Can't Buy a Thrill Overview
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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 17-NOV-1998
Can't Buy a Thrill Specifications
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
Customer Reviews
It 'was at least ten years after it came out that I had a chance in this one tohear the entire site. From the opener "Do It Agin closer" Turn "That Heartbeat Over Again", this music is brilliant. Rich, complex and mysterious. The voice of the strange color and ambiguous images and each musician makes a living.
"Do It Again" as "Reelin in these years is still a Classic Rock radio staples, but its omniprescence is no reason to deny its greatness. From the opening Latin Percussionthe mysterious text that speak to me for vengeance in the Old West, the sitar and synth-solo-bridge, losing a simple song and a great to get you on the highway.
"Dirty Work" has done an excellent keyboard, a great saxophone solo, has resigned and intimate voice of David Palmer, the theme of the song are abused and install a big, big chorus.
"Kings" is one I've heard a lot of others not as much as I love this song. Heavy piano, guitar, brooding,Soul Sister excellent chorus and a guitar solo, I always zippy miscredited Jeff Baxter, Elliot Randall is the man here. The text is still a guess, but I always thought it was part of a "meet the new boss, as the boss' old theme.
"Midnite Cruiser" is a sad song for me, one of Lost Dreams, resignation, and perhaps drugs. The second line "of the world say people know me, do not appear, no more" is one of the most moving pieces ever recorded. ListenThe TWIN door!
"Only a fool would say that I thought was a curiosity, but I was working with his melancholy and a Latin guitar hook that is in my head even though type I
"Reelin in the years," one of the best guitar riffs ever recorded, including Jimmy Page of Led Zep is regarded as one of his favorite tracks. Super fast Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias is like licking trade and collect through every part of the song, but the call and response vocals and piano linesDonald Fagen. I personally appreciate the Tamborine on this song, nothing is lost. We have all heard hundreds of times on the radio, but worth almost every game it is. Even if the text on a stuffed shirt ex-girlfriend is, I could not help but listen to this song as the top. And every time I hear that time and I remember the summer box down.
More cool piano work on "Fire in the Hole, together with a bang lazy and sweet steel guitar. This song builds andbuilt and how to lose sometimes I think I could use a few more minutes.
"Brooklyn" is again sung by David Palmer. Not a particularly strong voice, but suited to this number thinky. More good slide guitar work and lyrics and more mysterious. One of my favorite album.
"Changing of the Guard" is a rocker and probably the next Steely Dan never got to play power chords. But it is mixed with piano pop, is not the typical hard rock. Vocalsand text display, which some optimism of the '70s, I fell in love and out.
I always wondered why "turn that Heartbeat Over Again" is not right with the penultimate line was. "Heartbeat" is a sweet and beautiful song, and maybe that's how Dan wanted to leave. Once again, a message of hope and care. Just like it less and less memorable song on the disc, but not a softy.
Every lyric is still a problem for me. Who can tell me, the realMeaning, I want to hear from you.
I do not know how others feel on this CD almost 40 years. For me, it will still play very well in comparison to each player and his instrument to extract a hint of good taste and very beautiful. Nothing is overstated or exaggerated.
A perfect piece of music.
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