Steely Dan

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Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Originally having a traditional band lineup, Becker and Fagen chose to stop performing live by the end of 1974 and continued Steely Dan as a studio-only duo, utilizing a revolving cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone magazine named them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies".

Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians and began recording music. Their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, and blues with sophisticated studio production and cryptic, irony-infused lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success with seven studio albums, peaking with their top-selling album Aja, released in 1977.

After Steely Dan disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen worked sporadically on solo projects through the 1980s, although a cult following remained devoted to the group's work. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature (2000), earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 43rd Grammy Awards. Their most recent album of new studio material is 2003's Everything Must Go, though they have continued to release compilations, box sets and live albums on a regular basis. After Becker's death in 2017, Fagen reluctantly continued the group with himself as the sole official member.

Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and have sold more than 40 million records worldwide. VH1 ranked Steely Dan at No. 82 on their list of the "100 Greatest Musical Artists of All Time" in 2010, and Rolling Stone ranked them No. 15 on its list of the "20 Greatest Duos of All Time" in 2015.

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1972Can’t Buy a ThrillSteely Dan3.931
1973Countdown to EcstasySteely Dan419
1974Pretzel LogicSteely Dan4.2525
1975Katy LiedSteely Dan4.5517
1976The Royal ScamSteely Dan4.315
1977AjaSteely Dan4.0544
1980GauchoSteely Dan4.75140
2000Two Against NatureSteely Dan413
2003Everything Must GoSteely Dan4.259

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1978Steely DanSteely Dan1
1978Greatest HitsSteely Dan4
1979The Very Best of Steely DanSteely Dan1
1982Countdown to Ecstasy / Can’t Buy a ThrillSteely Dan1
1982GoldSteely Dan6
1982Katy Lied / The Royal ScamSteely Dan3
1985A Decade of Steely DanSteely Dan317
1985Berry TownSteely Dan1
1985Sun MountainSteely Dan2
1985The Very Best of Steely Dan: Reelin’ In the YearsSteely Dan22
1987Old RegimeSteely Dan1
1987The Very Best of Steely DanSteely Dan1
1988Stone PianoSteely Dan2
1993Citizen Steely Dan: 1972–1980Steely Dan42
1993Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan (Then and Now)Steely Dan53
1994Becker & Fagan From Steely Dan CollectionSteely Dan41
1994Roaring of the LambSteely Dan4.55
1998The Early YearsSteely Dan2
2000Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972–1980Steely Dan34
2000Steely DanSteely Dan1
2000The Steely Dan CollectionSteely Dan1
2006The Definitive CollectionSteely Dan33
200720th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steely DanSteely Dan21
2009The Very Best of Steely DanSteely Dan1
2009CollectedSteely Dan21
2010Can’t Buy a Thrill / GauchoSteely Dan43
2012Can’t Buy a Thrill / AjaSteely Dan1
2023Ten Songs for YouSteely Dan1
A Decade of Steely DanSteely Dan1
Steely Dan featuring Walter Becker & Donald FaganSteely Dan1

Album + Interview + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2005Marian McPartland’s Piano JazzMarian McPartland with guest Steely Dan33

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1995Alive in AmericaSteely Dan4.354
2000Two Against Nature: Steely Dan’s Plush TV Jazz‐Rock Party in Sensuous Surround Sound (Plush TV Jazz‐Rock Party)Steely Dan1
20141974-04-30: Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, TN, USASteely Dan2
2015Live at the Record Plant, LA, 1974Steely Dan1
2021Somebody Else’s Favorite Songs (The Broadcast Collection 1974–1993)Steely Dan1
2021Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!Steely Dan2
2022California 1974Steely Dan1
2022Live in California 1974Steely Dan1
2025Done Up Loose: Live London ’74Steely Dan2
Southland (live)Steely Dan1

EP

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1981Hazlo otra vez (Do It Again)Steely Dan1
1982Reelin’ In the YearsSteely Dan1

EP + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1977Four Tracks From Steely DanSteely Dan1
1981Platinum HitsSteely Dan1

Single

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1972Do It Again / Fire in the HoleSteely Dan6
1972DallasSteely Dan2
1972Reeling In the Years / Only a FoolSteely Dan56
1973Dirty Work / Reeling In the YearsSteely Dan1
1973My Old SchoolSteely Dan2
1973Show Biz KidsSteely Dan3
1974Pretzel Logic / Through With BuzzSteely Dan2
1974Rikki Don’t Lose That Number / Any Major Dude Will Tell YouSteely Dan2
1975Black FridaySteely Dan3
1975Bad Sneakers / Chain LightningSteely Dan2
1976Haitian DivorceSteely Dan1
1976Kid Charlemagne / Green EarringsSteely Dan3
1976The Fez / Sign in StrangerSteely Dan3
1977Peg / I Got the NewsSteely Dan4
1977Deacon BluesSteely Dan3
1977JosieSteely Dan3
1978FM (No Static at All)Steely Dan6
1978Do It Again / Rikki Don’t Lose That NumberSteely Dan2
1978La mejor musica de “FM”Steely Dan1
1979Rikki Don’t Lose That Number / Pretzel LogicSteely Dan1
1980Babylon SistersSteely Dan1
1980Hey NineteenSteely Dan26
1980Time Out of Mind / BodhisattvaSteely Dan3
2000Cousin DupreeSteely Dan4
2003Blues BeachSteely Dan2
2003Everything Must GoSteely Dan1
2003The Last MallSteely Dan1

Single + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1995Reelin’ In the Years / PegSteely Dan1

Other + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2021Mobile Homes (Seattle 1974 Broadcast)Steely Dan33

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