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The Lockdown Playlist
Steely Dan’s Gaucho at Forty: Brilliant Songs from Albums Released in 1980
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WHILST the album did divide critics…
in 1980, I think Steely Dan’s follow-up from 1977’s Aja is a very strong album. Gaucho was released on 21st November, 1980, and it contains some of the band’s/duo’s (essentially Donald Fagen, the late Walter Becker and a rotating cast of musicians) best songs – including Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters, and Time Out of Mind. Steely Dan would soon split and they didn’t return with their eighth studio album, Two Against Nature, until 2000. To mark forty years of an underrated and important album, I wanted to put together a Lockdown Playlist with songs from other great albums that have turned/will turn forty this year. I know I have done a 1980 playlist before, but I wanted to go deeper into albums rather than putting out the obvious songs. To mark forty years of Steely Dan’s Gaucho, here are a couple of great tracks from that album and some awesome songs from…
ALBUMS released in 1980.