Steely Dan 
The best album credited to Steely Dan is Aja which is ranked number 150 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 8,932.
Steely Dan is ranked number 93 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 21,648.
Steely Dan official website: http://www.steelydan.com
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- Donald Fagen
- Michael McDonald
- Walter Becker
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Steely Dan best albums
The following albums by Steely Dan are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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Steely Dan best tracks
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Steely Dan ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 08/17/2026 17:21 | pago82 | 1,405 | 67/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2025 04:28 | ootsp | 5 | 86/100 |
| ! | 09/16/2025 05:29 |  Norshammar | 48 | 99/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.8/100, a mean average of 83.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.5/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.3.
Steely Dan favourites
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Steely Dan forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5437): By Untitled BestEverAlbums 09/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5435): By flamingyesdept BestEverAlbums 09/13/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5434): By TaricSteely Dan comments
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The run of albums from Can’t buy a thrill to gaucho is one of the greatest “runs” of albums by any bands ever. Most artists would be happy producing just of of these great albums but to have such a great run shows what a fantastic band they were.
All time greats (Edited)
Jboy56 01/11/2022 10:02 | #279132
The father of all overproduced songs. Still, I love them. Aja..
One of my favorite artists of all time. They never made a bad song. (Edited)
Not the "greatest" band of all time but perhaps the coolest.
