Biography

As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions.Preferring jazz, traditional pop, blues, and R&B, the band created a sophisticated, distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, with a devotion to the recording studio. With producer Gary Katz, Becker and Fagen gradually changed Steely Dan from a performing band to a studio project, hiring professional musicians to record their compositions. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• Aja

• Android Warehouse

• Any Major Dude Will Tell You

• Any World (that I'm Welcome To)

• Babylon Sisters

• Barrytown

• Black Cow

• Black Friday

• Bodhisattva

• Brain Tap Shuffle

• Brooklyn (owes The Charmer Under Me)

• Caves Of Altamira

• Chain Lightning

• Charlie Freak

• Cousin Dupree

• Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More

• Deacon Blues

• Dirty Work

• Do It Again

• Don't Take Me Alive

• Everyone's Gone To The Movies

• Everything Must Go

• Everything You Did

• Fm

• Gaslighting Abbie

• Glamour Profession

• Green Earrings

• Haitian Divorce

• Here At The Western World

• Hey Nineteen

• I Got The News

• Janie Runaway

• Josie

• Kid Charlemagne

• King Of The World

• Midnight Cruiser

• My Old School

• Night By Night

• Old Regime

• Only A Fool Would Say That

• Parker's Band

• Peg

• Razor Boy

• Reelin' In The Years

• Reeling In The Years

• Rikki Don't Lose That Number

• Roaring Of The Lamb

• Rose Darling

• Show Biz Kids

• Sign In Stranger

• The Caves Of Altamira

• The Last Mall

• Things I Miss The Most

• Third World Man

• This Seat's Been Taken

• Throw Back The Little Ones

• Time Out Of Mind

• Two Against Nature

• Your Gold Teeth

• Your Gold Teeth Ii

Discography

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• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast

  Jazz Alliance

  2005

• Everything Must Go

  Reprise

  2003

• Two Against Nature

  Giant / Giant

  2000

• Alive in America

  Giant / Giant

  1995

• Citizen Steely Dan

  MCA

  1993