Steely Dan – Rose Darling
Oldies Songs 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…
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
A Grotesque Dirge of The American Dream’s Deception, Where Hopeful Immigrants Fall Prey to the Dark Metropolis. For those of us who came of age amidst the slick cynicism and…
Steely Dan – Slang Of Ages
An Elegant and Wry Reflection on the Follies of Age and the Irresistible Pull of Youthful Transgression There are songs that simply exist, and then there are the compositions that,…
Steely Dan – My Rival
The Paranoia and Possessive Longing of a Man on the Edge, Driven to Madness by the Phantom of His Undoing There are some albums that arrive not as music, but…
Steely Dan – Charlie Freak
A Gold Ring, a Frozen Street, and the Cold Absurdity of Human Greed The year 1974 was a crossroads, a moment when the lavish, sometimes overblown ambition of early ’70s…
Steely Dan – Parker’s Band
A Cerebral, Jazzy Tribute to Heroic Failure, a Wistful Homage to the Brilliant, Chaotic Legacy of Jazz Icon Charlie Parker. The year 1974 found Steely Dan, the brainchild of the…
Steely Dan – Sign In Stranger
A Cryptic and Tense Jazz-Rock Fable, a Sinister Invitation into a Shadowy World of Desperate Chances and Imminent Danger. The year 1976 found Steely Dan fully immersed in their cynical,…