked the songs they played. Few corporations didn't own most of the stations.

music from the 1978 movie "FM", about a radio station (very like WKRP...)

Love seeing you love music from an amazing time gone by, that can never be replicated, yet will never die.

No static at all. My first favorite by Steely Dan. Still love it.

FM stereo in the early 70’s was like HD stereo is today. The sound quality was so much better than the AM we were used to. And Steely sounded so damn good. Still does.

So enjoying your Steely Dan reactions, I really love the band, throughout the decades they’ve remained my favourite ❤️

Crosby, Stills, Nash and young - Carry on

Steely Dan is staggering to folks born after 1985.

It’s about pumping up our gals with this funky music. As long as the quality music keeps playing, she treats you nice....So Cool !

While listening to Steely Dan, I'm reminded of Wolfman Jack

Gotta hit some of Fagen's solo stuff like "IGY" and "New Frontier"

With Jeff Porcaro on drums,Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Timothy B Schmit on backing vocals….Classic!!!!!