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Katy Lied
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: STEELY DAN
EAN: 0008811191627
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Mca
Manufacturer: Mca
MPN: 008811191627
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Studio: Mca
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Editorial Review:
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The last of the truly classic first four Steely Dan albums, the 1975 Katy Lied also sounds like the best. While retaining a solid rock foundation, the music finds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen engaging their jazz influences more successfully than ever; Fagen's piano fills alone are some of the most impressive music laid to tape in the '70s. The songs, too, rate with the team's very best, whether coolly anticipating global financial collapse ("Black Friday"), celebrating the legacy of a mob-hit victim ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), or letting the Dan's guard down with a pained three-minute survey of life on Earth ("Any World [That I'm Welcome To]"). --Rickey Wright
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A glittering gem with shadows around it
If you appreciate the precision, beauty, incisiveness, and atmosphere Steely Dan conjures, this is for you. Albums don't get any finer than this.
A skilled actor knows that tears withheld are far more poignant than buckets cried, and this work shows the same beautiful, painful restraint. Each track can stand alone in this dark short-story collection, but when this CD is viewed as a whole, you're immersed in Steely Dan's parallel world of the singular loner. The instrumentals are perfect, ... Read More
Rating: - Their Best
Steely Dan never made a bad album/CD, period. This is their best. If just for the bass riff in Gold Teeth, you need this CD. The level of muscianship has never been surpassed. The level of sophistication and insight is in a class by itself. The unbelievable quest for perfection that these two guys were on is unique in the pop music world, and I feel that the pinacle was Katy Lied. You can never get tired of this CD, it is timeless and absolutely amazing.
Rating:  - #1?!
Back in 2002 it was something of a shock to me when Joe S. Harrington listed this album as number one on his Top 100 albums, and many people to whom I have recommended that brilliantly-written list have had the same opinion.
It is true that Steely Dan were, before the overrated Aja and Gaucho, an exceptionally consistent band. Their first five albums set a standard for cerebral lyricism and storytelling that has never been equalled in the popular music canon, and they could not only write with ... Read More
Rating: - Fabulous album
"Bad Sneakers" and "Doctor Wu" are definitely my favorite tracks in this fabulous album. A Steely Dan classic...
Rating: - Yet another masterpiece from Steely Dan
I should probably start by saying that there are no bad songs on Katy Lied (that's probably what you wanted to know, anyway). In fact, everything here is really good. It's one of those albums where even the weakest tracks would be the standouts on just about any other record. Musically, it sees the Dan taking their signature mixture of jazz, pop, R&B, rock `n' roll, and blues to its absolute zenith. The compositions combine complexity and accessibility in much the same way that the music on Steely Dan's previous ... Read More
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