Can't Buy a Thrill
by Steely Dan
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1972
- Label: ABC
- Country: United States
- Length: 41:10
- Community rating: 4.13/5 from 15 ratings
Artists on this release: Clydie King, David Palmer, Victor Feldman, Jim Hodder, Snooky Young, Jerome Richardson, Donald Fagen, Elliott Randall, Venetta Fields, The Skunk, Sherlie Matthews, Denny Dias, Jeff Baxter
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Unveiling their signature blend of slick studio perfectionism and deeply cynical lyricism, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's debut is a pristine pop-rock classic. 'Can't Buy a Thrill' is wonderfully warm and intensely melodic, utilizing beautifully lush, remarkably mellow jazz-rock arrangements to deliver fiercely sarcastic, highly playful urban narratives.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, literate, polished, funky, sophisticated
Tracklist
- Do It Again (5:57)
- Dirty Work (3:10)
- Kings (3:47)
- Midnite Cruiser (4:12)
- Only A Fool Would Say That (2:55)
- Reelin' In The Years (4:37)
- Fire In The Hole (3:29)
- Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) (4:21)
- Change Of The Guard (3:39)
- Turn That Heartbeat Over Again (4:58)
Credits
- Steely Dan - primary artist
- Walter Becker - bass guitar [electric], vocals, written-by, electric bass guitar, vocal
- Robert Lockart - design [cover], design
- Jim Hodder - drums, percussion, vocals, drums (drum set) percussion, vocal
- Tim Weston - engineer [asst. engineer]
- Roger Nichols - engineer [engineered by]
- Snooky Young - flugelhorn, additional flugelhorn
- Elliott Randall - guitar, soloist, lead guitar, additional guitar
- Jeff Baxter - guitar, classical guitar [spanish], pedal steel guitar, guitar pedal steel guitar
- Denny Dias - guitar, sitar [electric], soloist, electric sitar guitar
- Tristan Fabriani - liner notes
- Victor Feldman - percussion, additional percussion
- Donald Fagen - piano, electric piano, organ [plastic], vocals, written-by, soloist, electric piano piano, vocal
- Gary Katz - producer
- Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, soloist [sax], additional tenor saxophone
- David Palmer - vocals, vocal
- Clydie King - backing vocals
- Sherlie Matthews - backing vocals
- Venetta Fields - backing vocals
- The Skunk - soloist, steel guitar