Steely Dan: The Very Best Of
STEELY Dan was never really a band.
It was an understanding between two Brooklyn smart alecs to craft the sharpest pop they could.
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker supposed rock, pop and jazz could be indivisibly one.
By 1977’s Aja, they’d become too slick for our own good so much of this package draws from that fabulous run of Can’t Buy A Thrill up to The Royal Scam.
VERDICT: 3/5
(Universal)