Steely Dan - Change Of The Guard (REACTION)  

One of Steely Dan's most straightforward songs. When Dan's throwaways are better than 99% of what's out there, you know the group is epic!

You guys are just the best music reactors hands down. Especially when it comes to Steely Dan

What a musical journey with Steely from Can’t Buy A Thrill to Gaucho! Nobody covers Steely Dan like you guys have!! Thanks so much for memory lane!!

One of the best Steely Dan songs that most people have probably never heard.

Great song from an excellent album. Cannot get enough of the Dan. That was Skunk Baxter with the fire guitar riffs. Appreciate all that you fellas do!!! Excellent reaction, fellas 👏🙏❤😊

I use to play this over and over again on 8 track in my car. Every song is great.

I love the way that you guys love Steely Dan...

The morning after the 2016 election, I turned on my radio and this was the first song that was on. I LOL'ed.

Such a versatile group. Probably my favorite band. Always tight with that jazzy energy.

Great song!!

Glad you guys made it back to this! One of my all time favs that gets overlooked !

Had that “My Old School” pick up cook session in there

The guitars on this song are otherworldly.

Nice! Please do fill in the gaps, gents. Because you now understand the Dan, I bet you will appreciate their entire pre-hiatus catalog. For an unappreciated eargasm, check out Century's End, from the Bright Lights Big City soundtrack. Classic, masterful Fagen audio joy. All the best!

Great reaction guys! Love Steely Dan and Can’t buy a thrill is one of my all time favorite albums!

This is the debut album and Fagen had certain concerns about his voice. David Palmer was brought in as an additional lead vocalist and completely sang lead on Brooklyn Owes the Charmer and Dirty Work (which was the higher charting song of the two). He is co-lead on this with Fagen.

sick guitar on this track

I bought this album a few weeks after it was first released and have been a huge Steely Dan fan ever since. Even on this first album, you could hear there was something very special going on.

Immaculate album. Perfection ☘️🇺🇲

Bought this in 8-track in 1972, wore it out along with ABB live Fillmore East, Deep Purple…great music.

Ive been listening to more steely dan, thanks to you guys. ✌️

THANK YOU, LOVE JAZZ, TRY, Down To The Bone, Brooklyn Heights.

Yep that’s Skunk on lead guitar there firing up a great one. Definitely the best thing about this song.

Yup it's Skunk on lead guitar. The way he uses rhythm and vibrato is his

David Palmer was the lead vocalist. The only album he was involved with.

Very 70s sound - and still love it.

Timely lyrics

Jeff is always going to give you that work 😅

Sounds great loved it, thanks guys.

Every track is solid.

Great outdoor summer album …

I wore that album out back in the day. Check out "Only a Fool Would Say That." I heard it was you Talking 'bout a world where all is free It just couldn't be And only a fool would say that

You still have to visit the formal “Jack of Speed”, you did the rough version from mid-90s live.

David Palmer is singing backup. Fagen is the lead, but yeah, this is not your typical SD fare.

Love to see you back to SD. Love this song. !! Love to see ya get back to some ZZ also But that’s just me 😅

Skunk's guitar solo is a highlight. This feels very California to me. I'm pretty sure Daonld and Walter were being sarcastic. They didn't really believe it.

Starting to appreciate Jim Hodder's drumming more after all these years. Imagine being replaced by Porcaro, Purdie, Gadd, et al... hard to sound great after those guys took over

Guys...try not to skip over any of the earlier stuff....it's all great! T

Dirty guitar, got to be the a Dan❤

Are you ever going to do Bodhisattva live? You'll Crack up.

My favorite Steely Dan album right there but why wouldn’t it be as it came out in late 72 if I’m not mistaken and I then graduated from HS the following early June of 1973. I totally get the genius of AJA but to me this album is my fav of theirs.

Do the RU-vid Analytics show y'all if somebody watches a video twice?

Not a bad song off their debut album.

Cuz it's a different lead singer

More guns

It would be hard to know exactly who, was playing the instruments on a lot of studio albums from around that time, because session musicians were commonly used during the recording. unless of course it was mentioned on the album liner notes. just saying.

David Palmer was the singer drank himself out of a great job...according to a friend of mine..

Can you please react to Po-Jama people by Frank Zappa next?

Skunk killed it! On vocals, they had David Palmer on the first album along with Fagen. Fagen is a much, much better vocalist.

Even SD has to have an average track once in a while. Otherwise, we'd think they were stealing them from God.

Lyrics are poignant for today

Several “radio hits” on this album, “Kings” is one of my favorites, because it wasn’t one you heard a lot..