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Steely Dan Format: Vinyl

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1	Black Cow
2	Aja
3	Deacon Blues
4	Peg
5	Home at Last
6	I Got the News
7	Josie

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Vinyl LP pressing. Aja is the sixth studio album by Steely Dan, originally released in 1977. On the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players, enlisting the services of nearly 40 musicians, while pursuing longer, more sophisticated compositions and arrangements.

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.64 x 12.52 x 0.28 inches; 10.4 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Geffen
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2023
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 8, 2023
Label ‏ : ‎ Geffen
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CDJ6L418
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Steely Dan - "Aja": Vinyl Review

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2021

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In the late 1960s and early 70s, many musicians all across the globe attempted to twist and contort elements of the newfound heavy rock with those of sensitive, delicate jazz music. Miles Davis, often cited as the one who started it all, made intense and cerebral albums that demanded highly attentive listening to be appreciated and enjoyed. Some of his sidemen, namely Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea, later turned to a more accessible and funky style of "Jazz Fusion," as this new genre was called. However, at the same time, a group comprised of L.A.'s best session musicians, an incomprehensible recording budget, and surreal but relatable lyrics would rise above them all to make the world's purest hybrid of jazz and rock music. This band's name was Steely Dan.

The central twosome of Steely Dan were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, two whip smart and funny college kids from New York. In the early 70s they moved to California and were signed to ABC Records in the name of their "band" Steely Dan. For their first two albums, they were a regular studio rock band with a few session musicians who played complex guitar solos. However, by their third album, Pretzel Logic, Donald and Walter became obsessed with jazz harmony and lush sonics. The result was the hiring (and firing) of various session musicians to provide the instrumentals for their increasingly complex songs. This setup reaches its' peak on Aja, one of the greatest albums ever made.

As the needle drops, the opening piano and bass lines on Black Cow set the mood for a simple and catchy disco tune, but the simplicity is just an illusion. As the song progresses, the sarcastic lyrics are complemented by a groovy horn chart, as well as Victor Feldman's funky electric piano and Tom Scott's bluesy sax.

The record's titular cut provides us with Steely Dan's most progressive and brilliant performance ever. The dreamy acoustic piano melts into a latin ballad about the tranquility a beautiful woman gives to her man, and then flips on a dime into an instrumental jam session punctuated by oriental percussion and some phenomenal jazz guitar. Just when it seems like they've run out of ideas, Donald and Walter pull out their ultimate trump card: Wayne Shorter. The legendary jazz man provides one of his most beautiful and unorthodox solos, while drummer Steve Gadd provides the most intense drum solo on any 70s record. Suddenly we return to the dreamy piano part and Fagen sings one final verse. However, the newfound progressive rockers refuse to stop, and treat us to more of Steve Gadd's burning samba and some Bowie-esque synthesizers during the long fade out.

The A-Side concludes with my favorite song of all time, Deacon Blues. One of the most unconventional rock radio staples, the song picks up where Aja left off, with soft, gentle piano and guitar chords. Donald Fagen treats us to his most inspired and original lyric, telling the story of a depressed suburban man whose true aspiration is to be part of the sleazy world of jazz saxophonists. The remarkable lyrics and beautiful music make for a surprisingly sympathetic and nostalgic masterpiece. The song is punctuated by Pete Christlieb's explosive but melodic sax solo and a lovely horn section inspired by Duke Ellington and Oliver Nelson.

The B-Side opens with the record's most straight ahead song, Peg. The song is elevated beyond sunshine pop status by Jay Graydon's bluesy guitar solo and Michael MacDonald's ragtime backing vocals. Chuck Rainey's groovy slap bass line super-charges the chorus and provided Steely Dan with their biggest hit ever.

Next comes Home At Last, a piano ballad based on Homer's The Odyssey. Ulysses' travels provide the metaphor for Fagen's nostalgic reverie, symbolizing a return to New York City, his true home. Drummer Bernard Purdie's legendary shuffle and the rocking horn section accentuate this wonderful tune.

I Got The News provides a vehicle for Victor Feldman's phenomenal acoustic piano. The Miles Davis alum shows off his chops as both pianist and vibraphonist on this track, driving along a surreal, stream of consciousness lyric delivery that combines bebop phrasing with driving R&B.

We conclude with B-Side's best cut, Josie. An infectious pop rocker, this tune marries blues chords and catchy harmonies to psychotic lyrics about gang violence. This comically bizarre mix is described in the liners as making the tune "A classic zebra in the annals of punkadelia." Of special note are Walter Becker's greatest guitar solo and Jim Keltner's driving drum fills.

As a whole, Aja functions as Steely Dan's best and most consistent set of songs, as well as their most unique and original musical statement. This album proves that highly calculated and structured music can be just as enjoyable and mesmerizing as any raw guitar jam by Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin. The lyrical subjects and music styles explored change consistently throughout the record, but result in a cohesive whole that reflects the musical heritage of jazz, pop, rock, R&B, blues, soul, and progressive music into a highly unique and dynamic mix. An essential aquistion for all jazz enthusiasts, pop and rock fans, audiophiles, and just about everyone else!

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jtc

Great remastered vinyl version of a classic album!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2024

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The only thing better than listening to Aja is listening to a rich, full remastered vinyl version of Aja!!

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Thomas C Eberhart

Classic, enough said

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024

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Sound and presentation top notch
Never gets old.

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Robert Bahedry

Classic Steely Dan LP.

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023

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A must have if you’re a serious Steely Dan fan. This was a birthday gift for my daughter. Time to listen to the crackle of the needle hitting the vinyl 😁

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Fred C.

CD: Sounds as good as the MoFi LP, but noisier

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2019

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This review's previous revision was based on a Topping D10-s, and contained a lot of unnecessary information. Recently, I've gotten a Zen DAC V2, which sounds like analog and blows the doors off the D10-s, which has a sort of veil or haze which subtly obscures the high end. My Zen review (entitled "I can't believe it's not analog") provides information which might explain why the Zen sounds so good. It includes a graphic of a small pulse-density-modulated (PDM) signal added to a large quantized sine wave to illustrate the basic idea behind the DAC-chips which the Zen uses.

Through the Zen, the 1999 Aja CD sounds essentially as good as the MoFi LP which I got when it was first released, in 1976 or so. However, the high end isn't as clean because the analog safety master (a 15 ips copy of the original master which Dan's main engineer Roger Nichols preserved with TLC in his personal archive) was about 22 years old when it was digitized for the CD, apparently using an Apogee AD-8000 24-bit, 44.1/48 kHz ADC, S/N 1.

The LPs, on the other hand, are apparently made from a 24-bit copy of a 3M copy made from the original stereo analog master, or even the multi-track, back in about 1981/82, when the album was about five years old. The 3M system, which was introduced in the late 70s, included a 32-track deck and a stereo deck, used 16-bit, 50 kHz sampling, and didn't have digital i/o, although Nichols added it for making backups. The 3M's high sampling rate (for an NOS deck) made it relatively easy to design linear-phase anti-aliasing filters for it, thus avoiding phase distortion [1]. It also used the same R2R DACs for recording (as part of the ADCs, which are DACs with some additional circuitry) and playback, thus canceling out linearity errors, assuming that they didn't change significantly between recording and playback. There was also a calibration process to tweak the linearity each time it was used, since it used a combination of lower-resolution DACs which had to be manually aligned with each other to achieve 16-bit linearity.

Since it was risky to have to rely on particular DAC-chips to survive and remain stable to obtain the best sound quality, there was a motive for transferring the 3M copies to 24-bit copies as soon as a suitable ADC became available. Nichols wrote an article entitled Roger Nichols: Digital-To-Digital Transfers in the May 2006 Sound on Sound on the transfer process from the 3M to 24-bit, just a year before the famous Cisco LP (supposedly intended for high-end systems) was released.

The 1999 Gaucho CD (also made from a safety master) apparently contains a copy of Third World Man derived from a 3M copy, because as good as the CD is, that track sounds much more detailed than the rest of the CD.

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[1] The original input/anti-aliasing filters for Sony's early 16/44.1 non-oversampling decks had a nonlinear phase response. The most obvious effects of this were smeared cymbals, dryness, and lackluster imaging. Dan's original CD-releases were made with these filters, although I don't know which analog masters were used. Apogee introduced linear-phase aftermarket input filters for these decks in about September of 1985. They were very popular among recording engineers and soon became standard equipment on new decks.

JVC introduced an oversampling stereo deck in 1982, and Sony introduced the PCM-3324, a 24-track, 16-bit oversampling deck with sigma-delta ADCs, in 1984. It would have been introduced in 1981, but some engineers insisted on being able to splice the tape, which required a major redesign of the tape format.

20-bit studio-grade (discrete) sigma-delta ADCs were introduced in 1993, and Elliott Scheiner apparently used one to make the digital master for the Greatest Hits CD, which sounds good, although the analog master was about 13 years old when it was digitized. (I got the GH LP in the mid-80s, and was amazed at how clean it was, so perhaps the 3M masters were used for the LP at that point.) 24-bit ADCs were introduced in 1997, and Roger Nichols got one and used it for a while before using it to dub his safety masters to digital for the 1999 CD-releases.

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Amazing album, bad pressing

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023

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Steely Dan AJA is an amazing album. I have owned several copies over my music listening lifeteime, including on Cassette tape, vinyl, CD, and even 8-track if you can believe it! I was very happy to hear about the new analog remaster on vinyl that just came out. This was a Christmas gift to myself. The album is as awesome as always, and definitely a joy to listen to on vinyl through a tube amplifier.

Here's the rub. The pressing is defective on the A side. Skips in 3 places during Black Cow, even with extremely high needle weights. Also, grooves not concentric w/ center, causing needle arm to sway in/out. It is a bad pressing of great LP! So I loved it, but kind of sad that it does not play properly even after 3 times through the A side. The B-side had one skip and a few pops, but those cleared up after the initial playing. This is very consistent with other folks, experiences with this pressing. This is very unfortunate, but clearly a manufacturing defect.

Unfortunately, I am needing to use the excellent Amazon return/exchange policy. I am sending this one back for a new copy of the same album, with hopes of getting a better pressing next time. Some folks have first time success, and others, like me, get a dud straight out of the sleeve. Fingers crossed that the replacement is better.

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John Fisher

Sweet!

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023

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This newly remastered version is great. The original was great. So this must be great squared.

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Crox

A classic

Reviewed in Canada on November 22, 2023

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Every vinyl lover should have a copy of this album. One of the first mainstream audiophile recordings. However, regardless of the pedantic engineering, the songs stand the test of time. Simply a work of art and an album to listen to over and over again. No warping, well packed.

Cliente

La obra maestra de Steely Dan

Reviewed in Mexico on August 5, 2023

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Recomiendo escuchar este disco con audífonos 🎧. Excelente servicio de paquetería.

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Marcelo Lopes Pereira

excelente disco, excelente gravação

Reviewed in Brazil on August 25, 2021

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Este disco é uma verdadeira joia, se você possui um excelente equipamento de som este disco é indicado par ao teste, muito bem produzido e muito bem gravado todas as músicas são ótimas, o grande problema é o elevado preço deste disco na Amazon..;

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CD enthusiast

Classic Steely Dan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2024

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A re release of the classic Steely Dan album from 1977.
Excellent pressing though the remastering sounds little different from my previous copies. Highly recommended

Ulrich Nähle

Kaufen!

Reviewed in Germany on December 5, 2023

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Klasse LP, gute Produktion, super Klang! Kaufen!

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