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.

When one thinks of music from the 1970s, Steely Dan is a band that likely springs ... culminating with their best album, Aja, which also happens to be one of the best albums of all time.

The song comes from the archive of Steely Dan's longtime engineer Roger Nichols Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...