Everything Must Go
- Steely Dan
- Band Name: Steely Dan
- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Jun 10, 2003
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90It's a record to get lost in, one that constantly surprises with its apparently infinite number of hidden harmonies and wry asides.
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Offering lyrical nervousness and musical Novocain in equal shots, it's another installment of Chicken Soup for the Materialistic, Mildly Perverse, Apocalypse-Dreading Soul. [13 Jun 2003, p.92]
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80Everything Must Go is another great Steely Dan album, a hardy inclusion to their splendid canon.
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80Their signature tension between black blues gestures adn white boy harmonies has never been more vividly exploited than here. It'll keep you busy for months. [Jun 2003, p.95]
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80There's a slight tiredness about the new album. It's too laid back to grab the attention, which must scan closer for clues. [Jul 2003, p.116]
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80Though their restraint can be alienating, Steely Dan sound hungry, relevant and full of ideas. [#17, p.147]
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Fagen and Becker perfected their airless craftsmanship years ago, and it works as well now as ever.
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70What this is is a collection of subversively jazzy tunes which delights in its own cleverness (lyrical and otherwise), and which probably finds its closest companion -- among previous Steely Dan albums -- in Pretzel Logic.
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There's nothing that betrays their high standards of craft, but, on a whole, the songs are neither as hooky nor as resonant as the ones unveiled on its predecessor.
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60A familiar blend of clipped funk, jazz nuances and airy musings. [Jul 2003, p.113]
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So as with Aja -- the duo's biggest and very nearly emptiest record -- its value ultimately reduces to textured dimensionality and tasty licks.
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58Plodding jazz-rock tunes that are 30 years old at this point.
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Everything Must Go is a profound disappointment.
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JulianC.9
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Gord10Brilliant album. How something so rich and textured can also sound so effortless is what makes these guys geniuses.
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