But, for the sake of giving other tunes a fair shake, we start here, at the genesis of the Top-20, with “Time Out of Mind”—one of the sexiest, coolest numbers Steely Dan ever let go.

told Expanding Dan that he envisioned the song as a proper Gaucho single — a distinction that would go on to be bestowed to “Hey Nineteen” and “Time Out of Mind.” The Substack also ...

“My Old School” is one of the greatest Steely Dan songs to come out of the 1973 record Countdown To Ecstacy. And it’s definitely a product of its time. This jam was written about the time ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs ... be bringing in Mark Knopfler to play on “Time Out of Mind,” for 9 hours of sessions.

Steve was a good kid, but I occasionally felt compelled to step in like a big brother and set him straight — like the time I saw ... Twitter mileage out of using Steely Dan as a punk-rock ...

They are minus metaphors and double entendres that were prevalent in Steely Dan's lyrics, for example: the mysterious "mystical sphere" from the song "Time Out of Mind," the bikers who "throw down the ...

Steely Dan’s songs of monied decadence ... counting the money after closing time, and doling out some insulting fraction of it to the so-called artists”). LeMay’s creations stare back ...

Fans both likely and unlikely came out of the woodwork ... bright sci-fi futures we won’t ever get to see. Time has caught up to Steely Dan because it’s catching up to all of us.