Steely Dan – Negative Girl
Oldies Songs 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 – 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…
Walter Becker – Slang Of Ages (Live 2003)
Slang of Ages Live 2003 A Rare Walter Becker Moment with Steely Dan The live performance of Slang of Ages by Steely Dan in 2003 holds a unique place in…
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…