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When Steely Dan ended a 20-year hiatus with 2000's Two Against Nature, they took full advantage of today's digital recording tools. For their new album Everything Must Go... they've returned to analogue tape and live band recording.
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November 14, 1980: ‘Gaucho,’ Steely Dan’s seventh album – and last new music that will usher from them for 20 years – is released. It yields a Top Ten single, “Hey Nineteen.”
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One of the reasons why Everything was given a relatively cold shoulder upon release is that Steely Dan have sort of wasted their credit of good faith. Two Against Nature was a generally nice album, but rather in the 'promising' than in the 'self-sufficient' department. Perhaps people were expecting that the duo would release no more, or if they would, they'd move in some unpredictable direction. Now what you have is that they do release again, and if anything, they move back, to being even more laid-back and 'careless' than two years ago. How does that tie in with their pretensions, exactly? This remains unclear.
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"Name-checking" is another Steely Dan lyrical device; references to real places and people abound in their songs. The song "My Old School" is a well-known example, referring to Annandale (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met), and the Two Against Nature album (2000) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park bookstore The Strand and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.
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In the run-up to their Rock Hall induction, the duo released the Grammy-winning album "Two Against Nature," which marked the first new Steely Dan studio album in 20 years. An extensive tour followed.
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Elliot Scheiner has worked with Steely Dan since their fifth album, 1976's The Royal Scam, and is arguably the most highly regarded engineer in the US, with credits ranging from Van Morrison and Toto to Fleetwood Mac and Barbra Streisand. As five-time Grammy winner, and a man renowned for sonic excellence, even Scheiner marvels at the extent to which the Dan duo have an "obsession with sonic detail".
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