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Track Listings
| 1. Black Friday - Steely Dan |
| 2. Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan |
| 3. Rose Darling - Steely Dan |
| 4. Daddy don't live in that New York City no more |
| 5. Doctor Wu |
| 6. Everyone's Gone To The Movies - Steely Dan |
| 7. Your Gold Teeth II - Steely Dan |
| 8. Chain lightning |
| 9. Any world (that I'm welcome to) |
| 10. Throw Back The Little Ones - Steely Dan |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 1970s. 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
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought Katy Lied over 25 years ago and was a bit disappointed. After Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown and The Royal Scam I found it a bit dull and 'muddy'. It was the Steely Dan album I played least. It was only years later that I learned Becker and Fagen were so depressed about the sound of the album even they would never listen to it.
The remastered version is a revelation. It's like seeing an Old Master that's been restored after gathering centuries of dust and grime. The colours are suddenly vibrant and the scene full of life. The sun has been let in, making Katy Lied sound much more like the precursor of The Royal Scam.
Despite its roll call of drug dealers, gangsters, paedophiles, pimps and prostitutes, it represents some of the most beautiful music ever created, by one the most underrated partnerships in rock.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Somewhat oddly, if the rest of these reviews are anything to go by, this was the first Dan album I ever heard or bought. Although I can take or leave a couple of the tracks - I've never really got into either "Daddy Don't Live...." or "Everyone's Gone...." - the album is worth buying for three reasons:
1) The soaring Denny Dias guitar solo on "Your Golf Teeth II" - which is the closest thing to aural paradise ever recorded
2) Michael Omartian's piano triads right at the end of "Throw Back the Little Ones"; and
3) The all-round excellence of "Doctor Wu"
So don't be put off by the cover - just buy the album and enjoy it!
(By the way, I'm not sure that the Amazon reviewer is right to praise Donald Fagen for the piano fills. I think that Michael Ormartian played piano throughout, and that Fagen hardly touched the Bosendorfer that they had bought specially for the album sessions.)
1) The soaring Denny Dias guitar solo on "Your Golf Teeth II" - which is the closest thing to aural paradise ever recorded
2) Michael Omartian's piano triads right at the end of "Throw Back the Little Ones"; and
3) The all-round excellence of "Doctor Wu"
So don't be put off by the cover - just buy the album and enjoy it!
(By the way, I'm not sure that the Amazon reviewer is right to praise Donald Fagen for the piano fills. I think that Michael Ormartian played piano throughout, and that Fagen hardly touched the Bosendorfer that they had bought specially for the album sessions.)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album was strangely overlooked on first issue in the 70s, and had a look-and-feel of being a bit thrown together. Turns out the sleeve design (and notes) were supposed to mimic 50s jazz albums of Walt and Don's acquaintance, a fact that passed most of us by at the time. Whatever, the songs, shorter and slighter than a lot of the Dan catalogue nevertheless contain all their hallmark quality. "Bad Sneakers" contains their most sardonic guitar solo bar none, "Daddy Don't Live" has a nastily-infectious hook and "Doctor Wu" contains one of their most beautiful melodies. Snappy and clever lyrics are in place as usual (no 'Moons and Junes' for these guys), and the whole thing reeks of class. I've lived with it for 20 years but it still sounds fresh, and it makes great listening in the car. Turn the volume up, open the windows and give the neighbours a treat.
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A collection of imperious tunes and inspired musicianship.
On release in the mid-70's this album got rather lost under the radar. This seems to have been primarily the fault of Becker and Fagen themselves who, we have later discovered,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gary Mcghee
Best of the best
I've owned this album in every format available ever since its release. Steely Dan are one of those rare 'bands'(a loose term after Pretzel Logic)whose entire catalogue is worth... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. E. Neil
Katy Lied
I first really remember listening to this album about 20 years ago having somehow unconsciously missed it the first time around. Read more
Published on 28 April 2010 by Korky's Dad
The tipping point
This is generally considered the Steely album where they really started to 'get things right' and the Becker/Fagen/Katz trinity developed its trademark sound. Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by mattjoplin
Can you hear me?
Not their best but still a damn sight better than most. This is the album when Steely Dan lost even the pretence of being a band and became a vehicle for Fagen and Becker and their... Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2009 by A. Willard
katy lied - steely dan
the only steely dan album we didn't have on cd, so had to have it, sounds just as good as the first time round
Published on 14 April 2009 by Mrs. Diana R. Mortimer
Speaks for itself..
I love this album and had never owned it as a C.D. This was very good value.
Published on 11 Feb 2009 by Cattykins
A 1975 Classic!
"Katy Lied" is one of Steely Dan's great classic albums ( OK, they all are!) from when they were still a real band, and not "just" the Becker/Fagen duo. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2008 by Morten Vindberg
A 1975 Classic!
"Katy Lied" is one of Steely Dan's great classic albums ( OK, they all are!) from when they were still a real band, and not "just" the Becker/Fagen duo. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2008 by Morten Vindberg
Katydid
Containing none of their most famous hits, 'Katy Lied' is nevertheless Steely Dan's most gorgeous collection of songs. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2008 by D. J. H. Thorn
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