STEELY DAN EVERYTHING MUST GO 180g LP RSD 2021 SEALED Bernie Grundman Mastered

Description: Please see all my Record Store Day listings and AUDIOPHILE listings. Pressed at Optimal on 180 gram vinyl.Lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman MasteringRecord Store Day 2021 (June drops) release, 10,000 copies worldwide, 5,050 in USA. Donald Fagen (lead vocals, synthesizers, Rhodes, organ and other keyboards) and Walter Becker (bass, guitar and vocals) seem to more solidly hit stride on this second album in their comeback. This follow-up to Two Against Nature (2000), the Dan's first new studio recording in twenty years, seems more naturally and tightly woven than their previous effort and makes Nature sound more like the necessary knocking off of rust (Yeah, some rust: Since the release of Nature, Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received the prestigious American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Founders Award). Becker and Fagen work with the same crackerjack jazz and rock session guitarists, keyboard players, horn players, and drummers as they did on Nature. But it almost doesn't matter who the musicians are - they're cards that Becker and Fagen have constantly shuffled anyway. The stars on this Steely Dan album, as always, are the Steely Dan songs. FM radio be damned: Don't believe that "The Last Mall" and "Blues Beach" are the two best tracks. The strength of this album lies elsewhere among these retro-futuristic tales of apocalypse, pornography, economic failure, dissolution, terrorism and other modern gargoyles, cast in intricately casual jazz lounge rock. "Lunch with Gina" is the requisite femme fatale groove, a tight body rocker from Dan's supple yet sharp funk bag about a psychotically obsessive beauty. Other lyrics obscure just as many questions as they answer. "Godwhacker" sounds like it's either about God hunting down Satan or a murderous religious zealot (It israther cool for a single song to suggest imagery from both The Sopranos and the "Whacking Day" episode of The Simpsons). "Green Book" sounds cut from Aja jazz-funk cloth, with a most propulsive bass line drilling straight into the cynical glint in Fagen's lyrical eye: "I'm so in love with this dirty city/ This crazy grid of desire/ The festive icons along the way/ The boardwalk, the lovers, the house on fire..."Tracklist A1The Last Mall3:36A2Things I Miss The Most3:58A3Blues Beach4:27A4Godwhacker4:57A5Slang Of Ages4:14B1Green Book5:55B2Pixeleen4:00B3Lunch With Gina4:25B4Everything Must Go6:45

Price: 74.95 USD

Location: Macon, Georgia

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