I can't do much better than this. I enjoyed the band a lot as a young adult, stopped listening for a few years, and they have come back hard to my playlist for

I can't do much better than this. I enjoyed the band a lot as a young adult, stopped listening for a few years, and they have come back hard to my playlist for the last 15 to 20 years. Just a lot of depth to their music, words, and cultural approach. Besides Aja, I'd recommend Katy Lied, Gaucho, and Everything Must Go; and Fagen's solo Nightfly as starting points. For songs, "Kid Charlemagne" is partly a nice Bay Area piece, and "Any Major Dude" is necessary consolation when everything is falling apart.