Gold (Steely Dan album)

Gold is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 1982. It mostly comprises hits both post-dating and not included on their 1978 Greatest Hits, essentially acting as "Volume 2"; it also features additional album tracks, offering a broad perspective on the band's career to that point.

Gold
Greatest hits album by Steely Dan
Released	June 1982[1] 1991 (Expanded edition)
Recorded	1973-1982
Genre	Rock, jazz fusion, rhythm and blues
Length	40:23 (original edition)
Label	MCA Records
Producer	Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
Steely Dan chronology
Steely Dan (1978) Gold (1982) A Decade of Steely Dan (1985)
Gold, Expanded Edition

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s	B+ [3]

Seven of the tracks are from five of the band's albums from 1973 to 1980; it also includes the non-album single "FM (No Static at All)" (from the soundtrack to the 1978 film FM). Of the album tracks, there are two songs from both Aja and Gaucho, and one track apiece from Countdown to Ecstasy, Katy Lied and The Royal Scam.

In 1991, the compilation was reissued as the Expanded Edition with four extra tracks - "Here at the Western World" (previously only available on the band's 1978 Greatest Hits compilation), "Century's End" and "True Companion" (two Donald Fagen solo songs from movie soundtracks), and a live version of "Bodhisattva" (originally released as the B-side to the 1980 single "Hey Nineteen"). In addition, the reissue swapped the original "FM" with an alternate version with a saxophone solo replacing the guitar in the song's coda, a version that essentially incorporates the original single's B-side, "FM (Reprise)". Most Steely Dan compilations CDs since then feature this version of "FM", however, Gold (Expanded Edition) is the only place to find this version on vinyl. The album was the last Steely Dan project released on the format, until Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go made their vinyl debuts on Record Store Day 2021.