11 Tracks of Whack

June 2025 11 Tracks of Whack Album Walter Becker 11 Tracks of Whack(Walter Becker album) coverart.jpg September 27, 1994 1993–1994 Hyperbolic Sound (Maui, Hawaii) Signet Sound (Los Angeles, California) Jazz rock 56:46 Giant Donald Fagen, Walter Becker Circus Money 2008 11 Tracks of Whack is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, released in 1994. It was his third collaboration since 1980 with Steely Dan partner Donald Fagen, who produced the album, after Becker produced Fagen's Kamakiriad (1993), and Becker and Fagen played on Rosie Vela's debut album Zazu (1986). Critical reception AllMusic 4.5 511 Tracks of Whack Walter Becker AllMusic William Ruhlmann Robert Christgau hm3http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Walter+Becker Walter Becker Robert Christgau 2011-08-16 Entertainment Weekly BDimitri Ehrlich. Entertainment Weekly review September 30, 1994 The Great Rock Discography 5/10Strong Martin Charles Martin C. Strong The Great Rock Discography The National Academies 2002 1-84195-312-1 Steely Dan Q 4 5Q January 1995, p.245 (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide 3 5Walter Becker Sheffield Rob Rob Sheffield 58 Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide Simon & Schuster 4th 2004 0-7432-0169-8 The New York Times concluded that "11 Tracks of Whack, like Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, applies singular musical ingenuity to visions of shrinking horizons and squandered opportunities... Steely Dan's snide intelligence has been fused with a sense of mortality."Recordings View: Steely Dan (Half of It, That Is) Strikes Back The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230105223849/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/arts/recordings-view-steely-dan-half-of-it-that-is-strikes-back.html 2023-01-05 live https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/arts/recordings-view-steely-dan-half-of-it-that-is-strikes-back.html Track listing All songs written and composed by Walter Becker except "Cringemaker" which was co-written by Dean Parks. Horn and rhythm arrangements were written by Donald Fagen. Down in the Bottom 4:16 Junkie Girl 4:07 Surf and/or Die 6:15 Book of Liars 4:09 Lucky Henry 4:39 Hard Up Case 4:56 Cringemaker 5:11 Girlfriend 5:43 My Waterloo 4:02 This Moody Bastard 5:18 Hat Too Flat 5:26 Little Kawai 2:44 Japan Bonus Track Medical Science 4:30 US Promo CD Single Track Fall of '92 5:26 Personnel Walter Becker – vocals, guitar solos, ukulele, bass John Beasley – keyboards Donald Fagen – keyboards Dean Parks – acoustic guitars, electric guitars, first guitar solo (5) Adam Rogers – electric guitars (3, 5, 11), second guitar solo (5) Fima Ephron – bass (3, 5, 11) Ben Perowsky – drums (3, 5, 11) Paulinho da Costa – percussion Bob Sheppard – saxophones, woodwind solos Bruce Paulson – trombone John Papenbrook – trumpet Catherine Russell – backing vocals Brenda White-King – backing vocals Production Walter Becker – producer Donald Fagen – producer Roger Nichols – engineer, mixing David Russell – engineer, mixing Tom Hardisty – second engineer Earl Martin – second engineer John Neff – third engineer Craig Siegel – MIDI engineer, technical support Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) Linda Starr – project coordinator Mick Haggerty – art direction, type design, punch photography Kathleen Philpott – type design Annalisa – photography References Category:Walter Becker albums Category:1994 debut albums Category:Giant Records (Warner) albums Category:Albums produced by Donald Fagen Category:Albums produced by Walter Becker