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Everything Must Go – Steely DanJune 3rd, 2003  or  iTunes Price: $8.91 Genre: Rock Released: Jun 03, 2003 Customer Ratings (52 Ratings)
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View More By Steely Dan Our ReviewSteely Dan’s 2000 reunion album made such a splash that no one noticed when the duo released a follow-up three years later. As always, the playing on Everything Must Go is tight and clean, but in another way the album is Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s loosest work date. There is less emphasis on the production process as artwork, and “The Last Mall,” “Things I Miss the Most” and “Green Book” actually sound like a group of accomplished musicians playing live in a room. In timbre and arrangement, the music is very similar to what Steely Dan has been plying since Aja, but the lyrical concerns are anything but dated. “Pixeleen” is a strange fantasy about the modern adolescent, or as Fagen puts it, “the three-times perfect ultrateen.” Meanwhile, “Godwhacker” sounds like a thinly veiled commentary on the presidency of George W. Bush. Contemporary America has given Dan plenty of grist for the mill, but the autobiographical title track sounds like a permanent sign-off: “Guess it's time for us to book it / Talk about the famous road not taken / In the end we never took it / And if somewhere on the way /We got a few good licks in / No one's ever gonna know / Cause we're goin' out of business / Everything must go.”. Customer ReviewsA Sheer Abomination (2 stars)There was a reason Steely Dan called it quits after Gaucho; they had pushed the limits of their creativity as a studio band and they bowed out gracefully before the material got any weaker. It was a storybook ending to a wonderful legacy, and Fagen expanded his horizons in new directions with his solo work, as did Becker in a more limited sense. Then "Two Against Nature" came out some twenty years after the fact. It sounded like St If you don't totally dig this album after listening to it 3 times, you're weird :) (5 stars) It's unbelievable - Both "EMG" and their last album "2 Against Nature" (which won the Album of the Year Grammy) are phenomenal albums. And I'm usually not all about the Grammy winners...These guys continue to put out ridiculous tunage. Both albums rule from start to finish. Their art remains intricate and flowing. Their backing bands are T-I-G-H-T... TIGHT. Schweetness. Get this and 2 Against Nature. Even those Ste Everything Must Go (5 stars) Releasing their debut album in 1972, I have no idea how these guys can keep it up so long, and so well. Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker have outdone themselves, repetativly, and Everything Must Go, their 2003 album keeps up the tradition. From start to finish, this album fails to disapoint. BiographyFormed: 1972 in Los Angeles, CAGenre: Rock Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s Most rock & roll bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in garages and clubs around their hometown. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions. Becker and Fagen never truly enjoyed rock — with their ironic humor and cryptic lyrics, their eclectic body of work shows some debt to Bob Dylan — preferring jazz, traditional...
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