The Very Best of Steely Dan

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Do It Again
  5:57
  4.1 ★
• 2
  Dirty Work
  3:08
  3.9 ★
• 3
  Reelin’ In the Years
  4:37
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Only a Fool Would Say That
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Change of the Guard
  3:39
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Bodhisattva
  5:18
  3.8 ★
• 7
  The Boston Rag
  5:40
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Show Biz Kids
  5:26
  4.0 ★
• 9
  My Old School
  5:46
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
  4:32
  4.4 ★
• 11
  Night by Night
  3:40
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Pretzel Logic
  4:32
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Any Major Dude Will Tell You
  3:08
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Black Friday
  3:41
  4.5 ★
• 15
  Bad Sneakers
  3:21
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Doctor Wu
  3:55
• 17
  Any World (That I’m Welcome to)
  3:55
• 18
  Chain Lightning
  3:02
• CD 2
• 1
  Kid Charlemagne
  4:39
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Don’t Take Me Alive
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Haitian Divorce
  5:51
  3.6 ★
• 4
  The Fez
  4:02
• 5
  Here at the Western World
  4:01
• 6
  Black Cow
  5:10
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Aja
  8:00
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Deacon Blues
  7:36
  4.4 ★
• 9
  Peg
  4:00
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Josie
  4:35
  3.5 ★
• 11
  FM
  5:06
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Babylon Sisters
  5:49
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Hey Nineteen
  5:07
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Time Out of Mind
  4:12
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Third World Man
  5:16

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Can’t Buy a Thrill

Can’t Buy a Thrill 1972

Countdown to Ecstasy

Countdown to Ecstasy 1973

The Royal Scam

The Royal Scam 1976

Mobile Homes (Seattle 1974 Broadcast)

Mobile Homes (Seattle 1974 Broadcast) 2021

Can’t Buy a Thrill / Gaucho

Can’t Buy a Thrill / Gaucho 2010

Release credits

• Barney Perkins
  mix [1-4]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-4, 8, 12]
• Bill Perkins
  saxophone [9]
• Bill Schnee
  recording [7]
• Bob Findley
  horn [1-4]
• Casey Syszik
  background vocals [5]
• Chuck Findley
  horn [1-4], trumpet [1-4]
• Chuck Rainey
  bass [2.1-5, 1.14-18], bass guitar [6-7, 9-10, 12, 15]
• Clydie King
  background vocals [1, 6, 8]
• Crusher Bennett
  percussion [12]
• David Paich
  keyboard [14]
• David Palmer
  background vocals [3], lead vocals [2]
• David Sanborn
  alto saxophone [14]
• David Tofani
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Dean Parks
  acoustic guitar [10], guitar [3, 5, 10], solo [3]
• Denny Dias
  acoustic guitar [2], electric guitar [3], electric sitar [1], guitar [1.6, 1.9, 1.11-13, 2.7], solo [1, 6]
• Dick Hyde
  horn [1-4], trombone [1-4]
• Diva Gray
  background vocals [12]
• Don Grolnick
  clavinet [9, 12], electric piano [12], keyboard [1]
• Don Henley
  background vocals [11]
• Donald Fagen
  Wurlitzer electric piano [2], arranger [14-18], background vocals [2.1-4, 2.7, 2.10, 1.2-3, 1.10, 1.15], electric piano [1.1, 2.13-14], horn [1-4], keyboard [1.1, 1.11-18, 2.1-4], lead vocals [2.1-15, 1.1, 1.3-6, 1.9-10, 1.14-15, 1.18], organ [2], piano [2.11, 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.14-18], synthesizer [1.6, 2.6-8, 2.10, 2.13-14], vocal [2.1, 1.11-13], whistle [7]
• Elliot Scheiner
  engineer [1-5], mix [12-15]
• Elliott Randall
  electric guitar [3], solo [3]
• Ernie Watts
  saxophone [9]
• Florence Warner
  background vocals [5]
• Frank Floyd
  background vocals [13]
• Gary Coleman
  percussion [1-4, 9]
• Gary Katz
  producer
• George Marge
  bass clarinet [12]
• Glenn Frey
  background vocals [11]
• Gordon Grody
  background vocals [12]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [2.13-14, 1.15]
• Jay Graydon
  guitar [9], solo [9]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [1.11, 1.14-16, 1.18, 2.11], percussion [2.11, 1.16]
• Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
  electric guitar [1-3], guitar [6, 9-13], pedal steel guitar [11-13], solo [6, 9-10], spoken vocals [4]
• Jerome Richardson
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [1.10, 1.12-13, 2.5]
• Jim Hodder
  background vocals [2], drums (drum set) [1-6, 9]
• Jim Horn
  saxophone [1-4]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [10], percussion [10]
• Jimmie Haskell
  horn [9]
• Joe Sample
  Rhodes piano [7], clavinet [6], electric piano [15]
• John Klemmer
  saxophone [1-4]
• Johnny Rotella
  saxophone [9]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [12]
• Lanny Morgan
  saxophone [9]
• Larry Carlton
  electric guitar [15], guitar [1, 1-2, 2, 6-8, 10], solo [1-2, 15]
• Lee Ritenour
  guitar [8]
• Leslie Miller
  background vocals [5, 12, 14]
• Mark Knopfler
  guitar [14], solo [14]
• Michael Brecker
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Michael McDonald
  background vocals [1.15, 1.17, 2.1, 2.9, 2.14]
• Michael Omartian
  keyboard [14], piano [1.10, 1.15, 2.5, 2.7]
• Miss Natalie
  assistant [6-9]
• Myrna Matthews
  background vocals [9]
• Neil McCormick
  liner notes
• Patricia Hall
  background vocals [9]
• Patti Austin
  background vocals [12, 14]
• Paul Griffin
  Rhodes piano [9], background vocals [9], electric piano [9], keyboard [1-4]
• Paul Humphrey
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Pete Christlieb
  tenor saxophone [8, 11]
• Phil Woods
  alto saxophone [16]
• Plas Johnson
  saxophone [1-4]
• Randy Brecker
  flugelhorn [12], trumpet [12, 14]
• Rebecca Louis
  background vocals [6]
• Rick Derringer
  guitar [18], slide guitar [8], solo [18]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [2, 9, 13-14]
• Rob Mounsey
  brass [12, 14], piano [14], synthesizer [15]
• Roger Nichols
  engineer [2.1-5, 1.1-18], executive [6-10, 12-15], mix [1-4]
• Ronnie Cuber
  baritone saxophone [14]
• Ryan Art
  design
• Sherlie Matthews
  background vocals [2.1, 2.6, 2.8, 1.9]
• Snooky Young
  flugelhorn [2]
• Steely Dan
  arranger [12-15]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [7, 15], percussion [13]
• Steve Kahn
  guitar [9]
• Steve Khan
  acoustic guitar [15], electric guitar [15], guitar [9, 12]
• Tim Weston
  assistant [1-5]
• Timothy B. Schmit
  background vocals [1.10, 2.7, 2.10-11]
• Tom Scott
  Lyricon [9], alto saxophone [12], clarinet [12], horn [6, 6-7, 7-8, 8], tenor saxophone [6, 12]
• Toni Wine
  background vocals [12]
• Valerie Simpson
  background vocals [14]
• Venetta Fields
  background vocals [1, 6, 8]
• Victor Feldman
  Rhodes piano [6, 8, 10], electric piano [8], percussion [2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 1.1, 1.10, 1.14-18], vibraphone [14-18]
• Wally Kane
  bass clarinet [12]
• Walter Becker
  arranger [14-18], background vocals [2], bass [1.6, 1.9-18, 2.1-4, 2.8, 2.11], bass guitar [13-14], electric bass guitar [1-5], electric guitar [11], guitar [2.1-4, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10, 2.13-14, 1.11-14, 1.14-15, 1.15-18], horn [1-4], solo [1.14-15, 2.4, 2.10]
• Wayne Shorter
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Wilton Felder
  bass [15-18]
• Zachary Sanders
  background vocals [13]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Steely Dan

  2x CD
  29 June 2009