Aja

I'd heard that this was "jazz rock," but I hadn't realised the "jazz" was smooth jazz and the "rock" was soft rock. I seem to recall hearing someone once complain that this album was "sterile," but it's soft rock, so what do you expect? Great album.

Highlight: Peg

Bardzo przyjemne, spore zaskoczenie. Highlights: Peg & Aja

It's the moment when the Dan went full Yacht Rock, or even started whatever one considers Yacht Rock. That's far from a diss. It's both a feature and a benefit.

Great songs do not an album make. The songs are all easily listen to able, but just lacks for me.

Nice album, you're dad's smooth rock. I'm not a crazy fan of Steely Dan but you're always going to know what you're going to get with them - smooth, easy listening. 7/10.

Not my favorite Steely Dan record, but still great production, incredible guitar solos, and tight hooks all around.

ett riktigt fint album! inte riktigt bra som pretzel logic men ändå

jazzy album

This is another one that I thought I wouldn't enjoy as much as I did. I can't say it was the most interesting album ever, but it was enjoyable enough, and they are clearly talented musicians. 3.5/5 rounded up to 4.

If Thundercat was a middle aged white man. Excellent.

Écoute nocturne Avant dormire; Quel Jam exceptionnel

A superb album

Soothing listening experience, groovy musical sections. Just fantastic drumming!

This is pure yacht-rock. It's enjoyable and you can see the elements of rock and funk being pulled together. 7/10

I didn’t know Steely Dan was so jazzy. Also didn’t know so many grocery store songs I know are SD. Learning is fun! Peg

A classic that I am ashamed to say I haven't listened much to. Great jazz rock. Love the vibraphone in "Aja". I love the whole feel of this track and how it has things to say but isn't in a rush to say them. That's a little thesis statement on how I like to live my life. Awesome drumming on "Aja" too. The more you listen the more you can only be impressed by the performances. This is a really solid album and I feel a little sacrilegious to write but it doesn't hit that legendary 5 mark for me personally. Songs are interesting in good ways but not frequently enough get enough excitement in them that elevates them to a truly legendary listening experience. It all gels really nicely but I would love for some moments where the energy really lifts. I didn't feel that tension/release cycle much and I think that's what makes it a clear cut 4/5, like a 4.5.

Wonderful chill funk vibe. Hard not to like.

very funky, fun album with some genuinely great songs! A lot of jazz influence as well. My only gripe is how long some of the songs stretched on for - I feel like they didn't retain my attention super well, but maybe that's just me.

Incredibly…. Pleasant. I picture dinner parties with olive green furniture, giant speakers connected to a hi fi, and lots of cocaine.

4,5. Bavil mě ten jazzovej nádech (I Got the News).

- Pretty cool ngl 4/5

Super liked!!

That's good

Man, what an album! Jumped out the gate groovy and smooth and just overall a bop. Loved the jazzy vibes and the music break were my favorite parts of the songs. So cool and definitely a great jam for a bbq or just when you want a solid enveloping time. I lament that this typa 70s shit is far and few in between these days!

I always forget how short this album is. It's less about the songs and more about the vibe.

fantastic album, always sounds clear

listened to again a jazz pop classic

Steely Dan at their best just felt so tight. And this is Steely Dan at their best. You can squeeze a fab paper between their musicianship. I'll still be popping on their greatest hits though.

Lots of good songs on this breakout album. Exceptional musicianship. Good driving music

Enjoyed it more than I thought, especially on my 2nd listen. Will certainly revisit this.

Nearly 5 stars. The production is amazing, just a little it safe

My sister named her Doberman Pinscher bitch Asia, but she spells it Aja. They're American. She, my sister, not the dog, has a full mouth of fillings. Aja, the album, not the dog, is her favorite music to play when getting her teeth drilled. Dr. Goldman agrees.

Super album de steely dan mais la partie jazz tres accentue le place en dessous d ecountdown to ecstasy pour moi. 4.25

Perfect for when you are insanely tired after a big day and just want to listen to music brain off

Better than I thought it would be, but it is oh so 70s

Jazzy en bluesy poprock dat prima als intermezzomuziek bij van die tv comedy shows past als Home Improvement. Ik vind dit dus superrelaxed. Ga dit zeker vaker opzetten tijdens het werk.

Solid tunes! It’s amazing to think that they packed this much into a seven-song record. This album really is quality over quantity.

Fresh as f#ck

Nostalgic tones, good sound and culturally relevant

Solid album cover. Dark, somber, portentous, eye catching. Raises some questions, which the eponymous song really doesn't particularly resolve. In fact what is any of this album about? Don't know, but I like it. Sure, I like raw, emotional, edgy. But clean, pretty, and carefully constructed can also be enjoyable when done well. And this is done *so* well.

Great music throughout entire album. Awesome guitar solos.

So smooth, is this yacht rock? I think this is yacht rock. Ima get a bourbon...

It was good. Jazzy

Pretty funky album (especially from the middle on), and a mild introduction to jazz/rock fusion. Love the jazzy chord progressions and "dialogues" between piano, sax, and guitar.

Perfect for a slow morning

Didn't expect it to be so funky - seems like jazz rock. Piano was used well and I like Donald Fagen's voice. The lyrics were super random which is always fun. It's musically complex and well produced but still accessible. Fav track: 'I got the news'

Crisp and clean almost to the point of being laboratory sterile. Jazzy yacht rock. It’s so tight it almost sound 80s quantized. I do like it, I don’t love it.

Funk saxophone. Bello divertente comfort smhoot funk in tha room. Un po' simile a se stesso ma riesce a rendere non noiosi i coretti aiutatori

HL: “Peg”, “Aja”, “Deacon Blues” Shoot, I’m unsure but “Aja” gets 4 stars for now. “Peg” is my favourite Steely Dan song; yet the second half dragged more than the first, despite the 1st having longer songs. Could be anywhere from a 3 to a 5 depending on mood & location.

favourite song: deacon blues really enjoyed this album.

Great album overall.

Easy listening by the one and only Mr Steely

Pretty great! Such a great blend of prog rock, jazz and mellow funk.

Steely Dan brought Rock and Jazz together in their own unique way. They have a distinctive sound. Aja (pronounced Asia) is their sixth album and they have four albums on the 1001 list. Standouts: Deacon Blues, Peg, Josie Others: Aja, Home At Last, I Got the News

This is really mood dependent. I've heard this before and been so into it; this time I could take it or leave it. It's a bit boring. Technical ability, for sure. Understand why it's on the list as well. A generous 4.

funky

eu gosto do jeito que steely dan faz uma musica dançante com progressão de acordes incomum. o uso de menores e etc. tem um certo sambá, que sendo brasileiro eu aprecio muito

This was not what I expected, but then I didn't really know what to expect. I quite liked it though.

Really enjoyable album by steely Dan. I enjoy their jazzy smooth rock style as it’s pretty easy enjoyment wise. Their guitar playing is sonically really solid. I think this is one of their best albums all around. 8.3/10

Chill

Really cool. Quiet jazzy with lots of groove, but also really accessible.

Mellow; classic songs like "Deacon Blues", "Aja" and "Peg" - I don't always know the song name but I've heard these a lot. Not for everyday, but good for many.

Black Cow- 9.5/10 Aja- 6/10 Deacon Blues- 9/10 Peg- 4/10 Home At Last- 9/10 I Got The News- 4/10 Josie- 7.5/10 Aja-7/10

The production on this is actual black magic. This sounds like it came out yesterday. At first I thought this was pretty standard and inoffensive music, but after listening to it again.. yeah, it's really good. The vocals, drumming, saxophone and everything work so well together. Also this is easily in the Top 5 best album covers. No question.

Beautiful, clean, doesn’t quite hit me like the best of the best on this list but definitely grew my appreciation for them and their legacy

Oh, there you are again Steely Dan. Had a flurry of 3 albums in about a month and now it's been almost a year (and over 220 albums) since the last entry. I continue to put them in my list of classic rock artists I respect (more than I did when I was younger) but still don't completely get. Probably not surprising since this album is jazz-infused rock and I also don't get jazz. I find it funny because I always loved soft rock Chicago but never got into soft rock Steely Dan. The multitude of jazz players on this album are quite impressive and I really came to appreciate the complexity and grandness of the sound and the whole production on multiple listens. Lyrics too - they seem strange at first but when you listen and start to figure out the meaning (e.g., Aja, Deacon Blues, Josie) it's pretty sly and interesting. Definitely an album that grows on you (Black Cow and Peg being good song examples of that) but I may still be underappreciating it.

27/08/2022 Steely Dan – Aja 4/5 Looking around reviews of the album on the website, most of the complaints talked about how generic and how much like “elevator”, “shopping mall” or background music this album sounded like. I consider myself a fan of this type of music, and I think that to make something perfect enough to conceal itself on the environment is not as easy as it seems. Apart from that, the tracks in the album sound fantastic, full of good vibes and catchy melodies. The jazz influences make it not very repetitive and good enough to listen to it on its own. And it is also a great album for sampling. A couple of bad notes: the songs end being a bit too much similar between each other, and those vibes could be too much after a while and makes you nauseous. The voice of the singer is nothing out of the ordinary, but is compensated by the great instrumentals. Black Cow – 3/5 Good vibes, but maybe too flat and stable during its 5 minutes. I would need an interesting and more energetic solo somewhere, or a good enough bridge. Aja – 4.5/5 This one could have fallen in the same mistakes as Black Cow, but it makes good use of its 8 minutes with more variability and a fantastic guitar and sax solo/interlude and a great ending drums solo. Deacon Blues – 3.5/5 A slower good sounding song that maybe would have needed a little bit more of creativity and variety. But it is great at what it does. Peg – 4/5 Very groovy. Its stability is compensated by its short duration compared to the others. Home at Last – 3.5/5 Not bad, nothing out of the ordinary. Again, a bit too flat. Good solos. I Got the News – 4.5/5 Love the instrumentation of this song, maybe one of the jazziest of the album. Josie – 3.5/5 Good, but nothing different from the previous tracks.

The production on Aja is incredible: the sound is crisp and resonant, with each voice and instrument given warmth and depth. The songs themselves are a little more of a mixed bag: some may find the arrangements too noodly or the lyrics too obtuse, but the musicianship is generally impressive.

Wow this album gets some bad reviews. SD are my massive comfort blanket. In some ways this album was their apex. Their lyrics, as always, are brilliant; full of sleaze and opulent grime. Production and muso wise it is immaculate (Go on, yawn) It may break no musical boundaries and may be the antithesis of 'Never Mind the Bollocks' (Same release year) but it's not lounge music. I love you SD. 4

This isnt yacht rock, its dad rock. This album made me want to put on my cargo shorts and NBs, crack open a bud, and grill for the gods.

Peg is a de la soul sample, wow!! Much better album than I expected

Steely Dan. Nice.

I was expecting, from previous experience with this album to hate it. I thought of it as a beautiful sounding album of boring basically elevator music. I still don't like Black Cow but the rest of the album is better than I remembered (maybe Black Cow colored my overall impression), and Peg especially is a great song. And then there's the sound, even my old scratched vinyl couldn't obscure the impressive sound engineering and perfectly balanced production. Very impressive. 3.75 🌟

Really solid Steely Dan, really sounds like what I think of when I hear their name. Not sure that there's anything here that helps this climb above other albums of theirs, but a great listen, will take it anytime. Love hearing Michael McDonald on "Peg", it always surprises me in a good way.

Pretty damn good. I am not well-versed in any Steely Dan and it's not something I'd always wanna listen to, but there's a lot to like here. Smoooooth.

Light listening. Crisp production. First time listening to the album.

After the second listen, I’m starting to enjoy it.

I get why NL likes Steely Dan. Album feels very nostalgic. Happy on the outside, but depressing on the inside. Very well exemplified by Peg. Top songs: Peg, Home At Last Worst Songs: I Got The News

Love it

Smooth production, not all tracks land but I really dig several of them. Favorites: "Black Cow", "Aja", "Peg"

this is SO on the boat. i didn't even realize how on the boat this whole album was until i was swaying to every single song on this album. it's so smooth and makes for great easy listening. i could instantly recognize the amount of work that went into the composition of this album, particularly with their variety of instruments! the piano and sax stood out the most, but all instruments had their time to shine and were expertly performed. i was shocked when i read on wikipedia that steely dan called in a-list session players because the music was so technically demanding--but when i pay attention to the depth of each song, it makes a lot of sense. regardless, their hard work creating this album paid off. the yacht and jazz aspects allow for a pleasant ride. it's such a cohesive album. a delightful listen. looking forward to listening to it more.

This album was soooo smooooth, all throughout. The laid back yacht rock vibes are just right on this album. The overall "feel" of this album is well composed and executed, with each song still being its own thing. I was not familiar with anything from this album, so it was a pleasure to check it out!

Classic old white dude shit and I’m here for it

Great album. Love almost every song outside of the title track. Aja is just too long for me.

I am pretty ignorant about Steely Dan. I think I listened to "Gaucho" once a few years ago. The pop-punk band The Ergs have a catchy song called "Aja" which mentions this album - but for some reason I never followed it up. In my head, Steely Dan were a middle-of-the-road soft rock band, which is kinda accurate. But I really wasn't expecting the amount of funk/disco on this! I love the sound. I love the songs. I love the structure of the songs, which often opens out the conventional pop/rock song into a sprawling jam. Some elements are schmaltzy. They seem to be deliberately, knowingly schmaltzy, as an aesthetic choice - but that doesn't make it better. Overall, this is great. It's 40 mins, but every time I listen I've thought "that can't be over already??". Sure sign of a good album. 0% drag. I also want to add: the hook from "Peg" must be the absolute best sample Prince Paul used for early De La Soul. 4.5*

Wonderful and still sounds great.

Onhan tää on niin ylituotettua, että voi tuntua sieluttomalta. Mut meikä digaa ja kuulostaa vinskalta ärsyttävän hyvältä. Deacon Blues, Peg ja Home at Last on kans ihan aidosti huikeita biisejä.

Steely Dan released a run of great albums during the 70's and I regard a couple of them as essential (Can't Buy A Thrill, Pretzel Logic), that are a good starting point to discover Steely Dan. Aja, the band's 6th album was moving towards more of a rock-jazz oriented sound, a bit smoother, but just as interesting. The previous records leading up to Aja (Katie Lied, Royal Scam), were a bit of a letdown and less consistent, but Aja was improved and produced an accessible sound that led to it being probably their most commercially successful record. I would place Aja in my top three favourite Dan albums and it brings back much nostalgia from my teenage years when I listen to it. A solid record, but not their best.

Steely Dan was way better than I thought.

Technically brilliant but a bit forgetful, loved it when it started as can tell a lot of modern music has taken samples from this, but overall just didn't stand out. Suspect it's a get stoned and listen with headphones on album.

Good not great. Great production with a few classics.

A really good album filled with yacht rock classics.

4.75

I thought that this album had a beautiful finish on it, and only had a few dull moments for me.

Damn, lekker muziekje. Normaal vind ik dit soort muziek al snel saai, maar hier blijven de melodietjes leuk. Doet me soms een beetje aan Paul Simon of Billy Joel denken. Leuke verrassing. ****

Sooooo much porn sax and boredom, then.....PEG. 4 stars for that alone

Steeley Dan is underrated. Its like the background music of our lives. This is a really great album!

Bookended by a slightly too smooth version of the Dan for me but with a delicious centre. They've done several better albums, though.

This used to be one of my less favorite Steely Dan albums (aside from Deacon Blues), in spite of being generally a fan. It has grown on me over time though, as repeated listening revealed the care and intricacy of its production. I’ve never really got the charges of their being cold or soulless. I find delivery of grown-up melancholy very poignant.

Great smooth album

Now I understand why they’re so respected for their sound. Good passive listening, but the production takes it to a 4.

Great and unusual combination of jazz and rock/pop. Couldn't stop myself from feeling relaxed and happy by the music

Awesome!

Gli anni '70, quando la vita era tranquilla e i mutui al 20%. Un cocktail, una capigliatura sbarazzina e si va al mare perché fa molto caldo. Rilassante, mi piace.

Chill groovy

Great album.

Classic easy listening edition

This is one of those records you can toss on, do whatever, and come back mid song and pick up on the lyrics right away. One of SD’s best, and deservedly belongs on this list.

So nice

Tight ass bunch of studio musicians

Great Band of white people that sounds like black ones. Good mix of different type of music of that times ('70s)

Glimmering, uber produced jazz pop. Starts off very strongly, with Aja and Deacon Blue both being amazing, but I found myself losing interest as the album played out.

Snygg gubbrock, kluven på 3/4. Men det är så tight och groovy. Har ingen av mina riktiga steely dan favoriter dock!

Otroligt svängigt, välproducerad gubbrockrunk. ÄLSKAR

Muito gostosinho!

Normally i wouldn’t like music like this however i loved it. The music is just so funky and incredibly fun to listen to. the one critique is the song length but it was kept interesting so it doesn’t even matter - i really enjoyed this album. 9/10.

Likte albumet svært godt! Home at last bra sang

Buen pop-rock sencillo de los años 70, que se puede escuchar muy bien y que puede llegar a gustar bastante. Grupo que desconocía y al que le podría dar alguna otra oportunidad

a funky groove to fuck to

I already liked a bit of Steely Dan and enjoyed this too! I like the funky rockness of it. Good driving music

Wel een aangenaam album om uit te luisteren

Aaaaaaaa, pa viđam ovaj cover dost puta, al nikad nisam skužio žensku na njoj. Evo još jedan album iz 77'. Nisam očekivao ovakvu glazbu, više sam očekivao izdrkavanje po gitari, neki Rush tip benda, tako nešta jer gledajući koliko pjesama ima i koliko traju pjesme... Međutim, nije tak, drago mi je, zanimljiv album, gospodski, reklo bi se. Hvale ga očito s razlogom, i imaju zašto! Iznenadio me je jer stvarno nisam očekivao ovako pristojan album. Danceable, groovie, like it a lot! Pjesma Peg ima jedan sample koji se koristio u jednoj rap pjesmi (Eye Know od De La Soul) i to nisam znao, volim naučit ovakve stvari! Jedva čekam da i oni dođu na streaming platforme kad smo već kod toga. Aja (ko da ju volim još i saaaaaad) je jebena stvar! Top 5 albuma iz 77' na prvo slušanje, onda znaš. Love me some jazzy rock.

Easy listening, love the drum solo on Aja. Good tight music.

This album was quite good. Very chill and relaxing songs with really good instrumentation to keep them interesting. 7/10

Jazz-rock animado.

Great album

Deacon blues is the song I recognize from this album. More good listening, but I think I prefer the countdown to ecstasy album over this one.

never listened to entirely, adding to iPod

Solid, solid album. not overproduced. Not too complex. good band. Good album.

Warm, fun and smooth. The excellent drumming makes this a winner for me. Definitely interested in hearing more of their stuff.

Eindelijk Steely Dan! Zeer coole groep, ook als je er meer van weet. Ik kende dit album niet maar vond het wel zeer leuk !

oooh was leuk

Yeah this was great

Okay okay... Ya veo co.o va a ser.

Great Album! Have this in my collection, I Got The News my favourite track from this album. I do prefer "The Royal Scam" as an album, but this is a good one, with Backing Vocals from Michael McDonald. Also like Peg and Deacon Blues (which the eponymous Scottish band took its name from.) are also good tracks.

I'd avoided Steely Dan for so long because, I dunno, hipsters mocked them in the 90s? But this album is good. It has a very rich, complex sound, something that is evidence of how far audio production technology came in that part of the 20th century. The songs are just as complex, with dreamy worlds. But above all was my moment when I realised that "Peg" was the sampled basis of De Le Soul's "Eye Know".

The drums! The composition! So much good....but a lot of "this isn't jeff"

Steely Dan has a strange sound. I mean, on one hand, it's a funk, soul mix like Doobie Brothers or even Hall and Oates. But there's a Disco sense in it too that turns me off. The lyrics are a little more substantial than I expected, which is cool. The horns remind me of Chicago. Black Cow is quite a production. Aja is also pretty layered. Not sure if it's about a girl or just some other cultural observation The album cover seems to lean towards the former. This band always gives me a sense of a dark room with red lights, not a club or and not really comfortable. I just don't see them as "open air, and free. They seem confined I guess. Deacon Blues is a song I always kind of liked. It just sounds good. Definitely a story to Deacon Blues - which I admire as well. Peg is an uncharacteristically brief song for this album. Another log song but not ordinary. Home at Last is more of a return to Aja after Peg. This time its an ode to life at sea it seems, but with another solid groove that propels the song. I got the News - the title makes me think of A Day in the Life by the Beatles, but this appears to have nothing to do with that. Some great guitar work, really quirky jazz beats and is that Michael McDonald singing back up? Josie - Solid jam again. This was better than expected. I think I'd listen to this again for sure.

Very nice, I like the mix of instruments across the album. Quite the jam.

Вот что меня удивляет - насколько все говорят о влиянии битлов, и насколько оно мало чувствовалось на самом деле (по крайней мере в то время). Казалось бы - не так уж давно они распались, оставив после себя практически идеальную поп-формулу, до сих пор актуальную формулу экспериментальной музыки и тд, но в 70х люди почему-то куда больше тяготели к дженерик рокенролу, который юзался жуками в основном в начале пути. Ну типа песни вроде Strawberry Fields Forever, Eleanore Rigby, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Tomorrow Never Knows - это же другой уровень развития, пусть психодел тоже не всегда бывал удачным, но его же куда интереснее было пробовать, чем серый антивоенный роцкешник. Но это ладно, мысли на полях, Стили Дэн не совсем про это. Тут скорее джаз-рок такой, без лишнего огонька, но с довольно приятными трубами и прикольной атмосферой. Впрочем интереса это всё равно не особо добавляет. Раздражения не вызывает, но в очередной раз толкает в голову вопрос: "а оно мне всё нужно вообще?" Что бы изменилось в моём восприятии музыки (как у слушателя и как у исполнителя), не послушай я этот альбом. Да скорее всего нихуя. Это не какая-то предъява к пластинке, просто интересно порой, откуда берётся легендарный статус и вот это всё. Легендарный статус группы creedence clearwater revival, например, оправдать легко - у них действительно был хит на века, который выстоял проверку временем и до сих пор попадает в нерв. Плюс пацифистская позиция, которая также актуальна в любое время. Ну и даже вот предыдущих тирексов мне не составит труда отнести к классике - хотя бы за прорывное (по моему мнению) звучание. А Steely Dan видится продуктом своего времени, качественно скрафченным, занимательным, скилловым, но неактуальным и эстетически пустым на данный момент. Thus said, лепить тройбан альбому всё-таки считаю неправильным, поскольку совсем уж дженериком назвать рука не поднимается, и наверное под пресловутое настроение он может показаться хорошим выбором. Но честно, сомневаюсь, что ещё когда-то вспомню о нём. 7/10

бляять какой же кайф включать и в первом же треке угадывать семпл одного из любимых треков мф дума. ну и альбик сам ниче так

Classic jams on here. It's yacht rock, but it's solid

I have yet to hear a bad Steely Dan album, and this one is no exception. Their musicianship is always commendable, and the unique fusion/funk vibe they have going in a lot of these songs definitely makes this worth a few listens.

Ultimate dad rock

Clean yacht rock. Peg is sweet. Michael McDonald backing vocals

You kind of have to be in the right mood to listen to Steely Dan, but luckily I'm in that mood most of the time. "Deacon Blues" is the highlight of this album but the whole thing is great.

Pretty neat

Just about made the 4 stars

some good stuff

The more I listened, the more I enjoyed. Easy music to just fade away and relax.

Not their best album. That belongs to Pretzle Logic. Still a solid album though.

Is it a brag or flex to say I listened to my CD copy of this one? Pretty sure I have a vinyl copy tucked away too. I know this one and like it. Solid argument that it's Steely Dan's best album, though there is obviously room for debate and it's not my hill to die on. As far as I can tell, I can't rate in half stars but I'd probably go 4.5 on this if I could.

great jazz album

Not bad at all! I like the jazzy feeling!

Cool and funky album. Good, chill listen.

Ненавязчивая хорошая музыка для фона

I really liked the combination of classic hard rock and jazz that Steely Dan have going on here. A nice album to listen to and a band I'll definitely revisit. Not entirely gripping enough for a 5 though.

Impeccable jazzy soft rock. I found it enjoyable and easy to listen to. Peg and Home at Last were favourites on this one.

This album was prob the first to fuse jazz and rock this well. The sax throughout exemplifies this particularly on Deacon Blues. Steve Gadd’s drumming on Aja (the song) is mind blowing. His two solos on that track are played like guitar solos - ie played while the band provides rhythm- rather than Bonham style snoozer solos. Thanks to mgravelle59 for bringing it home circa 1977.

I listen to this Steely Dan album and I learn EXACTLY what all the fuss is about: it's the most accessible music while still being dignified, eloquent, and fun. It's exquisite how good this album is, really. Jazz rock has never been more fun. I bet my parents will love this; we can listen to it over drinks and talk about current events or something, idk! People with taste listen to Steely Dan, and Aja has to be the pinnacle of this or I'll be damned.

Brilliant album. A Classic

Echt heel tof en nog best wel van deze tijd! Heb dit album ol vinyl, maar pas een keer geluisterd. Echt een eye-opener.

Loving this, funk ahoy

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Me gusta. Mezcla jazzística muy relajante.

Zum ersten Mal aufmerksam geworden auf Steely Dan bin ich, als Carsten "Erobique" Meyer ca. 1997 in der "Komm Küssen" irgendeine Plattenbesprechung abschloss mit den Worten "Ich muss jetzt erstmal Steely Dan hören". Ich kannte die damals nicht, fand den Spruch aber sehr gut und hab dann versucht rauszufinden, was es so auf sich hat mit der Band. Die waren dann lange und sind mir eigentlich bis heute ein Rätsel, vermutlich weil einfach zu schlau für mich. 2 Konservatoriumstypen, so weit wie nur vorstellbar von Punk und/oder Rockstarattitüde entfernt, aber ihre Band nach nem Dildo benennen. Sowas schon allein. Hab ich mich mit abgefunden, und steh jedenfalls schon seit einigen Jahren immer mal wieder total auf diesen yahzzigen Yachtrock-Style. Und möchte mich jetzt auch noch mal kurz für diesen Ausfall neulich gegen YES entschuldigen, von wegen "Angebermusik". Weil: eigentlich find ich sowas ja total gut, und Steely Dan trifft natürlich voll in dieses Klischee, dieses ganze ausgestellte Raffinement, die audiophile Produktion, Saxophonsolos von Wayne Shorter etc. Dabei aber halt viel luftiger, samstagmorgentauglicher verpackt als eben YES - und also meinen Nerv trifft das. Voll. Aja (auch wieder son Rätsel: wieso man eine Platte nach der Freundin des Brudes von einem aus der Highschool-Klasse benennt, mit dem man nicht mal viel zu tun hatte) werde ich mir jedenfalls gerne noch öfter, und gerne mit guten Kopfhörern anhören. Und freue mich dabei schon auf die ganzen neuen Ideen jedesmal.

Highlights: Deacon Blues, Peg Lowlight: Ironically...Aja 70's Jazz/Rock fusion and velvety lyrical prowess never sounded better. This isn't just a musically excellent album, it's also a sonic masterpiece; Every beat, crash, strum, pluck, and chord is deliberate and represented with crystal clear clarity, with plenty of space between to catch your breath. There is nothing overwhelming here, classics like Peg will have you tapping your toe...Even with tracks like Josie where there is more complexity, nothing is edged out or muddy. This is a well-built album.

always love steely dan

Mix of jazz, R&B and disco. 70s sound. Very good

Superbly produced album with expert musicmanship. I read a long time ago that Deacon Blues has the best lyrics ever and I can't argue with Learn to work the saxophone (I) I play just what I feel Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world (I) I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues The rest of the album is not as brilliant, but it is still pretty darned good so it gets a 4/5 from me

(Jazz rock / Pop rock) Extremely well-written jazz rock that still sounds contemporary thanks to the quality of the session musicians and production. However, the 'softness' of yacht rock detracts from an otherwise stellar album. 8/10

Truly a classic - Peg, Black Cow, and Deacon Blues alone are worth putting it on the 1001 list, but there's 4 more great cuts as well! Only reason I'm not giving it 5 is that I rank it 3rd in SD's catalog after Pretzel Logic and Gaucho

Not really a Steely Dan 'guy,' but this record is so easy and good to listen to.

My ears naked lunch’d but gently, oh so gently. Thumbs up - Don’t judge me.

Well made, pleasant to listen to.

Jazzy

John Mulaney said I had to like this or else

dan really did it on this one :^)

top track black cow really vibes jazz. every track was about 6 mins and u could tell. but I liked the music lol

jazzy i like

Me likey

This album is a straight vibe. Great intersection between rock, jazz, and new age sounds. Album is a collection of art. Stand-outs: Deacon Blues

So great

A very tight set of songs. Reminds me of Weather Report, but slightly more accessible. My former boss is a huge fan, and while it's not totally for me, I see the appeal. Favorite tracks: "Deacon Blues", "Peg"

This is on-paper not up my alley, but I cannot help but be charmed every time I hear it.

+1 for the sax solo about 2/3 through Aja. It's so seamless and flows. I guess that whole song is iconic. As for the rest, it was smooth but just like with peanut butter, a little more crunch would have added more flavor.

My first Steely Dan album and I was a little underwhelmed. All sounded the same to me although Deacon Blues was nice.

Maybe the most confusing album I’ve reviewed to date. It’s incredibly beige-y yacht rock/jazz/fusion muzak that is so impeccably produced and performed that I ended up enjoying myself anyways. Even though the songwriting was forgettable and mostly bland, the instruments were legible and crisp, the chord progressions were interesting, and everything came together crystal clear. It was like a bowl of Michelin starred chicken noodle soup. Incredible but it’s still just chicken noodle soup. 7/10 Favorites: - Black Cow - Aja - Home At Last

Приятный джаз-рок. Big black cow - звучит странно. Мне правда больше нечего добавить

holy cow - Jimmy Smith to Ministry to Steely Dan?! What in the what. haha. but this is a vibe and I enjoy it for a fall afternoon, cleaning the house vibe

Great sounding record but feels less ambitious sonically than their other work

Some good ol yacht rock - not bad!

Nice album for the background

ja, ganz angenehm zu hören.

ok

First listen to Steely Dan. I thought I'd find something to enjoy but I was a bit disappointed. Just a dull mixture of smooth jazz and soft rock.

First exposure to steely Dan and it was pretty good I really like all these instrumentation throughout the album This album was also very consistent throughout Favorites: black cow, deacon blues 3/5

I've never listened to the kings of yacht rock before, and it was a very enjoyable experience. Would listen to another album of theirs. At times, the long guitar solos did drift into customer-service, "please hold for 10 minutes" territory.

I must confess I only knew two songs by Steely Dan and I was intruiged to see if an album would hold up to the high standards of the singles. I would say, it almost does. Peg was brilliant but this album would be easy to forget.

"I like your pin shot / I keep it with your letter / Done up in blueprint blue / It sure looks good on you" I enjoy Steely Dan as much as the next guy, but Aja left much of the groovy yet catchy 70's bangers that 'Can't Buy a Thrill' offers. One key exception to this was the song "Peg" which had some very groovy lines and catchy rhythms. I unfortunately found myself quite bored by this album as a whole, and despite its technical precision, I couldn't really get into it. If someone said this was their favorite album, I wouldn't be able to fault them. Not my cup of tea. 🧄🧄🧄

#1 Josie

I like it, though it washed over me a little bit.

"I cried when I wrote this song // Sue me if I play too long." Somehow that lind got through my kndifferent cynicism and made me relisten to this a couple of times. It did increase my appreciation somewhat, but not quite to the other extreme. Maybe in the future, with more exposure to some possible subtleties; as it stands though, it seems to be a bit lacking (in the sense of not being that evocative) on its different fronts: as a Steely Dan album, an experimental project, a jazzy record.

Better than it at first appeared. Farty, but nice to hear proper professionals play

Well known. I like the jazz & rock combination. Good album.

Насколько я понимаю, это вершина их творчества. Неплохо. Однозначно лучше предыдущих двух, которые давали тут. Это уже можно и послушать вновь.

R&b. Rockcito. Jazz

How to describe Steely Dan ? Prog jazz? Yacht funk? A very different style All of their best songs on one album

Obviously really technically sound. Time signatures super crazy. Tons of awesome bass. Harmonies are wonderful. But the melodies are too crazy outside of 1 or 2 tracks FOR ME. I just can’t love it.

ja ist entspannt. Drei Sterne glatt

There’s some good depth in the sound and music in this - and how can you knock and album the Library of Congress selects for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant - but it’s just okay to me.

Nice

Not my style and I found the sound a bit boring, but it sounds very "clean" and easy to listen to.

a very impressive mediocre album

Good production value, kinda boring otherwise

Black cow- really liked, a little weird to “drink the cow” but it’s a good song. First few notes and was pleasantly impressed and surprised Aja- was good but at the middle was just boring and the same throughout it. Skipped at the middle Deacon blues- really liked, very good saxophone and sound. I think I like jazz now. Peg- I like it, cool sound- kinda different. The electric guitar at the middle is a little random but I like it. Home at last- something I’d hear on a 1980s movie and want to hear the song alone without the scene. Good, simple jazz and a good backtrack. I got the news- a little different sound from the rest of the album. Really liked the guitar in the middle. Really vibey and colorful. Lots of instruments in the backtrack. Josie- first notes, remains me of power rangers/ something I’ve heard in a movie or show before. Like this sound and song, old school jazz that you’d hear at an underground bar show Id rate it 3.5/5 Overall good on the sound, a little bland writing and is a background noise for me. I love love love the backtracks and music, but the lyrics kinda put it off and the songs really repeat themselves over the whole album.

It grew on me

Blues Gedudel 😗

A good time for the boys

It sort of bums me out that I never fully bought into Steely Dan. Even now, having heard what might be their most acclaimed album, I can't bring myself to think **that** highly of them. Not to the point where I actively **dislike** them, no, of course not. It's just that, Steely Dan is a band where most of the acclaim that people have for them lies mostly under the surface. To me, it comes across like you'd really hafta be in the weeds about music production and music theory in order to truly "get" them. You hafta be able to tell how well produced the music is and how high quality it sounds, and you hafta be able to notice just how good these guys are at playing their instruments without ever obviously showboating. It's a band where I can totally get at **why** critics are so eagaer to eat them up. But if you **can't** hear any of that... Well, if you don't like yacht rock, there's nothing much these guys can do for yah. And who's that a failure on, really? I can't say it's Steely Dan's, honestly; they clearly made the music they wanted to make. Is it the critics' fault, for lumping to much acclaim onto a group that a good chunk of people could never fully appreciate? Or is it **my** fault for buying into the praise so heavily and then being mad when I fell into the good chunk? More than likely it's the latter. Though of course it only helps so much to know who exactly the blame for this. 'Coz even with that in mind, I'm just not all too wowed by 'Aja.' It's a good sound, of course. Maybe even one I'd wanna return to at some point. Just... Not now. Or any time soon, really. I mean, I can't even pinpoint an exact reason why beyond "It didn't excite me." And it's frustrating, y'know? I wanna have more to say about this album specifically, but... I'unno. I enjoyed it in the moment, and then it slid straight off me. Not even a single track stuck around long enough for me to bring it up. It's possible with a second listen I could get something more out of it, but since I tend to only go by first impressions... Yeah, no. No. I've got nothing. This might be the most unsatisified I've ever come out of writing a review, since it feels like I just didn't try hard enough to understand the material. Yes, I never truly could, but I could have appreciated the surface level a little better. And I can acknowledge, it's a nice surface; nice enough that I could never dip below a 3. But... Yeah, I'unno. To be honest, listening to Steely Dan in the context of this list was probably the worst diservice I could've done them. Taken outside of "you **need** to hear this before you die," we probably could've gotten on a lot better. As it stands... Yeah. Is what it is.

1. 3 2. 3.5 3. 4 1. 4.5 2. 4 3. 4 4. 4.5

It was cool as his songs have been sampled.

No fav song

Some people love this band, others can't stand them. I'm in the middle. Certainly can dig the sound but not a yuge fan of it.

I wanted to like this more than I did. I respect Steely Dan, and there's some really cool jazzy bits on this album. Love the band as a concept, eventually fading out into a studio-only duo and making the music you know you want to just feels right for some projects. Here it feels like it's directed towards the mainstream, so maybe I'd prefer it if it were a little more wild and rebellious. Then again, I don't think they're that daring, maybe I just don't fuck with it. It's still not bad, just not something I'd get excited to purchase, or even consider playing again. 3.3/5

•I CANT CRYY ANYMOO •I like the ghostly wind sounds in aja •Josie is fun

I like Steely Dan already, so I'm not going in blind, but I don't think I'd ever heard a song from this record before. Kind of gives off that "I'm a character in a movie" vibe, definitely would be better to listen to on a solo drive (which my girlfriend did actually and I'm jealous of her for that). It's easy listening music, it doesn't exist to make you think (at least not this album) but it's very good at what it does. The drums, the saxophone, it's a fantastic rhythm, and a great groove. Home at Last is the peak of this album for me, it's what yacht rock is meant to be, everyone else can stop trying. High points: Home at Last, Josie

I wanted to like this, I tried to listen to it a few times before but it just doesn't catch me.

Steely Dan have always allegedly been one of, if not the only, good soft-rock bands, which I can get down with, seeing as I enjoyed 'Countdown to Ecstasy' quite a bit from earlier in this list. And I can say I enjoyed this about as much, if not a bit more. Their songs have this really weird effect on me, where I'm really not a fan of the song's general direction, lead melody, or instrumental palette during its first couple of minutes, but am left oddly satisfied once the song closes out, despite not much really changing. That's not to say the songs don't evolve and grow; a song like the title track felt like a long day on a tropical island resort town, from sunrise to sunset, that evokes just about every possible emotion you could have. It's maybe the best example of a song that just grows on me despite me not caring for its foundational elements. It's like the song is constantly pulling off insane tricks in a desperate effort to impress its worst critics, and it actually ends up working, because there's just so much to love in that middle instrumental interlude. Almost every song has a similar effect on me, where I grow to appreciate what it's trying to do by the end. "Deacon Blues' has maybe the neatest saxophone solo here, and it took until the third go of the verse-chorus for me to really appreciate the melodic and lyrical direction of the song, just a super tragic nihilistic tale backed by some oddly fitting bright instrumentation. "Peg" was a nice refresher, with its tighter pocket groove feel, killer harmonies, and about as gnarly a guitar solo as you'll get out of a Steely Dan record. A feel-good song...I see why De La samples this one particularly. 'I Got The News' was another one with a super tight bassline and piano groove, and I really liked how it just randomly burst into these lush instrumental segments before returning to the core groove. It didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth, and I can definitely see why people enjoy this more than I do. It's just good music, with no bells and whistles, engineered to perfection, with a mind-blowingly wide instrumental range that's all super melodic. Plus, it reminded me of the Mario Kart soundtrack at times. As for me, I can appreciate it more than I fully enjoyed it. It's like I get super close to loving these songs, but something just holds me back, and I'm not fully sure what. Maybe I'll grow to love it even more on subsequent listens.

3/5 elegante, me gusta para estar chill, muy bueno

Josie is sick; Deacon Blue is overpowering, why’s it so long????

I don’t love the artist’s voice, and only found the first song enjoyable.

Sort of strange. I really thought I would absolutely love this, but I feel like it's just sort of...fine. "Jazz-rock" is a very generous way to describe this. I almost feel like it's closer to yacht-rock, or perhaps more accurately dad-rock. It's certainly not bad, just polished to the point of hyper-perfection: no grit, no soul, no spirit. It's a perfectly decent listening experience, and not much more. Fave tracks: - Black Cow - Home At Last - I Got The News - Josie

Fine but a bit too easy listening for me

Okay, soft rock

Jazz rockia. Kivoja biisejä. Pitkiä, mutta hyvä meno. Biisit tosi samanlaisia keskenään. Menee taustamusiikkina tosi kivasti.

Tiukka groove ja taitavaa soitantaa! Oon joskus ennenkin tätä tyyppaillyt, mut valitettavasti edelleen jättää taidokkuudesta ja kivoista elementeistä huolimatta jotenkin kylmäksi. Varmaan kaipais vähän vielä tarttuvampia koukkuja tms.

Like it 3/5

A part from the track Peg I wasn’t familiar with this album. To be honest it didn’t do much for me. I did enjoy parts of it but overall it’s not an album I’m encouraged to listen to again

I was surprised by this album. I’ve never been a huge fan of Steely Dan but I enjoyed this album. I don’t know if it’s something I would reach but I wouldn’t skip it either.

Música para paladares exquisitos y oídos expertos. Sin embargo a mi me resulta algo pesada, no es mi estilo, aunque está perfectamente producida y ejecutada. Ni Peg, ni Deacon Blues (origen del nombre del grupo escocés, también muy disfrutable, Deacon Blue) me llegan a llenar. Me gusta más su debut, Can't Buy a Thrill , algo más fresco e imperfecto pero más cercano.

Álbum muito inspirado e rico. A qualidade que tudo é tocado impressiona. Boa musica. QoA Adonis New.

It's fine

Good listen

Some memorable samples and songs. Pretty solid album.

didnt llisten to it all wasnt my cup of tea

якісна музика, але ж блін яка нудятина. І норм з одного боку, а очі все змикаються і голова стає важчою

Nice album of chill music. Gives me the vibes of a cozy afternoon.

7/10 - I thought it would be more 70s rock but pleasantly surprised it is more soul/funky

Me gustó bastante. Es un jazz-blues, con toques de rock. Muy lindo de escuchar.

🤷

Bättre än jag väntade mig. Jag är inte förtjust i Steely Dan. Jag har alltid tyckt att de är för invecklade och tråkiga. Detta album var dock bättre än vad jag väntade mig, framför allt Josie, Deacon Blues och Peg. Den sistnämnda lärde jag mig var samplad av De La Soul i Eye Know. Detta hade jag ingen aning om förrän jag lyssnade på det här albumet. Helt ok i det hela. Steely Dan kommer aldrig att vara mina favoriter men detta album var en trevlig överraskning.

Expectation: -> Reelin' In The Years and Do It Again are nostalgic Steely Dan songs that I quite enjoy. After listening: -> I think it's the nostalgia that I like most. This album doesn't have that for me. Some decent songs, nice sax play. This is pretty easy listening. Track ranking: Home Aja Peg Josie Deacon News Cow

Decent

9. jul 2026. 15.46h its okej, fanki ali nije bas moj cup of tea best: peg worst: deacon blues

The first thing that popped into my head was, "Well, that's stereotypical 'Adult Contemporary' right there." Very much a casual background listen.

I remember the album cover as a kid and always in a record store. Not my kind of groove back then but they were on top of the world in 1977. Too jazzy for my liking, but I appreciate a lot of their sound and definitely their musical chops & the strong cast of studio studs that play on their albums. You'd have to be living under a rock to not have heard "Black Cow", "Deacon Blues", "Peg" or "Josie" on the radio back then or today. Impressive listener counts from start to finish with only "I Got The News" being under 25M. That's solid, they have an audience. "Peg" is easily the highlight, it's more inline with their 70's rock groove than the others which lean towards their jazzy roots. 3 stars for me. It's not over the top with great songs but the musicianship is top notch. I can see where it gathers votes to sneak into the Top 1001, just wouldn't make my personal list.

I listened to this less than a week ago and had to look it up just now to check what genre it fits into. Clearly not a lasting impression. The internet tells me its jazz by an American rock band. I vaguely recall it sounding a bit soul. Either way, not compelling enough for me to listen to again.

Not 3 days after my last Steely Dan album, I'm given yet another of their albums (hopefully the last one.) I don't absolutely hate this band, but it's definitely not something I would seek out. I suspect a lot of people my age have good memories of this music because it sounds like it would be a hit with most people's parents. Well my mom liked Motown and my dad liked hard rock, so the Dan never really fit anywhere. All that aside, this one is the best of the 3 Steely Dan albums this list has given me. Every song is memorable and immaculately produced. I would have liked if it had a little more of a distinct edge but the whole album has been produced to be as prim and polished as ever, like someone buffed out every wrinkle and crease on its face. It's the equivalent of a waxed tiled floor; the pattern is nice to look at and you might find something fun, but you wouldn't dare put anything else on it lest you ruin the perfect sheen. Quite a bit of this thing also reminds me of some irresponsible playboy with thinning, slicked back hair wearing a Hawaiian shirt over dress pants driving an obnoxiously loud convertible. It's got the perfect corporate-sounding sleazy vibe to me, which might actually be something they're going for(!) There's even a song with some groove to it in "Peg," another new facet to Steely Dan's repertoire. I would honestly add that one to a playlist, it's very good. Everything else is unfortunately in that mid-tempo haze that makes the songs drift about listlessly for their entire duration. The title track is a pretty brisk 8 minutes, but more than one song whose samey riffing makes 5 minutes feel like 7. If there were half-star ratings I would have given this an extra half point, but the energy from the 2 songs I enjoyed isn't enough to push this into 4-star territory unfortunately. Beautiful sounding album overall - if only it had more songs. Key Tracks: Black Cow, Aja, Peg

I think this is a little too pretentious for me to be honest. I really like the drumming and I was aware of the band before because of it, but the guitar and other solos are really not that interesting or cool, and most of the guitar work in general does bore me a little. The songs as a whole are quite nice and smooth, but lacking in anything that really makes me feel anything, and other than the drumming at certain points there isn't enough impressive musicianship to make up for that. It just feels like people act like the melodies and harmony throughout is innovative because it uses jazz stuff, but in reality a lot of it is just going up and down those scales and not doing too much with it, although a lot of the bass lines are pretty cool. I'm also pretty conflicted on the vocals: I don't really like the lead singers voice, but sometimes the production and use of other backing vocals does make up for it.

I like one song (Home At Last), love the quality of the engineering, but got far too lost in all the schmalz

6/10 The kind of classic rock that I appreciate, but doesn't massively stand out Highlight: Deacon Blues

70

7 songs A gay little jazz rock album. Superb choice for Club Penguin Pizza Parlor background music.

Goofy dad rock, occasionally clever but way too soft

I like this album better than the last Steely Dan. Not a huge fan of yacht rock.

Listen to this has made me realize I enjoy listening to the nostalgic hits off 'Can't Buy a Thrill" but that I don't actually like Steely Dan. It's not a bad album and I can see how it was doing something interesting at the time it came out. But it is just not for me.

Kuunteli mielellään. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ok

Oddly enough, I first heard Steely Dan through a sample of the song "Peg" from this album on De La Soul's first album, which made me interested in the band. Overall, the same dynamics from the first album can be heard hear, easy listening R&B oriented songs that can be either enjoyed on that level or can be enjoyed for the complex dynamics buried within them. The primary difference is that this might be a little slicker in burying that. I particularly like the uptemp songs, "Peg" and "Josie" along with the more offbeat "I Got the News" and "Deacon". It's a good record, but some of the longer songs keep it from getting four stars despite the fact that everything here is listenable.

Competent stuff. Just not very exciting

Another one that is just fine. A few good songs in there like Deacon Blues and Peg.

Solid background

2.5 actually. a bit more my vibe. I dont love the songs nor do i hate them its a bit bland/boring for me. idrk how to explain it but ig there aint enough going on

3/5

Definitely, "Aja" is the best song here, "Deacon Blues" was good too.

3.4

não me pega. divertido

Good

GOOD ALBUM

Yet another mediocre entry on the list. It was fine.

An interesting album that tries to split the difference between jazzy prog rock and the kind of cheesy 80's yacht rock that Patrick Bateman probably listens to (which is impressive given this came out in the 70s, ahead of it's time I guess). Unfortunately, it leans more towards the latter. I quite like a couple of tracks where the jazzy prog side shines through a bit more like Aja and I Got The News, but otherwise though it is clear there is talent behind this, it is kinda boring.

I'm gonna give this album a listen tomorrow after Louis's concert but I will not make any promises because tomorrow is gonna be a really a busy day so let's see. Update: I did listen to it after Louis's concert (😭😭😭🙌) and I think it deserves a solid 3 stars. It gave me Mario Kart vibes for some reason LOL. And the song I liked the most was: Home At Last.

Siento que el album tiene una esencia tipo, canciones largas con mucha instrumental (a veces), y eso igual es bueno, ya que tiene variedad de instrumentos y en general, se disfruta mucho esos momentos donde suenan pianos u otros instrumentos que comúnmente no hay en algunos apartados de la musica. Puedo destacar que me ha gustado mucho mas la mitad para el final del album que el inicio, ya que al comienzo lo senti un poco flojo, pero despues iba mejorando en varios apartados. Puedo decir igual que no tenia ni idea de este grupo, tampoco de alguna canción. Fue un buen album, pero no uno muy bueno a mi gusto, se acerca a las 4 estrellas.

About as middle of the road as it gets. Would go hard on a beach with a cold one

Good one.

A good album, I liked Deacon Blues and Josie the most.

OK

The only song that stood out to me was Deacon Blues, especially the line "Drink Scotch whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel".

I know a few Steely Dan songs that I like, but this album had none, and, for me, it's generally just unbothering background music. The "Drink Scotch whiskey all night long. And die behind the wheel." was a funny gem though.

People like this?

This music would be a lot of fun in the right setting. I’d love to sit in a small jazz club and listen to stuff like this. For everyday listening, not so much my thing. I almost gave it 4/5 but it wasn’t quite there.

Steely Dan always make great music, so I really like this album too. Three stars...

Black cow - 3 Aja - 3 Deacon blues - 3 Peg - 3 Home at last - 3 I got the news - 3 Josie - 3

3,5/5

Very slick. I like the jazz rock feeling present here. Nothing in particular grabbed me but the compositions are nicely done.

Fått litt mer sansen for dette på mine eldre dager.

I feel in the middle

solid