Steely Dan - Gaucho
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Artist: Steely DanBrand: STEELY DAN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Babylon Sisters
- Hey Nineteen
- Glamour Profession
- Gaucho
- Time out of Mind
- My Rival
- Third World Man
Music reviews of Gaucho
Music Review: Perfect work of art
Rating: 5 Stars
I feel almost silly and kind of lame-o for writing a review for this album. Why should this album need another great review? But somehow, I feel compelled to add my two cents. I am a Steely Dan geek, a fanatic! This is why I can't understand how anyone who is even remotely familiar with this superb band can give this album anything less than the coveted 5-star amazon review. This is not only Steely Dan at their absolute pinnacle, it is one of the greatest works of art of all time. I have to quote another reviewer who summed up my feelings best.........
"Gaucho is filled with songs surrounding the seamy underside of society's high rollers. It reveals a world seen through the haze of drugs and despair. It's a cathartic aural experience. If you haven't heard this album, you haven't experienced the full potential of music and the human imagination."
Damn, I wish I had written that! But this is the most perfect summation of this brilliant album. The main thing I would draw attention to is the absolute beauty and tranquility that this album evokes. It's a desperate and romantic tranquility, that seeps in while you are listening and won't let go. It goes without saying that, being a Steely Dan album, the playing and production are perfect; beyond that, this album exudes an aura of desperate, cool, and sublime peace. Comparing this album to Aja, or to any other Steely Dan album is so silly, and futile. I won't get into the whole "song structure" BS. Again, being a Steely Dan album, the quality of the songs is taken for granted.
You see, this is why I didn't want to write a review. This review sucks because I can't write a review that will adequately do justice to this superb, mind blowing cd.
Description of Gaucho
No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-OCT-2000
The multiplatinum success of Aja made Steely Dan, the musical conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a household name. But that prosperity came bundled with a fateful triple-whammy for rock's dyspeptic duo: unrealistic commercial expectations, a critical backlash spawned by punk's nascent mewling, and the long-simmering meltdown of their artistic partnership. But the cool, perfect sheen of 1980's Gaucho tipped its hand to none of it. Ironically, those fashion victims who sniffed up their sleeves at Don and Walt's decadence-tinged Me Decade manifesto couldn't have had a clue that just maybe Gaucho's typically oblique protagonists had uncomfortably blurred from the third-person to the first this time 'round. At least that's what Becker and Fagen hint at in their smart-assed notes to this digitally remastered, definitive edition (all original artwork and printed lyrics restored) of the final album before their 20-year hiatus. Pristine and sonically polished (three years and seven studios worth), time has served Gaucho well. Even its sense of laconic detachment now seems but a logical bridge to the two-decade removed Dan of Two Against Nature. To their credit, Becker and Fagen didn't trash the first half of Steely Dan's legacy on Gaucho, they simply burnished it to oblivion. -Jerry McCulley
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