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Release Date February 20, 2003
That the musical partnership of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had talent to burn is demonstrated on this fascinating and occasionally affecting 22 track compilation of pre-Steely Dan material (essentially demos and semi-professional recordings). Some of the tracks are very sparse, with only piano, vocals and bass, but the quality of the tunes shines through. The tracks that feature an early band show the beginnings of the jazz/pop sensibility that would be the hallmark of the Steely Dan sound. Amazingly only a handful of the tracks herein turned up on later Dan albums (Barrytown, Parker's Band, Any World, The Caves of Altamira for example), whereas the rest of the songs (many of which are fantastic) fell by the wayside and only resurfaced ... Read More:
Release Date October 17, 1990
For some reason when I first heard this album (and I've been a Dan fan for a long long time) it didn't really grip me, but as these things tend to do once I bought a new copy on CD and played it again and again I found myself... playing it again and again. I'd got an impression of some sort of darkness and pretentiousness around the album first time round, but actually it's inventive, light, and probably their most playful album - very tongue in cheek in places.
I'd now say this is one of the "must buy" Dan cluster, along with Countdown to Ecstacy, Kay Lied, and Aja (and the first two tracks on Gaucho).
Oh yeah - seen the boys twice, Birmingham and Aintree, and at the latter gig they let Becker sing Hiaitian Divorce! Stick to the day ... Read More:
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