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Music : Can't Buy a Thrill
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Can't Buy a Thrill by: Steely Dan List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $7.97 You Save: $4.01 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0008811188627 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Mca Manufacturer: Mca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mca Release Date: November 17, 1998 Studio: Mca Sales Rank: 4441 MPN: 11886 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008. Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Amazing early "prog" jazz/rock albumOk fine my title says it all. But, am I the only person in the world who wonders what the hell happened to David Palmer? I think his vocals were awesome (but just not well suited to the sound Don/Walt were looking for). Please email any info on David's other recordings to me curttota@comcast.net and post the info as i'm sure others have been wondering. Even bloggers on SD's website didn't know this one Rating: - I still only have the vinyl. Two copies actually....I was introduced to the album at the age of two. My dad had two copies of this album. I made several dubs of it to cassette, back when those were actually used. It still remains one of my favorite albums. And I only listen to it straight from the record anymore. It just sounds better. If you are so lucky to find it on vinyl, pick it up! Rating: - Maybe They Weren't ThereWatch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FL368BCXJJEX I'm personally offended by every rating less than 5 stars. But I have to realize these people weren't there when this album came out. It was central to the musical zeitgeist of the early 70's along with, to name just a few: Eagles, Dark Side Of The Moon, Tommy, Who's Next. VietNam was winding down, I was fresh out of the Army (draftee - no Vietnam, no comparison to real soldier - hated it anyway) and the music of Steely Dan ran all through it. Wickety times indeed. SD may have gotten "better", but there will only ever be one "Can't Buy A Thrill", and it has a feel of creative power that can't be defined or duplicated. Steely Dan started to get slick to me around Aja, ... Read More: Rating: - Back, Garry, and bring it back againSteely Dan's 1972 debut "Can't Buy A Thrill" was a landmark album not so much for its music as for the way it brought a new level of literacy into popular music. Fagen and Becker, through their ability to build complicated, yet seamless tales through brilliant, yet often truly satirical wordplay, moved far beyond the 1960s counterculture. The opening track "Do It Again" is one of the finest openers to any album and it is incredible "Rolling Stone" did not include it in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time": in fairness, "Do It Again" should have been in the top fifty. The manner in which the cryptically dark lyrics about dramatic failures of people's plans are delivered in so light a way is one aspect of the song's staying power, ... Read More: Rating:  - Steely Dan's First - And BestFour stunning tracks (Do It Again, Dirty Work, Midnight Cruiser and Reelin' in the Years) justify the purchase of Can't Buy a Thrill - but the rest of the album is solid. This is Steely Dan before the jazz influence took hold, and it's an essential album. |
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