Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
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Artist: Steely DanBrand: STEELY DAN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Bodhisattva
- Razor Boy
- The Boston Rag
- Your Gold Teeth
- Show Biz Kids
- My Old School
- Pearl Of The Quarter
- King Of The World
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Free Music Review: When Steely Dan was a Group, not a Project
Hit: 4 Stars
Although a commercial failure as the follow up to "Can't Buy a Thrill", "Countdown to Ecstacy" is, to me, the only album where Steely Dan was more than a project for Walter Becker and Donald Fagan. Later albums would produce bigger hits and sell better as Becker and Fagan brought in the best studio musicians of the day, but those albums lack a cohesive theme and feel disjointed when viewed as a whole.
"Countdown" is a great album because it represents 5 guys working together as a unit to produce great music.
Countdown To Ecstasy Poster
\NThe only element of sophomore slump in Steely Dan's second album was the disappointing sales response upon its initial release in 1974. Musically, Countdown to Ecstasy is even stronger than the Dan's terrific debut, pushing the musical envelope with more complex jazz harmonies and intricate time signatures, and carrying their lyrics into even more shadowy realms peppered with sci-fi imagery and street-level slang. The songs are stunning, from the opening blast of "Boddhisattva," a Zen boogie fueled by Denny Dias's and Jeff Baxter's angular, bopping guitars, to the postnuclear apocalypse of "King of the World." In between, they deliver the one-two punch of "Show Biz Kids," with its perfect snapshot of affluent decadence, and "My Old School," in which college daze is remembered through a collision of staccato guitar and blazing horns. --Sam Sutherland
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