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Steely Dan, Two Against Nature

Audio CD

Disk ID: 263183

Disk length: 51m 33s (9 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Gaslighting Abbie 5:54
2. What A Shame About Me 5:17
3. Two Against Nature 6:17
4. Janie Runaway 4:09
5. Almost Gothic 4:09
6. Jack Of Speed 6:17
7. Cousin Dupree 5:28
8. Negative Girl 5:34
9. West Of Hollywood 8:21

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Review

Never so much a band as the slyly crafted specter of one, Steely Dan's mid-1990s "return" to live performance was as surprising as it was perverse. They'd previously toured only once, round about the era of Watergate, pet rocks, and Shaft. A half-decade after their concert comeback and a mere 19 years after Gaucho seemingly closed out their recording career, the jazz-pop conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deliberately dropped back into a recording landscape where they weren't so much seasoned vets as alien ambassadors. Two Against Nature, indeed. The tack is instantly familiar: a musical/lyrical reconciliation of Monk and Newman, with familiar harmonic flourishes, nimble studio chops, and an icy, world-class cool, as willfully insulated from hip-hop and techno as it was from disco and Top 40. Less concerned with melodic hooks than a canny sophistication of mood and manner, Becker and Fagen never let a trite melody get in the way of a good story, whether their protagonists are plotting some nefarious obliquity ("Gaslighting Abby"), Southern-fried incest (the deliciously funky "Cousin DuPree"), or bleakly confronting dashed expectations ("What a Shame About Me"). A little more musically languorous perhaps, its trademark cynicism now undercut by hints of sadness and regret, this is nonetheless a Steely Dan album worthy of the name, and like the best of them, one whose subtle charms reveal themselves in surprising ways. -Jerry McCulley

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 33s

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 33s

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 32s (-1m 59s)

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 32s (-1m 59s)

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 31s (-1m 58s)

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 47s (+0m 14s)

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 47s (+0m 14s)

Two Against Nature

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 51m 49s (+0m 16s)

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