Can’t Buy a Thrill

Album by Steely Dan

Released October 1972

Tracklist

1
Do It Again
5:57
4.1 ★
2
Dirty Work
3:09
3.9 ★
3
Kings
3:47
3.0 ★
4
Midnite Cruiser
4:12
3.2 ★
5
Only a Fool Would Say That
2:55
3.0 ★
6
Reelin’ In the Years
4:37
4.5 ★
7
Fire in the Hole
3:29
4.0 ★
8
Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)
4:21
3.0 ★
9
Change of the Guard
3:39
3.0 ★
10
Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
4:58
3.0 ★

This was one of the most consistently good albums I’ve listened to all the way through. The production and mixing is insane, it sounds very nice on the ears and has a pretty a unique sound. The vocals just have a really nice shine to it and the drums guitar and piano mesh perfectly together as well as the background vocals. The albums is like always groovy, it’s so tight and almost always has a consistent strong backbeat which I really enjoy. The guitar solos are also just immaculate, the distortion hits just right and they feel unique and unexpected as if they are improvising while also just being tight and memorable.

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Release credits

Clydie King
background vocals [3, 8]
David Palmer
background vocals [6], lead vocals [2, 8, 10]
Denny Dias
acoustic guitar [2], electric guitar [6], electric sitar [1], solo [1]
Donald Fagen
Wurlitzer electric piano [2], background vocals [2, 6], electric piano [1], keyboard [1], lead vocals [1, 3, 5-7, 9-10], organ [2], piano [6-7]
Elliott Randall
electric guitar [3, 6], solo [3, 6]
Gary Katz
producer
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
electric guitar [1-2, 6], pedal steel guitar [4], spoken vocals [5]
Jerome Richardson
tenor saxophone [2]
Jim Hodder
background vocals [2], drums (drum set), lead vocals [4]
Roger Nichols
engineer
Sherlie Matthews
background vocals [3, 8]
Snooky Young
flugelhorn [2]
Tim Weston
assistant
Venetta Fields
background vocals [3, 8]
Victor Feldman
percussion [1]
Walter Becker
background vocals [2], electric bass guitar, lead vocals [10]