A Decade Of Steely Dan (compilation album)
by Steely Dan

A Decade Of Steely Dan by Steely Dan
(Compilation album)
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 20,691st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 58 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (229th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,734th)
Award Best albums of all time (20,691st)

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Steely Dan bestography

A Decade Of Steely Dan is ranked 11th best out of 21 albums by Steely Dan on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Steely Dan is Aja which is ranked number 161 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,108.

Steely Dan album bestography « Higher ranked (18,939th)
Alive In America
This album (20,691st)
A Decade Of Steely Dan
Lower ranked (29,342nd) »
The Best Of Steely Dan: Then And Now

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Steely Dan Tribute by Pretzel Logic
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Musicians of STEELY DAN (Early Classics) - featuring DENNY DIAS, ROYCE JONES, KEITH CARLOCK, TOM SCOTT, GRANT GEISSMAN, YARON GERSHOVSKY
Belly Up, Solana Beach, United States. United States
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Musicians of STEELY DAN ("AJA" and "GAUCHO") - featuring DENNY DIAS, ROYCE JONES, KEITH CARLOCK, TOM SCOTT, GRANT GEISSMAN, YARON GERSHOVSKY
Belly Up, Solana Beach, United States. United States
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82/100 (from 58 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.7/100, a mean average of 81.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.

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Bought this mostly for "FM," and that led to a long journey of listening to Steely Dan albums.
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It's Steely Dan, so of course the songs are great. The only reason to buy this back in the day, before it was possible to buy individual songs, was to get "FM", which wasn't included on any of Steely Dan's studio albums.
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