Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy (LP Vinyl) Concord Jazz Broadway Melody Of 1974 (2:11)

Broadway Melody Of 1974 (2:11)

making it arguably the more reflective and enduring account of that generation's defining gathering

limited to the Reprise catalog and covering the years 1969 to 1992

trading the distorted punch of Dookie and Insomniac for acoustic strumming

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Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy (LP Vinyl) Concord Jazz Broadway Melody Of 1974 (2:11)Recorded in 1973 with a rotating cast of session players that would become the band's signature approach, *Countdown to Ecstasy* marked the moment Becker and Fagen fully committed to the studio as their instrument. Looser and more guitar forward than what came later, it captures a band still willing to stretch out, with "King of the World" and "Bodhisattva" hinting at the jazz inflected perfectionism that would define their later work. At long last,