Here are Steely Dan’s five best drum performances, selected in tandem by our panel of Steely Dan authorities.

Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ was issued 34 years ago today. Getting it to the point of release was no easy task.

S. Victor Aaron picks five standout Steely Dan ballads.

Steely Dan fanatics John Lawler, Preston Frazier and S. Victor Aaron choose their five favorite songs from frontman Donald Fagen.

We humbly offer up suggested songs for a new Steely Dan album, culled from outtakes, live-only songs and one famous erasure.

Catchy, but ultimately a bit less compelling than other ‘Gaucho’ outtakes.

Another unfinished diamond in the rough that evokes a feeling of what could have been.

“Kulee Baba,” when Steely Dan goes global. Ahhh, the CD. Those plastic discs of music we used before iTunes. With a noise reduction system Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were crying for when (mis)mastering Katy Lied. Seventy minutes worth and no static at all. CDs arrived commercially in the FallRead More

I wonder what Ornette thinks of this stuff?

Some think Metheny is joking around, that he couldn’t possibly like “all of this noise.”