Legends Collection

Steely Dan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Legends Collection
• ASIN: B000056V2X
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #649,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Disc One Track Listing:

2. You Go Where I Go

3. A Little With Sugar

4. Roaring Of The Lamb

5. Charlie Freak

6. Sun Mountain

7. Oh Wow It's You

8. Undecided

9. The Caves Of Altamira

10. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

11. More To Come

12. Parker's Band

13. Barrytown

14. Brain Tap Shuffle

15. Brooklyn

16. Disc Two Track Listing:

17. Mock Turtle Song

18. Yellow Peril

19. Android Warehouse

20. A Horse In Town

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The most affordable collection of the early recordings by Walter Becker & Donald Fagen's jazzy pop duo that just won the Album Of The Year Grammy for 'Two Against Nature' (2000). Amongst the 28 tracks included here are different versions of such Steely Da

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Steely Dan's "Anthology"?, September 24, 2001

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John O'Neill (Alpharetta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legends Collection (Audio CD)

Over the years I'd picked up several singles discs that contained a sampling of the tracks contained here. They've always been intriguing but the sound has always been... well let's be honest... pretty poor: compressed and flat with a fair amount of tape hiss. For this price though I coughed up the $ to get them all together.

The Beatles had their 3 Anthology releases, Steely Dan has this collection (and several other packages, which keep presenting these same 28 tracks). The Anthology releases of the Beatles are the closest thing I can make a comparison to in that we get early (demo?) versions of some classic tracks (Charlie Freak, Caves Of Altimira, Any World That I'm Welcome To, Parker's Band, Barrytown, and Brooklyn) plus others that they never bothered to polish up under the Steely Dan moniker. A shame really as several tracks are full of promise: Brain Tap Shuffle, Mock Turtle Song, Yellow Peril, Come Back Baby, Don't Let Me In, Old Regime, Soul Ram.

It is certainly an interesting collection if you wish to examine the origins of one of the greatest rock groups ever, but I think it is only for serious Dan fans and even then only after you've got all the "official" Steely Dan releases, Fagen's "Nightfly" and "Kamakiriad", and Becker's "Eleven Tracks of Whack".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars bringdawn in florida, June 23, 2001

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brooks "forgiver" (delray beach, fl United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Legends Collection (Audio CD)

I have just about everything these guys have done. This is really an early collection that lets you see where they came from and why they did certain things to some songs before they released them again. The one song that I absolutely love is one they have overlooked on any cd so far and that cut is, Come Back Baby with Becker's guitar solo that is so awesome I just put the song on repeat and listen to it over and over. The song that comes immediately after is ok and can be listened to as well. It is, Don't Let Me In. Other than those two cuts I can't even listen to anything else on this 2 cd set. It was very disappointing for me and generally a waste of money. But I love the one cut, and who among us has not been guilty of buying a cd for one cut and liked only that cut! Those are the breaks. I knew that Two Against Nature was going to win album of the year though, since I had bought the cd and listenend to it for 9 months straight! This was the cd set that was released following Two Against Nature, and it was an impossible act to follow! They are one of my favorite groups, but I can't really recommend this 2 cd set unless you are the type of fan that has to have everything Steeley Dan has done regardless of the quality.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sound from a shoebox., June 10, 2001

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Jorge MVD "Jorge" (Montevideo, Uruguay) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legends Collection (Audio CD)

Buaaahhhh!!!It's a bad way to present a great band like Steely Dan. The music it's OK. Every song of Walter 'n Donald are splendorous, but this 2 Cd's, sounds like a Long Play used; The name of the collection must be: "fried eggs sounds around the melodies".Please, don't buy this CD. Waste your money buying the remastered originals.