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Steely Dan

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2021 - Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!

2009 - The Very Best of Steely Dan

2009 - Stone Piano

2007 - Sun Mountain

2006 - The Definitive Collection

2003 - Everything Must Go

2000 - Two Against Nature

1997 - The Root of Steely Dan

1995 - Alive in America

1994 - Becker & Fagan From Steely Dan Collection

1993 - Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980

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

1993 - Old Regime

1987 - The Very Best of Steely Dan

1985 - A Decade of Steely Dan

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

1985 - Berry Town

1982 - Gold

1982 - Katy Lied / The Royal Scam
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1982 - Countdown to Ecstasy / Can't Buy a Thrill

1980 - Gaucho
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1979 - The Very Best of Steely Dan

1978 - Steely Dan

1978 - Greatest Hits

1977 - Aja

1976 - The Royal Scam

1975 - Katy Lied

1974 - Pretzel Logic

1974 - Rikki Don't Lose That Number / Any Major Dude Will Tell You

1973 - Countdown to Ecstasy

1973 - Reelin' in the Years / Only a Fool

1972 - Can't Buy a Thrill

Members
2 Male

Popularity

70

Followers
2,406,991

Origin
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Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Genre
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Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Good Natured

Born

1972

Active
1972 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Do It Again	1,437,639	4 users
Dirty Work	782,386	3 users
Peg	816,222	3 users
Reelin' in the Years	1,020,491	3 users
Rikki Don't Lose That Number	595,110	3 users

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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 remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time "a cult following" remained devoted to the group. In 1993, the group resumed playing live concerts; later Steely Dan released two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.