Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980

{{Infobox album

| name = Showbiz Kids:
The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980

| type = Compilation Album

| artist = Steely Dan

| cover = Showbiz Kids - The Steely Dan Story, 1972-1980.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 14, 2000

| recorded = 1972–80

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 2:38:24

| label = MCA Records

| producer = Walter Becker, Donald Fagen

| prev_title = The Best of Steely Dan: Then and Now

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Steely Dan: The Definitive Collection

| next_year = 2006

}}

Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 1972–1980 is a two-disc compilation album by Steely Dan, released in 2000.

The compilation was re-released in the UK in 2009 under the title The Very Best of Steely Dan.

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r505111|pure_url=yes}} link]

}}

Track listing

All songs by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, unless otherwise noted.

=Disc one=

{{tracklist

| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = Do It Again

| extra1 = Can't Buy a Thrill, 1972

| length1 = 5:56

| title2 = Dirty Work

| extra2 = Can't Buy a Thrill

| length2 = 3:08

| title3 = Reelin' in the Years

| extra3 = Can't Buy a Thrill

| length3 = 4:37

| title4 = Only a Fool Would Say That

| extra4 = Can't Buy a Thrill

| length4 = 2:57

| title5 = Change of the Guard

| extra5 = Can't Buy a Thrill

| length5 = 3:39

| title6 = Bodhisattva

| extra6 = Countdown to Ecstasy, 1973

| length6 = 5:18

| title7 = The Boston Rag

| extra7 = Countdown to Ecstasy

| length7 = 5:40

| title8 = Show Biz Kids

| extra8 = Countdown to Ecstasy

| length8 = 5:26

| title9 = My Old School

| extra9 = Countdown to Ecstasy

| length9 = 5:46

| title10 = Rikki Don't Lose That Number

| extra10 = Pretzel Logic, 1974

| length10 = 4:32

| title11 = Night by Night

| extra11 = Pretzel Logic

| length11 = 3:40

| title12 = Pretzel Logic

| extra12 = Pretzel Logic

| length12 = 4:32

| title13 = Any Major Dude Will Tell You

| extra13 = Pretzel Logic

| length13 = 3:08

| title14 = Black Friday

| extra14 = Katy Lied, 1975

| length14 = 3:41

| title15 = Bad Sneakers

| extra15 = Katy Lied

| length15 = 3:21

| title16 = Doctor Wu

| extra16 = Katy Lied

| length16 = 3:55

| title17 = Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

| extra17 = Katy Lied

| length17 = 3:55

| title18 = Chain Lightning

| extra18 = Katy Lied

| length18 = 2:59

}}

=Disc two=

{{tracklist

| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = Kid Charlemagne

| extra1 = The Royal Scam, 1976

| length1 = 4:38

| title2 = Don't Take Me Alive

| extra2 = The Royal Scam

| length2 = 4:16

| title3 = Haitian Divorce

| extra3 = The Royal Scam

| length3 = 5:51

| title4 = The Fez

| note4 = Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin

| extra4 = The Royal Scam

| length4 = 4:02

| title5 = Here at the Western World

| extra5 = Greatest Hits, 1978

| length5 = 4:01

| title6 = Black Cow

| extra6 = Aja, 1977

| length6 = 5:10

| title7 = Aja

| extra7 = Aja

| length7 = 8:00

| title8 = Deacon Blues

| extra8 = Aja

| length8 = 7:36

| title9 = Peg

| extra9 = Aja

| length9 = 4:00

| title10 = Josie

| extra10 = Aja

| length10 = 4:35

| title11 = FM

| extra11 = Remix, originally from the FM: The Original Movie Soundtrack, 1978

| length11 = 5:06

| title12 = Babylon Sisters

| extra12 = Gaucho, 1980

| length12 = 5:49

| title13 = Hey Nineteen

| extra13 = Gaucho

| length13 = 5:07

| title14 = Time Out of Mind

| extra14 = Gaucho

| length14 = 4:12

| title15 = Third World Man

| extra15 = Gaucho

| length15 = 5:13

}}

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Category:2000 compilation albums

Category:Steely Dan compilation albums

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Category:MCA Records compilation albums