Steely Dan - The Very Best Of Steely Dan (2013)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Do It Again
02. Dirty Work
03. Reelin' In The Years
04. Only A Fool Would Say That
05. Change Of The Guard
06. Bodhisattva
07. The Boston Rag
08. Show Biz Kids
09. My Old School
10. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
11. Night By Night
12. Pretzel Logic
13. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
14. Black Friday
15. Bad Sneakers
16. Doctor Wu
17. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
18. Chain Lightning

CD2
01. Kid Charlemagne
02. Don't Take Me Alive
03. Haitian Divorce
04. The Fez
05. Here At The Western World
06. Black Cow
07. Aja
08. Deacon Blues
09. Peg
10. Josie
11. FM
12. Babylon Sisters
13. Hey Nineteen
14. Time Out Of Mind
15. Third World Man


There is an audience for the double-disc set Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972-1980, although it may be a small one -- it's a set for listeners who want something a little more extensive than A Decade of Steely Dan or Gold yet don't want to invest in full albums. On that level, it works quite well, since it does have all the chart and radio hits, plus a terrific sampling of classic album tracks from "Only a Fool Would Say That" through "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" to "Time Out of Mind." So Showbiz Kids winds up being useful for neophytes -- although it's hard not to imagine anyone who gets this set, believing that this will be all the Steely Dan they'll ever need, eventually succumbing and buying all the studio albums. If that's the case, at least they'll already have "Here at the Western World" and "FM," and won't have to purchase one of the two multi-disc sets that contain these non-LP songs.

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