Steely Dan – Midnight Cruiser
Oldies Songs The Ballad of the Gentleman Loser: A Nostalgic, Somber Reflection on Lost Ideals and the Inevitable Compromise of the Early 70s. Ah, Steely Dan. Just the name conjures the cool,…
Steely Dan – Everything You Did
The Cynical Weaponization of Sentimentality: A Drama of Betrayal, Obsession, and a Subtle, Brilliant Jab at Rock’s Biggest Hitmakers. The world of 1976 was a high-gloss, cynical landscape, perfectly captured…
Steely Dan – Jack Of Speed
The Dark, Hypnotic Chronicle of a High-Roller’s Reckoning, Driven by a Groove That Defied Two Decades of Silence. The year is 2000. For two decades, the most sophisticated, cynical, and…
Steely Dan – Negative Girl
The Icy Portrait of a Narcissistic Muse, a Cautionary Tale of Obsession Clothed in Unfathomable Cool. The arrival of a new Steely Dan studio album in the year 2000 was…
Steely Dan – Everyone’s Gone To The Movies
The Bright, Catchy Tune That Obscured a Glimpse Into the Darkest, Most Morally Corrupt Corners of Suburbia. For those of us who came of age with the music of Steely…
Steely Dan – Here at the Western World
A Lush, Oblique Portrait of Desperate Exile, Old-World Vice, and the Search for a Fleeting Fix in a South American Nightclub. There are certain songs, the true deep cuts, that…
Steely Dan – Rose Darling
A Sweetly Deceptive Ballad About Escapism, Forbidden Desire, and the Inner Life of a Discontented Man. The year 1975 found Steely Dan—or rather, its two creative architects, Walter Becker and…
Steely Dan – Pearl Of The Quarter
The Story of an Outsider’s Unrequited, Sentimental Love for a Working Girl in the Languid, Decadent Heat of the French Quarter. The year was 1973. Rock music was still reeling…
Steely Dan – Monkey In Your Soul
An Electric Blues Warning About the Dark, Untamed Instincts Lurking Beneath a Charming Façade. The early-to-mid 1970s represented a golden age of sophisticated cynicism in rock music, and no band…
Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth
The Icy Portrait of a Jaded Gambler and the Cynical Calculus of Luck and Vice in the Glamourous American Wasteland There are songs that merely entertain, and then there are…