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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band’s popularity peaked in the late 1970s, and their seven albums over that period of time blended elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone has called them “the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies”. Recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, such as Larry Carlton, Steely Dan’s music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written “cerebral, wry and eccentric” and crime. Over the year they took to record Gaucho (1980), an album of just seven songs, Becker and Fagen hired at least 42 studio musicians and 11 engineers. Steely Dan toured from 1972... Read on...

• Rank
• Artist
• Song
• Year
• Points

• 1
• Steely Dan
• Reelin' In The Years
• 1972
• 293

• 2
• Steely Dan
• Do It Again
• 1972
• 183

• 3
• Steely Dan
• Peg
• 1978
• 157

• 4
• Steely Dan
• Deacon Blues
• 2006
• 106

• 5
• Steely Dan
• Haitian Divorce
• 1976
• 101

• 6
• Steely Dan
• Don'T Take Me Alive
• 2006
• 86

• 7
• Steely Dan
• Hey Nineteen
• 1980
• 86

• 8
• Steely Dan
• Josie
• 1977
• 58

• 9
• Steely Dan
• Aja
• 1977
• 58

• 10
• Steely Dan
• Rikki Don'T Lose That Number
• 1974
• 58

• 11
• Steely Dan
• The Royal Scam
• 1976
• 53

• 12
• Steely Dan
• Any World (That I'M Welcome...
• 2007
• 47

• 13
• Steely Dan
• Fm
• 2006
• 41

• 14
• Steely Dan
• Doctor Wu
• 2009
• 30

• 15
• Steely Dan
• Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
• 1980
• 30

• 16
• Steely Dan
• Kid Charlemagne
• 2009
• 30

• 17
• Steely Dan
• Only A Fool Would Say That
• 1972
• 30

• 18
• Steely Dan
• Show Biz Kids
• 1973
• 30

• 19
• Steely Dan
• My Old School
• 1972
• 30

• 20
• Steely Dan
• Pretzel Logic
• 1974
• 24

• 21
• Steely Dan
• King Of The World
• 1973
• 6

• 22
• Steely Dan
• Everything Must Go
• 2003
• 0

• 23
• Steely Dan
• Glamour Profession
• 1980
• 0

• 24
• Steely Dan
• Time Out Of Mind
• 2013
• 0

• 25
• Steely Dan
• I Got The News
• 2013
• 0

• 26
• Steely Dan
• Home At Last
• 2013
• 0

• 27
• Steely Dan
• Everything You Did
• 2009
• 0

• 28
• Steely Dan
• The Fez
• 2009
• 0

• 29
• Steely Dan
• Sign In Stranger
• 1972
• 0

• 30
• Steely Dan
• The Caves Of Altamira
• 2000
• 0

• 31
• Steely Dan
• Throw Back The Little Ones
• 1975
• 0

• 32
• Steely Dan
• Chain Lightning
• 1998
• 0

• 33
• Steely Dan
• Your Gold Teeth Ii
• 2013
• 0

• 34
• Steely Dan
• Daddy Don'T Live In That New...
• 2011
• 0

• 35
• Steely Dan
• Rose Darling
• 1975
• 0

• 36
• Steely Dan
• Bad Sneakers
• 2012
• 0

• 37
• Steely Dan
• Black Friday
• 2009
• 0

• 38
• Steely Dan
• Night By Night
• 2014
• 0

• 39
• Steely Dan
• Razor Boy
• 1973
• 0

• 40
• Steely Dan
• Barrytown
• 1976
• 0

• 41
• Steely Dan
• Parker’s Band
• 2014
• 0

• 42
• Steely Dan
• East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
• 2012
• 0

• 43
• Steely Dan
• Kings
• 1972
• 0

• 44
• Steely Dan
• Your Gold Teeth
• 2014
• 0

• 45
• Steely Dan
• The Boston Rag
• 1973
• 0

• 46
• Steely Dan
• Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer...
• 1972
• 0

• 47
• Steely Dan
• Pearl Of The Quarter
• 2009
• 0

• 48
• Steely Dan
• Green Earrings
• 2009
• 0

• 49
• Steely Dan
• Gaucho
• 2009
• 0

• 50
• Steely Dan
• Everyone'S Gone To The Movies
• 2008
• 0