Steely Dan

Steely Dan were always ahead of the curve, and it was gratifying to see that little had changed twenty years after their last studio release. As acerbic and perfectionist as always, "Cousin Dupree" portrays an incest-minded lech and on "What A Shame About Me," Fagen once again proves he can do middle-aged angst with more than a touch of real emotion.

Sure, Steely Dan are a decade or two late in delivering Two Against Nature, their follow-up
to 1980's Gaucho. But time may finally be on the side of rock's most illustrious music geeks.
The old knock on Steely Dan was that they were too good for their own good -- if Walter
Becker and Donald Fagen had recorded a studio album during rock's extended Amateur
Hour of the early Nineties, they might have been publicly flogged. Unlike their El... More >