Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album)

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Released June 10, 2003 Artist Steely Dan Label Reprise Records		Length 42:24 Release date 10 June 2003 Genres Rock music, Jazz fusion

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); mastered at Sony Music Producers Walter Becker, Donald Fagen Similar Steely Dan albums, Jazz fusion albums

Everything Must Go is the ninth and most recent album by Steely Dan, originally released June 10, 2003. It was Steely Dan's second album following their 20-year studio hiatus, which spanned from 1980 through 2000. Everything Must Go was released three years after their Grammy-winning and certified double-platinum release Two Against Nature. It 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 first time Walter Becker was featured on lead vocals on an official Steely Dan release ("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. Received to mixed reviews and lackluster sales, it is the only Steely Dan studio album not to have been certified at least gold.

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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".

Releases

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

A special 2-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.

Track listing

All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

"The Last Mall" – 3:36
"Things I Miss the Most" – 3:59
"Blues Beach" – 4:29
"Godwhacker" – 4:57
"Slang of Ages" – 4:15
"Green Book" – 5:55
"Pixeleen" – 4:01
"Lunch with Gina" – 4:27
"Everything Must Go" – 6:45

Steely Dan

Donald Fagen – vocals, organ, synthesizer, piano, Hohner Clavinet, Fender Rhodes & Wurlitzer electric pianos, percussion

Walter Becker – bass, guitar, percussion; vocals (on "Slang of Ages")

Additional musicians

Ted Baker – piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer

Bill Charlap – piano, Fender Rhodes

Jon Herington – guitar

Hugh McCracken – guitar

Keith Carlock – drums

Gordon Gottlieb – percussion

Kenneth Hitchcock – clarinet

Walt Weiskopf – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Chris Potter – tenor saxophone

Roger Rosenberg – baritone saxophone

Tony Kadleck – trumpet

Michael Leonhart – trumpet

Jim Pugh – trombone

Ada Dyer – background vocals

Tawatha Agee – background vocals

Carolyn Leonhart – background vocals

Cindy Mizelle – background vocals

Catherine Russell – background vocals

Brenda White-King – background vocals

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

Songs

1The Last Mall3:38
2Things I Miss the Most
3Blues Beach4:31

References

Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album) Wikipedia

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