Can't Buy A Thrill (Steely Dan)
from Universal / Island
Disk 1: - Do It Again - Dirty Work - Kings - Midnite Cruiser - Only A Fool Would Say That - Reelin' In The Years - Fire In The Hole - Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) - Change Of The Guard - Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Release Date: 13/07/1999
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £4.99
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Product Description Remastered, All-time classic debut album from 1973. Masterpiece!
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 counter-cultural 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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Associated music album categories: Adult Contemporary & Bestsellers |
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