I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album ... “Deacon Blues,” and the non-album single from that era, “FM” – I find them entirely somniferous ...

with a string of classic albums, satirizing 1970s coked-out yacht-rock smoothitude even as they luxuriated in it. And one thing never changes — no band is more fun to argue about. Steely Dan ...

JOE JACKSON: “Do It Again” is the first track on the first album, and right away it’s Steely Dan. It’s quite unusual, this Latin groove and electric sitar on the solo. You think the vocal ...