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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aja_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It's your favorite foreign movie]]


-->''"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past\\
Still I remain tied to the mast\\
Could it be that I have found my home at last\\
Home at last"''



Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's sixth album.


!! Tracklist:
# "Black Cow"
# "Aja"
# "Deacon Blues"
# "Peg"
# "Home At Last"
# "I Got The News"
# "Josie"

!! Personnel:
* Donald Fagen, keyboards/vocals
* Walter Becker, guitar


!! "I Got The Tropes":
* BookEnds: "Black Cow" and "Josie" both mention a place called "Rudy's".
* DrunkDriver: "Deacon Blues"
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, and most of the songs are over five minutes. "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: "Josie"
* MinimalisticCoverArt: As shown above.
* NewSoundAlbum: Much jazzier, longer songs, much less pop.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"
* OneWomanSong: "Aja," "Peg," "Josie"
* RecordProducer: Gary Katz, as usual.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song is "Peg," not "Your Favorite Foreign Movie."
* SomethingBlues: "Deacon Blues"
* TakeThat: "Deacon Blues," to everyone who doesn't like their music.
-->"I'll learn to work the saxophone\\
I'll play just what I feel"
* UncommonTime: The title track, as described by The Other Wiki:
-->The first part goes on for 17 bars, one in 2/4, as the other musicians vamp on staccato chords beneath. The interlude chords briefly return, and Gadd resumes keep the beat, with a few more flourishes, while Shorter's solo continues. Then the vamp and drum solo resume for another 17-bar section, this one including one bar in 3/4, that ends with a descending chord progression that takes us back into the intro.

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aja_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It's your favorite foreign movie]]


-->''"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past\\
Still I remain tied to the mast\\
Could it be that I have found my home at last\\
Home at last"''



Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's sixth album.


!! Tracklist:
# "Black Cow"
# "Aja"
# "Deacon Blues"
# "Peg"
# "Home At Last"
# "I Got The News"
# "Josie"

!! Personnel:
* Donald Fagen, keyboards/vocals
* Walter Becker, guitar


!! "I Got The Tropes":
* BookEnds: "Black Cow" and "Josie" both mention a place called "Rudy's".
* DrunkDriver: "Deacon Blues"
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, and most of the songs are over five minutes. "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: "Josie"
* MinimalisticCoverArt: As shown above.
* NewSoundAlbum: Much jazzier, longer songs, much less pop.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"
* OneWomanSong: "Aja," "Peg," "Josie"
* RecordProducer: Gary Katz, as usual.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song is "Peg," not "Your Favorite Foreign Movie."
* SomethingBlues: "Deacon Blues"
* TakeThat: "Deacon Blues," to everyone who doesn't like their music.
-->"I'll learn to work the saxophone\\
I'll play just what I feel"
* UncommonTime: The title track, as described by The Other Wiki:
-->The first part goes on for 17 bars, one in 2/4, as the other musicians vamp on staccato chords beneath. The interlude chords briefly return, and Gadd resumes keep the beat, with a few more flourishes, while Shorter's solo continues. Then the vamp and drum solo resume for another 17-bar section, this one including one bar in 3/4, that ends with a descending chord progression that takes us back into the intro.
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Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's fifth album.


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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aja_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It's your favorite foreign movie]]


-->''"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past\\
Still I remain tied to the mast\\
Could it be that I have found my home at last\\
Home at last"''



Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's fifth album.


!! Tracklist:
# "Black Cow"
# "Aja"
# "Deacon Blues"
# "Peg"
# "Home At Last"
# "I Got The News"
# "Josie"

!! Personnel:
* Donald Fagen, keyboards/vocals
* Walter Becker, guitar


!! "I Got The Tropes":
* BookEnds: "Black Cow" and "Josie" both mention a place called "Rudy's".
* DrunkDriver: "Deacon Blues"
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, and most of the songs are over five minutes. "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: "Josie"
* MinimalisticCoverArt: As shown above.
* NewSoundAlbum: Much jazzier, longer songs, much less pop.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"
* OneWomanSong: "Aja," "Peg," "Josie"
* RecordProducer: Gary Katz, as usual.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song is "Peg," not "Your Favorite Foreign Movie."
* SomethingBlues: "Deacon Blues"
* TakeThat: "Deacon Blues," to everyone who doesn't like their music.
-->"I'll learn to work the saxophone\\
I'll play just what I feel"
* UncommonTime: The title track, as described by The Other Wiki:
-->The first part goes on for 17 bars, one in 2/4, as the other musicians vamp on staccato chords beneath. The interlude chords briefly return, and Gadd resumes keep the beat, with a few more flourishes, while Shorter's solo continues. Then the vamp and drum solo resume for another 17-bar section, this one including one bar in 3/4, that ends with a descending chord progression that takes us back into the intro.

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