Citizen Steely Dan [Box] by Steely Dan

Pros: Greatness in the truest sense of the word, Deaser26 likes Steely Dan
Cons: What?

This is my entry into the Steely Dan Write-Off graciously hosted by my fellow music freak, Deaser26. Thanks, Dease, for the invite, and I hope I do you proud.

"America's finest maybe non-rock band".....Robert Palmer, New York Times,...

Pros: 4 full CDs of Steely Danness. Pretty much as complete as it gets.
Cons: It ends.

I owe my father and my friend James big for this one. I may have never dabbled in the world of Steely Dan if it weren't for those two, and never known the joy that is their music. What's that you say? You have no idea who Steely Dan is? Well, that can ...

Pros: A superb retrospective of one of the great musical duos of all time, superbly packaged.
Cons: if you have all the original albums...??

First coming together in the late 1960s and united by a shared interest in jazz and Dylan lyrics, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, as Steely Dan, made some of the most popular music of the 1970s, to reaction ranging from adoration to hatred from the music ...

Pros: Every album track from the first 7 Dan albums in a four-disc set.
Cons: Almost nothing BUT previously-released material.

"Citizen Steely Dan" is the answer to the question of how to listen to 8 well-worn Steely Dan albums on a 5-disc changer. (Wait a minute, Godai...didn't you say this set contained _7_ albums?) Well, yes...but I am including the "Decade of Steely Dan"...

Pros: Cost-effective and complete.
Cons: The 20-year hiatus of these great artists.

Steely Dan: one of the most enigmatic, talented, underappreciated bands in history. That's no hyper ...

Pros: The old stuff is all here.
Cons: That's all you get.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't love this collection. I was prepared to pay $60 for it only it was out of stock at th etime. I then saw it in a record club flyer as another reviewer stated, it came in through the record club at about 1/3 the price. I...

Pros: covers everything a Steely Dan fan wants to hear
Cons: The Live cut of Bodhisattva - not that good.

We have a 5 disc player mainly for this. I must have my Steely Dan. Citzen Steely Dan covers everything up to the newest release Two Against Nature.

Starting with the first songs on disc one, the jazz influence rings through...

Pros: gotta get this
Cons: none

Faggen&Becker have there own way of the world.the words&music are a creation of time.these guys are so cool&different it isn't even funny.where do i start with Steely?do it again is a classic jam. fm gets me hyped all the time.hey 19 is a...