Steely Dan (1974 Vinyl LP VPI Cleaned Playtested ABCX 758) Can’t Buy A Thrill

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Band/Artist: Steely Dan

Album Title: Can’t Buy A Thrill

Featuring: Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, David Palmer, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, Elliott Randall, Jerome Richardson, Snooky Young, Victor Feldman, Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews

Producer: Gary Katz

Catalogue Number: ABCX 758

Year/Record Company: 1974 ABC Records

1 LP – Stereo - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good+

Shine: most

Scratches: a few light and several feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)                                                                                      

Labels: multi color labels (see photos)

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

LP Sound: very good+ (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: very light

Jacket Condition: very good+ (completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: very light (no splits, no tape, spine is completely readable)

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve Type: a new blank sleeve

Liner Notes: Tristan Fabriani

Cover: Robert Lockhart

Can't Buy A Thrill is the debut studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 by ABC Records. It was produced by Gary Katz and written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The album was recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles.

According to writers Marjorie Galen and Gordon Matthews, Can't Buy a Thrill features an upbeat soft rock style. Music journalist Paul Lester said that it incorporates mambo, swing, jazz, and Latin musical elements. "Fire in the Hole", which features strident piano by Fagen, takes its title from a phrase used by American soldiers in Vietnam, and alludes to how so many students evaded the draft in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Becker and Fagen included).

Can't Buy a Thrill was released in the United States by ABC Records in November 1972 and in the United Kingdom by Probe Records in January 1973. The album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums, and was reissued on August 22, 1973, by Dunhill Records. On May 31, 1973, it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of 500,000 copies in the US, then certified platinum by RIAA on September 7, 1993, for shipments of 1,000,000 copies in the US. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, James Isaacs said Can't Buy a Thrill is "distinguished by three top-level cuts and scattered moments of inspiration," but felt the band occasionally sounded "limp". Christgau deemed it "a good album attached" to a hit single in his review for Creem; he found the lyrics "oblique, even philosophical ... (source: Wikipedia)

Song List

Side One

1. "Do It Again" 5:56

2. "Dirty Work" 3:08

3. "Kings" 3:45

4. "Midnite Cruiser" 4:07

5. "Only a Fool Would Say That" 2:57

Side Two

6. "Reelin' In the Years" 4:37

7. "Fire in the Hole" 3:28

8. "Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)" 4:21

9. "Change of the Guard" 3:39

10. "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" 4:58

Steely Dan is an American rock duo founded in 1972 by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Blending rock, jazz, latin music, reggae, traditional pop, R&B, blues, and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Throughout their career, the duo recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, and in 1974 retired from live performances to become a studio-only band. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies".

After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.VH1 ranked Steely Dan at #82 on their list of the 100 greatest musical artists of all time. Founding member Walter Becker died on September 3, 2017, leaving Fagen as the sole official member. (source: Wikipedia)

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