Best Steely Dan Drumming Performances: Steely Dan Sunday
Here are Steely Dan’s five best drum performances, selected in tandem by our panel of Steely Dan authorities.
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Steely Dan’s Gaucho: An album doomed from the start?
Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ was issued 34 years ago today. Getting it to the point of release was no easy task.
Best Donald Fagen songs: Steely Dan Sunday
Steely Dan fanatics John Lawler, Preston Frazier and S. Victor Aaron choose their five favorite songs from frontman Donald Fagen.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Kind Spirit” (1980?)
Another unfinished diamond in the rough that evokes a feeling of what could have been.
Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best of 2014 (Reissues and Live): Toto, the Who, Roy Orbison, Stick Men, Jon Anderson, Mike Bloomfield
These 10 reissues and live sets provided us with important new perspectives.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Kulee Baba” (1980, unreleased)
“Kulee Baba,” when Steely Dan goes global. Ahhh, the CD. Those plastic discs of music we used before iTunes. With a noise reduction system Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were crying for when (mis)mastering Katy Lied. Seventy minutes worth and no static at all. CDs arrived commercially in the FallRead More
Steely Dan Sunday, “Dallas/Sail The Waterway” (1972)
At this point, they weren’t quite brilliant yet. But Steely Dan was on its way there.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Planet D’Rhonda” (2012)
While “Planet D ‘Rhonda” may not be as great as “Miss Marlene” and “Good Stuff,” it does end ‘Sunken Condos’ on a strong and convincing musical note.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Good Stuff” (2012)
This time Fagen brings lyrics which are a equal to his stellar arrangements.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Miss Marlene” (2012)
In praise of a song about bowling – yes, about bowling – from Donald Fagen’s ‘Sunken Condos.’
