Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album)

Everything Must Go
Studio album by Steely Dan
Released June 10, 2003
Recorded 2001 - 2003; at Sear Sound (NYC), Skyline Studios (NYC), River Sound (NYC), Hyperbolic Sound (Maui), Bearsville Studios (Bearsville); mixed at Presence Studios (Weston, CT);[1] mastered at Sony Music[2]
Genre Jazz rock
Length 42:24
Label Reprise
Producer Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
Steely Dan chronology
Two Against Nature
(2000)		 Everything Must Go
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
BBC Music(positive)[5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[6]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[7]
The Guardian[8]
Mojo[9]
New York Times(positive)[10]
PopMatters[11]
Q[12]
Rolling Stone[13]
Slate(positive)[14]
Sputnikmusic[15]
Uncut[16]

Everything Must Go is the ninth and final studio album by American rock group Steely Dan. It was released on June 10, 2003, by Reprise Records, and was the band's second album following their 20-year studio hiatus spanning 1980 through 2000, when they released Two Against Nature.

Background

Everything Must Go was a departure from their previous release in that the arrangements were scaled back, the solos were kept tighter, and the album had a more overall live feel. It is also the only time that Walter Becker performed lead vocals on an official Steely Dan studio recording ("Slang of Ages"). It also featured Becker and Fagen as instrumentalists much more than some of their previous releases, especially their late 1970s work. Becker played bass on every song as well as contributing several of the guitar solos, and Fagen provided most of the keyboard work as well as the synthesizer solos.

"Godwhacker" developed from a lyric Fagen wrote a few days after his mother died of Alzheimer's. "It's about an elite squad of assassins whose sole assignment is to find a way into heaven and take out God", he later explained. "If the Deity actually existed, what sane person wouldn't consider this to be justifiable homicide?"[17]

Reviews

Everything Must Go received mixed reviews upon release. During a concert at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on July 8, 2011, Donald Fagen said that he felt the album was "underrated".[18]

Releases

Everything Must Go was also released as a DVD-audio disc with a multichannel mix.

A special two-disc edition of Everything Must Go (one CD, one DVD) was released. The DVD, 'Steely Dan Confessions', follows Becker and Fagen touring Las Vegas after hours in a taxi promoting the album in a special version of the cult HBO cable show Taxicab Confessions, hosted by cabbie Rita.[19][20]

Track listing

All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

No.TitleLength
1."The Last Mall"3:36
2."Things I Miss the Most"3:59
3."Blues Beach"4:29
4."Godwhacker"4:57
5."Slang of Ages"4:15
6."Green Book"5:55
7."Pixeleen"4:01
8."Lunch with Gina"4:27
9."Everything Must Go"6:45

Personnel

Steely Dan

Additional musicians

Production

  • Producers: Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
  • Engineers: Tom Doherty, Roger Nichols, Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner
  • Assistant engineers: Suzy Barrows, Tom Doherty, Steve Mazur, Keith Nelson, Todd Parker, Matt Scheiner
  • Mixing: Elliot Scheiner
  • Mixing assistant: Joe Peccerillo
  • Mastering: Darcy Proper
  • Editing: Larry Alexander
  • Arrangers: Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
  • Horn arrangements: Donald Fagen
  • Technician: Sam Berd
  • Drum technician: Art Smith
  • Piano tuner: Sam Berd

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
2003 Billboard 200 9
2003 Top Internet Albums 7
2003 UK Album Chart 21

References

  1. ↑ Presence Studios - Clients Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ discogs.com - Steely Dan Everything Must Go
  3. ↑ Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album) at Metacritic Retrieved 2012-11-02.
  4. ↑ "Everything Must Go". Allmusic. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ BBC Music review Chris Jones, 2003-05-30
  6. ↑ "CG: Steely Dan". Robert Christgau. n.d. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
  7. ↑ "Everything Must Go".
  8. ↑ Williams, Richard (13 June 2003). "CD: Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". the Guardian.
  9. ↑ Mojo, June 2003, p.95
  10. ↑ Pareles, Jon. "CRITIC'S CHOICE/New CD's; Tried and True or Being New".
  11. ↑ "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". 24 June 2003.
  12. ↑ Q, July 2003, p.113
  13. ↑ Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ Kaplan, Fred (18 June 2003). "Steely Dan Is Getting Old" – via Slate.
  15. ↑ "Steely Dan - Everything Must Go (album review ) - Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com.
  16. ↑ "Face Value - Uncut". Uncut.
  17. ↑ Fagen, Donald (22 October 2013). "Eminent Hipsters". Penguin – via Google Books.
  18. ↑ "Steely Dan at the Greek Theater: Concert Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  19. ↑ discogs - Everything Must Go CD/DVD Special Edition (Europe)
  20. ↑ discogs - Everything Must Go CD/DVD (US)
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