Steely Dan - Katy Lied
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Artist: Steely DanBrand: STEELY DAN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Black Friday
- Bad Sneakers
- Rose Darling
- Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
- Doctor Wu
- Everyone's Gone to the Movies
- Your Gold Teeth, Pt. 2
- Chain Lightning
- Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
- Throw Back the Little Ones
Music reviews of Katy Lied
Music Review: The greatest tragedy of the decade
Rating: 3 Stars
Katy Lied could have been the greatest album that Steely Dan ever recorded. After all, it represented a considerable refinement over Pretzel Logic in terms of songwriting. "Bad Sneakers", "Rose Darling", the fabulous "Doctor Wu" are standouts, and the musicianship is typically top-notch. The songs are more interesting melodically and lyrically than Pretzel Logic without any trace of the self-conscious brilliance that (slightly, IMO) marred Aja and totally ruined Gaucho. BUT (there's always a but)...
The sound on this album just doesn't sparkle. A faulty noise reduction system caused a problem during the mastering process which led to the cymbal sounds becoming slightly clipped. This doesn't sound like the end of the world but when you listen to it alongside the Royal Scam the difference is plain. In the latter the drums lend every track a sense of urgency and bite which is noticeably absent when listening to Katy Lied. Certainly on Katy Lied the songs are generally a little more pastoral and reflective than the cynical anger of the Royal Scam, but this doesn't account for the way I feel when I'm listening to this album nowadays. It just feels a bit limp and uninspired. I'm actually bored by it.
Successive masters have to a certain extent improved matters, but as yet nobody has managed to recapture what the album should have been. Of course despite my reservations regarding the sound quality some tracks are indispensible, such as those I mention above. But others sound like filler, and I don't think the songwriting is at fault. On a highly melodic track like "Doctor Wu" you can get away with a sub-standard drum track, but "Chain Lightning" and "Black Friday" need the song to motor along. Listen to "The Fez" on the Royal Scam album- not everyone's favorite but it stands up a lot better than many on this album on the strength of its groove alone.
We Dan fans will already have this album, so we can but hope for a remaster which makes this sound like it should have done back in the Seventies when some hapless individual ruined the original master. In the meantime those of you trying to find out what its all about would be better with "Pretzel Logic" if you prefer a more pop-song sound or "Royal Scam" for the more biting, jazzier sound of Becker & Fagen.
Description of Katy Lied
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.The last of the truly classic first four Steely Dan albums, the 1975 Katy Lied also sounds like the best. While retaining a solid rock foundation, the music finds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen engaging their jazz influences more successfully than ever; Fagen's piano fills alone are some of the most impressive music laid to tape in the '70s. The songs, too, rate with the team's very best, whether coolly anticipating global financial collapse ("Black Friday"), celebrating the legacy of a mob-hit victim ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), or letting the Dan's guard down with a pained three-minute survey of life on Earth ("Any World [That I'm Welcome To]"). --Rickey Wright
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