Katy Lied [Original recording remastered]

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The last of the truly classic first four Steely Dan albums, the 1975 Katy Lied also sounds like the best. While retaining a solid rock foundation, the music finds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen engaging their jazz influences more successfully than ever; Fagen's piano fills alone are some of the most impressive music laid to tape in the '70s. The songs, too, rate with the team's very best, whether coolly anticipating global financial collapse ("Black Friday"), celebrating the legacy of a mob-hit victim ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), or letting the Dan's guard down with a pained three-minute survey of life on Earth ("Any World [That I'm Welcome To]"). --Rickey Wright --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Katy Lied, Music, Steely Dan, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop
Katy Lied
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Steely Dan Still Rocks
  • A beautiful album filled with classic songs
  • Katy Did
  • Five names that I can hardly stand to hear
  • The beginning of the new "Dan"
 Katy Lied
Steely Dan
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IPAB
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

  1. Black Friday
  2. Bad Sneakers
  3. Rose Darling
  4. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
  5. Doctor Wu
  6. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
  7. Your Gold Teeth II
  8. Chain Lightning
  9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
  10. Throw Back The Little Ones

Amazon.com essential recording

The last of the truly classic first four Steely Dan albums, the 1975 Katy Lied also sounds like the best. While retaining a solid rock foundation, the music finds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen engaging their jazz influences more successfully than ever; Fagen's piano fills alone are some of the most impressive music laid to tape in the '70s. The songs, too, rate with the team's very best, whether coolly anticipating global financial collapse ("Black Friday"), celebrating the legacy of a mob-hit victim ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), or letting the Dan's guard down with a pained three-minute survey of life on Earth ("Any World [That I'm Welcome To]"). --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Steely Dan Still Rocks.......2007-05-13

This music is over 30 years old. Katy Lied is a treasure, a fine compilation of smooth rock with great lyrics, guitar solos, and jazzy overtones. Steely Dan's greatest hits CD's are good, but CD's like this one really show how the songs belong together and have a musical flow where you look forward to each song on the CD.

5 out of 5 stars A beautiful album filled with classic songs.......2007-04-22

I have several Steely Dan albums, including this one, and they are all filled with great songs, performed well by exceptional musicians (they had great taste in guitarists and really gave them the opportunity to shine) and with excellent production. There are no bad songs on any of the albums I have. I also recommend Aja (sublime), Royal Scam & Gaucho. I should really try some of their newer stuff too (the singles sound great).

5 out of 5 stars Katy Did.......2006-09-28

Not telling you anything you don't already know, but this memory surfaces everytime I see the cover of or play any of the songs on Katy Lied. When this album came out, my high school science class was dabbling in entomology (bugs) so I paid attention to the seemingly inscrutable cover art of Katy Lied. Well, as we all know, it's a Katydid... just another sardonic Becker-Fagen play on words. But the knowledge that Katy did, gives an extra punch to Fagen's 'I was half-way crucified' lyric. Dr. Wu is their best song ever.

5 out of 5 stars Five names that I can hardly stand to hear.......2006-08-09

I guess you either get this album or you don't. And I really get it! This is such a good album, their finest moment really (not their most commercially successful though). The mood is very grim and depressed throughout and for just about any other artist, this would translate to a boring, depressing album (if they were like, Paul Simon or Billy Joel or Pearl Jam.) But the dark, witty humor injects this album with a real sense of melancholy, and rises above self-important whining (most of the time). Black Friday is kind of a hit single, a more or less straightahead rocker, but the rest of the album doesn't try to fit any kind of mould - just great ersatz song after great ersatz song. The lyrics are hilarious throughout, and the music really covers a lot of ground without once slipping out of the sinister slinkin' jazz mode. Songs like "Everyone's Gone To The Movies" and "Gold Teeth II" keep up the standard Steely Dan fare with top-notch original arrangements. And "Dr Wu" could win this album 5 stars all by itself. "Throw Back The Little Ones" is quite droll, and "Bad Sneakers" has a nice hook and a strange guitar solo where all the instruments seem to be in their own little world, but it somehow fits together. They weren't trying to make a pop record here, but came up with a more introspective sound. Compared to the Pretzel Logic album, with its up-and-down sound and changing lineups, these songs lead, dreamlike, into each other.

5 out of 5 stars The beginning of the new "Dan".......2006-07-07

Whether you're a hard-core Steely Dan fan or someone who only likes them somewhat, you will love this album. It features some incredible songwriting, great musicianship, (this was the first album to use mostly top-end studio musicians I believe), and superb sound. If you're considering checking out the three previous albums to this, namely Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, and Pretzel Logic, don't go with them until you've got this one (though I'm sure some other fans will resent my saying this). Along with Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho (released in that order after Katy Lied), this album shows the writing and playing at a whole new level. If you're not too into these guys but haven't heard any of those four golden albums, spend some time with them before you make up your mind.
Katy Lied
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Steely Dan Still Rocks
  • A beautiful album filled with classic songs
  • Katy Did
  • Five names that I can hardly stand to hear
  • The beginning of the new "Dan"
 Katy Lied
Steely Dan
Manufacturer: Mca Dist Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. The Royal Scam
  2. Pretzel Logic
  3. Countdown To Ecstasy
  4. Can't Buy A Thrill
  5. Aja

ASIN: B000002PD9
Release Date: 1990-06-07

Tracks:

  1. Black Friday
  2. Bad Sneakers
  3. Rose Darling
  4. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
  5. Doctor Wu
  6. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
  7. Your Gold Teeth II
  8. Chain Lightning
  9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
  10. Throw Back The Little Ones

Amazon.com essential recording

The last of the truly classic first four Steely Dan albums, the 1975 Katy Lied also sounds like the best. While retaining a solid rock foundation, the music finds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen engaging their jazz influences more successfully than ever; Fagen's piano fills alone are some of the most impressive music laid to tape in the '70s. The songs, too, rate with the team's very best, whether coolly anticipating global financial collapse ("Black Friday"), celebrating the legacy of a mob-hit victim ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), or letting the Dan's guard down with a pained three-minute survey of life on Earth ("Any World [That I'm Welcome To]"). --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Steely Dan Still Rocks.......2007-05-13

This music is over 30 years old. Katy Lied is a treasure, a fine compilation of smooth rock with great lyrics, guitar solos, and jazzy overtones. Steely Dan's greatest hits CD's are good, but CD's like this one really show how the songs belong together and have a musical flow where you look forward to each song on the CD.

5 out of 5 stars A beautiful album filled with classic songs.......2007-04-22

I have several Steely Dan albums, including this one, and they are all filled with great songs, performed well by exceptional musicians (they had great taste in guitarists and really gave them the opportunity to shine) and with excellent production. There are no bad songs on any of the albums I have. I also recommend Aja (sublime), Royal Scam & Gaucho. I should really try some of their newer stuff too (the singles sound great).

5 out of 5 stars Katy Did.......2006-09-28

Not telling you anything you don't already know, but this memory surfaces everytime I see the cover of or play any of the songs on Katy Lied. When this album came out, my high school science class was dabbling in entomology (bugs) so I paid attention to the seemingly inscrutable cover art of Katy Lied. Well, as we all know, it's a Katydid... just another sardonic Becker-Fagen play on words. But the knowledge that Katy did, gives an extra punch to Fagen's 'I was half-way crucified' lyric. Dr. Wu is their best song ever.

5 out of 5 stars Five names that I can hardly stand to hear.......2006-08-09

I guess you either get this album or you don't. And I really get it! This is such a good album, their finest moment really (not their most commercially successful though). The mood is very grim and depressed throughout and for just about any other artist, this would translate to a boring, depressing album (if they were like, Paul Simon or Billy Joel or Pearl Jam.) But the dark, witty humor injects this album with a real sense of melancholy, and rises above self-important whining (most of the time). Black Friday is kind of a hit single, a more or less straightahead rocker, but the rest of the album doesn't try to fit any kind of mould - just great ersatz song after great ersatz song. The lyrics are hilarious throughout, and the music really covers a lot of ground without once slipping out of the sinister slinkin' jazz mode. Songs like "Everyone's Gone To The Movies" and "Gold Teeth II" keep up the standard Steely Dan fare with top-notch original arrangements. And "Dr Wu" could win this album 5 stars all by itself. "Throw Back The Little Ones" is quite droll, and "Bad Sneakers" has a nice hook and a strange guitar solo where all the instruments seem to be in their own little world, but it somehow fits together. They weren't trying to make a pop record here, but came up with a more introspective sound. Compared to the Pretzel Logic album, with its up-and-down sound and changing lineups, these songs lead, dreamlike, into each other.

5 out of 5 stars The beginning of the new "Dan".......2006-07-07

Whether you're a hard-core Steely Dan fan or someone who only likes them somewhat, you will love this album. It features some incredible songwriting, great musicianship, (this was the first album to use mostly top-end studio musicians I believe), and superb sound. If you're considering checking out the three previous albums to this, namely Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, and Pretzel Logic, don't go with them until you've got this one (though I'm sure some other fans will resent my saying this). Along with Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho (released in that order after Katy Lied), this album shows the writing and playing at a whole new level. If you're not too into these guys but haven't heard any of those four golden albums, spend some time with them before you make up your mind.
Katy Lied
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    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B000H5TY2I
    Release Date: 2006-10-03
    Katy Lied
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Strong Effort and Great Session Musicians but Too Bad about the Sound!
    		 Katy Lied
    Steely Dan
    Manufacturer: Mca Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    1. Countdown to Ecstasy
    2. Pretzel Logic
    3. Can't Buy a Thrill
    4. The Royal Scam
    5. Aja

    ASIN: B00004S8BE
    Release Date: 2000-07-11

    Tracks:

    1. Black Friday
    2. Bad Sneakers
    3. Rose Darling
    4. Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
    5. Doctor Wu
    6. Everyone's Gone to the Movies
    7. Your Gold Teeth II
    8. Chain Lightning
    9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
    10. Throw Back the Little Ones

    Album Description

    Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Universal. 2006.

    Album Details

    Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Strong Effort and Great Session Musicians but Too Bad about the Sound!.......2006-10-22

    Did Steely Dan ever really release a bad album? Although each album had its own little idiosyncracy and in this case, the fourth effort, we get a lot more guitar input than in their previous effort in the guise of non other than the great Rick Derringer, Larry Carlton, Hugh McCracken, Eliot Randall, Dean Parks among others, all legends in the session guitaring world at the time and even now. Where the debut album had that brilliant guitar track "Reelin' In the Years" and the second album had the excellent guitar playing on the opening track "Bodhisattva", we get even more blistering guitar playing here across almost all the tracks. Together with "Can't Buy a Thrill", this is one of their best albums ever.

    Why the 4 stars you may ask? Well it's nothing to do with the quality of the content with regards the brilliant songwriting and musicianship but although the mini-lp sleeve replica is very well done and includes the lyrics of all the tracks in both English and Japanese with typically humorous liner notes written in 1999 by Fagen and Becker themselves, the disc isn't remastered and so the volume levels and overall clarity of the disc is not exactly what you'd expect given the high quality sound engineering technology that is currently out there.

    The good thing is that the original production quality of which the Dan has always been renowned for as being close to perfection means that the sound quality is still quite good. Still, it would have been nice given the high price of this version of the album if the powers that be had invested in a remastering from the best possible masters in the vault.

    If the slightly less than optimal un-remastered sound and the expensive price doesn't deter you, this comes recommended.
    Katy Lied
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Katy Lied
      Steely Dan
      Manufacturer: Universal
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00005HMFA

      Tracks:

      1. Black Friday
      2. Bad Sneakers
      3. Rose Darling
      4. Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
      5. Doctor Wu
      6. Everyone's Gone to the Movies
      7. Your Gold Teeth II
      8. Chain Lightning
      9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
      10. Throw Back the Little Ones

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