(1993) Stely Dan - Citizen 1972 -1980 (4 CD box set)



Wikipedia:
Citizen Steely Dan is a four-CD box set compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1993. The set is a collection of all of Steely Dan's albums (up to 1980) in chronological order, and also contains a non-album single ("FM (No Static at All)"), a non-album B-side ("Bodhisattva (Live)"), a rare compilation track recorded during the sessions for The Royal Scam but released only on the 1978 Greatest Hits ("Here at the Western World"), and a previously unreleased demo of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" (a song from their 1975 album Katy Lied). The set is not a complete compilation of every track released by Steely Dan up to 1993. Missing are both sides of the band's 1972 debut single ("Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway"), neither of which has ever been re-issued on CD, because of the band's dislike of the songs. The compilation was the first release of the remastered versions of Steely Dan's albums until the remastered studio albums were issued in 1998. The first pressing features "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" using the single edit of the song. This version omits the percussive opening for the song. The second pressing of the box set features the version from the album although it was reissued without any information noting the change.Glenn Meadows remastered the CD set from the digital masters archived by Donald Fagen, Gary Katz and Roger Nichols in 1982. The digital tapes were prepared because the original analog tapes were in very poor shape. The earliest CD mastering for all the Steely Dan albums in 1985 used these digital tapes but MCA used deteriorating analog masters for all later CD pressings until the 1998 remasters. This information was revealed by Nichols in 1991 when asked about his opinion of the Mobile Fidelity Gold reissues of Aja and Gaucho. Nichols remarked that the "Gaucho CD was even a different speed, about a quarter tone sharper" when compared to the original CD that he was involved in.






Track List:
Disc 1: Citizen 1972 -1980
01. Do It Again
02. Dirty Work
03. Kings
04. Midnite Cruiser
05. Only A Fool Would Say That
06. Reelin' In The Years
07. Fire In The Hole
08. Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
09. Change Of The Guard
10. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
11. Bodhisattva
12. Razor Boy
13. The Boston Rag
14. Your Gold Teeth
15. Show Biz Kids
16. My Old School


Disc 2: Citizen 1972 -1980
01. King Of The World
02. Pearl Of The Quarter
03. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
04. Night By Night
05. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
06. Barrytown
07. East St. Louis Toodle-Do
08. Parker's Band
09. Through With Buzz
10. Pretzel Logic
11. With A Gun
12. Charlie Freak
13. Monkey In Your Soul
14. Bodhisattva (Live)
15. Black Friday
16. Bad Sneakers
17. Rose Darling
18. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
19. Doctor Wu
20. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
21. Chain Lightning


Disc 3: Citizen 1972 -1980
01. Your Gold Teeth II
02. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
03. Throw Back The Little Ones
04. Kid Charlemagne
05. The Caves Of Altamira
06. Don't Take Me Alive
07. Sign In Stranger
08. The Fez
09. Green Earrings
10. Haitian Divorce
11. Everything You Did
12. The Royal Scam
13. Here At The Western World
14. Black Cow
15. Aja
16. Peg


Disc 4: Citizen 1972 -1980
01. Deacon Blues
02. Home At Last
03. I Got The News
04. Josie
05. FM (No Static at All)
06. Babylon Sisters
07. Hey Nineteen
08. Glamour Profession
09. Gaucho
10. Time Out of Mind
11. My Rival
12. Third World Man
13. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Demo)


Media Report:
Genre: jazz rock, soft rock
Country: New York, United States
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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