Day 299: What a Shame About Me

What a Shame About Me by Steely Dan

And then, on Feb. 29, 2000, they subverted expectations again, releasing their first new album in 20 years. Titled Two Against Nature, it managed the seemingly impossible feat of picking up pretty much exactly where Becker and Fagen left off with Gaucho: Hunched over the mixing board, exerting exacting control over airtight grooves and arrangements, still thoroughly out-of-step with prevailing trends.

“We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do,” Becker told Paul Zollo during the weeks leading up to the release of Two Against Nature. “I don’t think what we are doing fits neatly into the context of what’s happening now any more than it did in the early ’70s when we started doing it. We were fortunate at that time that radio was as wide open as it was and that people doing something like what we were doing could sneak in there.”

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