20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Steely Dan

mainstays and are credited as co-compilation producers with executive on the entry in 's discount-priced series . It's a rule of thumb: get the artist involved in a compilation, and the choices are bound to be idiosyncratic. The rule holds here. eschew the boring hits-only approach, ignoring the Top Ten and the Top 40s in favor of album tracks as well as the B-side which peaked at number 63 on the Hot 100. It doesn't really matter. More than three decades after the fact, sounds as much like a hit as any of the band's actual Top Ten singles, and it gets as much play on classic radio. Is this the best of ? No, but some of the group's best songs are included, among them A neophyte wanting to get an idea of what sounds like can do so by listening to these ten tracks. Real fans already have multiple copies of each of these songs. ~ William Ruhlmann