Category: Steely Dan

The debut album from the band that almost single-handedly saved FM radio in the Seventies.

Steely Dan is rarely viewed as a guitar band but, you know, they reely should be.

And so began my second-favorite annual tradition, the release of the new Steely Dan album.

Eleven twisted songs that fold in elements of jazz, rock and everything else to create what many consider the band’s first masterpiece.

The band refashions a tune from Horace Silver into pure gold with the first single from Pretzel Logic.

Steely Dan speculates on time travel, or something like that, on their second single from Pretzel Logic.

Steely Dan keeps getting better as the world (through their eyes) keeps getting worse.

A transitional record with more brilliant guitar solos, more horns and nine more reasons to love Steely Dan.

The perfectly done-up debutante from Aja, although her candied exterior already showed signs of cracking.

A seven-inch proposition from the Aja sessions to which the radio offered up no resistance.

The third and final femme fatale from Steely Dan’s brilliant Aja.

Yet another Steely Dan compilation because, apparently, there wasn’t enough plastic in the world already.