Reelin' In the Years

"Reelin' in the Years" (sometimes "Reeling in the Years") is a song by jazz rock band Steely Dan, released as the second single from their 1972 album, Can't Buy a Thrill. It reached number 11 in the Billboard charts.^[1]

The song was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and features Fagen on vocals. The song was also a #11 hit on the Pop singles chart in 1973. In March 2005, Q magazine placed the song at number 95 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has reportedly said that Elliott Randall's guitar solo on "Reeling in the Years" is his favorite solo of all time.^[2]^[3] That solo was also ranked the 40th best guitar solo of all time by the readers of Guitar World magazine.^[4] Fagen referred to the song as "dumb but effective" in Rolling Stone magazine. The four-channel Quadrophonic mix of the recording has extra lead guitar fills not heard in the more common two-channel Stereo version.

The song is featured in Rob Zombie's 2005 movie, The Devil's Rejects.

It was also used as the theme music for the television series Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, which aired on BBC Three in the UK 11 July 2006 – 4 June 2007.

The song was used in the 1999 movie For Love of the Game, the 2014 documentary film Life Itself, and as the theme song to the RTÉ television show Reeling in the Years which is a historical Irish documentary covering one year per episode.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Australia	62
Canada RPM ^[5]	15
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	11
U.S. Cashbox Top 100 ^[6]	7

Year-end charts

Chart (1973)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ^[7]	68
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[8]	87

Personnel

Donald Fagen – piano, vocals
Elliott Randall – lead guitar
Denny Dias – rhythm guitar
Jeff Baxter – rhythm guitar
Walter Becker – bass guitar
Jim Hodder – drums
Victor Feldman – percussion

References

External links

Steely Dan

Walter Becker Donald Fagen Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Denny Dias Jim Hodder David Palmer Royce Jones Michael McDonald Jeff Porcaro

Studio albums	Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Pretzel Logic (1974) Katy Lied (1975) The Royal Scam (1976) Aja (1977) Gaucho (1980) Two Against Nature (2000) Everything Must Go (2003)

Live albums	Alive in America (1995) Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party (2000)

Singles	"Dallas" "Do It Again" "Reelin' In the Years" "Show Biz Kids" "My Old School" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "Pretzel Logic" "Black Friday" "Bad Sneakers" "Kid Charlemagne" "The Fez" "Haitian Divorce" "Peg" "Deacon Blues" "FM (No Static at All)" "Josie" "Hey Nineteen" "Babylon Sisters" "Cousin Dupree" "Janie Runaway"

Album tracks	"Aja" "Dirty Work"

Compilations	Greatest Hits (1978) Steely Dan (1978) Gold (1982/91) A Decade of Steely Dan (1985) Reelin' In the Years (1987) Do It Again (1987) Citizen Steely Dan (1993) Then and Now (1993) Showbiz Kids (2000) The Definitive Collection (2006)

Related articles	Discography Gary Katz Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan Roger Nichols

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