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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974) {1999, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 28 May 2022 14:10:32

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974) {1999, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 240 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 100 Mb
Full Scans | 00:33:45 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Jazz Rock, Classic Rock | MCA #MCD-11917 | Germany

Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released on February 20, 1974, by ABC Records. It was written by principal band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded at The Village Recorder in West Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. It was the final album to feature the full quintet lineup of Becker, Fagen, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (who left to join The Doobie Brothers) and also featured significant contributions from many prominent Los Angeles-based studio musicians and the last to be made and released while Steely Dan was still an active touring band. The album was a commercial and critical success. Its hit single "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" helped restore Steely Dan's radio presence after the disappointing performance of their 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy. Pretzel Logic was reissued on CD in 1987 and remastered in 1999 to retrospective critical acclaim.

Countdown to Ecstasy wasn't half the hit that Can't Buy a Thrill was, and Steely Dan responded by trimming the lengthy instrumental jams that were scattered across Countdown and concentrating on concise songs for Pretzel Logic. While the shorter songs usually indicate a tendency toward pop conventions, that's not the case with Pretzel Logic. Instead of relying on easy hooks, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen assembled their most complex and cynical set of songs to date. Dense with harmonics, countermelodies, and bop phrasing, Pretzel Logic is vibrant with unpredictable musical juxtapositions and snide, but very funny, wordplay. Listen to how the album's hit single, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," opens with a syncopated piano line that evolves into a graceful pop melody, or how the title track winds from a blues to a jazzy chorus – Becker and Fagen's craft has become seamless while remaining idiosyncratic and thrillingly accessible. Since the songs are now paramount, it makes sense that Pretzel Logic is less of a band-oriented album than Countdown to Ecstasy, yet it is the richest album in their catalog, one where the backhanded Dylan tribute "Barrytown" can sit comfortably next to the gorgeous "Any Major Dude Will Tell You." Steely Dan made more accomplished albums than Pretzel Logic, but they never made a better one.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. Rikki Don't Lose That Number [4:32]
02. Night By Night [3:39]
03. Any Major Dude Will Tell You [3:08]
04. Barrytown [3:21]
05. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo [2:48]
06. Parker's Band [2:43]
07. Through With Buzz [1:33]
08. Pretzel Logic [4:31]
09. With A Gun [2:17]
10. Charlie Freak [2:44]
11. Monkey In Your Soul [2:34]

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Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic

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