Because when you start to get older, you really are fighting nature all the time. I LOVE Steely Dan: I feel "Citizen Steely Dan" is one of the greatest box sets ever released (along with Dan charter member Donald Fagen's "Cheap Christmas" box of his solo material). (I wonder if she ever figured out who 'Retha Franklin is.) Fagen and Becker's writing is some of the best they have done, the arrangements are stellar, and the performances by the gathered players are fully up to Steely Dan standards. Two Against Nature is the eighth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan. 2. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. It sounds like Steely Dan, but that touch of genius their records had in the 1970s is missing. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. 5:53. more. 2000 Preview SONG TIME Gaslighting Abbie. If you are a Steely Dan fan like me, you will not want to miss seeing this DVD. Steely Dan (page 1) Rikki Don’t Lose That Number “It wasn’t written for Rickie Lee Jones. [2] Writing in March 2000 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau applauded the music as an excellent "rock comeback" and a "jumpier and snappier, sourer and trickier and less soothing" iteration of the jazz pop featured on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja, describing it as "postfunk". Two Against Nature, indeed. What A Shame About Me. User Ratings (0) Your Rating. 『トゥー・アゲインスト・ネイチャー』（Two Against Nature）は、スティーリー・ダンの8番目のアルバム。2000年にジャイアント・レコードより発表された。 To that end, Two Against Nature is a headlong jump down the rabbit hole, visioned with stunning musical clarity, yet with a degree of elliptical cerebral-ism that’s non-circular, meaning again, that while Two Against Nature is another concoction of limitless session players, their next album Everything Must Go will turn the tables, being overtly all about what the core of Steely Dan can do on their own. [2], A critical success, Two Against Nature won the group four Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (for the single "Cousin Dupree"). The Grammy went to Steely Dan, for Two Against Nature— the comeback album that consummated the duo’s unlikely second wind in the early 2000s. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2012. Billboard 200 chart and sold more than one million copies,[3] earning a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Please try again. The album marked the first Steely Dan studio album in 20 years, following 1980's… read more Since Steely Dan fans went two decades without Read More. Well I Finally Got My Steely Dan Aja Album And The Reason I Don't Buy It In A CD Format Is Because With A Classic Like This Has To Be In Vinyl Format As To Hear It The Way It Was Meant To Be Heard::: And I'm Sure I Speak For All The Rest Of The Audiophiles Out There Vinyl Is The True Sound Period And So I Give It FIVE STARS For The Way It Sounds And The Condition Of The Record!!!!!!! Horn arrangements: Walter Becker (1), Donald Fagen (1, 2, 4-6), Electric piano technician: Edd Kolakowski, This page was last edited on 6 December 2020, at 04:42. It was released on February 29, 2000, and marked Steely Dan’s first studio album for Warner Bros. Records. A half-decade after their concert comeback and a mere 19 years after Gaucho seemingly closed out their recording career, the jazz-pop conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deliberately dropped back into a recording landscape where they weren't so much seasoned vets as alien ambassadors. Unbelievably, Fagen and Becker have lost none of their taste or technical expertise. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Album by Steely Dan 9 songs - 2008. The last one being Gaucho from 1980. Add to Custom List. Play Album. Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2016, Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019. I feel TAN won the album of the year at the Grammy Awards as more of a reward for an amazing body of work from 1972 - 1980, not the boring drivel found here. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2020. this is top notch. Steely Dan were always ahead of the curve, and it was gratifying to see that little had changed twenty years after their last studio release. Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019. Two Against Nature is the eight studio album from US pop/ rock act Steely Dan and it´s also the first Steely Dan studio album in twenty years. Gaslighting Abbie. Never so much a band as the slyly crafted specter of one, Steely Dan's mid-1990s "return" to live performance was as surprising as it was perverse. Play What A Shame About Me. I say "Hey thirty-nine" because the girl immortalized in the song "Hey Nineteen" would be 39 when this album was released, in the year 2000. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001. Steely Dan perform live before a small audience in an intimate setting. [5] A dissenting view came from Pitchfork reviewer Brent DiCrescenzo, who dismissed the songs as "lengthy, indistinguishable" and "glossy bop-pop" while suggesting Steely Dan lack "soul". “Reelin’ in the Years” (from 1972’s Can’t Buy a Thrill) The most straightforward rock’n’roll song Steely … For these awards, the band was in competition with younger, more popular recording acts such as NSYNC, Britney Spears, Radiohead, Beck, and Eminem. It still won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. … It still won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Musicwise not much has happened since Gaucho. Every previous original studio album from the duo has been certified gold or platinum. For the 2020 holiday season, returnable items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2021. 8 . Every previous original studio album from the duo has been certified gold or platinum. After reviving Steely Dan for a string of concerts in the mid-Nineties, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker officially ended their twenty-year hiatus in 2000, with the release of Two Against Nature. The jewel case was slightly cracked but acceptable- I've had brand new disks arrive with cracked cases! Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. 1. Steely Dan is an American rock band consisting of core members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. AllMusic Rating. 5:17 PREVIEW Two Against Nature. The two are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, and Two Against Nature is the first new studio album in 20 years from Steely Dan. When Steely Dan released Two Against Nature on a leap year’s February 29, exactly twenty years ago (then their first album in two decades), critics instantly adored it. radio. Steely Dan. Add to My Collection. (3/01) Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2017. The two are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, and Two Against Nature is the first new studio album in 20 years from Steely Dan. Unable to add item to List. 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It arrived much earlier that indicated and was well packed. Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band which formed in 1972. if your a steely dan fan I would buy this. There is none of that greatness to be found here. Few artists can do basically what they were doing 20 years before and make it sound relevant, but Fagen & Becker have done so. Less concerned with melodic hooks than a canny sophistication of mood and manner, Becker and Fagen never let a trite melody get in the way of a good story, whether their protagonists are plotting some nefarious obliquity ("Gaslighting Abby"), Southern-fried incest (the deliciously funky "Cousin DuPree"), or bleakly confronting dashed expectations ("What a Shame About Me"). 5:17. more. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Start Station. It will be only natural for Two Against Nature to catapult Steely Dan back to the top. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2020. 5:53 PREVIEW What a Shame About Me. 6:17 PREVIEW Janie Runaway. "Two Against Nature" was released in 2000 and was Steely Dan's first album in 20 years. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. [4], Two Against Nature was met with both commercial and critical success. Needless to say, Steely Dan's elliptical character studies set to yacht rock sleaze didn't speak to disaffected American youth the way, say, The Marshall Mathers LP did. The lengthy, indistinguishable tracks could pass for a Daniel Lanois-produced collaboration between the Dave Matthews Band … They'd previously toured only once, round about the era of Watergate, pet rocks, and Shaft. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I bought Pretzel Logic in 1974 and Steely Dan was one of my favorite 1970s bands. Certified Platinum by the RIAA. Steely Dan ‎– Two Against Nature . All tracks are written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Their first studio album in 20 years, it was recorded from 1997 to 1999 and released on February 29, 2000, by Warner Bros. Records. "Two Against Nature" was released in 2000 and was Steely Dan's first album in 20 years. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." They perform songs from their latest album "Two Against Nature" and also some of their greatest hits such as "FM" and "Peg". There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I'm glad I did, as I didn't like it at first. I have been playing their music for decades. Buying this second hand, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 13, 2016. Metacritic Music Reviews, Two Against Nature by Steely Dan, The duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen return after a 20-year hiatus, with this Grammy-winning … Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. RIP Butcus (Bass Sax) and Mr Laws (Drums). According to Stereogum writer Zach Schonfeld, Steely Dan's success at the Grammys represented a "revenge of the [baby] boomers" and contributed to resentment among younger listeners toward the band: "[T]he sight of two smug jazz-rock nerds collecting their Grammy from Stevie Wonder as Radiohead and Beck went home nearly empty-handed—helps explain why so many Gen X-ers and old millennials grew up loathing both Steely Dan and the Grammys in equal measure. All in all one of the best Dan albums I own. Two Against Nature. Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019. Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated and well-priced products. The album won the group four Grammy Awards thusly: This great new collection contains all 9 songs from this critically acclaimed, long-awaited new release their first new studio album in two decades! Donald Fagen and Walter Becker on the recent Steely Dan tour.Photo: Mick Hutson / Redferns p class="introtext">When Steely Dan ended a 20-year hiatus with 2000's Two Against Nature, they took full advantage of today's digital recording tools. [15] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Sure, Steely Dan are a decade or two late in delivering Two Against Nature, their follow-up to 1980’s Gaucho. Wikipedia: Two Against Nature is the eighth studio album by Steely Dan. Dan's second coming.....and it's good....!! Records. … It was just a pop song.”Walter Becker (416) Two Against Nature “We made it the title because we thought it was descriptive of our condition at the present time. Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2016. Please try again. Steely Dan Two Against Nature Two Against Nature Bad news breaking in 18A Missy's kitty turn inside out she say Spider queen demon and that whole crew Across the lobby the wicker wing chair flew All the nice people those goodly souls Quaking in their respective hidey-holes Everyone's wasted in this gruesome dream Add to that list Two Against Nature. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Commercially, it peaked at number six on the U.S. But by no means does the music sound aged. Fortunately, Two Against Nature is as seductive and alluring as the best of Steely Dan's later … But time may finally be on the side of rock’s most illustrious music geeks. Steely Dan Two Against Nature . Release Date 28 February 2000 Two Against Nature is an album by Steely Dan, released in 2000. Play Gaslighting Abbie. The tack is instantly familiar: a musical/lyrical reconciliation of Monk and Newman, with familiar harmonic flourishes, nimble studio chops, and an icy, world-class cool, as willfully insulated from hip-hop and techno as it was from disco and Top 40. Sold by RapidPrimePros and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Thematically, he found it unified by fictitious yet revelatory accounts of "dirty old men" seeking "validation" and "excitement" in their sex lives, which are "full of heady infatuations and random acts of cruelty, self-interest and self-hate, vicious cycles blowing hot and cold", all conveying "the urgency of attraction". Fully scored including all lyrics, instrumental sections, slash chords and chord extensions. Great musicians, great arrangements, great engineering, production and mixing.The CD has very little noticable compression to my ears. Steely Dan's new release Two Against Nature, their first studio album of new material in twenty years, is absolutely first rate. Engineers: Phil Burnett, Per-Christian Nielsen, Johan Edlund, Anthony Gorman, Roger Nichols, Ken Ross, Dave Russell, Jay A. Ryan, Assistants: Suzy Barrows, Reaann Zschokke. 3. -Jerry McCulley. Buying this second hand, finding a CD player, which was not easy, and playing it on my PC, with the CD drive, was the best way to listen to these legends of groove....had to get the DVD too...which I found in a boot sale...........bargain..........As this had classic Steely Dan and band interviews. Start Station. 3. I bought Pretzel Logic in 1974 and Steely Dan was one of my favorite 1970s bands. (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). I've held back for over a year before reviewing 2AN. 4. Their first studio album in 20 years, it was recorded from 1997 to 1999[1] and released on February 29, 2000, by Warner Bros. Unbelievably good. would recommend. 2. "[17], Steely Dan's supporting tour of North America, Europe, and Japan was equally successful, encouraging them to record the 2003 album Everything Must Go.[15]. It's a grower imo but it holds all the Steely Dan excellence. [16] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic appreciated the "sharp humor" in the lyrics, but was especially impressed by the music's "depth and character", as he observed "nearly endless permutations within their signature sound". Label: BMG ‎– BVCG-21003, Giant Records ‎– 74321-62190-2 The album picks up exactly where Gaucho left off. The disk and insert were in good condition and the disk plays perfectly well. Dan fans rejoice! It sounds like Steely Dan, but that touch of genius their records had in the 1970s is missing. 1. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It lacks the emotion and edgey quality of 'The Royal Scam' (My fave SD album) but it's hard to match one of the best albums ever made. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It will be only natural for Two Against Nature to catapult Steely Dan back to the top. Play Two Against Nature. The band was formed by Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) and Walter Becker (guitar, bass), who met in 1967 while both attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and began a songwriting partnership shortly thereafter. This was an order for a used CD. 4:09 PREVIEW Almost Gothic. The release of Two Against Nature is a major musical event. Two Against Nature is the eighth studio album by American rock band Steely Dan. 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