Gaucho

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Gaucho
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Artist: Steely Dan
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
  1. Babylon Sisters
  2. Hey Nineteen
  3. Glamour Profession
  4. Gaucho
  5. Time Out Of Mind
  6. My Rival
  7. Third World Man

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Free Music Review: Steely Dan's Weakest Album
Hit: 2 Stars

From their debut album "Can't Buy a Thrill" to their incredible work with "Aja," Steely Dan had been defining itself as a very talented, innovative group with a unique flavor. Unfortunately, though every album before it had been excellent, Gaucho just doesn't live up to the Steely Dan pedigree.

Gaucho certainly has its own flavor, which is readily recognizable within the first few tracks. "Babylon Sisters" is a great start and a well-known hit. "Hey Nineteen" is a fairly mediocre (albeit popular) song, and "Glamour Profession" is interesting, though not necessarily great. "Gaucho" is a very cheesy gospel-roots song that has a grating chorus, and the final two songs on the album, "My Rival" and "Third World Man," are downright horrific. The real highlight of the album is the track "Time Out of Mind," a really catchy and subtle piece that gets everything right, from the laid-back emotion to the keyboard riffs.

There is a lot of apparent experimentation going on with many of the tracks on this album. It's really too bad that there are only seven of them, then, since so many of them are just not worth listening to. Your best bet is to download "Babylon Sisters" and "Time Out of Mind" and skip the rest of the album. Though it is nice to see Steely Dan try to be different all the time, they were bound to get something wrong.

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The multiplatinum success of Aja made Steely Dan, the musical conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a household name. But that prosperity came bundled with a fateful triple-whammy for rock's dyspeptic duo: unrealistic commercial expectations, a critical backlash spawned by punk's nascent mewling, and the long-simmering meltdown of their artistic partnership. But the cool, perfect sheen of 1980's Gaucho tipped its hand to none of it. Ironically, those fashion victims who sniffed up their sleeves at Don and Walt's decadence-tinged Me Decade manifesto couldn't have had a clue that just maybe Gaucho's typically oblique protagonists had uncomfortably blurred from the third-person to the first this time 'round. At least that's what Becker and Fagen hint at in their smart-assed notes to this digitally remastered, definitive edition (all original artwork and printed lyrics restored) of the final album before their 20-year hiatus. Pristine and sonically polished (three years and seven studios worth), time has served Gaucho well. Even its sense of laconic detachment now seems but a logical bridge to the two-decade removed Dan of Two Against Nature. To their credit, Becker and Fagen didn't trash the first half of Steely Dan's legacy on Gaucho, they simply burnished it to oblivion. -Jerry McCulley

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