Here's another one we had missed from Universal Netherlands' Collected series:

Description
Three CD set. Throughout the '70s, musical trends would come and go, but Steely Dan always remained true to their own blend of Jazz, Pop and Rock. The songs were clever and melodic, the musicianship was top notch and the production was stellar. The band, led by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, were adored by musicians and non-musicians alike and even the critics eventually warmed up to them. While the band called it a day in 1980 (reuniting a decade and a half later), their fanbase continued to grow and their original albums became prized possessions in record collections everywhere. This triple disc collection contains 47 tracks including hits and album tracks released 1972-80. Features 'Do It Again', 'Peg', 'Reelin' In The Years', 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number', 'FM', and many others.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Do It Again
2. Dirty Work
3. Only A Fool Would Say That
4. Brooklyn (Owes The Chamber Under Me)
5. Midnight Cruiser
6. My Old School
7. Pretzel Logic
8. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
9. Ruse Darling
10. Bad Sneakers
11. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
12. The Fez
13. Deacon Blues
14. Hey Nineteen
15. Babylon Sister

[CD2]
1. Reelin' In The Years
2. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
3. Night By Night
4. With A Gun
5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
6. Black Friday
7. Doctor Wu
8. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
9. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
10. Chain Lightning
11. Green Earrings
12. Kid Charlemagne
13. Here At The Western World
14. Peg
15. Josie
16. Time Out Of Mind
17. Third World Man

[CD3]
1. Bodhisattva
2. Show Biz Kids
3. Pearl Of The Quarter
4. Parker's Band
5. Barrytown
6. Throw Back The Little Ones
7. Don't Take Me Alive
8. Haitian Divorce
9. Sign In Stranger
10. Black Cow
11. Aja
12. Home At Last
13. FM
14. Gaucho
15. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Demo)

Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002H3ZUYY/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002H3ZUYY/?tag=imwan-21

It's a really good collection of songs. I already have all their stuff, but this is a good overview of what they were doing.

I was hoping for "Dallas" and "Sail the Waterway" from that +4 EP, but no dice.

enough of the steely dan comps....seriously....doors territory is very close.

Renny, it's okay, it's five years old. We're just catching up on the comps in this series.

whew!

I don't think that they have a lot really. This one is part of a series though.

1978 Greatest Hits
Release date: November 30, 1978

Steely Dan
Release date: 1978

1982 Gold
Release date: 1982

1985 A Decade of Steely Dan
Release date: 1985

The Very Best of Steely Dan: Reelin' In the Years
Release date: October 1985

1987 The Very Best of Steely Dan: Do It Again
Release date: October 1987

1993 Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan – Then and Now
Release date: November 1993

Citizen Steely Dan
Release date: December 14, 1993


1998 Members Edition
Release date: June 6, 1998

2000 Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980
Release date: November 14, 2000

2006 Steely Dan: The Definitive Collection
Release date: August 1, 2006

2007 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection:
The Best of Steely Dan
Release date: June 12, 2007

Found Studio Tracks
Release date: 2000

2009 The Very Best of Steely Dan
Release date: June 29, 2009

Collected
Release date: July 2009

and i know there are quite a few other imports out there as well.

they had a total of 9 studio albums and one live album. (10 studio if you count "you gotta walk it")

and as jimbo stated above, they can't even put out the 2 songs form the EP on a CD for the fans. those 2 and the "you gotta walk it" album they seem to have disowned. kind of like bob seger and his 3 albums that simply refuses to releases for some ungodly reason.

Ok, how many were released in the US?

This one isn't even a US release.

i think that all the ones that i posted are the U.S. releases, they were listed on wikipedia.

These are really the only true US comps:

(1978) Greatest Hits

(1982) Gold (an extension of Greatest Hits; no repeats)

(1985) A Decade of Steely Dan (one of the first CD-only comps)

(1993) Citizen Steely Dan (4-CD Box Set)

(2002) Showbiz Kids - The Steely Dan Story (1972-1980) (first and only 2-CD comp)

(2006) The Definitive Collection (basically an update of Decade, adding two of the latter-day tracks, and swapping out one other)

(2007) 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (who didn't get one of these?!?)

so we do have 11 CD's of greatest hits from 9 studio albums!

that, my friends, IS doors territory.

I'm not trying to argue, but I disagree that it's a lot. There are a few categories of comps - ranging from budget collections (like their entry in Universal 20th Century Masters collection) to the standard one cd (or one album) greatest hits, more expansive ones multi-disc ones and box sets.

For a one disc greatest hits on cd for them, you have Decade which got replaced by the Definitive Collection... and oh yeah a budget collection.

I have Showbiz Kids which has no comparable repeat collection in print in the US.

This Collected set would be close, but I have never seen the Collected sets in the US. I ordered one from another artist that came from the UK.

Boy, that is one ugly and cheap looking cover. Did some record company exec's 14 year kid design it?

i'm not trying to argue at all, just stating facts.

as we move forward in time more and more artists will have more best of/greatest hits comps than regular albums, i'm sure of it.

steely dan, the doors, the beach boys, elvis and sinatra quickly come to mind as those who have already achieved this goal. and there are probably others that i just can't think of right now.

I don't see it that way. Greatest Hits came out before the breakup. Gold came out after the breakup and completed the picture (with no repeats). Those two releases were from the vinyl era. Decade replaced the vinyl comps, and was one of the first CD-only comps to hit the market (a big deal in 1985). It was the only comp available (sans the 4-CD box set) until 2002, when they put out the only 2-CD comp w/remastered sound. In 2006, there had been no single-disc comp on the market for a number of years, so they updated Decade's track listing, mastering, and changed the title to Definitive since it now covered more than a decade. So everything official is really well thought out and replaces what was previously on the market.

At the end of the day, Steely Dan's collections have evolved to a single-disc comp (Definitive), a double-disc comp (Showbiz Kids), and a box set (Citizen Dan). That makes total sense. Then throw in the obligatory record company budget line (Millennium) and new 3-CD series (Collected), and it's doesn't even sniff Door's territory. The Doors and/or their record company put out comps for the sake of putting out comps, with no thought to what's already on the market. Essentially giving you multiple choices of nearly the same thing over and over again.

I have the "Showbiz Kids" 2 CD set. It has provided excellent company on a couple of road trips. It's nice music to listen to while driving.

i have all the complete remastered series from about 15 years back,
and had to get the Showbiz Kids for "FM" and "Here At The Western World" - as you all understand.
and KUDOS to Mobile Fidelity for two of their finer moments with "Aja" and "Gaucho!"

worth noting that the Citizen box set was missing the intro, the first 20 seconds or so of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
which i don't know was ever corrected. i returned my box set and bought the discs individually,
which i should have done in the first place for the artwork, good liner notes, etc.

the Donald Fagen solo material needs a proper remaster(?)/repackage/reissue WITH the damn bonus tracks.
i have the NIghtfly Trilogy box, but it's a tad squirrelly - could use a better effort.

FYI

they did replace the "rikki" with the corrected intro almost immediately. if i recall correctly you had to send the "bad" in and they sent you a new one, but i could be wrong on this, someone here will remember exactly how it went i'm sure.

OK , you're right.

I wonder if a needle-drop of that EP exists somewhere??

Here's "Dallas" (A-side) and "Sail the Waterway" (B-side) from their first single circa 1972.

Dallas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euf716oQx-w

Sail the Waterway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXLM8nMljio


Here's a great Aja/Gaucho era outtake they've been playing live in recent years:

The Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACxesurdBVk

And another that's clearly not completed lyrically:

Kind Spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDOfSl4V2PA