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Probably the most critically revered band of the 70s, Steely Dan's brand of slick pop with a dose of jazz/funk left a meagre but vital catalogue to cling on to. This was their last gasp at the onset of the 80s. Perhaps they were aware of the ... Full Descriptionfact that they were too 70s for the 80s. This was their least accessible and most mature album (no criticism is intended), as the content washes over the listener like a warm shower. 'Hey Nineteen' is the hit single from this set, a radio-friendly nostalgic look at 1967, impeccable in production and with evocative lyrics. Lots of echoey Fender Rhodes and sensitive brass.
Recorded at Soundworks, A & R Studios, Sigma Sound Studios and Automated Sound Studios, New York, New York; Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, California; Producers Workshop, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.
Steely Dan: Donald Fagen (vocals, electric piano, synthesizer); Walter Becker (guitar, bass).
Additional personnel: Steve Khan, Hugh McCracken, Hiram Bullock, Larry Carlton (guitar); Tom Scott (alto & tenor clarinet, tenor saxophone, lyricon); George Marge, Walter Kane (bass clarinet); Michael Brecker, Dave Tofani (tenor saxophone); Ronny Cuber (baritone saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Wayne Andre (trombone); Rob Mounsey (piano, synthesizer); Don Groinick (electric piano, clavinet); Patrick Rebillot, Joe Sample (electric piano); Chuck Rainey, Anthony Jackson (bass); Steve Gadd (drums, percussion); Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta, Jeff Porcaro (drums); Nicholas Marrero (timbales); Crusher Bennett, Victor Feldman, Ralph McDonald (percussion); Leslie Miller, Patti Austin, Toni Wine, Lani Groves, Diva Gray, Gordon Grody, Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders, Valerie Simpson (background vocals).
Hide Description Gaucho Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $2.46) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop | | Label | MCA | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2535  | | CD Universe Part number | 1104651 | | Catalog number | 112055 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 10, 2000 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Gary Katz | | Engineer | Roger Nichols | | Recording Time | 38 minutes | | Personnel | Donald Fagen - vocals, electric piano, synthesizer
Walter Becker - guitar, bass
Also: Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Larry Carlton, Tom Scott, Ralph MacDonald, Michael Brecker, Patti Austin, Randy Brecker, Chuck Rainey, Victor Feldman, Joe Sample, Hugh McCracken, Rick Marotta, Bernard Purdie, Anthony Jackson, Anthony Jackson, Lani Groves, George Marge, Valerie Simpson, Steve Khan, Rob Mounsey, Hiram Bullock, Wayne Andre, Frank Floyd, Dave Tofani, Diva Gray, Gordon Grody, Don Groinick, Crusher Bennett, Toni Wine, Patrick Rebillot, Leslie Miller, Walter Kane, Zack Sanders, Ronny Cuber, Nicholas Marrero, David Sanborn, Mark Knopfler, Michael Mcdonald, Rick Derringer | | Additional Info | Remastered |
Gaucho Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Sunday morning music
Pristine production, sinuous melodies and world-weary lyrics: Steely Dan cornered the market on Seventies' jaded cool.
Their last album before a two-decade hiatus, Gaucho is clever but spare. Donald Fagen's slightly whiny but wise vocals amble along, counterpointed by smooth harmonies courtesy of the creme de la creme of session singers - notably the sublime Patti Austin and Valerie Simpson.
Although the rest of the album never reaches the heights of the opener "Babylon Sisters," it still makes for the best hangover CD: something to get you back to the land of the living after a night of living it up too much.
Submitted by bxltate (Detroit, MI, USA) 
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Yeah, "Gaucho" is a very sad song, and could be named as their swan song; Steely Dan's last studio album of the seventies.
Submitted by Julian (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
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Dan's swansong
This is another fine album from the Dan, but it represents the end point of the project they started on 'Aja'. The album is full of sad, pathetic characters but unlike Royal Scam - which was similarly populated - the sharp social observation is replaced with a black, world-weary cynicism. "...living hard will take its toll.." and indeed the album articulates the early80s landscape of hedonism and jadedness perfectly. A fine end to a fantastic career.
Submitted by boris_boy (Brisbane, Australia)
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Absolutely brilliant! I have heard alot of rock and roll and a lot of jazz-but this CD is the best combination of the two genres in this or any other millenium. Don and Walter are at the top of their game here. Please buy and listen~~ for full enjoyment turn to full volume on a great system.
Submitted by jsonoqui (sunny so cal)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Excellent lyrics
I heard "Gaucho" on the radio and I thought, I must have that. You can't go wrong with these lyrics:
Bodacious cowboys
Such as your friend
Will never be welcome here
High in the Custerdome
The whole CD makes me swoon.
Submitted by Ellen (Seattle, WA, USA)
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Purchase Gaucho CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Steely Dan Can't Buy A Thrill CD (1972) Remastered
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This is the album that introduced Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's unique, idiosyncratic, and highly polished craftsmanship. Although CAN'T BUY A THRILL lacks the overtly jazzy tendencies that would define albums like AJA, it distinguishes itself from nearly all of the mainstream pop and rock of the era with its smooth, lounge-y feel, catchy hooks, and immaculate studio polish. They were played alongside the Doobie Brothers and the Eagles on '70s FM radio, but Steely Dan's sound was more self-conscious and sophisticated than its peers: this was postmodern R&B, dressed up in a tuxedo, and holding an advanced degree.
The album's hit single "Do It Again" is textbook Dan, with its slinky, Latin-touched groove, expansive, minor key melody, and shimmering veneer. Fagen's quirky vocals grace the track, and the record's other hit, the chugging "Reeling In the Years," with its memorable looping guitar riff, ...
| | Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy CD (1973) Remastered
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Riding high on the success of their debut CAN'T BUY A THRILL, Steely Dan put together what was, on the surface, their most commercial and straightforward album. "Bodhisattva," for example, which opens the album, works a driving, jump-blues groove that seems at odds with the band's laid-back, jazz inclinations. The heavy, bluesy stomp of "The Boston Rag" and the slinky, edgy boogie of "Show Biz Kids" may make it seem as though Steely Dan was vying for favor with their more roots-oriented pop-rock contemporaries.
Nothing could be further from the truth, however. COUNTDOWN TO ECSTACY is more ambitious, complex, and layered than its predecessor, with a heavier dose of jazz fusion, more subtle and textured arrangements, and an even higher level of studio craftsmanship. Both "Razor Boy" and "Your Gold Teeth" demonstrate flashes of Latin flavor-- marimba-driven bop in the former, and salsa-cum-lounge ...
| | Steely Dan Katy Lied CD (1975) Remastered
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In 1975 after an extraordinarily successful run of releases which culminated in that "steely" masterpiece, PRETZEL LOGIC, the Dan shifted direction a bit and opened their music up on KATY LIED. The sound is warmer, the already sophisticated harmonies somewhat richer, a little bit closer to combo jazz. It's as if jazz pianist Bill Evans collaborated with Bob Dylan.
KATY LIED contains Steely Dan's most emotional, even passionate music up to that point, matched only by the brilliant AJA a few years later. Donald Fagen's acerbic vocals forgoe the double tracking of the previous albums, the sarcasm melting into something close to vulnerability ...
| | Steely Dan Royal Scam CD (1976) Remastered
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Digitally remastered by Roger Nichols (Digital Atomics, Miami, Florida).
It was the year of America's bicentennial celebration, but on 1976's THE ROYAL SCAM, Steely Dan masterminds Fagen and Becker did not share in the exultant spirit of the times. The title track--a vision of fallen America from the point of view of immigrants--has a mock-celebratory chorus: "See the glory of the Royal Scam," which typifies SCAM's heartfelt cynicism. In their next two releases (their last), Steely Dan's sound would smoothen and incorporate less rock. This is perhaps their darkest record, and for a band known for its arch mixture of L.A. cool and ennui, that's saying something.
Guitar heroes were roundly worshipped in the '70s, and two of the record's standout tracks, "Kid Charlemagne" and "Don't Take Me Alive," feature incendiary axe work by Larry Carlton. Interestingly, both glorify outsiders: The former tells the story of legendary drug chemist Owsley Stanley, and the latter is a first-person account of a murderer on the lam. Other highlights: the crisp "Green Earrings" the lounge-chair funk of "Haitian Divorce" and the inscrutable ...
| | Steely Dan Aja CD (1977) Remastered
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This represents the pinnacle of Steely Dan's gradual transition from rock band to their own brand of jazz-influenced ...
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