Oldies - Playing the Greatest Hits of the 50's, 60's, and 70's

Early Electronic Music artists are actually pretty lenient on copyright usage for the most part.
 
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This album is pretty hard to find and the album cover is pretty unfortunate. However, it's very euphoric and overall a pleasant listen. (This was released in 1983 and someone who made the compilation confused it for an album from Brazil.
Interesting electronic music album from 1971.
 
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While these songs are technically oldies they were in horrible bootleg tape quality until this year. Tagging @Dan of Steel.

Steely Dan's Gaucho in 1980 is a masterpiece album and infamously 3 tracks were cut out of the album due to the duo's perfectionist mindset. The most famous one being The Second Arrangement, the track was accidentally deleted while being completed. In the last couple years a movement started to remaster these tracks by fans. Last month the daughter of Roger Nichols uploaded a high quality working tape of TSM. Now three tracks sound gorgeous, worthy of studio release which is just amazing.
 
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Homer J. Fong said:
Steely Dan's Gaucho in 1980 is a masterpiece album and infamously 3 tracks were cut out of the album due to the duo's perfectionist mindset.
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It's actually amazing that album got finished at all. It was fairly critically panned (at least compared to previous Dan releases), but I think it is generally underrated, containing absolutely awesome tracks like this:
(The Larry Carlton solo is phenomenal. And also not from the recording of the album. They pulled it out of the can from stuff they had from The Royal Scam. I just learned that btw.)

Also, Becker's addiction was spiraling out of control. Combine this with the fact that neither Fagen nor Becker would compromise on their production values, it made the production of the album an absolute nightmare.

Then of course everyone involved sued each other. And Becker disappeared from view for some time.

At least we got great things out of Fagen in the 20 year hiatus before Two Against Nature, an unlikely comeback that was a true return to form.

This was Fagen's masterpiece, though:
Just amazing and showed Fagen's individual sensibilities which were largely overshadowed by Becker's darker, more sardonic leanings during the Dan's history.

(Re-reading this post in my head I suddenly imagine putting on a raincoat and going for an axe.)
 
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It's actually amazing that album got finished at all. It was fairly critically panned (at least compared to previous Dan releases), but I think it is generally underrated, containing absolutely awesome tracks like this:
(The Larry Carlton solo is phenomenal. And also not from the recording of the album. They pulled it out of the can from stuff they had from The Royal Scam. I just learned that btw.)

Also, Becker's addiction was spiraling out of control. Combine this with the fact that neither Fagen nor Becker would compromise on their production values, it made the production of the album an absolute nightmare.

Then of course everyone involved sued each other. And Becker disappeared from view for some time.

At least we got great things out of Fagen in the 20 year hiatus before Two Against Nature, an unlikely comeback that was a true return to form.

This was Fagen's masterpiece, though:
Just amazing and showed Fagen's individual sensibilities which were largely overshadowed by Becker's darker, more sardonic leanings during the Dan's history.

(Re-reading this post in my head I suddenly imagine putting on a raincoat and going for an axe.)
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So you wanna know the crazy thing? Third World Man was just a leftover track originating from The Royal Scam. Here's the original outtake of Third World Man which the hardcore Steely Dan fans remastered with AI tools.
It just blows my mind, most great bands have 3 just good albums. SD by my count has 5 10/10 masterpiece albums. Even music they left on the cutting floor is superb. A track they just shoved in a Best of Album is just superb.
As for Gaucho's initial reception, makes me laugh that Lennon/Yoko's "Double Fantasy" won the Grammy that year for best album. That album is pop trash and convinces me Mark David Chapman committed justifiable homicide. I can guarantee no one is obsessing over the outtakes from Lennon's solo work.
 
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