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Track List
01) The Last Mall
02) Things I Miss the Most
03) Blues Beach
04) Godwhacker
05) Slang of Ages
06) Green Book
07) Pixeleen
08) Lunch With Gina
09) Everything Must Go
01) The Last Mall
02) Things I Miss the Most
03) Blues Beach
04) Godwhacker
05) Slang of Ages
06) Green Book
07) Pixeleen
08) Lunch With Gina
09) Everything Must Go
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Everything Must Go is the 9th and most recent album by Steely Dan, originally released June 10, 2003. It was Steely Dan's second album following their 20-year studio hiatus, which spanned from 1980 through 2000. Everything Must Go was released three years after their Grammy-winning and certified double-platinum release Two Against Nature. It was a departure from their previous release in that the arrangements were scaled back, the solos were kept tighter, and the album had a more overall live feel. It is also the first time Walter Becker was featured on lead vocals on an official Steely Dan release (Slang of Ages). It also featured Becker and Fagen as instrumentalists much more than some of their previous releases, especially their late '70s work. Becker played bass on every song as well as contributing all of the guitar solos, and Fagen provided most of the keyboard work as well as the synthesizer solos.
Received to mixed reviews and lackluster sales, it is the only Steely Dan studio album not to have been certified at least gold.
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There must be something in the Dan's water supply at the moment. After a 19-year gap between albums Gaucho and Two Against Nature Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have come up with the goods again after only three years! Maybe it's a reflection of a loosening of their notoriously perfectionist, nay anal approach to the writing and recording process. Certainly, Everything Must Go, builds on the chirpy vibe of Two Against Nature. Despite the often grim subject matter of these nine songs, this could be the sardonic duo's happiest-sounding record yet.
Interviews had hinted that the boys had settled on a looser, more blues-based vibe and, sure enough, what we get this time around is a collection of grooves. This works for and against them. Drummer Keith Carlock is so deep in the pocket that he's in danger of being mistaken for spare change. A few nifty time changes really wouldn't go amiss and the relentless search for the funky backbeat often precludes the actual resolution of a hummable tune. Having said all this, there are at least three future classics here and it's still head and shoulders above what most contemporaries are achieving.
Lyrically they're sharper than ever. They've seemingly shrugged off the last album's rather obsessive subject matter of old men and considerably younger girls, though Walter Becker's vocal debut on ''Slang Of Ages'' puts one in mind of the sleaziest of chat-ups. Elsewhere they turn their cynical eyes over familiarSteely matters such as the apocalypse (''The Last Mall''), divorce and break-ups (''The Things I Miss The Most'' and ''Everything Must Go''), terrorism (''Godwhacker'') and technology (''Pixeleen'').
As usual it all gets the immaculate, almost science fiction sheen of production that you come to expect of any SD record. Becker's guitar lines are delightfully tasteful (though one does long for the odd Larry Carlton or Denny Dias lick of old) and their choice of session men -- well-proven since as way back as The Royal Scam -- is spectacularly intuitive. Check the beautifully cosmic sax on the title track.
So, despite a lightening of the general mood,it's business as usual and also available on the DVD-Audio 5.1 Surround Sound format. If only all other bands' business were this crisp, funky and grown-up. There's still only one Steely Dan...
Chris Jones 2003-05-30
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Everything Must Go is the 9th and most recent album by Steely Dan, originally released June 10, 2003. It was Steely Dan's second album following their 20-year studio hiatus, which spanned from 1980 through 2000. Everything Must Go was released three years after their Grammy-winning and certified double-platinum release Two Against Nature. It was a departure from their previous release in that the arrangements were scaled back, the solos were kept tighter, and the album had a more overall live feel. It is also the first time Walter Becker was featured on lead vocals on an official Steely Dan release (Slang of Ages). It also featured Becker and Fagen as instrumentalists much more than some of their previous releases, especially their late '70s work. Becker played bass on every song as well as contributing all of the guitar solos, and Fagen provided most of the keyboard work as well as the synthesizer solos.
Received to mixed reviews and lackluster sales, it is the only Steely Dan studio album not to have been certified at least gold.
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There must be something in the Dan's water supply at the moment. After a 19-year gap between albums Gaucho and Two Against Nature Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have come up with the goods again after only three years! Maybe it's a reflection of a loosening of their notoriously perfectionist, nay anal approach to the writing and recording process. Certainly, Everything Must Go, builds on the chirpy vibe of Two Against Nature. Despite the often grim subject matter of these nine songs, this could be the sardonic duo's happiest-sounding record yet.
Interviews had hinted that the boys had settled on a looser, more blues-based vibe and, sure enough, what we get this time around is a collection of grooves. This works for and against them. Drummer Keith Carlock is so deep in the pocket that he's in danger of being mistaken for spare change. A few nifty time changes really wouldn't go amiss and the relentless search for the funky backbeat often precludes the actual resolution of a hummable tune. Having said all this, there are at least three future classics here and it's still head and shoulders above what most contemporaries are achieving.
Lyrically they're sharper than ever. They've seemingly shrugged off the last album's rather obsessive subject matter of old men and considerably younger girls, though Walter Becker's vocal debut on ''Slang Of Ages'' puts one in mind of the sleaziest of chat-ups. Elsewhere they turn their cynical eyes over familiarSteely matters such as the apocalypse (''The Last Mall''), divorce and break-ups (''The Things I Miss The Most'' and ''Everything Must Go''), terrorism (''Godwhacker'') and technology (''Pixeleen'').
As usual it all gets the immaculate, almost science fiction sheen of production that you come to expect of any SD record. Becker's guitar lines are delightfully tasteful (though one does long for the odd Larry Carlton or Denny Dias lick of old) and their choice of session men -- well-proven since as way back as The Royal Scam -- is spectacularly intuitive. Check the beautifully cosmic sax on the title track.
So, despite a lightening of the general mood,it's business as usual and also available on the DVD-Audio 5.1 Surround Sound format. If only all other bands' business were this crisp, funky and grown-up. There's still only one Steely Dan...
Chris Jones 2003-05-30
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