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Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan
Can't Buy a Thrill
Genres: Pop, Classic Rock
 
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Songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen launched Steely Dan with a seductive, poker-faced 1972 debut as smoothly accessible in its music as it was elusive in its thematic concerns. The opening "Do It Again" snagged swif...  more »

     
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All Artists: Steely Dan
Title: Can't Buy a Thrill
Members Wishing: 6
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mca Dist Corp
Release Date: 6/7/1990
Genres: Pop, Classic Rock
Style: Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 076731119229

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Songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen launched Steely Dan with a seductive, poker-faced 1972 debut as smoothly accessible in its music as it was elusive in its thematic concerns. The opening "Do It Again" snagged swift commercial success as one of the most mysterious pop hits in history, a sultry rock cha-cha that chronicled a series of harrowing catastrophes far removed from the reheated love songs and pro forma countercultural rebellion of the day. Though the core band boasted two formidable guitarists, Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias, it was the bloom of Fagen's keyboards and his reedy, smart-ass vocals that carried Thrill light years beyond modal, blues-based rock. That said, an enduring highlight remains the furious six-string fantasia of "Reelin' in the Years," spiked by Elliot Randall's downright historic solos, at once dour and giddy in its indictment of a poser, while "Dirty Work" (featuring short-lived, nominal lead singer David Palmer) offers a decidedly adult vignette of adultery. There isn't a weak track here, astonishing, considering how much growth future Dan albums would display. --Sam Sutherland

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Joan S. (DrLadyBos) from HENDERSONVLLE, NC
Reviewed on 1/22/2016...
I've missed listening to this early Steely Dan music. More commercial than some of their later work - not that there's anything wrong with that. Still very energetic and entertaining!
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