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The Greatest Albums Ever Made: Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy

Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 30 October 2003

WALTER BECKER and Donald Fagen were wiseass New York musician nerds stranded in L.A. in the early '70s, and they poured all the cynicism and paranoia of that circumstance into Steely Dan, the most notorious studio band in the annals of classic rock.

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