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Citizen Steely Dan

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Citizen Steely Dan
Box set by
Steely Dan
ReleasedDecember 14, 1993
Recorded1972–1980
GenreRock
Length287:02
LabelMCA
ProducerGary Katz
Steely Dan chronology
The Very Best of Steely Dan: Do It Again
(1987)		 Citizen Steely Dan
(1993)		 The Best of Steely Dan: Then and Now
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Citizen Steely Dan is a four-CD box set compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1993.

Overview

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The set is a collection of all of Steely Dan's albums (up to 1980) in chronological order, and also contains a 1991 remix of the non-album single "FM (No Static at All)", a non-album B-side "Bodhisattva (Live)", 1978 Greatest Hits compilation only track "Here at the Western World", and a previously unreleased demo of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" (a song from their 1975 album Katy Lied).

The set is not a complete compilation of every track released by Steely Dan up to 1993. Missing are both sides of the band's 1972 debut single ("Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway"), neither of which has ever been issued on CD, because of the band's dislike of the songs.[2] The compilation was the first release of the remastered versions of Steely Dan's albums until the remastered studio albums were issued in 1998.

The first pressing features "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" using the single edit of the song. This version omits the flapamba intro.[3] The second pressing of the box set features the version from the album, although it was reissued without any information noting the change.[citation needed]

Glenn Meadows remastered the CD set from the digital masters archived by Donald Fagen, Gary Katz and Roger Nichols in 1982. Early reports from engineer Roger Nichols stated that the original analog master tapes were in poor physical condition, leading to the use of his 1980s 3M digital transfers for this box set.[4] However, this was contradicted during the 2022 Analogue Productions reissue project. Mastering engineer Bernie Grundman and producer Chad Kassem performed a physical audit of the tapes and confirmed that the masters for the first five albums remained in excellent, playable condition.[5]

Additionally, original tape box documentation included Variable Speed Oscillator (VSO) instructions to adjust the speed and pitch of various tracks. While the original 1970s vinyl pressings followed these production notes, the digital transfers for the 1993 box set were mastered at a standard concert pitch of A440Hz. Modern reissues from 2022 onward have restored the intended pitch and timing documented on the tape boxes. For the albums Aja and Gaucho, where original flat masters were unavailable, the 2022 project utilized high-quality analog safety copies containing the original masterings of the respective albums.[5][6][7]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, except where noted.

Disc one
No.TitleOriginLength
1."Do It Again"Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)5:54
2."Dirty Work"Can't Buy a Thrill3:08
3."Kings"Can't Buy a Thrill3:45
4."Midnite Cruiser"Can't Buy a Thrill4:06
5."Only a Fool Would Say That"Can't Buy a Thrill2:55
6."Reelin' in the Years"Can't Buy a Thrill4:36
7."Fire in the Hole"Can't Buy a Thrill3:26
8."Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)"Can't Buy a Thrill4:19
9."Change of the Guard"Can't Buy a Thrill3:38
10."Turn That Heartbeat Over Again"Can't Buy a Thrill4:58
11."Bodhisattva"Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)5:17
12."Razor Boy"Countdown to Ecstasy5:40
13."The Boston Rag"Countdown to Ecstasy3:10
14."Your Gold Teeth"Countdown to Ecstasy6:59
15."Show Biz Kids"Countdown to Ecstasy5:23
16."My Old School"Countdown to Ecstasy5:45
Total length:73:29
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)OriginLength
1."King of the World" Countdown to Ecstasy5:00
2."Pearl of the Quarter" Countdown to Ecstasy3:49
3."Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (single version) Pretzel Logic (1974)4:07
4."Night by Night" Pretzel Logic3:38
5."Any Major Dude Will Tell You" Pretzel Logic3:08
6."Barrytown" Pretzel Logic3:19
7."East St. Louis Toodle-oo"Duke Ellington; Bubber MileyPretzel Logic2:48
8."Parker's Band" Pretzel Logic2:43
9."Through with Buzz" Pretzel Logic1:32
10."Pretzel Logic" Pretzel Logic4:31
11."With a Gun" Pretzel Logic2:17
12."Charlie Freak" Pretzel Logic2:43
13."Monkey in Your Soul" Pretzel Logic2:34
14."Bodhisattva" (live) B-side of "Hey Nineteen" single (1980)7:41
15."Black Friday" Katy Lied (1975)3:40
16."Bad Sneakers" Katy Lied3:19
17."Rose Darling" Katy Lied3:03
18."Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More" Katy Lied3:13
19."Doctor Wu" Katy Lied3:54
20."Everyone's Gone to the Movies" Katy Lied3:44
21."Chain Lightning" Katy Lied2:59
Total length:73:42
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)OriginLength
1."Your Gold Teeth II" Katy Lied4:12
2."Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" Katy Lied3:53
3."Throw Back the Little Ones" Katy Lied3:13
4."Kid Charlemagne" The Royal Scam (1976)4:37
5."The Caves of Altamira" The Royal Scam3:32
6."Don't Take Me Alive" The Royal Scam4:14
7."Sign in Stranger" The Royal Scam4:21
8."The Fez"Becker; Fagen; Paul GriffinThe Royal Scam3:58
9."Green Earrings" The Royal Scam4:05
10."Haitian Divorce" The Royal Scam5:48
11."Everything You Did" The Royal Scam3:54
12."The Royal Scam" The Royal Scam6:31
13."Here at the Western World" Greatest Hits (1978)4:00
14."Black Cow" Aja (1977)5:08
15."Aja" Aja8:00
16."Peg" Aja3:55
Total length:73:21
Disc four
No.TitleWriter(s)OriginLength
1."Deacon Blues" Aja7:33
2."Home at Last" Aja5:32
3."I Got the News" Aja5:04
4."Josie" Aja4:31
5."FM" Remix, original version from FM: The Original Movie Soundtrack (1978)5:05
6."Babylon Sisters" Gaucho (1980)5:48
7."Hey Nineteen" Gaucho5:07
8."Glamour Profession" Gaucho7:28
9."Gaucho"Becker; Fagen; Keith JarrettGaucho5:30
10."Time Out of Mind" Gaucho4:11
11."My Rival" Gaucho4:30
12."Third World Man" Gaucho5:14
13."Everyone's Gone to the Movies" (demo) Previously unreleased (1971)3:57
Total length:69:30

Personnel

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References

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  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Interview with Fagen and Becker on Compuserve". The Steely Dan Reader. October 20, 1995. Retrieved March 21, 2026.
  3. ↑ Robustelli, Anthony (2017). Steely Dan FAQ: All that's Left to Know about this Elusive Band. Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books. p. 97. ISBN 9781495025129.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. 1 2 acousticsoundsks (November 2, 2022). Bernie Grundman and Chad Kassem Discuss the Steely Dan Reissues. Retrieved April 29, 2026 – via YouTube.
  6. ↑ "Steely Dan-Aja-UHQR Vinyl Record|Acoustic Sounds". store.acousticsounds.com. Retrieved April 29, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Analogue Productions' UHQR 200g 45rpm 2LP UHQR Version of Steely Dan's Gaucho Finally Actualizes the Near-Perfection and Soulful Grace Lurking Amidst the Grooves of Its Clinically Clean, Grammy Award-Winning Original 1980 Vinyl Edition". Analog Planet. May 15, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2026.
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