Two Against Nature
by Steely Dan
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Steely Dan bestography
Two Against Nature is ranked 8th best out of 21 albums by Steely Dan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Steely Dan is Aja which is ranked number 150 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,945.
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Two Against Nature track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Two Against Nature rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 42 Music Albums of 2000 | 17/42 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2000 | 60/90 | 2 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 70 Music Albums of 2000 | 20/70 | 4 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2000 | 47/50 | 0 |
| 2026 | glynspsa | Top 99 Music Albums of 2000 | 13/99 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 90 Music Albums of the 2000s | 85/90 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 110 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 394 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/22/2026 16:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,586 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2026 19:39 | dihansse | 6,407 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2026 20:20 | duelek | 2,219 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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dihansse 05/18/2026 20:07 in My discoveries per yearTwo Against Nature comments
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This won over Kid A and The Marshall Mathers LP why again? (Edited)
spigelwii 12/06/2023 19:47 | #300320 | TOP COMMENT
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Two Against Nature is actually a remarkably consistent Steely Dan record: It SOUNDS like Steely Dan, it has songs by Becker and Fagen, it has immaculate playing and occasional immaculate grooves, but in the end...this all feels very hollow and in service of a band that seems to be merely attempting to continue to exist 20 years after its most recent record, Gaucho. Even some of the best songs like Two Against Nature and Jack of Speed are great grooves searching for something memorable to latch onto. The one exception to the album's general lack of definition is the excellent Cousin Dupree, which is both very catchy AND darkly comedic: two qualities that Steely Dan have always been able to pull off. The rest of the songs range from "okay" to "just okay". There's not really a bad one here, but there's only one really good one...a very strange problem for SD to have.
Twenty plus years later, and over forty years after Gaucho, Two Against Nature comes across as almost wholly unnecessary, the least offensive and least interesting album, residing in the valley of a career full of monumental peaks. In a vacuum, I don't hate it at all (and really you could say I actually LIKE it), but I don't really feel much about it at all in the context of everything else they've done...which is maybe the most damning statement of all when it comes to Steely Dan. (Edited)
A fine comeback record from Steely Dan. I believe it is superior to Gaucho, which was inconsistent. And like Gaucho, it sounds fantastic in 5.1.
"Two Against Nature" was Steely Dan's comeback album in 2000 after almost twenty year break since "Gaucho".
The album has received much praise, and it is of course nice to hear new material from the group. Perhaps the album was, with the enthusiasm that the group recorded again, somewhat overestimated. Instrumentally and lyrically it has the level of the golden past; but many of the songs' melodic profiles are somewhat loose and some of them also seem a bit lengthy.
Of course there are exceptions to this. "Almost Gothic" and partly also "What a Shame About Me" have the familiar Steely Dan high standards.
The album's successor Everything Must Go "is in my estimation much more successful.
This is a very good album for the most par - much better than everything must go which I can't listen to
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