The boys had come a long way from lower middle class suburbia to an even lower, hustler-class existence in the now extinct and forgotten commercial studio culture of midtown. Steely Dan toured behind Can’t Buy A Thrill and the following two albums, Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic, both in the States and Britain. I see Dan as exploring themes in albums--each song playing on the overall theme/idea--the way a novel does with chapters. [23], With 1977's Aja, the duo had become accustomed to recording with Los Angeles-based session musicians. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Rating A- 180 : Steely Dan. Read more... Steely Dan – Citizen 1972-1980 [1993] February 27, 2020 (0) Comments. by Steely Dan. Song titles include "Kind Spirit", "Kulee Baba", "The Bear" and "Talkin' About My Home", as well as "The Second Arrangement". For any further ticket inquiries, please reach out to point of purchase. Officially tasked with writing pop tunes for these artists, Donald and Walter secretly began to the assemble a band to act as a vehicle for their “special material”. Gaucho was Steely Dan's last and probably their most mature album, but not their greatest - that honor goes to either Aja or Countdown to Ecstasy. They were actually starting to sound pretty good. However, the pair's working relationship began to strain, largely because of Becker's increasing drug use. Meanwhile, Walter produced albums for the China Crisis, Rickie Lee Jones (The Horses, 1989) and a number of jazz artists including Bob Sheppard, John Beasley, Andy Laverne, Jeff Beale, Marty Krystall, The Lost Tribe, LeeAnn Ledgerwood, and Dave Kikoski. According to Ken Micallef in an article in Modern Drummer, the title song's drum track was assembled from 46 different takes. After meeting as students at Bard College in upstate New York, they began writing songs together on the piano in the common room of Walter’s dormitory. They made a decision to retreat to the studio to concentrate on composing and recording. Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980, by MCA Records.The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. What redeems it all is the humour and artistry. So I found out later: they had finished mixing in New York, and one of the second engineers erased one of their master tracks. Steely Dan have perfected the aesthetic of the tease. The album reached #27 on the UK Albums Chart. [28] However, a handful of demo and outtake recordings of the song exist in bootleg form. MP3 Music Listen with Music Unlimited. t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; In 1971, with the city degenerating into a vile Gomorrah of debt and porn, the lads relocated to sunny Los Angeles where Gary Katz, now an A&R man for ABC/Dunhill Records, had secured them a sweet though under-paid job as staff songwriters for the label, one of the last to employ house writers to develop material for the artists on the roster. Venue: (512) 225-7999Tickets: (877) 534-9849. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; (06/16/18) mp3 - Steely Dan_The Lost Gaucho and Outtakes(corrected-enhanced)_mp3.part1.rar Steely Dan's 7th studio album, "Gaucho" artwork is printed on the back of a unisex black 80% cotton/20% polyester midweight fleece zip hoodie. Now one of the top international touring bands, Steely Dan’s first new album in twenty years was highly anticipated. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? Steely Dan was on its way to fame and, after a few more years of penury and forced servitude, fortune. In between Steely Dan tours, Donald toured with his old Rock & Soul mates Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs in a “supergroup” they called the Dukes of September. Recent partners on major tours have included Steve Winwood, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, The Eagles and the Doobie Brothers. [2] Der Name der Band wurde William S. Burroughs Roman Naked Lunch entliehen und bezeichnet dort einen stählernen Dildo. [31], The cover art is based upon a wall plaque entitled "Guardia Vieja – Tango" (Old Guard – Tango), located in a southside Buenos Aires promenade known as Caminito, by Argentine artist Israel Hoffmann. If you are unable to attend the new date, you will be able to request a refund. Then, he more or less cracked up. Before they were out of high school, Donald had taught himself jazz piano and Walter had become adept at both bass and guitar. 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'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); [1] Die Songtexte zeichnen sich oft durch Ironie und Sarkasmus aus. Gaucho proved to be Steely Dan's final studio album before a 20-year hiatus from the recording industry. Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho were each performed live, often at the band’s annual appearances at the Beacon Theater in New York, always fan favorites. So "Third World Man" was in the can from The Royal Scam and they had to reach back into the old tapes and find something to finish the album, and that's how I ended up on Gaucho playing "Third World Man". Over the next five years, four more albums were released: Katy Lied (’75), The Royal Scam (’76), Aja (’77) and Gaucho (’80). Several weeks later, the group began recording their first album at Village Recorders in West Hollywood with engineer Roger Nichols, whose previous job was as a “pile walker” at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. During a clinic in 2011, Larry Carlton said about "Third World Man": "When Billboard Magazine came out ... about Gaucho, it's writing about the news 'Steely Dan released ... bla bla bla ... and great guitar solo by Larry Carlton', and I said, 'but I didn't play on Gaucho!, they'd cut it in New York, I didn't play on it!'. Rating A- 179 : Steely Dan. Gaucho won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Non-Classical Engineered Recording. A third single, “Dirty Work”, with a vocal by David Palmer, also got a lot of airplay. In 2016, Donald toured with a quintet of terrific young musicians as Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers. Can’t Buy A Thrill, released that November, hit right out of the box, yielding two hit singles, “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ In The Years”, which featured a notable solo by guest guitarist Elliot Randall. [16], Hal Leonard's Best of Steely Dan explains that Gaucho is "a concept album of seven interrelated tales about would-be hipsters. Walter, who had reunited with Donald in 1986, came along for the ’92 tour. By 1978, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had established themselves as the only two permanent members of Steely Dan, using a revolving cast of session musicians to record the songs they wrote together. All previously purchased tickets for May 26, 2020 will be honored for June 13, 2021, and tickets purchased for May 27, 2020 will be honored for June 14, 2021. Co-produced by Donald, 11 Tracks Of Whack was released in ‘94. Several hours of Knopfler's playing were recorded at the session, but his contributions as heard on the record are limited to around forty seconds. Fans can purchase exclusive merchandise including t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, vinyl and more. [15] Patrick Hosken from MTV News says that, like Aja, Gaucho shows how "great yacht rock is also more musically ambitious than it might seem, tying blue-eyed soul and jazz to funk and R&B". Featured players have included Jimmy Cobb, Bill Charlap, Chris Potter, Sam Yahel, Julian Lage, Joey DeFrancesco, Joe Lovano, Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, Bobby Broom and the Deep Blue Organ Trio. Loyal to their roots in jazz, Walter and Donald made it a point to present major jazz artists as openers. That being said, the neighborhoods they were from should not be confused with the Manhattan of Broadway shows, Wall Street, Greenwich Village and Harlem. His solo albums Morph the Cat (2006) and Sunken Condos (2012) were both released to critical acclaim, as was Walter’s second solo effort, Circus Money, in 2008. 178 : Steely Dan. 2001 was a banner year for the boys. [8][9] Her family sued him for $17.5 million in January 1981, claiming that he had introduced the woman to cocaine, morphine, barbiturates, and heroin. Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress. Donald and Walter also played sessions for Vance’s Brooklyn crony Gary Katz. Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band which formed in 1972. The album's mixing sessions proved to be just as difficult as the recording sessions. Gaucho. n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; "[34] In 2000 it was voted number 504 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [3] In 1982, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. [11] David Sakowski of PopMatters reappraised the album as a "classic" that was largely "lost in the shadow of Aja and the changing tides of music".[48]. Date: November 30, 2016. 088 112 055-2. [18] The song closes with the ambiguous line, "The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing", leaving it up to the listener whether the narrator is consuming tequila and drugs with the love interest, or if he is in fact alone. All previously purchased tickets for May 26, 2020 will be honored for June 13, 2021, and tickets purchased for May 27, 2020 will be honored for June 14, 2021. Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter to gain access to show announcements, ticket giveaways, and up-to-date concert info. It should be like that. Gaucho would be the last Steely Dan’s record for twenty years until 2000’s Two Against Nature. Gaucho marked a significant stylistic change for the band, introducing a more minimal, groove- and atmosphere-based format. This one goes out to all the Steely Dan freaks, nerds and weirdos out there — you know who you are, and to the haters as well (you, too, know who you are). The album reached #9 on the U.S. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Gaucho - Steely Dan on … I was only twelve when Goucho was released and to this day their music has defined what music styles I find of interest to me. Steely Dan was back and on tour in 1993, releasing their first live album, Alive in America, in 1995. All these things, plus, for good or ill, a natural, shared drollery, were already apparent in their music and lyrics. Reflections on Steely Dan's GAUCHO by Steve Khan. Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1972 by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). 4.7 out of 5 stars 889. "The Second Arrangement" had been a favorite of producer Gary Katz and Nichols. [22] In an interview after Gaucho was released, Fagen said that he loved the Jarrett track and had been strongly influenced by it. As a result, Jarrett has since been included as a co-author of the track. This last was completed after the boys, now heart-sick and drained by the shallow excesses of Tinsel Town, moved back home to New York City. Steely Dan have announced that their 2020 Earth After Hours Tour with Steve Winwood has been rescheduled. This was, at least in part, because of the Cold War and the constant, looming threat of a global, nuclear holocaust. After being informed that ABC expected the group to tour extensively upon the album’s completion, Donald, whose intermittent panic disorder precluded him from fronting a band at that time, insisted on finding another singer/frontman, and David Palmer was added to the group. Album Chart and was certified Platinum. I wished they had finished the ones that are dying somewhere in a multi-track tape box. Ihre Musik verbindet Elemente aus Rock, Funk, R&B, Jazz und Pop. Fagen and Becker hired Mark Knopfler to play the guitar solo on "Time Out of Mind" after hearing him play on Dire Straits' hit single "Sultans of Swing". In early 1991, Donald and his future wife Libby Titus created the New York Rock & Soul Revue, featuring a revolving group of artists including Charles Brown, Phoebe Snow, Chuck Jackson, Boz Scaggs, Cindy Lauper, Bob Dorough, Annie Ross, Michael McDonald and Rascals alumni Eddie & David Brigati. Gli Steely Dan sono un gruppo musicale statunitense nato nei primi anni settanta, noto per il sofisticato e inconfondibile stile musicale derivante dalla fusione di jazz, rock, funk, rhythm and blues e pop, che anticipa di diverso tempo molte delle tendenze del decennio successivo. Even though the session players hired for Gaucho were amongst the most talented from both the East and West Coast session fraternities, Fagen and Becker were still not satisfied with the basic tracks for some of the songs, particularly with regard to the timing of the drum tracks. The band was formed by Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) and Walter Becker (guitar, bass), who met in 1967 while both attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and began a songwriting partnership shortly thereafter. Gaucho est le dernier album de la première période artistique du groupe de Jazz rock américain Steely Dan avant sa séparation en 1981 (le groupe se reformera 20 ans plus tard avec la sortie de l'album Two Against Nature en 2000). [29] An early version of "Third World Man", with alternate lyrics, is included under the title "Were You Blind That Day". CDR audio. Early in 1972, the original Steely Dan group – guitarist Denny Dias, guitarist Jeff Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder, and with Donald and Walter on keyboards and bass respectively – started rehearsing in an unfinished wing of the ABC building. On the other hand, like many American boys of their time, they had a healthy enthusiasm for baseball, baseball players and Topps bubble gum, the gum that came with baseball cards in each package: Flip ‘em, scale ‘em. [46] The Village Voice's Robert Christgau remarked, "Even the song with Aretha in it lends credence to rumors that the LP was originally entitled Countdown to Lethargy. By the early seventies, they had worked with many top NYC session pros including drummer Buddy Saltzman, bassist Chuck Rainey, pianists Paul Griffin and Artie Butler, and guitarists Elliot Randall, Dom Troiano, Ricky Zehringer (later Derringer) and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. [9] The court later ruled in Becker's favor. Donald Fagan is bringing Steely Dan out on the road again in 2021, and he's bringing along Steve Winwood to make the "Earth After Hours" Tour the AOR concert of the year! Sessions for Gaucho began in New York City during 1978. sending a case of gourmet honey-mustard to Hall of Fame founder Jann Wenner had paid off in spades. Tutti; Originale; Traduzione; Just when I say Proprio quando dico 'boy we can't miss 'Ragazzo non possiamo perdere You are golden' Siete d'oro ' Then you do this Poi si esegue questa You say this guy is so cool Tu dici che questo ragazzo è così cool Snapping his fingers like a fool gtag('js', new Date());

The group had a production company, whatever that is, in the famous Brill Building, a once vibrant hive of songwriting talent that had now transitioned into a skeevy, decadent phase. He also produced, and performed on, Donald’s second solo album, Kamakiriad (1993), after which the boys went on tour with an all new, fabulous Steely Dan group featuring drummer Peter Erskine, bassist Tom Barney, guitarist Drew Zingg, pianist Warren Bernhardt, vibraphonist Bill Ware and an all-star horn section. Donald Fagan is bringing Steely Dan out on the road again in 2021, and he's bringing along Steve Winwood to make the "Earth After Hours" Tour the AOR concert of the year! At that time, ABC was concentrating on “singles acts” aimed at the pre-teen and teen markets with artists such as Tommy Roe, The Grass Roots and Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. Live on Tour with Steve Winwood! ... Steely Dan Powered by Live Nation Merchandise The Steely Dan shows at ACL Live on May 26, 2020 and May 27, 2020 have been rescheduled to June 13, 2021 and June 14, 2021. Keith Jarrett was added as co-author on all subsequent reissues. Donald and Walter, who had already started adding studio players on the Pretzel Logic sessions, began to write with certain musicians in mind. if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; [5][6] Becker managed to push the woman he was with out of harm's way, but sustained multiple fractures in one leg, a sprain in the other leg, and other injuries. Two Against Nature won four Grammys including the award for Album of the Year, a decision that apparently cheesed off some of the younger nominees. [28] In late December 1979, after weeks of working on a particular recording of the track, approximately three-quarters of the song was accidentally erased by an assistant engineer who had been asked by Katz to ready the track for listening. Blending elements of rock, jazz, latin music, R&B, blues and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. "Hey Nineteen" reached #10 on the U.S. Singles Chart, and went to #1 in Canada. Sports, not so much. Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American jazz rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980 by MCA Records. Donald wrote and recorded his first solo album, The Nightfly (1982), which was a critical and popular hit. MCA made Steely Dan a test case for its new "superstar pricing" policy, whereby new albums by top-selling artists would sell for $9.98, one dollar more than those of other artists. THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL SHIP IN 2-3 WEEKS The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} Live at The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 19/4/16. trade ‘em, collect ‘em. Steely Dan’s 37-minute album Gaucho took two years to record and was the most expensive record ever made when it came out on November 21, 1980.. By then, in addition to jazz music, they had independently become enamoured of Chicago blues, soul music and, to an extent, the vibrant subculture that embraced the British Invasion, Bob Dylan and, as the Coen brothers have put it, the “new freedoms”. CDR audio. During the ‘80s, Donald worked on a variety of projects. A career retrospective boxed set entitled Citizen Steely Dan was released that Christmas. Nevertheless, like many folks back then, they were afflicted with a needling agitation just below the surface of everyday reality. 06 Gaucho (piano demo) 07 Babylon Sisters 08 The Second Arrangement 09 Talkin' About My Home 10 I Can't Write Home About You 11 Kulee Baba FLAC - Steely Dan_The Lost Gaucho and Outtakes(corrected-enhanced)_FLAC.rar New Link! Audience recording. by Steely Dan. [1][2] To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label. [7] The transition to using New York City players during the Gaucho sessions proved difficult, because the musicians were unenthusiastic about Becker and Fagen's obsessive, perfectionist recording style.[22]. The album Everything Must Go was released in 2003, followed by a triumphant American tour. [12] Music journalist and broadcaster Paul Sexton writes that, while Aja had "announced their ever-greater exploration of jazz influences", Gaucho is "their yacht rock masterpiece". '"[20] According to Ian MacDonald, "Two songs are about hookers, two more concern the doings of coke dealers, and a fifth depicts the denouement of a seedy marital dispute. Audience recording. After it was released, jazz musician Keith Jarrett threatened the band with legal action for plagiarism in the title song. fbq('init', '135987110425349'); After the band completed a tour of Japan in ’94, Walter recorded his first solo album at his newly built studio, Hyperbolic Sound, on the slopes of Mt. I was only twelve when Goucho was released and to this day their music has defined what music styles I find of interest to me. It seemed that fate would stop at nothing to prevent its release. The songs are great though. The second edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide gave Gaucho a rating of 1 star out of 5; critic Dave Marsh called it "the kind of music that passes for jazz in Holiday Inn lounges, with the kind of lyrics that pass for poetry in freshman English classes. One of the Americans, Kenny Vance, managed to place one of their tunes on a Barbara Streisand album that featured songs by the new, groovy generation of writers. [4] MCA, Warner Bros. and Steely Dan had a three-way legal battle over the rights to release the album. [6], Becker's personal problems continued to mount when his girlfriend, Karen Roberta Stanley, died of a drug overdose at his home on January 30, 1980. Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980, by MCA Records. Sadly, the harsh vicissitudes of the artist’s life had already taken its toll, and the boys decided to part ways. Regular price $60.00. [5][6] During his six-month recovery,[7] he suffered from secondary infections. Naturally, the other band members wanted to work, and so departed for greener pastures. Obviously. With producer Gary Katz, Becker and Fagen gradually changed Steely Dan from a performing band to a studio project, hiring professional musicians to record their compositions. gtag('js', new Date());

The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. Includes Album Cover, Release Year, and User Reviews. All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, except where noted. Live on Tour with Steve Winwood! Walter had personal problems then, and that made the process very hard for everyone. Editors’ Notes With Gaucho Steely Dan ended an astounding eight-album run of expertly crafted and idiosyncratic pop-rock. 7 tracks (37:49). Live at The Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix, Arizona, 6/9/93. "[39] The New York Times gave Gaucho a positive review,[42] later deeming it the best album of 1980, beating out Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and Joy Division's Closer. Nevertheless, Steely Dan persisted, but at a high cost: the end of Steely Dan. [32], Just prior to the album's release, the band members had another argument with MCA over the retail list price. [25] Subsequently, Wendel was awarded a platinum record. [18][19], Stewart Mason of AllMusic says that "Time Out of Mind" is "a barely veiled song about heroin, specifically a young man's first experience with the drug at the hands of a pretentious, pseudo-religious crank talking of 'chasing the dragon' with the 'mystical sphere direct from Lhasa. Listen free to Steely Dan – Gaucho (Babylon Sisters, Hey Nineteen and more). The story of Gaucho is unprecedented. The Steely Dan shows at ACL Live on May 26, 2020 and May 27, 2020 have been rescheduled to June 13, 2021 and June 14, 2021. 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. Amazingly, they soon got a gig touring as part of the backup band for early sixties hitmakers Jay and the Americans. s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', The streets of their youth, though just a few miles from these wonders, were for the most part, placid and suburban. The band, now with Donald as the lead vocalist, expanded to include second drummer Jeff Porcaro, keyboardist/vocalist Michael McDonald and percussionist/vocalist Royce Jones. He wrote tunes for artists including Diana Ross, the Yellowjackets, the Manhattan Transfer and Jennifer Warnes; co-produced the soundtrack album for Bob Telson’s off-Broadway musical The Gospel At Colonus (1988); and composed, along with Rob Mounsey, the score for the film Bright Lights Big City (1988). Steely Dan was that "underground" or FM sound that was almost mysterious, that out of body experience that people had never experienced before, their so to speak "first high".

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gtag('config', 'UA-154770521-1'); !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) During the two-year span in which the album was recorded, the band was plagued by a number of creative, personal and professional problems. [30], In addition to "The Second Arrangement", a number of songs were written for the album which were not included in the final release. When classmate Terence (Boona) Boylan scored an album contract with Columbia Records, he asked the boys to join his session band at Jerry Ragovoy’s midtown Manhattan studio, the Hit Factory, where they got to work with the legendary drummer Herb Lovelle and listen to the “Ragman” tell funny stories about his life in the music business. [44], Not all reviews were positive. The Dan would see a return to touring in addition to two more studio albums until Walter Becker's untimely death in 2017. [43] The album also received a positive review from the Montreal Gazette. During this time Fagen and Becker started writing again with plans for a new album and only two months after the world was freaking out about Y2K, Steely Dan gave to the public their first studio album in 20 years, Two Against Nature. The drummer on the session, Jeff Porcaro, is quoted as saying: Drummer Bernard Purdie plays his signature half-time shuffle beat, the Purdie Shuffle, on "Babylon Sisters". [29] "The Second Arrangement" was never played live by Steely Dan until a rarities show on September 17, 2011, and a studio recording of the song remains unreleased. Testo e traduzione della canzone Steely Dan - Gaucho. [citation needed], According to Stylus Magazine's Mike Powell, Gaucho combines "bitter, poetic cynicism with freewheeling jazz-rock",[10] while Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic says it "essentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop of Aja, but with none of that record's dark, seductive romance or elegant aura". [11] Similarly, rock historian Joe Stuessy suggests it is one in a series of Steely Dan albums that showed a progression of jazz influences in the band's sound, which was often described as "jazz-rock fusion". Initial copies of the album credited Becker and Fagen as the authors of this track. In 1968, the duo found cheap digs in pre-gentrification Brooklyn, on President Street in Park Slope, where they sat around on ancient, shabby couches and plotted their assault on the music business. Features Song Lyrics for Steely Dan's Gaucho album. With Katz’s help, they began to import players from the east coast. Haleakala in Maui. Nevertheless, by 1974, Donald and Walter decided they’d had enough of watching the more aggressive, dipsomaniacal band members lure intoxicated young ladies up to their motel rooms apres show, and enough of the road in general for the time being. But not for long. ... Gaucho Album Cover Zip Hoodie. [4][28] The band attempted to re-record the track, but eventually abandoned the song entirely. [21], Keith Jarrett sued Becker and Fagen for copyright infringement over the title track of the album, claiming it plagiarised "Long As You Know You're Living Yours" from his 1974 album Belonging. Rolling Stone's Ariel Swartley said of the album: "After years of hibernation in the studio, the metamorphosis that began with The Royal Scam is complete. "[17] The lyrics of "Hey Nineteen" are about an aging hipster attempting to pick up a girl who is so young that she does not recognize "'Retha Franklin" playing on the stereo. The harmonically complex chord changes that were a distinctive mark of earlier Steely Dan songs are less prominent on Gaucho, with the record's songs tending to revolve around a single rhythm or mood, although complex chord progressions were still present particularly in "Babylon Sisters" and "Glamour Profession". Music, though, was the thing. [29] That recording dates from the Aja sessions. Steely Dan – Gaucho 1980 (2014) [24bit] Posted by Destination Mars.

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