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Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980
24/11/2009
"Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980" is a box of 4 CDs, the 7 albums of Steely Dan from the 70s plus some hard-to-find singles and other rare material. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen "borrowed" the band's name -which more or less means Mechanical Penis- from a novel by W.S. Burroughs. Their albums in their entirety include some of the most overwhelming references to the alienation of urban America in the 70s. Steely Dan formed after the Woodstock and the hippies. "Their" America is full of Wall Street Sharks, hedonism, pornography, drugs, the Vietnam fiasco and the enormous social imbalances they witnessed all around them in Los Angeles at the time. Contrary to the spirit of their era, Steely Dan denied to fall back in the safe house of "yesterday" and "tradition" who's "ambassadors" at the time were groups such as the "Band". Their albums run all through the decade of the 70s and one realizes here, by listening to them altogether, the chaotic distance between the cloudless irony of "Can’t Buy A Thrill" and the raw cynicism piercing through "Aja" and "Gaucho".
The sound of Steely Dan is luxurious : glossy, extravagant and high octane - on their albums at times there has been a parade of the Los Angeles studio elite "Mafia" and their perfectionism in record production has remained unforgettable. The punks have attacked them full of hatred whilst the group was considered a synonym of blockbuster productions and exaggeration, something like Hollywood being compared to small independent productions.
Cyber-punk William Gibson, author of the "Necromancer", who's novels are full of references to the group, says:"Steely Dan's music was, has been and remains among the most genuinely subversive oeuvres in late-20th-century pop."
Everything is present: soft-rock "Any Major Dude", jazz-funk "Night By Νight", piano motifs reminding "Bach" (Charlie Freak).
Monumental.
Track List
Disc 1:
01. Do It Again
02. Dirty Work
03. Kings
04. Midnite Cruiser
05. Only A Fool Would Say That
06. Reelin' In The Years
07. Fire In The Hole
08. Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
09. Change Of The Guard
10. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
11. Bodhisattva (Album Version)
12. Razor Boy
13. The Boston Rag
14. Your Gold Teeth
15. Show Biz Kids
16. My Old School
Disc 2:
01. King Of The World
02. Pearl Of The Quarter
03. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
04. Night By Night
05. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
06. Barrytown
07. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
08. Parker's Band
09. Through With Buzz
10. Pretzel Logic
11. With A Gun
12. Charlie Freak
13. Monkey In Your Soul
14. Bodhisattva (Live Version)
15. Black Friday
16. Bad Sneakers
17. Rose Darling
18. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
19. Doctor Wu
20. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Album Version)
21. Chain Lightning
Disc 3:
01. Your Gold Teeth II
02. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
03. Throw Back The Little Ones
04. Kid Charlemagne
05. The Caves Of Altamira
06. Don't Take Me Alive
07. Sign In Stranger
08. The Fez
09. Green Earrings
10. Haitian Divorce
11. Everything You Did
12. The Royal Scam
13. Here In The Western World
14. Black Cow
15. Aja
16. Peg
Disc 4:
01. Deacon Blues
02. Home At Last
03. I Got The News
04. Josie
05. FM
06. Babylon Sisters
07. Hey Nineteen
08. Glamour Profession
09. Gaucho
10. Time Out Of Mind
11. My Rival
12. Third World Man
13. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Demo Version)
Original Release Date: December 14, 1993
Label: Mca
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