Episode notes

The Album: Steely Dan Aja (1977)

If you love the music on Insecure, you’ll love the fact that Heat Rocks had an opportunity to sit down with the brainchild behind in. Kier Lehman, well known for his work on Insecure, Spiderman Spiderverse, Being Mary Jane, Entourage, Love Is, sat down with us to talk about the seminal 1977 album that is a tastemakers dream and beloved across generations.

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and 36 of the best and brightest musicians and vocalists in the business assembled on the west coast to produce seven tracks which dripped with jazz, rock, punk, soul and fire!

Music writers and critics across publication and decades all agree that Aja is a masterpiece and belongs in the canon of great albums.

What happens when two music supes sit down to unpack it? Tune in to find out.

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Show Tracklisting (all songs from Aja unless indicated otherwise):

I Got The News

Aja

Peg

Home At Last

Black Cow

Deacon Blues

Aja

Josie

Wiz Khalifa: Old Chanel

Peg

De La Soul: Eye Know

Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz: Uptown Baby

Black Cow

MF DOOM: Gas Drawls

Steely Dan: Kid Charlamagne

Kanye West: Champion

Aja

Home at Last

I Got The News

Peg

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find there

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