Everything Must Go
Studio album by Steely Dan
Released	June 10, 2003
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	42:24
Label	Reprise Records
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Steely Dan chronology
Two Against Nature (2000)	Everything Must Go (2003)

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The album features a more unified feel than Two Against Nature, and has been described as sounding more like a band playing together in the same room. Walter Becker plays bass on all the tracks.

When they reach a certain age, it seems as if American authors are duty-bound to take a shot at the Great American Novel. A wise, satirical, incisive, covertly passionate examination of how their nation works, where it's going, why it may be falling apart. Most of the time, though, their ambition defeats the vision, their magnum opuses hamstrung by the terrible obligation to be a magnum opus.

If only they could measure the iniquities of America with such grace and precision as Steely Dan. 'Everything Must Go' offers most of what we want from a intelligent doorstop, with the bonus of some spectacularly good music. It's a record to get lost in, one that constantly surprises with its apparently infinite number of hidden harmonies and wry asides. Like the best books, it improves with each study. And unlike, say, DeLillo's 'Underworld', it only takes 42 minutes to get through.

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's ninth album together, 'Everything Must Go' is something of a rush-job by Steely Dan standards, having taken only a measly year to record. Not that you can tell, of course. This is breathtakingly elaborate music, a scientific experiment in examining every possibility of the perfect groove, then making the whole process sound effortless. As ever with Steely Dan, it's not the sort of thing, post-punk, we're meant to admire: those jazz moves translated into silky adult rock; the way the session musicians and the battalions of engineers ensure every last sound on 'Everything Must Go' is quite, quite flawless.

But this is what Steely Dan do - subvert our ideas about music, and America, and the ridiculous anxieties of the male menopause. Yes it's hard to explain, in a world where the rawness of The White Stripes or the futurism of The Aphex Twin are so justifiably eulogised, quite why the systematic whiteboy funk of 'Blues Beach' is quite so seductive. Essentially, Steely Dan 'swing', and sound more aspirationally luxurious than even Jay-Z could ever imagine, but then undercut every pristine riff with the blackest lyrical ironies.

So 'Things I Miss The Most' sees Fagen brilliantly playing the divorcé who can't quite decide what is the greatest loss - love, sex, or the Audi TT. And so 'Slang Of Ages' finds Becker - in his first lead vocal for the Dan - as a middle-aged creep trying to pull a young girl, juxtaposing the hipster argot of his youth with increasingly excruciating attempts to speak her language. The moment when he drawls, "These tabs look iffy, you say they're good? Let's roll with the homies and knock on wood," ranks as one the most perceptively embarrassing moments in recent rock history - Roth or Updike, you feel, would be proud.

We could go on for hours, days maybe. About how 'The Last Mall' and the title track wryly present American corporate excess as initiating, then struggling to cope with, the prospect of Armageddon. About how loss - of youth, love, property, dignity, security and, potentially, life - pervades most everything here. About how the stunning liquid tunes surpass 2000's reunion disc 'Two Against Nature', recall Fagen's brilliant solo debut from 1982, 'The Nightfly', and are frequently a match for Steely Dan's revered '70s heyday. For here are a band uncommonly suited to the cynicism, awkward passions and elevated tastes of middle-age. And like the best writers who are their true peers, it's hard to imagine Becker and Fagen doing anything but improve with age.

Track listing

all songs by Becker and Fagen

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

• Walter Becker - bass, guitar, percussion, electric guitar, vocals
• Donald Fagen - organ, synthesizer, percussion, piano, vocals, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
• Ted Baker - piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
• Bill Charlap - piano, Fender Rhodes
• Jon Herington - guitar
• Hugh McCracken - guitar
• Kenneth Hitchcock - clarinet
• Tony Kadleck - trumpet
• Michael Leonhart - trumpet
• Chris Potter - tenor saxophone
• Jim Pugh - trombone
• Roger Rosenberg - baritone saxophone
• Walt Weiskopf - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Keith Carlock - drums
• Gordon Gottlieb - percussion
• 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

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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
• Consultant: Michael Leonhart
• Design: Carol Bobolts
• Photography: Danny Clinch

For the songwriter, please see Roger Nichols (songwriter) Roger Nichols was a nuclear engineer until he turned his hobby of audio recording into a career as a recording engineer and producer. ...

Special Edition

A special 2-disc edition of Everything Must Go (one CD, one DVD) was released. The DVD deals with Steely Dan touring Las Vegas. It can be differentiated from the normal version at a glance by the color change on the cover: The Special Edition had all the blues and yellows featured on the regular album turned to a brass/gold color. Steely Dan is an American rock band centered around the core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ...

Charts

Album

External link

• Complete lyrics