Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album)

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2003 studio album by Steely Dan

Everything Must Go is the ninth studio album by American rock group Steely Dan. It was released on June 10, 2003, by Reprise Records, and was the band’s second album following their 20-year studio hiatus spanning 1980 through 2000, when they released Two Against Nature. Everything Must Go is the band’s most recent studio album and their last with founding member Walter Becker before his death in 2017.

Background[edit]

“Godwhacker” developed from a blasphemous lyric Fagen wrote a few days after his mother died of Alzheimer’s. “It’s about an elite squad of assassins whose sole assignment is to find a way into heaven and take out God”, he later explained. “If the deity actually existed, what sane person wouldn’t consider this to be justifiable homicide?”[3]

Reviews[edit]

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”.[15]

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Releases[edit]

Everything Must Go was also released as a DVD-audio disc with a multi-channel mix.[16]

A special two-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.[17][18]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

Everything Must Go track listing
Title
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[edit]

Steely Dan[edit]

  • Donald Fagen – lead vocals (all tracks except 5), organ (3, 5–7), synthesizer (5), piano (3), Hohner Clavinet (9), Fender Rhodes (1, 2, 5–7, 9) & Wurlitzer (1, 4, 8), solo synth (4, 6, 8), percussion (6, 9)
  • Walter Becker – bass (all tracks), solo guitar (1–4, 6), lead vocals (5), percussion (9)

Additional musicians[edit]

  • Ted Baker – piano (1–3, 6, 9), Fender Rhodes (8), Wurlitzer (5)
  • Bill Charlap – piano (7), Fender Rhodes (4)
  • Jon Herington – guitar (all tracks)
  • Hugh McCracken – guitar (all tracks)
  • Keith Carlock – drums (all tracks)
  • Gordon Gottlieb – percussion (2, 3, 5, 7, 8)
  • Ken Hitchcock – clarinet (7)
  • Walt Weiskopf – alto saxophone (1), tenor saxophone (2, 5, 7, 9)
  • Chris Potter – tenor saxophone (8)
  • Roger Rosenberg – baritone saxophone (1, 7)
  • Tony Kadleck – trumpet (1)
  • Michael Leonhart – trumpet (2, 5, 7, 8)
  • Jim Pugh – trombone (1, 7)
  • Tawatha Agee – background vocals (4, 5, 9)
  • Ada Dyer – background vocals (5)
  • Michael Harvey – background vocals (5, 7, 8)
  • Carolyn Leonhart – background vocals (2, 3, 5, 6), featured background vocal (7)
  • Cindy Mizelle – background vocals (1, 6)
  • Catherine Russell – background vocals (1, 4, 5, 6)
  • Brenda White-King – background vocals (9)

Production[edit]

  • 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Presence Studios – Clients Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ discogs.com – Steely Dan Everything Must Go
  3. ^ Fagen, Donald (22 October 2013). Eminent Hipsters. Penguin. ISBN 9781101638095 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ “Everything Must Go by Steely Dan Reviews and Tracks”. Metacritic. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  5. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. “Everything Must Go – Steely Dan”. AllMusic. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  6. ^ Power, Tony (June–July 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. Blender. Vol. 2, no. 5. p. 147. Archived from the original on April 20, 2004. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  7. ^ Willman, Chris (June 13, 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. Entertainment Weekly. No. 714. p. 92.
  8. ^ Williams, Richard (June 13, 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. The Guardian. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  9. ^ Cromelin, Richard (June 8, 2003). “The Becker-Fagan beat goes on”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  10. ^ Ingham, Chris (June 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. Mojo. No. 115. p. 95.
  11. ^ “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. Q. No. 204. July 2003. p. 113.
  12. ^ Christgau, Robert (June 3, 2003). “Everything Must Go”. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 9, 2022. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  13. ^ MacDonald, Ian (July 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. Uncut. No. 74. p. 116.
  14. ^ Gardner, Elysa (June 10, 2003). “Steely Dan: Everything Must Go”. USA Today.
  15. ^ “Steely Dan at the Greek Theater: Concert Review”. The Hollywood Reporter.
  16. ^ “Steely Dan – Everything Must Go”. Discogs.
  17. ^ discogs – Everything Must Go CD/DVD Special Edition (Europe)
  18. ^ discogs – Everything Must Go CD/DVD (US)
  19. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia’s Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 266.
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