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Steely Dan or Greasy Flan?
★★★★★ - Buy a thrill? I'm selling!
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★★★★ - Simply thrilling
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★★★ - Thrillerish
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★★ - The Thrill Is Gone
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★ - Nobody Loves me But My Mother (and she could be jiving too)
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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

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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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I'm assuming that you're going to be participating in the joint commentary now. yes

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Sorry, I only do commentaries on albums that I already possess.

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This next.

Or something else.

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Oh, maybe The Royal Scam would be better? hmm


Does the Countess have The Royal Scam? Excited

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I'll buy you a copy.

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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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Which one?

Royal Scam or Thrill?

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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?

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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.

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Haitian Divorce.

Faux Gaelic uncials.

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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

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Wacka chunk wacka chunk

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Talking guitar?

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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.

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Talking guitar?

'76 was the year of the guitar voice-box.

Frampton, Floyd, Eagles, Dan...

You name it.

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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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It's very Wishbone Ash.

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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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