TrainFan73
Frothy
interesting, the most Steely Dan song on the album is the high point?
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Bohnjaggs
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No love for "Dirty Work"?
TrainFan73
Frothy
I will say that I much prefer Fagen's vocals to the dude they hired for this album.
TenderLovingKiller®
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4/24/23
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Allmusic Review:
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan | Album | AllMusic
Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.www.allmusic.com
RIYL:
I celebrate their entire catalogue.
This album is my third or fourth favorite SD album. I tend to prefer Aja and Gaucho but this and Pretzel Logic are both phenomenal within their own way. The earlier albums were closer to straight ahead 70s AM rock. I get people don’t enjoy their later jazz-rock fusion albums but their earlier albums only flirt with that sound.
How many SD albums made the list? I’ve seen Aja and Can’t Buy A Thrill but I would assume Pretzel Logic made it and wouldn’t be surprised if maybe another one or two were included as well?
Yer Ol' Uncle D
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4/24/23
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Allmusic Review:
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan | Album | AllMusic
Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
RIYL:
The guitarists on this record are Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter and Elliott Randall.
Another musician out there really dug Elliott's playing...
"Jimmy Page called Reelin’s solo his favourite in Classic Rock in 1999, and in 2016 he rated the solo 12/10 to YouTuber Oliver Patrick Loughnan."
An interesting read...
Steely Dan’s Reelin’ In The Years: Jimmy Page’s favourite solo and the song that made them stars
Guitarist Elliott Randall only took two takes to nail his part, only because the studio engineer hadn't recorded the first one
www.loudersound.com
TrainFan73
Frothy
I mean it's not their best album. Do It Again and Reelin' In the Years really sound like they came from another album. It feels like a tentative start. 3 stars.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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I also wanna say I feel like critics sometimes miss how funny the band is. They took their name from a brand of vibrators and write songs about partying in LA over innocuous soft rock. They are singing about prostitutes and blow and lots of folks don’t even realize it.
TrainFan73
Frothy
Their name is a dildo in Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs.
TrainFan73
Frothy
The first episode of the 33 1/3 Podcast is about Aja. The podcast is hosted by Prince Pual and the guest on this episode is Posdnous. It's a lot of fun, don't know how enlightening it is, but it sure is fun:
TrainFan73
Frothy
I love Steely Dan. I don't know that I wanted to know that they were named after a dildo or that their songs are about prostitutes and blow. Although, all my love of the band till the last year or so has been devoted to Aja (which has its fair share of that as well).
tldr; I'm a prude.
tldr; I'm a prude.
TenderLovingKiller®
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That’s right! I forgot it was from Naked Lunch. I thought I was a legit brand. I need to bone up on my sex toys (pun intended)
Rip_City
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Makes my skin crawl from being dad-rocked.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Anybody looking for some SD summer reading, I recently preordered this...
Amazon product ASIN 1477324992
Amazon product ASIN 1477324992
TrainFan73
Frothy
neato, I might snag it when there is a kindle version.
TrainFan73
Frothy
My wife already hates you for pointing it out to me, because when I eventually read it, there will be a lot of Steely Dan played in the house.
TenderLovingKiller®
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It looks fun. Over 100 paintings inspired by SD songs and each piece of art has an accompanying essay about the song that inspired it.
Whiteout75
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Oh, Steely Dan! Another one of those huge 70s rock bands that I'm only vaguely familiar with and that I really can't name a single song by, but when I hear them I usually realize "oh, they made THAT one?".
This sounds very soft and totally without any friction whatsoever (totally congenial with name perhaps...sorry bout that).
Oh, I know this one, "Dirty Work"! Was that one in a movie?
Guitar solo. Again. *yawn*
This also sound vaguely familiar, but most of the songs kinda blend in with each other. *yawn*
Is there's nothing at all on this record that I can actually react to? Everything is just....I dunno....it just is.
Zzzzzz....oh, another one I've heard!....zzzzz....2 stars.
This sounds very soft and totally without any friction whatsoever (totally congenial with name perhaps...sorry bout that).
Oh, I know this one, "Dirty Work"! Was that one in a movie?
Guitar solo. Again. *yawn*
This also sound vaguely familiar, but most of the songs kinda blend in with each other. *yawn*
Is there's nothing at all on this record that I can actually react to? Everything is just....I dunno....it just is.
Zzzzzz....oh, another one I've heard!....zzzzz....2 stars.
So reeling in the years is the theme tune to a half hour show RTÉ runs every day before the news. Each episode goes through the main news and culture of a year since the broadcaster began.
I always thought it must have been some boring tune by so no mark native band that never made it to keep the royalties down. It’s really very very bad.
I always thought it must have been some boring tune by so no mark native band that never made it to keep the royalties down. It’s really very very bad.
jt4527
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4/24/23
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Allmusic Review:
Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan | Album | AllMusic
Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
RIYL:
This is what I had to say when it came up as my first record in my abandoned solo listen project:
And I gave it 3 stars.
I'll have another listen later today, but for now I stand by those 3 stars!
jt4527
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Listening again now, and I must say everything is a bit beige, isn't it?!