Steely Dan – Everything Must Go

Really great sounding press imo. Now I'm curious how the RSD and Analogue Productions presses compare. I'm not sure if its just my copy or not, but I noticed it has lots of crackles and pops even after cleaning the record. For some odd reason my copy also has two of the exact same inserts

Picked up this record sometime last year, and it's about as gnarly as Steely records come. Despite the occasional high-end EQ, you've got yourself an amazing sounding record. Fitted with enough groove and spat to make you dance, think, and ask how human beings got so lucky as to live on the same planet as Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. 11/10

And just as Two Against Nature i ordered this one in my local record shop for a normal price ( this one 18,30 Euros )That's what you get when you kept on buying vinyl in the CD period . Real collector items.

A word to the wise before parting with your hard-earneds...

Both Everything Must Go and Two Against Nature (also Kamakiriad which was on German vinyl, and particularily later Donald Fagen solo LPs) are ALL digital recordings. They're not analog recordings, so all they really are is 16 or 24 bit CD masters pressed onto vinyl.

Dan fans are often audiophiles, if you know how good, say, the Robert Ludwig cut Greatest Hits tracks sound on vinyl, then this is not what you're going to find on these LPs, whoever mastered them - I doubt they could ever be made to sound like vinyl does, they're so compact disc sounding, mixed and produced.

They do sound ok on vinyl, mainly because they're well recorded and decently pressed, but they still sound like you're playing a CD on a decent system, all the lacking in bottom end, ultra crisp mids and rather shrill highs, plus that horrid, compressed, gated drum sound the Dan have used in recent years doesn't help tonally - it almost sounds worse on vinyl - gone the days of Jim Hodder, Hal Blaine, Bernard Purdy, Jim Keltner, Jeff Porcaro's acoustic sounding drums that's for sure.

Other than owning them as rarities on vinyl, you might as well stick with the CDs if you have a half decent CD player. They really don't sound any different, and they certainly don't sound 'better', in fact they don't really sound like vinyl does actually, just warmed up CDs...

Even if Everything Must Go is remastered on 180g vinyl for RSD, which may well sound better, it's still only going to be a digital master pressed onto vinyl, nothing is going to change that 'CD' sound.

There is going to be a reissue of this album for the first drop of Record Store day 2021 on June 12. It is going to be cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering on a single audiophile grade 180g LP. Limited to 10,000 copies worldwide but 5,050 are coming to the US.

Please ... Does anyone know who many German pressing there were?

Super record, though I despise the flimsy EU jackets. I managed to find a nearly flawless copy for just around $100US, so I'm gonna smile for a couple of weeks.

*** Regarding these EU flimsy jackets. It's my advise, if you store you albums outside of the jacket, to place a pice of cardboard wrapped in a plastic sleeve within the jacket. Not using a plastic sleeve for the cardboard will cause it to bleed on the the jacket (acids in the processing). Of course you could simply go to a framing shop and grab some a sheet of acid-free mat-board and avoid the plastic.

This album and their previous one Two Against Nature both deserve a reissue. Both had a very limited vinyl release only in Europe, possible due to there being far less interest in vinyl at the time. Both of those releases now sell for stupid money. It would cost the better part of a grand to pick up both.