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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 32 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 28 out of 32
  2. Negative: 2 out of 32

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  1. Jun 20, 2018
    6
    Like "Two Against Nature", "Everything Must Go" is decent if your talking about music technicians but in terms of quality songwriting, this is a million miles away from their 70's peak. Not much to remember from 40 minutes plus of music. Opening track "The Last Mall" and "Slang of Ages" are standout tracks.
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71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Blender
    80
    Though their restraint can be alienating, Steely Dan sound hungry, relevant and full of ideas. [#17, p.147]
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    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]
  3. What 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.