Steely Dan Aja Songs

Steely dan had tons of disguised drug lyrics and references in their songs.

Steely dan aja songs. Aja ˈ eɪ ʒ ə pronounced like asia is the sixth studio album by the american jazz rock band steely dan it was released in september 1977 by abc records recording alongside nearly 40 musicians band leaders donald fagen and walter becker pushed steely dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players while pursuing longer more sophisticated compositions. Leaders donald fagan and walter becker enlisted an all star crew of jazz rock players drummer steve gadd and saxophonist wayne shorter among them to lend this album an urbane finesse and dark tinged sparkle. Steely dan hadn t been a real working band since pretzel logic but with aja walter becker and donald fagen s obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. From the lp aja pronounced asia please subscribe.

Billboard chart spending a year in the top 40 there and also reaching number 5 in the u k. The soft jazz filled hit deacon blues may as well be steely dan s theme song at least for the characters fagen and becker inhabited on record. Steely dan s sixth album aja is a jazz fusion of elements from rock funk and r b. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz rock aja has none of the overt cynicism or self consciously challenging music that distinguished previous steely dan records.

He told rolling stone magazine that the title came from a high school friend whose brother was in the army and came back with a korean wife named aja although he wasn t sure how she spelled it. Definitely about pot and lsd the hill definitely san francisco s hippy hill just like dantex says and i think aja is an acronym for lsd just don t know what the letters in their minds stand for. Aja however was to prove to be the biggest selling album of steely dan s illustrious career reaching number 3 in the u s. Steely dan have several songs with a far east influence since donald fagen believes it is a symbol of sensuality.

A work of immaculate craft and insinuating wit 1977 s aja is perhaps the most fully realized album in steely dan s catalog. Deacon blues aja 1977.