Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
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Artist: Steely DanEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-11-23
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Kid Charlemagne
- The Caves Of Altamira
- Don't Take Me Alive
- Sign In Stranger
- The Fez
- Green Earrings
- Haitian Divorce
- Everything You Did
- The Royal Scam
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Free Music Review: Steely Dan's best album
Hit: 5 Stars
Although all of Steely Dan's albums are great (I'd give them all five stars), this one would have to be their best. Walter Becker did an excellent job with the guitar on this album.
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Ever the primary conceit of mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, 1976's The Royal Scam marks the first time the Steely Dan duo actually owned up to the fact. Musically, it's their edgiest, most guitar-driven record (thanks to Becker and a murderer's row of session greats that includes Larry Carlton, Elliot Randall, Dean Parks, and Denny Dias). Lyrically, the songs cut an ever-sardonic, presciently discomforting slice of modern life that was a couple decades ahead of the game (who else was extolling the virtues of condom-couture, ? la "The Fez," mid-Me Decade?). Though it didn't garner the radio attention of Aja, its more jazz-suffused, multiplatinum follow-up, Scam boasts a diverse, occasionally muscular musical rhetoric and some of the Dan's most telling portraits (the deranged, yet all-too-familiar killer of "Don't Take Me Alive," "Kid Charlemagne"'s drug-culture celebrity, the tropical convenience of a "Haitian Divorce"). Small wonder many Dan fans consider it their best. --Jerry McCulleyPop Music CDs
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