Citizen Steely Dan

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Citizen Steely Dan is a four-CD box set by Steely Dan, released December 14, 1993. It collects all of the band’s albums released through 1980 in chronological order, plus a handful of bonus tracks: a 1991 remix of the non-album single FM (No Static at All), the live B-side Bodhisattva, the 1978 Greatest Hits track Here at the Western World, and a previously unreleased demo of Everyone’s Gone to the Movies from Katy Lied (1975). It is not a complete collection of every Steely Dan track up to 1993; notably, the sides of their 1972 debut single Dallas / Sail the Waterway are missing because the band dislikes those songs and they have never been reissued on CD.

The box was the first to release remastered versions of Steely Dan’s albums, with further remasters issued in 1998. The first pressing used the single edit of Rikki Don’t Lose That Number; the second pressing used the album version, with the change not clearly noted. Glenn Meadows remastered the discs from digital masters prepared in 1982 because the original analog tapes were in poor condition. The 1985 CD mastering used these digital tapes, but later MCA pressings used deteriorating analog masters until the 1998 remasters. All tracks are written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, except where noted.