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The album sold well in the United States, though without the strength of a hit single. In the UK the single "Haitian Divorce" (Top 20) drove album sales, becoming Steely Dan's first major hit there. [29] Steely Dan's sixth album, the jazz-influenced Aja, was released in September 1977.
The collection, or parts of it, was also released under numerous album names, such as Donald Fagan and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, and Walter Becker / Donald Fagen - The Early Years. [1] The most complete collections are Android Warehouse , [ 2 ] and Catalyst: The Original Recordings 1968-71 [ 3 ] for a total of 28 or 29 songs (the latter ...
The Very Best of Steely Dan: Do It Again. Release date: October 1987; Label: Telstar — — — — — — 64 1993 Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan – Then and Now. Release date: November 1993; Label: MCA — 34 21 7 — 38 42 ARIA: Platinum [19] 2000 Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980. Release date: November 14, 2000; Label ...
Aja (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə /, pronounced "Asia") is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records.For the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated ...
In common with other Steely Dan albums, The Royal Scam is littered with cryptic allusions to people and events, both real and fictional. In a BBC interview in 2000, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen revealed that "Kid Charlemagne" is loosely based on Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug "chef" who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that "The Caves of Altamira" is ...
[18] Erik Adams of The A.V. Club called the album a "dossier of literate lowlifes, the type of character studies that say, 'Why yes, the name Steely Dan is an allusion to a dildo described in Naked Lunch.' These characters hang around the corners of the entire Steely Dan discography, but they come into their own on Countdown to Ecstasy". [19]
The album was Steely Dan's last to be made and released while the group was still an active touring band, as well as the final album to feature the band's full quintet-lineup of Becker, Fagen, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (who subsequently left to join the Doobie Brothers), though it also features significant contributions ...
Steely Dan is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in Japan in 1978. It is notable as being the only album release of both sides of the 1972 single " Dallas " b/w "Sail the Waterway", although these are in mono and were sourced from a copy of the single.