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Gaucho

by Steely Dan

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  • All Time
    of 455,611
    8,653
  • 2000's
    of 265,875
    1,261
  • 2007
    of 3,724
    55
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 2.7190 Gaucho is ranked overall as 2.7190 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 2.9025 Gaucho has an avg. critic score of 2.9025 out of 4 stars

Gaucho Album Reviews

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The result of slowing down and possibly too much doping up, Gaucho mirrors its still-life cover art with precision-made songs that sound bloodless. "Hey Nineteen" and "Time Out Of Mind" became major hits, but the album's repetitious rhythms and taut emotional palette is oh-so cold. ...more
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Aja was 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. Gaucho essentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop of Aja, but with none of that record's dark, seductive romance or elegant aura. ...more
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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...read the complete review at Adrian Denning.co.uk
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