Pretzel Logic
by Steely Dan
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Steely Dan bestography
Pretzel Logic is ranked 5th best out of 21 albums by Steely Dan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Steely Dan is Aja which is ranked number 150 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,001.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Pretzel Logic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Pretzel Logic rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 54 Music Albums of 1974 | 1/54 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 34 Music Albums of 1974 | 18/34 | 3 |
| 2026 | machiaj | Top 40 Music Albums of the 1970s | 24/40 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Ledgin72 | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 33/50 | 36 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 50 Music Albums of 1974 | 19/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 42 Music Albums of 1974 | 16/42 | 3 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 34 Music Albums of 1974 | 17/34 | 3 |
| 2026 | mikepen | Top 40 Music Albums of 1974 | 16/40 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 386 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,862 | |||
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Pretzel Logic ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/17/2026 13:04 |  DanielNunes93 | 2,810 | 61/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 16:52 | araidernomore | 484 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2026 04:20 | brent13 | 2,143 | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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This is an excellent album but falls a little lower than the previous entries. (Edited)
This is one of those Classic Rock Albums that will live on forever. I appreciate good music, and this album deserves to be in my collection. I love the jazz infusion they bring to their music. My favorite song on the album is Pretzel Logic…oh yea. (Edited)
A bit of an inconsistent listen in places but there is still that classic Steely Dan charm on here that makes some of the songs on here fantastic pieces of music. These include Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Night By Night, Any Major Dude Will Tell You and the title track. All of these are beautifully crafted and all hook you to the song perfectly. It is very easy for those choruses to get stuck in your head as well and you end up singing them all night long. The rest of the album is decent but nothing special and there is quite a bit of filler. It definitely isn't as tight and compact as some of their other works but there is a lot of variety on here to be able to get stuck into. One major strength of this record is the diversity that is present on here and it is difficult to get bored of it as I keep noticing new things with each listen. Overall, this is definitely an album worth checking out as it is full of life and is of a very high musical quality. (Edited)
Solid record
This was definitely a nice listen, one of the better Steely Dan's albums I've heard.
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