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Steely Dan have perfected the aesthetic of the tease." [49] John Griffin of The Gazette wrote that "The music is perfection throughout" the album. [52] The New York Times gave Gaucho a positive review, [53] and later ranked it ahead of such albums as Remain in Light by Talking Heads and Closer by Joy Division as the best album of 1980. [54]
It was Steely Dan's final hit before disbanding in the summer of that year. [4] [5] The writing of "Time Out of Mind" took place amid the worsening drug addiction of Walter Becker, who co-wrote the song with his bandmate Donald Fagen. The meaning of the lyrics is not explicit, but they are generally thought to concern heroin use. The song has ...
Single by Steely Dan; from the album Gaucho; B-side "Bodhisattva" (live) Released: ... "Hey Nineteen" is a song by the band Steely Dan from their album Gaucho (1980).
Although Fagen, whose Steely Dan partner, Walter Becker, died in 2017, declined Price's invitation, a number of yacht rock practitioners pop up in the documentary to reminisce about the music that ...
Many of their songs concern love, but typical of Steely Dan songs is an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics that reveals a darker reality. For example, expressed "love" is actually about prostitution ("Pearl of the Quarter"), incest (" Cousin Dupree "), pornography ("Everyone's Gone to the Movies"), or some other socially unacceptable ...
In common with other Steely Dan albums, The Royal Scam is littered with cryptic allusions to people and events, both real and fictional. In a BBC interview in 2000, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen revealed that "Kid Charlemagne" is loosely based on Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug "chef" who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that "The Caves of Altamira" is ...
Time Out of Mind", a song by Steely Dan from the 1980 album Gaucho; Time Out of Mind (Bob Dylan album), 1997; Time Out of Mind (Grover Washington Jr. album), 1989; Time Out of Mind, a 2004 album by Troubleman, a musical alias of Mark Pritchard
"My Old School" is a song by American rock band Steely Dan. It was released in October 1973, as the second single from their album Countdown to Ecstasy , and reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 .