1. Canīt Buy a Thrill - ABC Records 1972
Tracks:
1. Do It Again / 2. Dirty Work / 3. Kings / 4. Midnight Cruiser / 5. Only A Fool Would Say That / 6. Reelin' In The Years / 7. Fire In The Hole / 8. Brooklyn / 9. Change Of The Guard / 10. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
Rating : 9
2. Countdown to Ecstasy - ABC Records 1973
Tracks:
1. Bodhisattva / 2. Razor Boy / 3. The Boston Rag / 4. Your Gold Teeth / 5. Show Biz Kids / 6. My Old School / 7. Pearl Of The Quarter / 8. King Of The World
Rating : 8
3. Pretzel Logic - ABC Records 1974
Tracks:
1. Rikki Don't Lose That Number / 2. Night By Night / 3. Any Major Dude Will Tell You / 4. Barrytown / 5. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / 6. Parker's Band / 7. Through With Buzz / 8. Pretzel Logic / 9. With A Gun / 10. Charlie Freak / 11. Monkey In Your Soul
Rating : 8
4. Katy Lied - ABC Records 1975
Tracks:
1. Black Friday / 2. Bad Sneakers / 3. Rose Darling / 4. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More / 5. Doctor Wu / 6. Everyone's Gone To The Movies / 7. Your Gold Teeth II / 8. Chain Lightning / 9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To) / 10. Throw Back The Little Ones
Rating : 7
5. The Royal Scam - ABC Records 1976
Tracks:
1. Kid Charlemagne / 2. The Caves Of Altamira / 3. Don't Take Me Alive / 4. Sign In Stranger / 5. The Fez / 6. Green Earrings / 7. Haitian Divorce / 8. Everything You Did / 9. The Royal Scam
Rating : 5
6. Aja - ABC Records 1977
Tracks:
1. Black Cow / 2. Aja / 3. Deacon Blues / 4. Peg / 5. Home At Last / 6. I Got The News / 7. Josie
Rating : 4
7. Gaucho - MCA Records 1980
Tracks:
1. Babylon Sisters / 2. Hey Nineteen / 3. Glamour Profession / 4. Gaucho / 5. Time Out Of Mind / 6. My Rival / 7. Third World Man
Rating : 6
8. Two Against Nature - Giant 2000
Tracks:
1. Gaslighting Abbie / 2. What a Shame About Me / 3. Two Against Nature / 4. Janie Runaway / 5. Almost Gothic / 6. Jack of Speed / 7. Cousin Dupree / 8. Negative Girl / 9. West of Hollywood
Rating : 4
9. Everything Must Go - Reprise 2003
Tracks:
1. The Last Mall / 2. Things I Miss The Most / 3. Blues Beach / 4. Godwhacker / 5. Slang Of Ages / 6. Green Book / 7. Pixeleen / 8. Lunch With Gina / 9. Everything Must Go
Rating : 7
10. Catalyst ( early recordings ) - Thunderbolt 1994
Tracks:
1. Sun Mountain / 2. Barrytown / 3. Take It Out on Me / 4. Caves of Altamira / 5. Charlie Freak / 6. You Go Where I Go / 7. Any World (That I'm Welcome To) / 8. Little With Sugar / 9. Android Warehouse / 10. More to Come / 11. Parker's Band / 12. Oh Wow It's You / 13. / 2. Ida Lee / 3. Sun Mountain [Alt.] / 4. Undecided / 5. Horse in Town / 6. Let George Do It / 7. Old Regime / 8. Brain Tap Shuffle / 9. Mock Turtle Song / 10. Soul Ram / 11. Brooklyn / 12. Don't Let Me In / 13. Come Back Baby / 14. I Can't Function
Rating : 5
11. Citizen ( 4 CD Box ) - MCA 1993
Tracks:
Their complete first 7 albums + 1. Bodhisattva [Live] / 2. Here at the Western World / 3. FM / . Everyone's Gone to the Movies [Demo ]
Rating : 9
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on Rate Your Music - October 19 - 2009
19 Pretzel Logic - 1974
24 Aja - 1977
25 The Royal Scam - 1976
38 Countdown to Ecstasy - 1973
40 Katy Lied - 1975
43 Canīt Buy a Thrill - 1972
138 Gaucho - 1980
529 Two Against Nature - 2000
999 Everything Must Go - 1999
Check and Rate Here!
October 19 - 2009 "rateyourmusic.com"
My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
1. Brooklyn ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
2. Rikki Donīt Lose That Number ( Becker/Fagen ) Pretzel Logic
3. Dirty Work ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
4. Any Major Dude ( Becker/Fagen ) Pretzel Logic
5. Do it Again ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
6. Pearl of The Quarter ( Becker/Fagen ) Countdown to Esctasy
7. Midnight Cruiser ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
8. Only a Fool ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
9. With a Gun ( Becker/Fagen ) Pretzel Logic
10. Fire in The Hole ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
11. Rose Darling ( Becker/Fagen ) Katy Lied
12. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
13. Razor Boy ( Becker/Fagen ) Countdown to Esctasy
14. Barrytown ( Becker/Fagen ) Pretzel Logic
15. Everyoneīs Gone to The Movies ( Becker/Fagen ) Katy Lied
16. Haitian Divorce ( Becker/Fagen ) The Royal Scam
17. Hey Nineteen ( Becker/Fagen ) Gaucho
18. The Boston Rag ( Becker/Fagen ) Countdown to Esctasy
19. My Old School ( Becker/Fagen ) Countdown to Esctasy
20. King of The World( Becker/Fagen ) Countdown to Esctasy
21. Kings ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
22. Reeling in The Years ( Becker/Fagen ) Canīt Buy a Thrill
23. Almost Gothic ( Becker/Fagen ) Two Against Nature
24. Things I Miss The Most ( Becker/Fagen ) Everything Must Go
25. Slang of Ages ( Becker/Fagen ) Everything Must Go
26. Everything Must Go ( Becker/Fagen ) Everything Must Go
27. Come Back Baby ( Becker/Fagen ) Catalyst
28. Blues Beach ( Becker/Fagen ) Everything Must Go
LINKS:
The Steely Dan Internet Resource
Steely Dan - Everything You Did