Steely Dan became unlikely hitmakers with their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill, but they refused to retread familiar ground on their sophomore LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, released in July 1973.

Execs at ABC Records weren't thrilled when they heard Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's new effort, and were ...

Photo via Steely Dan’s Official Facebook. Steely Dan will reissue their 1973 LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, on vinyl next month.The group’s co-founder Donald Fagen has overseen the newly remastered ...

Steely Dan’s 1973 album, Countdown to Ecstasy, will soon be reissued as a part of a year-long series that will see the band’s classic albums make their return to vinyl. The iconic fusion rock ...

From the get-go, the Dan were the coolest band in America. This much is evident in their debut album’s two hit singles: the first, Do It Again, with a Latin rhythm and a melodic glow at odds with its ...

Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy (2023 Vinyl Reissue) Geffen/UMe. Jul 04, 2023 Web Exclusive By Ian Rushbury. It’s hard to argue with a Steely Dan album. They’re all pretty great, so it’s just a matter ...

Although Steely Dan are routinely hailed as one of the last century’s most subversively brilliant bands, when their second album Countdown To Ecstasy was released 50 years ago the UK remained ...

Steely Dan was a seminal group in the 1970s and these are their 12 best songs. ... Countdown to Ecstasy was the follow-up to the debut album and some people considered it a letdown.

A long-lost Steely Dan track has once again resurfaced thanks to Steely ... "during the eight-month gap between Can’t Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy," per editor and writer Jake ...

Somewhere in between Steely Dan‘s debut, Can’t Buy a Thrill, and the 1973 follow-up, Countdown to Ecstasy, the band recorded a jingle for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based brewing company Schlitz ...

Such contradictions made Steely Dan an anomalous presence in the landscape of 1970s rock. The band-that-wasn’t-really-a-band was devoid of the phallic swagger of, say, Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith.

Now another Dan rarity from Nichols’ archive has been unearthed, and this one is a jingle for Schlitz Beer. In 1972, before the band began recording Countdown To Ecstasy , they agreed to record ...