TIME OUT OF MIND
STEELY DAN
SONGWRITER: DONALD FAGEN & WALTER BECKER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: GAUCHO
LABEL: MCA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ ROCK
YEAR: 1960
Gaucho is
the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan,
released on November 21, 1980, by MCA Records.
The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio
perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band
used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far
exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label. In 1982, the
album won the Grammy Award for Best
Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of
the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
During
the two-year span in which the album was recorded, the band was plagued by a
number of creative, personal and professional problems. MCA, Warner Bros. and Steely Dan had a three-way legal battle over the rights to
release the album. After it was released, jazz musician Keith Jarrett threatened the band with legal action for plagiarism in the title
song.
Gaucho marked
a significant stylistic change for the band, introducing a more minimal,
groove-and atmosphere-based format. The harmonically complex chord changes that
were a distinctive mark of earlier Steely Dan songs are less prominent on Gaucho,
with the record's songs tending to revolve around a single rhythm or mood,
although complex chord progressions were still present particularly in
"Babylon Sisters" and "Glamour Profession". Gaucho proved
to be Steely Dan's final studio album before a 20-year hiatus from the
recording industry.
Steely
Dan is an American jazz fusion band
founded in 1972 by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards,
lead vocals). Blending rock, jazz, latin music, reggae,
traditional
pop, R&B,
blues, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and
commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Initially
the band had a core lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired the band from
live performances altogether to become a studio-only band, opting to record
with a revolving cast of session musicians.
Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the
Seventies".
After the
group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of
the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan
has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of
which, Two Against Nature,
earned a Grammy Award
for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40
million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in March 2001. VH1 ranked Steely
Dan at #82 on their list of the 100 greatest musical artists of all time. Founding
member Walter Becker died on September 3, 2017, leaving Fagen as the sole
official member.
Son you
better be ready for love
On this glory day
This is your chance to believe
What I've got to say
Keep your eyes on the sky
Put a dollar in the kitty
Don't the moon look pretty
Tonight
when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind
I am
holding the mystical sphere
It's direct from Lhasa
Where people are rolling in the snow
Far from the world we know
Children
we have it right here
It's the light in my eyes
It's perfection and grace
It's the smile on my face
Tonight
when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind
Children
we have it right here
It's the light in my eyes
It's perfection and grace
It's the smile on my face
Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind.
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