Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Steely Dan thrived in the age of the greatest hits compilation, and the ...

If there's one thing Steely Dan fans love, it's trying to figure out the meaning behind Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's lyrics, which aren't always particularly...straightforward. Take, for example, ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius of ...

Steely Dan produced seven albums during their classic run in the 1970s, but critics disagree about the goodness of 1976's 'The Royal Scam.' ...

Not many bands are as reluctant to talk about their work as Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, but when they do talk it's often brutal.

Steely Dan wanted to make more complicated albums at one moment in time, but by the end of their career, they wanted to be ...

Steely Dan will make it’s classic fourth studio album, Katy Lied, available on vinyl for the first time in more than 40 years. The reissue of the 1975 album is scheduled to be released on January 31, ...

Steely Dan started out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel Naked Lunch. By the time they ...

Of all the words one might use to describe Steely Dan, “sentimental” would probably show up way down near the bottom of the list. If anything, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker went the other direction ...

The very notion may sound absurd today, but there was actually a day when Steely Dan’s career longevity seemed anything but guaranteed — until all doubts were quashed with the arrival of their almost ...