
Artist
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is a rock artist from Annandale-on-Hudson, USA formed in 1972. 37 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Annandale-on-Hudson, USA · Best rock albums
- 37
- Releases
- 1972–2025
- Active years
- 1972
- Formed

Artist
Steely Dan is a rock artist from Annandale-on-Hudson, USA formed in 1972. 37 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Annandale-on-Hudson, USA · Best rock albums

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The Very Best of Steely Dan
2009

Two Against Nature
2000

Aja
1977

Can't Buy a Thrill
1972

Katy Lied
1975

Gaucho
1980

Alive in America
1995

A Decade of Steely Dan
1985

Pretzel Logic
1974

Countdown to Ecstasy
1973

Gold
1982

Old Regime
1987

The Royal Scam (2025 Remaster)
2025

Katy Lied (2025 Remaster)
2025

Everlasting Summer (Live)
2023

Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!
2021

NORTHEAST CORRIDOR: STEELY DAN LIVE (Live)
2021

The Definitive Collection
2006

The Root of Steely Dan
1997

Becker & Fagan From Steely Dan Collection
1994

Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980
1993

Green Flower Street (Live)
1993

Citizen 1972-1980
1993

Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan (Then and Now)
1993

Stone Piano
1988

The Very Best of Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years
1985

Sun Mountain
1985

Berry Town
1985
Countdown to Ecstasy / Can't Buy a Thrill
1982

Katy Lied / The Royal Scam
1982

Greatest Hits
1978

Steely Dan
1978

The Royal Scam
1976
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Steely Dan is an American rock band consisting of core members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, and crime. The pair is well known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, the most extreme example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho - an album that contains only seven songs. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade Fagen and Becker rem…