The really great thing about this disc is that Fagen/Becker obviously wrote and recorded this material without even so much as a sideways glance at what's happening in the music scene today.  This stuff could've just as well come out in 1978, and it would've sounded exactly the same.  The bad part is that it'll never ever get any airplay, but I guess that's the loss of the mindless masses of sheep who follow trends.