Alive In America
by Steely Dan
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Steely Dan bestography
Alive In America 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 150 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,931.
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Alive In America track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Alive In America rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 70 Music Albums of the 1990s | 41/70 | 9 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 59/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Moondance | My top 100 live albums | 34/84 | - |
| 2026 | spigelwii | Top 9 Music Albums of 1995 | 7/9 | 2 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 57 Music Albums of 1995 | 33/57 | 2 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Albums Added To BEA (For Better Or Worse) | 16/100 | - |
| 2025 | rkm | Top 66 Music Albums of 1995 | 48/66 | 1 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | platus | Top 30 Music Albums of 1995 | 8/30 | 4 |
| 2024 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1995 | 18/20 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 53 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/10/2026 13:09 | RetoK | 102 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2026 07:55 | marcoserra1966 | 883 | 59/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2024 03:01 | stevengnz | 2,611 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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spigelwii 12/08/2023 13:58 in What album are you listening to right now?Alive In America comments
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Solid renditions of catalogue favourites, especially good are a chilled out slowed down jazzy rework of "Reelin' In The Years", while the opening funky groove workout "Babylon Sisters", a slick and sinewy run through of "Green Earrings" and the drum solo (a drum solo!) in "Josie" set off a few other fireworks. "Third World Man" arguably improves on the studio version and is one for the 'best of' playlist. I feel this album was maybe a bit of a missed opportunity otherwise, and the cover is one of the band's worst! They should put together another live album in the future, as they are now a great touring band and look unlikely to release new studio albums. (Edited)
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