Kid Charlemagne (track)
by Steely Dan
Year: 1976
From the album The Royal Scam (track #1)
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Kid Charlemagne appears on the following album(s) by Steely Dan:
- Greatest Hits (track #15) (compilation) (1978)
- The Royal Scam (track #1) (this album) (1976)
- Citizen (track #41) (compilation) (1993)
- A Decade Of Steely Dan (track #12) (compilation) (1985)
- The Best Of Steely Dan: Then And Now (track #14) (compilation) (1993)
- Alive In America (track #9) (1995)
- The Very Best Of Steely Dan: Do It Again (track #3) (compilation) (1987)
- The Definitive Collection (track #9) (compilation) (2006)
- Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! (track #2) (2021)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/02/2026 07:02 |  Liedzeit | 10,961 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2026 10:18 | Johnnyo | 45,607 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 10:00 | Deckard | 423 | 70/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.7/100, a mean average of 88.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.9.
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Very underrated, best steely dan song, one of the best guitar solos of all time. The drums are also amazing. Impossible not to love this track. Rick Beato's video says it all (Edited)
An excellent composition. Great sounds, with pop/rock, jazz, funk elements. Stand-out solo guitar and outro by the underrated Larry Carlton, awesome rhythm section, great keyboards and beautiful harmonies in the vocals. Can't believe I'm the first to right anything on this track in BEA.
Go check this one out in Rick Beato, on YouTube, "what makes this song great" series (Edited)
