| Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) | |
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Steely Dan or Greasy Flan? | ★★★★★ - Buy a thrill? I'm selling! | | 33% | [ 1 ] | ★★★★ - Simply thrilling | | 33% | [ 1 ] | ★★★ - Thrillerish | | 0% | [ 0 ] | ★★ - The Thrill Is Gone | | 33% | [ 1 ] | ★ - Nobody Loves me But My Mother (and she could be jiving too) | | 0% | [ 0 ] |
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. 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 _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:40 pm | |
| I'm assuming that you're going to be participating in the joint commentary now. _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:35 pm | |
| Sorry, I only do commentaries on albums that I already possess. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:13 pm | |
| This next.
Or something else. _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:29 pm | |
| Oh, maybe The Royal Scam would be better? Does the Countess have The Royal Scam? _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:40 pm | |
| I'll buy you a copy. _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:02 pm | |
| Which one?
Royal Scam or Thrill? _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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? _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:19 pm | |
| Haitian Divorce.
Faux Gaelic uncials. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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 _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:20 pm | |
| Wacka chunk wacka chunk _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:21 pm | |
| Talking guitar? _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:26 pm | |
| It's very Wishbone Ash. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
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| Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972) 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.
_________________ Disprove the return of a potato (5)
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