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Because I dearly love the first five albums. Steely Dan roared out of the gate in 1972 with Can’t Buy a Thrill. It yielded two top twenty hits and established a hybrid of multiple musical genres ...

A Vulture series in which studio musicians select their best performances ... t making a whole lot of money at the time. I knew Steely Dan was going to do this song and I was just finishing ...

It looked for quite some time the legacy of Steely Dan would be confined to the ‘70s, a decade their music helped define. Who could ever have expected that they’d make a grand return, sounding eerily ...

Steely Dan are perhaps most closely associated with the genre tag of yacht rock, but that term wasn't exactly the best descriptor of their sound.

and Rolling Stones ranked them at number 15 on their list of 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. Some of Steely Dan's biggest hits include Reelin' In the Years, My Old School, Black Cow, Do It Again ...

“Pearl of the Quarter,” a country-tinged weeper set in New Orleans the band delivered in 1973, is one of those direct hits, so to speak. Of course, this being Steely Dan, there’s still the ...

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The original Steely Dan songs were so meticulously arranged and brilliantly played that it's a thrill to hear Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's musical fussiness copied so faithfully. Tedde doesn't ...

Steely Dan gained a fierce reputation for their perfectionism. In Ann Wilson's eyes, it was worth it for the creation of this one record.