Everything Must Go (Steely Dan album)

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Everything Must Go
Studio album by
Steely Dan
ReleasedJune 10, 2003
Recorded2001–2003
Studio
  • Sear Sound, New York City
  • Skyline, New York City
  • River Sound, New York City
  • Hyperbolic Sound, Maui
  • Bearsville, Woodstock, New York
  • mixed at Presence Studios, Weston, Connecticut[1]
  • mastered at Sony Music[2]
GenreJazz rock
Length42:24
LabelReprise
ProducerWalter Becker, Donald Fagen
Steely Dan chronology
Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party
(2000) 		Everything Must Go
(2003)
Singles from Everything Must Go
  1. "Blues Beach[3]"
    Released: May 6, 2003

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 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?"[4]

Reception[edit]

Critical[edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Blender[7]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[8]
The Guardian[9]
Los Angeles Times[10]
Mojo[11]
Q[12]
Rolling Stone[13]
Uncut[14]
USA Today[15]

Upon its release, Everything Must Go received generally favorable reviews from music critics.[5] During a concert at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on July 8, 2011, Donald Fagen said that he felt the album was "underrated".[16]

Commercial[edit]

Everything Must Go is the only Steely Dan album not to achieve a Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.[17]

Legacy[edit]

The album is frequently placed last on ranked lists of Steely Dan's albums, with Stereogum music writer Zach Schonfeld writing in 2020 that the album "seems to exist largely to make it easy for fans to identify the bottom rung in their Steely Dan album ranking".[18] Writers for Stereogum, Classic Rock, and Louder each placed the album in ninth place (last place) when ranking Steely Dan's discography from worst to best.[19][20][17]

Releases[edit]

Everything Must Go was also released as a DVD-audio disc with a multi-channel mix.[21] And now an SACD newly remastered from the original analog tape by Bernie Grundman direct to DSD. 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.[22][23]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

Everything Must Go track listing
No.TitleLength
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]

Additional musicians[edit]

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

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for Everything Must Go
Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[24] 68
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25] 26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[26] 44
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[27] 23
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[28] 25
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[29] 31
French Albums (SNEP)[30] 132
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 29
Irish Albums (IRMA)[32] 33
Italian Albums (FIMI)[33] 33
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[34] 40
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[35] 5
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[36] 11
UK Albums (OCC)[37] 21
US Billboard 200[38] 9

References[edit]

  1. ^ Presence Studios - Clients Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ discogs.com - Steely Dan Everything Must Go
  3. ^ "Blues Beach - Steely Dan". music.apple.com. May 6, 2003. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  4. ^ Fagen, Donald (22 October 2013). Eminent Hipsters. Penguin. ISBN 9781101638095 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b "Everything Must Go by Steely Dan". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  6. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Everything Must Go – Steely Dan". AllMusic. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Willman, Chris (June 13, 2003). "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". Entertainment Weekly. No. 714. p. 92.
  9. ^ Williams, Richard (June 13, 2003). "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". The Guardian. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  10. ^ Cromelin, Richard (June 8, 2003). "The Becker-Fagan beat goes on". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  11. ^ Ingham, Chris (June 2003). "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". Mojo. No. 115. p. 95.
  12. ^ "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". Q. No. 204. July 2003. p. 113.
  13. ^ Christgau, Robert (June 3, 2003). "Everything Must Go". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 9, 2022. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  14. ^ MacDonald, Ian (July 2003). "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". Uncut. No. 74. p. 116.
  15. ^ Gardner, Elysa (June 10, 2003). "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go". USA Today.
  16. ^ "Steely Dan at the Greek Theater: Concert Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  17. ^ a b Elliott, Paul (December 7, 2022). "Every Steely Dan album, ranked from worst to best". Classic Rock. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  18. ^ Schonfeld, Zach (February 28, 2020). "Two Against Nature Turns 20". Stereogum. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  19. ^ Patrin, Nate (January 29, 2015). "Steely Dan Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  20. ^ Golsen, Tyler (April 29, 2023). "Every Steely Dan album ranked from worst to best". Far Out. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  21. ^ "Steely Dan - Everything Must Go". Discogs.
  22. ^ discogs - Everything Must Go CD/DVD Special Edition (Europe)
  23. ^ discogs - Everything Must Go CD/DVD (US)
  24. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 266.
  25. ^ "Ultratop.be – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  26. ^ "Ultratop.be – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  27. ^ "Danishcharts.dk – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  28. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  29. ^ "Steely Dan: Everything Must Go" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  30. ^ "Lescharts.com – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  31. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  32. ^ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Steely Dan". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  33. ^ "Italiancharts.com – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  34. ^ "Charts.nz – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  35. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  36. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Steely Dan – Everything Must Go". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  37. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  38. ^ "Steely Dan Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 18, 2022.

External links[edit]

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