Billboard 200 chart on its ways to a Platinum certification. A critical and commercial success, it took home four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (for the single "Cousin Dupree") and peaked at No. The release of 2000's Two Against Nature was a major musical event, the first Steely Dan studio album of all-new material in two decades. Filled with topline musicianship, clever and subversive wordplay, ironic humor, genius arrangements, and pop hits that outshone the Top 40 of its day, their records, which were as sophisticated and cerebral as they were inscrutable, were stylistically diverse, melding their love of jazz with rock, blues, and impeccable pop songcraft.
Led by the songwriting and virtuoso musical duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released an extraordinary run of seven albums on ABC Records and MCA Records from 1972 through 1980. Quintessentially Steely Dan.Newly Remastered from the Original Analog Tape by Bernie Grundman Direct to DSD 9 tracks, some a little cooler, funkier or jazzier than others.and all top-form. These OGs flex their trademark dark wit like it never went out of style.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000"., 4 stars out of 5 - ".a demanding slice of music, brilliantly out of s appeal is slow-burning and ultimately satisfying: enough to keep the faithful happy for another 20 years.", 7 out of 10 - ".exquisite.still hermetically sealed in an exclusive world where the pursuit of the immaculate 'chop' is paramount, they are the only men in history to make the concept of the cerebral muso remotely tantalising.", 3.5 stars out of 5 - ".The album is Steely Dan defined.mixing world-class chops and jazzy postgraduates soul sound with some wonderful, vague storytelling.stunning musical clarity.showcasing what Steely Dan's core twosome can do.", ".Sharp, sleek, sophisticated, more going on than a couple of spins can take in and seductive enough to keep drawing you back.
5 Stars Out of 5-".Two Against Nature Is the Very Best Thing Steely Dan Have Ever Done.", ".The core elements are unchanged: white-hot chops, black humor, and a flair for the cryptic.their ensemble sound remains sharp and inimitable.proves that you still 'can' buy a thrill.", ".musically they are in their prime.this is the only band that truly understands how James Brown's scratchy grooves and the Eagles' lite-rockin' appeal aren't mutually exclusive.
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