Steely Dan – Cousin Dupree
Oldies Songs The Comedy of Creepiness: An Unsettling, Yet Smooth Jazz-Rock Fable About a Deadbeat Who Wants to Woo His Own Relatives. For those of us who came of age with the…
Steely Dan – Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More
The Lament for a Down-and-Out Patriarch: A Shimmering, Jazz-Flecked Dirge for the Grimy, Irrecoverable Soul of Old New York. The music of Steely Dan has always been a shimmering, sophisticated…
Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth II
A Hypnotic, Cynical Jazz-Rock Parable, Chronicling the Disillusioned Return to an Old Flame and the Discovery of Her Deeply Corrupt Nature. The year 1975 found Steely Dan, the perpetually cerebral…
Steely Dan – Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
The Ballad of the Outcast: A Tender, Jazz-Infused Cry for a Sanctuary from the World’s Relentless Disappointment. There are certain songs that, even after decades, feel less like pop music…
Steely Dan – Midnight Cruiser
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…