Title: Mostly awful
Product review: What a shame about Steely Dan. The immaculate production and stellar musicianship that Becker & Fagen and their various cohorts are known for are present in spades - but the album is junk.Steely Dan albums are not usually boring. Two Against Nature is. Only "What A Shame About Me" and the catchy, hilarous "Cousin Dupree" are even halfway decent. Everything else on this album is insubstantial, colorless wallpaper - tasteful, but bland.Some folks have compared Two Against Nature to Donald Fagen's last album, Kamakiriad. I would have to agree. When I first heard that album, I thought, "Can you say 'no musical development whatsoever'?" Two Against Nature answers that question with a resounding "NO".What a shame.P.S. - Okay, it's not quite that bad. Two Against Nature does make for decent background listening once in a while. But, I still wish it were better.
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