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  9878466CD  £6.00

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MCA

Steely Dan

Definitive Collection

A good introduction to the funkiest, slickest most razor-sharp daddios of all time. For a much more thorough career survey get the Showbiz Kids two CD best of but really you should just buy the first eight albums and have done with it. Of the paired to the bone selection here I'd have swapped out the nineties/noughties cuts (the last two tracks) though Cousin Dupree is fun. I'd probably drop Deacon Blues as it's better as an album track and very long, maybe put Black Cow in. Only other really garing ommission is no Major Dude, no Haitian Divorce and no Time Out of Mind. Still, you could do worse things than buy this.