Note: I have a few book-length projects in various states of planning. One is dedicated to Steely Dan. As TBVO readers know, I'm fond of writing of Walker Becker and Donald Fagen, in both their Dan and solo incarnations. Below is a short excerpt of the book-length work-in-planning, which deals with how the image of Backer and Fagen as anti-rock stars so seamlessly supports the experience of listening to Steely Dan's perfectly crafted studio albums -- an alignment of image and sound not true of m
A few weeks ago, Acoustic Sounds accidentally published the listing for an upcoming UHQR vinyl release of Steely Dan's Katy Lied mastered by Bernie Grundman. Shortly thereafter, an eagle-eyed fan on Steve Hoffman Forums found that by changing the numbers in the URL, one could find unlisted pages for both vinyl and SACD releases of every Steely Dan album album through Gaucho.
Both the SHF thread discussing these releases and the inadvertently published Acoustic Sounds pages have been
Perhaps no catalog besides The Beatles’ is more beloved by audiophiles than Steely Dan’s. But while The Beatles’ digital history is fairly straightforward, the Dan’s is murky.
Steve Hoffman Forum user bmoregnr has gone to great lengths to cull the forum’s collective knowledge spread across dozens and dozens of threads and compile every known digital version of each Steely Dan album.
That said, there’s still much we don’t know.
I tried to provide some furthe
