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Steely Dan — Aja
album review

BEST SONGS:
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"Home At Last"
"Black Cow"
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"I Got The News"

 
 
GRINNING PLANET ALBUM REVIEW
 
  Aja – Steely Dan
 
 

LYRICS FROM "I GOT THE NEWS"
How was I to know
About the warm soulful secret
You been keepin' for years?
I got the news...

  album cover for Aja, by Steely Dan


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Album Review: If you somehow missed the news that the album Aja is Steely Dan's finest effort, I'm hear to say it plainly: It is without question their topper. Aja is a masterpiece of studiocraft, with production qualities to please the pickiest audiophile, and with songwriting and playing so good that they propelled Steely Dan into the stratosphere of rock stardom in the late 1970s. Most of the songs got much radio play over the next decades, including the monster hits "Josie" and "Deacon Blues." The crowning achievement of Aja is the title track—an 8-minute epic that transports you to a festive garden party in some far-off Asian land. "Home at Last," another excellent song, transforms the problems of a modern relationship into a Homeric tale. "Black Cow," "Peg" and "I Got the News"—all fine songs in their own right—round out the set. Aja was the album where Steely Dan perfected the slick jazz-rock sound they had been moving toward, and because their creative juices were peaking at the time, the result was a set of seven songs that is nearly without flaw.

 

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