Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Babylon Sisters	Steely Dan	5:53	$1.29
2.	Hey Nineteen	Steely Dan	5:08	$0.99
3.	Glamour Profession	Steely Dan	7:31	$0.99
4.	Gaucho	Steely Dan	5:32	$0.99
5.	Time Out of Mind	Steely Dan	4:13	$1.29
6.	My Rival	Steely Dan	4:34	$0.99
7.	Third World Man	Steely Dan	5:14	$0.99

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Our Review

With Gaucho Steely Dan ended an astounding eight-album run of expertly crafted and idiosyncratic pop-rock. Like old masters, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had refined every aspect of their art — from color palette to shading — and now they could create images with maximum focus and minimum clutter. The opening songs, “Babylon Sisters” and “Hey Nineteen,” are paragons of understatement. The underlying theme of Gaucho is luxury, in all its putrid manifestations. “Glamour Profession” summarizes the Hollywood life cycle in just a few short sentences: “The L.A. concession / Local boys will spend a quarter / Just to shine the silver bowl / Living hard will take its toll.” The grooves are tightly compacted and edgeless, and the imagery is as meticulous as the music. There are recurring depictions of fine food and alcohol, and the sensory snapshots are as sharp as daggers. We encounter a “spangled leather poncho” (“Gaucho”), “the smell of prickly pear” (“My Rival”), “a bunker filled with sand” (“Third World Man”). Gaucho is an exacting dénouement for one of the ‘70s most exacting and inventive musical enterprises.

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Customer Reviews

"Bodacious Cowboys Such As Your Friend" (5 stars)
Maybe it was their impeccable production values. (Whenever I test-drove turntables, the audiophiles always seemed to have Dan vinyl nearby). Or the efficient phrasing that reads like a good story, showing more than telling. Or the staying power of the restrained yet powerful :40-second solo at the two minute mark of Third World Man that still makes the hair on my arms vibrate. I'll be the first to admit that side one has its share of poppy b

Dan Undoes LA - Brilliantly (5 stars)
As a big SD fan, I love all their albums, but through the years Gaucho has emerged as their absolute best. Aja is a masterpiece (and the title cut would have fit perfectly on Gaucho), but this album has a theme -- a look at LA/Hollywood from the perspective of people on the "point of no return" -- that ties it together from the first notes to the last. No "LA" group ever painted a picture as subtle, funny or accurate o

Very Slick Album (3 stars)
I'm disapointed at everyone trying to compare this album to Aja, it's not Aja, it's a different album and was recorded three years after Aja, it's not as good but it's still tons better than anything else being released at the time. 1980's Gaucho is a slick, exactly precise album. Every part is right on almost to the point of losing personality but the strength of the songs make up for it. Babylon Sisters is a slow haunting tune with nice Rh

Biography

Formed: 1972 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: 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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Top Songs By Steely Dan
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Reelin' In the Years	Can't Buy a Thrill	4:37	$1.29
2.	Do It Again	A Decade of Steely Dan (Rem..	5:56	$1.29
3.	Peg	Aja	4:00	$0.99
4.	Dirty Work	Can't Buy a Thrill	3:08	$1.29
5.	Deacon Blues	Aja	7:36	$1.29
6.	Hey Nineteen	A Decade of Steely Dan (Rem..	5:07	$0.99
7.	Rikki Don't Lose that Number	A Decade of Steely Dan (Rem..	4:32	$1.29
8.	Josie	Aja	4:30	$1.29
9.	Black Cow	Aja	5:10	$1.29
10.	Aja	Aja	8:00	$1.29

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