Genres: Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Jazz-Rock, Album Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1972 in Los Angeles, CA
Charlie Parker, The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Ray Charles, Stan Kenton, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, Horace Silver, Keith Jarrett, Bob Dorough, Mose Allison, Jay & the Americans, Lenny Bruce Randy Newman, Boz Scaggs, Pablo Cruise, Elton John, Bliss Band, Fleetwood Mac, Toy Matinee, 10cc, Paul Simon, Chicago, Todd Rundgren, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Billy Joel, The Tubes, Larry Carlton, The Doobie Brothers, Deacon Blue The Beauty Room, Matthew Larkin Cassell, Prefab Sprout, Peter Cincotti, Danny Wilson, American Music Club, The Gok, moe., Kem, N.E.R.D., Everything But the Girl, Deacon Blue, Homunculus, China Crisis, Uncle Sammy, Blueberry, Heavy Merge, Billy Gewin, Antsy McClain |  |
Most rock & roll bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in garages and clubs around their hometown. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions. Becker and Fagen never truly enjoyed rock -- with their ironic humor and cryptic lyrics, their eclectic body of work shows some debt to Bob Dylan -- preferring jazz, traditional pop, blues, and R&B. Steely Dan created a sophisticated, distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, and a devotion to the recording studio. With producer Gary Katz, Becker and Fagen gradually changed Steely Dan from a performing band to a studio project, hiring professional musicians to record their compositions.
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Release: 2009
Label: Universal Distribution
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Release: June 24, 2008
Label: Immortal
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