Ajawas cool, relaxed, and controlled; it sounded deceptively easy. Its follow-up,Gaucho, while sonically similar, is its polar opposite: a precise and studied record, where all of the seams show.Gauchoessentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop ofAja, ...more
Adrian Denning.co.uk
Steely Dan take three years to follow up the acclaimed 'Aja' yet rather uneasily enter the nineteen eighties. This would be the last Steely Dan album until a reunion in the late nineties. The lyrics here are the usual Steely Dan lyrics, the music on ...more
The Daily Vault Album Reviews
After releasing undoubtedly their best album in 1977 withAja, the question was how Steely Dan would top that effort. Aside from a fight with MCA Records, who acquired the band's label at the time, ABC, and precluded them from releasing any new ...more
starling.rinet
Track listing: 1) Babylon Sisters ; 2) Hey Nineteen ; 3) Glamour Profession; 4) Gaucho; 5) Time Out Of Mind; 6) My Rival; 7) Third World Man. The last Steely Dan album before a short twenty-year pause, Gaucho is definitely not an easy listen - ...more
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