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Countdown to Ecstasy
Countdown to Ecstasy cover
Studio album by Steely Dan
Released July, 1973
Recorded Village Recorder,
Santa Monica, CA,
Caribou Ranch,
Nederland, CO
Genre Rock
Length 41:04
Label ABC Records
Producer Gary Katz
Professional reviews
Steely Dan chronology
Can't Buy A Thrill
(1972)		 Countdown to Ecstasy
(1973)		 Pretzel Logic
(1974)

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The album was originally released in 2 channel Stereo and also in a special 4-channel Quadrophonic mix. Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of Sound, using two or more independent audio channels through a Symmetrical Quadraphonic (or quadrophonic) sound &ndash the most-widely-used early term for what is now called 4 There are some significant musical differences between the 2 mixes.

The song My Old School was reportedly inspired by an incident during some of the band members high school attendance. In its March 24, 2006 edition, Entertainment Weekly details a return trip to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York by Donald Fagen, in which he describes a raid by sheriff's deputies in May 1969. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc Bard College, founded in 1860 is a small selective four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, USA, in the Hudson Valley in the Town of Red Hook, across Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948 in Passaic New Jersey) is an American Musician and Songwriter. [1] Fagen, his girlfriend Dorothy White, Steely Dan bandmate Walter Becker, and some 50 other students were arrested. Walter Becker (born Walter Carl Becker, 20 February 1950, in Queens, New York) is an American musician and record producer Charges were dropped, but the harassment was the origin of the grudge alluded to in "My Old School". Fagen was reportedly so upset with the school being complicit with the arrests that he refused to attend graduation. The same article speculates that a Bard professor's wife, Rikki Ducornet, was the inspiration for "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". Rikki Ducornet born Erica DeGre, (born April 19[[ 949]] in Canton New York is an American Postmodernist, Writer, Poet,

Show Biz Kids was sampled by Super Furry Animals on their 1996 single The Man Don't Give a Fuck. Super Furry Animals (also known as " SFA " the " Furries " and the " Super Furries " are a Welsh Rock band " The Man Don't Give a Fuck " is a song by the Super Furry Animals, twice released as a single by the group

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Becker and Fagen.

  1. "Bodhisattva" – 5:19
  2. "Razor Boy" – 3:11
  3. "The Boston Rag" – 5:40
  4. "Your Gold Teeth" – 7:02
  5. "Show Biz Kids" – 5:25
  6. "My Old School" – 5:47
  7. "Pearl of the Quarter" – 3:50
  8. "King of the World" – 5:04

Personnel

Steely Dan

Production

Reissue

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1973 Pop Albums 35

Pop Singles

Year Single Label & number Position
1973 "My Old School" (B-side: "Pearl Of The Quarter) ABC 11396 63
1973 "Show Biz Kids" (B-side: "Razor Boy") ABC 11382 61

References

  1. ^ Back to Annadale

External links

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