Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill [Japan Ed.] (1972)

Year: November 1972 (CD Jun 25, 2008)
Label: Geffen Records (Japan), UICY-93515
Style: Jazz Rock, Pop Rock, Soft Rock
Country: New York, U.S.
Time: 41:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 270 Mb

Charts: US #17, AUS #46, CAN #4, GER #84, UK #38. UK: Gold; US: Platinum.
Steely Dan recorded the album in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles. Two songs recorded during the Can't Buy a Thrill sessions were left off the album and released as a single: "Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway". This is the only Steely Dan album to include David Palmer as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after Donald Fagen expressed concerns over singing live. Drummer Jim Hodder contributes lead vocals on one song, "Midnite Cruiser" (sometimes spelled "Midnight Cruiser"); he also sang "Dallas". By the time recording of the next album began, the band and producer Gary Katz had convinced Fagen to assume the full lead vocalist role.
According to writers Marjorie Galen and Gordon Matthews, Can't Buy a Thrill features an upbeat soft rock style. Music journalist Paul Lester said it incorporates mambo, swing, jazz, and Latin musical elements. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that "there are very few of the jazz flourishes that came to distinguish their [later] albums", but added that the first single from the album, "Do It Again", incorporates a tight Latin jazz beat, while the second single, "Reelin' In the Years", features jazzy guitar solos and harmonies. Robert Christgau described "Do It Again" as a toned-down mambo song with "tragic" lyrics about a "compulsive" loser.
"Fire in the Hole", which features "angry, strident piano" by Fagen, takes its title from a phrase used by American soldiers in Vietnam, and alludes to the many students who evaded the draft in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Becker and Fagen included).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Buy_a_Thrill)

01. Do It Again (05:57)
02. Dirty Work (03:08)
03. Kings (03:45)
04. Midnite Cruiser (04:08)
05. Only A Fool Would Say That (02:57)
06. Reelin' In The Years (04:37)
07. Fire In The Hole (03:28)
08. Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) (04:21)
09. Change Of The Guard (03:39)
10. Turn That Hearbeat Over Again (04:58)

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