Steely Dan Sunday, Best Bass Performances
Here are Steely Dan’s five best bass 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 Steely Dan Ballads: Steely Dan Sunday
S. Victor Aaron picks five standout Steely Dan ballads.
A new Steely Dan album? Here’s one that would be dandy: Steely Dan Sunday
We humbly offer up suggested songs for a new Steely Dan album, culled from outtakes, live-only songs and one famous erasure.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Home” (1980?, unreleased)
Catchy, but ultimately a bit less compelling than other ‘Gaucho’ outtakes.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Kind Spirit” (1980?)
Another unfinished diamond in the rough that evokes a feeling of what could have been.
Steely Dan Sunday: “I Can’t Write Home About You” (1980)
A crown-jewel Steely Dan outtake from around the ‘Gaucho’ recording sessions.
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: “Third World Man” (1980)
The last song of the “classic” Steely Dan period ends ‘Gaucho’ on a solemn note.
Steely Dan Sunday, "My Rival" (1980)
No movie where Steely Dan was commissioned to contribute a song for that movie’s soundtrack ever did well, not You’ve Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You’ll Lose That Beat, not FM, and not even a movie directed by the great John Huston, Phobia. You May AlsoRead More
