It’s just that as stand-alone songs, I don’t think they work as well as the ones on this list. The Royal Scam should be heard in its entirety. It is Steely Dan’s best concept album.

It is no secret that Aja is Steely Dan’s greatest album. At just seven songs, the band turned 40 minutes into a lifetime of all-time compositions.

In 1979, a studio technician accidentally erased a new Steely Dan song called “The Second Arrangement.” Attempts to rescue the recording were futile, and everyone assumed the tune was lost to ...

Accidentally erased from the masters during the 1979 ‘Gaucho‘ sessions, storied Steely Dan song “The Second Arrangement“ has surfaced in higher fidelity than previously heard on bootlegs.

“Third World Man,” the last song on Steely Dan’s 1980 masterpiece Gaucho, is a dank and unsettling thing, a five-minute meditation on post-traumatic stress disorder rife with paranoid ...

Listen closely, dig deeper. There is far more to Steely Dan than meets the ear. Just like our sacred texts. I remember it, as if it were yesterday. I remember the first time I heard Steely Dan. At ...

Steely Dan's songs of monied decadence, druggy disconnection and self-destructive escapism seemed satirically extreme way back when. Now they just seem prophetic.