Aja

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Best Albums of the 1970s (201 items)
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Álbumes Favoritos / Favourite albums of all time (191 items)
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Curse of the Music Diary (2025) (906 items)
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Apple Music's 100 Best Albums (100 items)
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Description: History gives Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen the last, hearty laugh on this, the crown jewel in their remarkable canon of '70s Mensa pop. Sneaking onto the charts a half-decade earlier with sinuous, jazz-inflected "rock," the dysfunctional duo's acerbic, anti-heroic visions had been critically lauded for their band identity and killer guitar riffs, then promptly challenged when the two songwriters retired from the road, dissolved any formal band lineup, and used the studio as laboratory. Aja carried the added indignity of its increased focus on sophisticated jazz models and musicianship, which carried the ... (more)

Manufacturer: ABC Records
Release date: 26 September 1977
EAN: 0076741721429 UPC: 076741721429

Tags: 1977 (1), LP (1), Jazz Rock (1), Steely Dan (1), American Rock (1)

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Curse of the Music Diary (2025) (906 music items)

"16.2. I belong to a generation that doesn't usually bother with this kind of stuff. Steely Dan is very, very old school rock music, and thus also very tame. "