Steely Dan - Through The Years

* A SIGOPS Compilation *

Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974 Becker and Fagen retired from live performances to become a studio-only band, opting to record with a revolving cast of session musicians. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies". Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians, and began recording albums. Their first, Can't Buy a Thrill, established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, blues, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success through seven studio albums, peaking with their top-selling album Aja, released in 1977.

Origin Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Genres Jazz rock, soft rock, pop, jazz fusion
Years active 1971–1981, 1993–present
Labels ABC, MCA, Giant, Reprise, Warner Bros.
Associated acts Jay and the Americans, Doobie Brothers, New York Rock and Soul Revue, Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, Toto, Larry Carlton
Website steelydan.com
Members Donald Fagen, With, Catherine Russell, Carolyn Leonhart, Michael Leonhart, Jon Herington, Jim Pugh, Roger Rosenberg, Walt Weiskopf, Keith Carlock, Freddie Washington, Jim Beard, La Tanya Hall, Adam Rogers
Past members Walter Becker, Jeff Baxter, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, David Palmer, Royce Jones, Michael McDonald, Jeff Porcaro, see

Track List:
01 Don't Take Me Alive
02 Peg
03 Pretzel Logic
04 My Old School
05 Rikki Don't Lose that Number
06 Deacon Blues
07 Doctor Wu
08 Do It Again
09 Josie
10 The Fez
11 Hey Nineteen
12 Reelin' In The Years