Steely Dan’s Aja was recently named one of the best 100 albums ever by Apple Music. Listen to the album now. This masterwork, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, came as ...

Steely Dan’s 1977 landmark Aja is to be the next release in Geffen/UMe’s extensive reissue program of the group’s hallowed catalog of releases for ABC and MCA Records. Newly remastered from ...

I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved by many fans. An equal number of their fans revile it. You can count me in the latter group.

That’s precisely what they did on Aja, which is the most musically sophisticated ... which solidified the record’s prominence. The album remains Steely Dan’s best-selling album, with 2,300,000 sales.

Not only that, but retrospective opinion of the album has seen it enter the conversation of being one of the greatest debut albums of all time and sits alongside the likes of Pretzel Logic and Aja as ...