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Steely Dan - DISKOGRAFIE (1972-1977)

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Steely Dan is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1972 by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Blending rock, jazz, latin music, reggae, traditional pop, R&B, blues, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981.

Recruiting guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder, and keyboardist/vocalist David Palmer, Becker and Fagen officially formed Steely Dan in 1972, releasing their debut, Can't Buy a Thrill, shortly afterward. Palmer and Fagen shared lead vocals on the album, but the record's two hit singles -- the Top Ten "Do It Again" and "Reeling in the Years" -- were sung by Fagen. Can't Buy a Thrill was a critical and commercial success, but its supporting tour was a disaster, hampered by an under-rehearsed band and unappreciative audiences. Palmer left the band following the tour. Countdown to Ecstasy, released in 1973, was a critical hit, but it failed to generate a hit single, even though the band supported it with a tour.

Steely Dan replaced Hodder with Jeff Porcaro and added keyboardist/backup vocalist Michael McDonald prior to recording their third album, Pretzel Logic. Released in the spring of 1974, Pretzel Logic returned Steely Dan to the Top Ten on the strength of the single "Rikki Don't Lose That Number." After completing the supporting tour for Pretzel Logic, Becker and Fagen decided to retire from live performances and make Steely Dan a studio-based band. For their next album, 1975's Katy Lied, the duo hired a variety of studio musicians -- including Dias, Porcaro, guitarist Elliot Randall, saxophonists Phil Woods, bassist Wilton Felder, percussionist Victor Feldman, keyboardist Michael Omartian, and guitarist Larry Carlton -- as supporting musicians. Katy Lied was another hit, as was 1976's The Royal Scam, which continued in the vein of its predecessor. On 1977's Aja, Steely Dan's sound became more polished and jazzy, as they hired jazz fusion artists like Wayne Shorter, Lee Ritenour, and the Crusaders as support. Aja became their biggest hit, reaching the Top Five within three weeks of release and becoming one of the first albums to be certified platinum. Aja also gained the respect of many jazz musicians, as evidenced by Woody Herman recording an album of Becker/Fagen songs in 1978.

Following the release of Aja, ABC was bought out by MCA Records, resulting in a contractual dispute with the label that delayed until 1980 the release of their follow-up album. During the interim, the group had a hit with the theme song for the film FM in 1978. Steely Dan finally released Gaucho, the follow-up to Aja, in late 1980, and it became another Top Ten hit for the group. During the summer of 1981, Becker and Fagen announced that they were parting ways. The following year, Fagen released his solo debut, The Nightfly, which became a critical and commercial hit.

Fagen didn't record another album until 1993, when he reunited with Becker, who produced Kamakiriad. The album was promoted by the first Steely Dan tour in nearly 20 years, and while the record failed to sell, the concerts were very popular. In 1994, Becker released his solo debut, 11 Tracks of Whack, which was produced by Fagen. The following year, Steely Dan mounted another reunion tour, and in early 2000 the duo issued Two Against Nature, their first new studio album in two decades. It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Steely Dan followed it in 2003 with Everything Must Go. Fagen's solo album Morph the Cat was released in 2006, and Becker released Circus Money in 2008 as Steely Dan embarked on another tour. In September 2017, it was announced that Becker had died in Maui, Hawaii. He was 67 years old.

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1972 - Can't Buy A Thrill
01 Do It Again
02 Dirty Work
03 Kings
04 Midnite Cruiser
05 Only A Fool Would Say That
06 Reelin' In The Years
07 Fire In The Hole
08 Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
09 Change Of The Guard
10 Turn That Heartbeat Over Again

1973 - Countdown To Ecstasy
01 Bodhisattva
02 Razor Boy
03 The Boston Rag
04 Your Gold Teeth
05 Show Biz Kids
06 My Old School
07 Pearl Of The Quarter
08 King Of The World

1974 - Pretzel Logic
01 Rikki Don't Lose That Number
02 Night by Night
03 Any Major Dude Will Tell You
04 Barrytown
05 East St. Louis Toodle-oo
06 Parker's Band
07 Through with Buzz
08 Pretzel Logic
09 With a Gun
10 Charlie Freak
11 Monkey in Your Soul

1975 - Katy Lied
01 Black Friday
02 Bad Sneakers
03 Rose Darling
04 Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
05 Doctor Wu
06 Everyone's Gone To The Movies
07 Your Gold Teeth II
08 Chain Lightning
09 Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
10 Throw Back The Little Ones

1976 - Royal Scam
01 Kid Charlemagne
02 The Caves Of Altamira
03 Don't Take Me Alive
04 Sign In Stranger
05 The Fez
06 Green Earrings
07 Haitian Divorce
08 Everything You Did
09 The Royal Scam

1977 - Aja
01 Black Cow
02 Aja
03 Deacon Blues
04 Peg
05 Home At Last
06 I Got The News
07 Josie