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

Lyricists: Donald Fagen; Walter Becker.Recording information: A&R Studios, New York, NY; ABC Recording Studios, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Automated Sound Studios, New York, NY; Producer's Workshop, Hollywood, CA; Sigma Sound Studios, New York, NY; Sound Labs, Hollywood, CA; Soundworks, New York, NY; The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA; Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.Photographer: Ed Caraeff.Steely Dan mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are credited as co-compilation producers with Universal Music executive Andy McKaie on the Steely Dan entry in Universal's discount-priced series 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection. 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. Becker and Fagen eschew the boring hits-only approach, ignoring the Top Ten "Hey Nineteen" and the Top 40s "Black Friday," "Peg," and "FM (No Static at All)" in favor of album tracks "Any World (That I'm