Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but throughout their catalog, seem to be ...

Steely Dan didn't often put a foot wrong during their career, but there was one early song that Donald Fagen was reluctant to have in their discography.

On their third album, Steely Dan got a little weirder, funnier, and more obscure. Pretzel Logic, released in 1974, is way out there much of the time, making the moments when Donald Fagen and Walter ...

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