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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 ...
"Hey Nineteen" is a song by the band Steely Dan from their album Gaucho (1980). Background ... "Hey Nineteen" lyrics at Steely Dan archive.com;
Steely Dan's lyrics contain subtle and encoded references, unusual (and sometimes original) slang expressions, a wide variety of "word games". The obscure and sometimes teasing lyrics have given rise to considerable efforts by fans to explain the "inner meaning" of certain songs.
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
Also atypical for Steely Dan is the extensive imagery of natural features in the lyrics—hill, trees, sea, and sky. Most Steely Dan songs, and indeed all of the other songs on the album except "Home at Last", eschew natural imagery in favor of name-checking brands, products, businesses, and
"Only a Fool Would Say That" is a song with lyrics aimed at Beatles musician John Lennon. [2] In 2024 American Songwriter said that the lyrics were chiding Lennon for "being out of touch with reality." [3] The track ends with the phrase "Solamente un tonto diría eso", Spanish for "only a fool would say that", spoken by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.