Album
Two Against Nature
2000 · Jazz, Rock
19 collectors on Gatefold own this
Two Against Nature is a Jazz album by Steely Dan, originally released in 2000. On Gatefold: 41 pressings tracked, owned by 19 collectors.
About
After reviving Steely Dan for a string of concerts in the mid-Nineties, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker officially ended their twenty-year hiatus in 2000, with the release of <i>Two Against Nature</i>. Unbelievably, Fagen and Becker have lost none of their taste or technical expertise. The album picks up exactly where <i>Gaucho</i> left off. The duo’s fusion of jazz, pop and rock is as precisely rendered and spotless as a figure of fine glassware. Even better, their lyrics have become more incisive with age. Rather than pursue a simple nostalgia trip, <i>Two Against Nature</i> follows a cast of characters, who, like Fagen and Becker, are reuniting and reexamining their former lives. The names alone are priceless: Bobby Dakine, Madame Erzulie, T-Bone Angie, Janie Runaway, and Anna de Siecle, to name a few. The album’s theme of love misplaced and inevitable loneliness is epitomized in “What A Shame About Me,” in which a former flame’s invitation to a hotel rendezvous is met by abdication: “I said babe you look delicious / And you're standing very close / But like this is lower Broadway / And you're talking to a ghost / Take a good look it's easy to see / What a shame about me.”
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Tracklist
- 1Gaslighting Abbie5:54
- 2What A Shame About Me5:15
- 3Two Against Nature6:18
- 4Janie Runaway4:08
- 5Almost Gothic4:10
- 6Jack Of Speed6:19
- 7Cousin Dupree5:28
- 8Negative Girl5:35
- 9West Of Hollywood8:21
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Jazz Fusion
- holographic
- cynical
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Carolyn LeonhartBACKING VOCALS
- Donald FagenCOMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY, VOCALS VOCALS ARRANGED BY
- Michael LeonhartCONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR , COPYIST , CONSULTANT CONDUCTOR , COPYIST , MUSIC CONSULTANT
- Amy HelmWHISTLE
- Chris PotterALTO SAXOPHONE ALTO SAXOPHONE , SOLOIST ALTO SAXOPHONE, SOLOIST
- Cynthia CalhounBACKING VOCALS
- Daniel SadownickPERCUSSION, TIMBALES TIMBALES, PERCUSSION
- Dave SchenkVIBRAPHONE
- Dave TofaniSAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Dean ParksGUITAR
- Gordon GottliebPERCUSSION
- Hugh McCrackenGUITAR
- Jim PughTROMBONE
- Jon HeringtonACOUSTIC GUITAR RHYTHM GUITAR
- Keith CarlockDRUMS
- Ken HitchcockCLARINET
- Lawrence FeldmanALTO SAXOPHONE CLARINET CLARINET, ALTO SAXOPHONE
- Leroy CloudenDRUMS
19 collectors on Gatefold own this · 41 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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