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Steely Dan or Greasy Flan?
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:52 pm
Steely Dan's debut album.
I chose this because, although it's not their best or most mature album, it has a very strong, stylistic spread of songs.
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IMHO it's very very good.
They'd top it at a later date in ways and styles and at moments, but it's an astonishing opening salvo from possibly the most smugly brilliant bunch of Yanks ever convened.
Noo-Yawk, by way of California and the US college milieu...
Ironic and sarcastic, but musically serious (unlike 10cc).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8&list=PLfGibfZATlGq9jnvz7I1gw5Xp_FYMQ60p
I chose this because, although it's not their best or most mature album, it has a very strong, stylistic spread of songs.
IMHO it's very very good.
They'd top it at a later date in ways and styles and at moments, but it's an astonishing opening salvo from possibly the most smugly brilliant bunch of Yanks ever convened.
Noo-Yawk, by way of California and the US college milieu...
Ironic and sarcastic, but musically serious (unlike 10cc).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8&list=PLfGibfZATlGq9jnvz7I1gw5Xp_FYMQ60p
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:20 pm
I'm assuming the title is a reference to It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.
Bob wrote:Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,
Can't buy a thrill.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:40 pm
I'm assuming that you're going to be participating in the joint commentary now. 
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:35 pm
Sorry, I only do commentaries on albums that I already possess.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:13 pm
This next.
Or something else.
Or something else.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:29 pm
Oh, maybe The Royal Scam would be better? 
Does the Countess have The Royal Scam?
Does the Countess have The Royal Scam?
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:40 pm
I'll buy you a copy.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:58 pm
Link me to a song on it and I'll listen to it and opine on whether it's my sort of thing.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:02 pm
Which one?
Royal Scam or Thrill?
Royal Scam or Thrill?
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:05 pm
The most famous song on Scam is Haitian Divorce and on Thrill either Do It Again or Reelin' in the Years.
Probably the former on balance.
You know them?
Yer?
Probably the former on balance.
You know them?
Yer?
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:18 pm
I always mix them up with Steeleye Span.
One of the two is compared to Tom Bombadil's 'Hey dol, merry dol, ring a ding dillo' word salad, but I don't recall which.
To save time I will conduct a pre-bedtime listen-through to those three songs that you done mentioned.
One of the two is compared to Tom Bombadil's 'Hey dol, merry dol, ring a ding dillo' word salad, but I don't recall which.
To save time I will conduct a pre-bedtime listen-through to those three songs that you done mentioned.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:19 pm
Haitian Divorce.
Faux Gaelic uncials.
Faux Gaelic uncials.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:19 pm
Anyway...
Reelin' in the Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaH25Sghoqc
Do It Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8
Haitian Divorce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATTU-g_hiNk
Reelin' in the Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaH25Sghoqc
Do It Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8
Haitian Divorce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATTU-g_hiNk
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:20 pm
Wacka chunk wacka chunk
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:21 pm
Talking guitar?
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:22 pm
Can't Buy a Thrill is their remarkably mature debut album.
The Royal Scam is a proper mature-period album.
The latter has a strangely mysterious Lovecraftian vibe about it for me.
I think it's because of the Royal Pant.
There's a kind of Louisiana element to it too.
The Royal Scam is a proper mature-period album.
The latter has a strangely mysterious Lovecraftian vibe about it for me.
I think it's because of the Royal Pant.
There's a kind of Louisiana element to it too.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:23 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:Talking guitar?
'76 was the year of the guitar voice-box.
Frampton, Floyd, Eagles, Dan...
You name it.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:25 pm
Well, Haitian Divorce wasn't outrageously bad, but nor did it tick any of my boxes. I shall now undertake Do It Again.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:26 pm
It's very Wishbone Ash.
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Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
by Nightjar Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:27 pm
Fangirl Three wrote:Well, Haitian Divorce wasn't outrageously bad, but nor did it tick any of my boxes. I shall now undertake Do It Again.
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