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Can't Buy a Thrill |  | Artist: Steely Dan
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 3371
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811188627
EAN: 0008811188627
ASIN: B00000DI0I
Release Date: November 17, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Do It Again | | • | Dirty Work | | • | Kings | | • | Midnight 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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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 17-NOV-1998
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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Great cd August 31, 2010
Kathy
My order came on time as sheduled. The CD plays great. No skips or scratched. This dealer is a good one! And I'll order from the dealer again!
tuned up July 28, 2010
Photoman (Pennsylvania, USA)
Didn't Elliot (sp?) Randall play the lead on Reelin' in The Years? Any one know?
Only A Fool Wouldn't Do It June 17, 2010
Andre S. Grindle (Brewer Maine)
What's important to note about Steely Dan on their debut album is that jazz-rock fusion,the sound they'd make as much a part of their sound as the Rolling Stones did Chicago blues, hadn't really been around all that long when this album was made and it really hadn't crossed over into a big way to change all that. Walter Becker and Donald Fagan had already recorded the soundtrackYou Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It ... Or You'll Lose That Beat before this so when they gathered in LA with Jeff Baxter,Denny Dias,Jim Hooder and singer David Palmer they already had a pretty clear concept. Musically this album is nothing like the Steely Dan sound we'd come to know in the emmediate future,even more so than most debut albums aren't an extention of their overall sound. On the other hand if it wasn't for this album they'd probably have never developed their distinctive sound at all. There contemporaries on the MCA label at the time were Three Dog Night and somehow or other their mildly jazz and gospel based pop sound was finding it's way into what Becker and Fagan were doing. As such this is the only Steely Dan album where singers other than Donald Fagan have lead vocals on songs such as the soon to depart David Palmer's vocal on the very poppy styled "Dirty Work" along with Jim Hodders lead on "Midnight Cruiser"-two songs which showcase that Three Dog Night influence more than anything,especially the prominant use of fender rhodes. Palmer also takes the lead on the more obviously jazz-rock styled "Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me" and "Change Of The Guard". All of these songs find Becker and Fagan developing their destinctive lyrical preoccupation with sociatal misfits and their situations. The hits here are actually two of the most unique songs Steely Dan ever recorded. One is the excellent Santana styled latin-fusion flavor of "Do It Again" that,I admit when I first heard it I had no idea it was Steely Dan at all. Also there's their early breakthrough hit "Reelin' In The Years",the most obvious "rock" oriented type of jazz-rock song here and...well it's been played a lot on the radio but it still holds it power. Elsewhere on this album songs like "Kings","Fire In The Hole" and "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" find the band working out the funk and stronger jazz elements of their sound and on the later is one of (if not THE only time) on a Steely Dan record Becker and Fagan would share lead vocals. "Only A Fool Would Say That" exibits something of a Frank Zappa type lyrical spirit from Donald Fagan as something of a witty put down of the remains of the 60's counterculture by referring to them as shallow and rather phony. Whatever your opinion it's certainly an interesting observation for the era. Steely Dan are still in search of a cohesive sound here and their usual elements are kind of seperate out into a patishe style sound rather than being jelled together the way they usually are. All the same the more time one spends with this album you realize how well executed and broad in scope it is and,even at this early period how much of a stand out musical entity Steely Dan was.
There aren't enough stars! June 12, 2010
Philip Bradshaw (toronto canada)
Steely Dan's first hit single, Do it Again was released in 1972. A few months later King Harvest released Dancing in the Moonlight, another terrific song. I must have been listening to the radio and heard the songs, one after the other, for when I hear one I always reminisce about the other. King Harvest sank without a trace. Steely Dan became my favourite non-Beatles band.
Can't Buy a Thrill was the band's first LP. What struck me immediately when I first spun the record was how different it was from everything else that I was listening to or that I had encountered in my music gathering and listening life (commencing in 1959 with Handy Man - Jimmy Jones). Here I am in 2010, spinning that same great sounding long playing vinyl, and still wondering where the hell Fagen and Brecker found their sound. As I grow older I very often play an old record or CD and a realization floods over me - holy cow that sounds just like whoever (Edwyn Collins/Bowie, for example) and I think to myself " Philip, how can you have missed THAT connection the first two dozen times you played the song?" Well, with Steely Dan, after close to 40 years I still don't know where their inspiration lay. Allmusic lists as their influences such diverse performers as Duke Ellington, The Beatles, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach and Jay and the Americans. That pretty well covers the bases without being of much assistance, doesn't it? So how about looking from the other side - who did SD influence? There wasn't a whole lot of help here either - Prefab Sprout, Toto, Moon Taxi and Everything But the Girl! I guess that the conclusion that we can draw is that Steely Dan was a unique band, one that had myriad sources of inspiration but one that was essentially the creation of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.
There isn't an element of Steely Dan of which I am not enamored. The lyrics are invariably complex and interesting and rarely trite or slight. The instrumentation is always tight as drum - precise, concise and unpredictable. This was a band that never wasted a note. I love the judicious inclusion of horns. I also admire the fact that from this album right up to Gaucho Steely Dan was constantly exploring new avenues, never content to rest upon its laurels. Although I have thousands of albums and CDs from which I can select I return to those of this band over and over and am never bored for a second. I have played them so often that they are almost a part of me.
Steely Dan hit the ground running with Can't Buy a Thrill. The very first cut on side one is the terrific Do it Again. Through its ten songs the album never lets up. Only a Fool is one of my all time favourite SD tunes. Steely Dan is often remembered as Fagen and Becker. I may be guilty of making this mistake myself. In actuality every member of the group makes notable contributions on this record. Both Jim Holder and David Palmer have the opportunity to take lead vocals. Skunk Baxter has several beautifully restrained and intricate guitar solos. Man, I love this record!
YOU CAN BUY THIS THRILL! May 12, 2010
D. Fewell (Silver Spring, Md USA)
EVERY SONG EXCELS TO A CONSIDERABLE EXTENT IN EVERY WAY, AND i'D HAVE HALF OF THE ALBUM ON MY ONLY DESERT ISLAND DISC! i CAN ONLY SAY THAT ABOUT "aJA", "PET SOUNDS" AND SOME/ANY WAILIN' CLASSICAL STUFF!
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