Collecting all of Steely Dan's albums in chronological order, plus all of their two or three B-sides and one demo in a four-CD box, Citizen Steely Dan is only worthwhile for...
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MCA repackaged Steely Dan's first two albums, Countdown to Ecstasy and Can't Buy a Thrill, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily a bad way to...
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An enormous leap from their debut, Dan are reborn here as 20th century visionaries, offering sad country love songs ("Pearl Of The Quarter"), scathing sociological...
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Can't Buy a Thrill became an unexpected hit, and as a response, Donald Fagen became the group's full-time lead vocalist, and he and Walter Becker acted like Steely Dan was a...
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Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote many outstanding light-rock tunes with a somewhat soulful appeal. This compilation album plays host to quite a few of those songs, among...
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This 1978 ABC set was issued to bind time between Aja and Gaucho. Despite the generous 18 tracks covering the '72-'77 work, this didn't take on mythical proportions due to...
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MCA repackaged Steely Dan's last two albums, Aja and Gaucho, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily a bad way to purchase the albums, but the...
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The Steely Dan Orchestra is a result of the Dan's 1993 reunion tour. A lengthy two-disc set recorded in Columbia, MD on Aug. 8, 1993, the "orchestra" features superb horns...
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Using two drummers (Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro), a horn section and an expanding cast of session musicians, Becker and Fagen create a diverse, cross-genre songfest. Each...
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Countdown to Ecstasy wasn't half the hit that Can't Buy a Thrill was, and Steely Dan responded by trimming the lengthy instrumental jams that were scattered across Countdown...
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At the time, still seen in public without their ever-present sunglasses, Becker and
Fagen here created a moody collage of peculiar treats. The ominous "Black Friday" is...
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Building from the jazz fusion foundation of Pretzel Logic, Steely Dan created an alluringly sophisticated album of jazzy pop with Katy Lied. With this record, Walter Becker...
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Depicting a humorous cast of misanthropes, from "Kid Charlemange" to "Babs and clean Willy" to "a wooly man without a face," The Royal Scam is laced with clever arrangements...
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The Royal Scam is the first Steely Dan record that doesn't exhibit significant musical progress from its predecessor, but that doesn't mean the album is any less...
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MCA repackaged two fine Steely Dan albums from the mid-'70s, Katy Lied and The Royal Scam, as a double-LP set/single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily...
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While rating Steely Dan albums is a near-impossible task, Aja may be the most fully realized work of their impeccable canon. From the wistful "Home At Last" to the simmering...
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Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition...
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The result of slowing down and possibly too much doping up, Gaucho mirrors its still-life cover art with precision-made songs that sound bloodless. "Hey Nineteen" and "Time...
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Aja was cool, relaxed, and controlled; it sounded deceptively easy. Its follow-up, Gaucho, while sonically similar, is its polar opposite: a precise and studied record,...
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When Donald Fagen and Walter Becker re-formed Steely Dan in 1994, they didn't put out a new album. They undertook a tour of sports arenas, their first tour since the days of...
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In the years before they formed Steely Dan and released the band's debut album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen made numerous demonstration...
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Steely Dan recorded a large number of demos between 1968-1971 that have since become the fodder for an equally large number of bootleg collections. Most of these collections...
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Laughing at '60s notions of good karma, Steely Dan debut arrives with an album cover picturing muscle men and prostitutes. Behind its stained brown paper wrapping and...
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Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were remarkable craftsmen from the start, as Steely Dan's debut, Can't Buy a Thrill, illustrates. Each song is tightly constructed, with...
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There is an audience for the double-disc set Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972-1980, although it may be a small one -- it's a set for listeners that want something a...
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The last album Walter Becker and Donald Fagen recorded together under the name Steely Dan came out 20 years ago. But unless you pay close attention to some of the words--the...
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Notorious for shunning concert performances, Steely Dan's improbable live reunion in the mid-'90s eventually turned into a full-fledged reunion album. Since Steely Dan fans...
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Past Steely Dan records have included women described as both "young and willing" and "negative girls" against a colorful cabal of fez wearers, third world warriors and a...
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When Steely Dan released Two Against Nature in 2000, their first album in 20 years, it was an unexpected gift, since all odds seemed against Donald Fagen and Walter Becker...
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When Steely Dan released Two Against Nature in 2000, their first album in 20 years, it was an unexpected gift, since all odds seemed against Donald Fagen and Walter Becker...
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