Name: The Very Best of Steely Dan
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The Very Best of Steely Dan

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Album: The Very Best of Steely Dan
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Do It Again	More Info...	0:06
2)	Dirty Work	More Info...	0:03
3)	Reelin' in the Years	More Info...	0:04
4)	Only a Fool Would Say That	More Info...	0:03
5)	Change of the Guard	More Info...	0:03
6)	Bodhisattva	More Info...	0:05
7)	The Boston Rag	More Info...	0:05
8)	Show Biz Kids	More Info...	0:05
9)	My Old School	More Info...	0:05
10)	Rikki Don't Lose That Number	More Info...	0:04
11)	Night By Night	More Info...	0:03
12)	Pretzel Logic	More Info...	0:04
13)	Any Major Dude Will Tell You	More Info...	0:03
14)	Black Friday	More Info...	0:03
15)	Bad Sneakers	More Info...	0:03
16)	Doctor Wu	More Info...	0:04
17)	Any World (That I'm Welcome To)	More Info...	0:04
18)	Chain Lightning	More Info...	0:03

Album: The Very Best of Steely Dan
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Do It Again	More Info...	0:06
2)	Dirty Work	More Info...	0:03
3)	Reelin' in the Years	More Info...	0:04
4)	Only a Fool Would Say That	More Info...	0:03
5)	Change of the Guard	More Info...	0:03
6)	Bodhisattva	More Info...	0:05
7)	The Boston Rag	More Info...	0:05
8)	Show Biz Kids	More Info...	0:05
9)	My Old School	More Info...	0:05
10)	Rikki Don't Lose That Number	More Info...	0:04
11)	Night By Night	More Info...	0:03
12)	Pretzel Logic	More Info...	0:04
13)	Any Major Dude Will Tell You	More Info...	0:03
14)	Black Friday	More Info...	0:03
15)	Bad Sneakers	More Info...	0:03
16)	Doctor Wu	More Info...	0:04
17)	Any World (That I'm Welcome To)	More Info...	0:04
18)	Chain Lightning	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Putting together a "best-of" compilation for a band as hell-bent on achieving perfection as Steely Dan can be a daunting task. Fortunately, The Very Best of Steely Dan takes a kitchen-sink approach as it delivers two discs of remarkably precise jazz-rock from the storied outfit. A career retrospective, the album tracks Steely Dan from their more group-oriented beginning, which found legendary guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter in the lineup, to their more withdrawn period in the second half of their career when Becker and Fagen focused on the perfectionism allowed by the studio environment. This helps to give listeners a taste of the band's complete history all in one shot rather than over the course of a couple of volumes. In the end, The Very Best of Steely Dan is like the closing arguments of two attorneys who are both arguing their client is innocent, just for different reasons, with both of its two discs making a compelling case for why Steely Dan were one of the great soft/jazz-rock bands of the '70s. ~ Gregory Heaney