Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
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Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

€129,99

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.

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ABC Records ABCL 5045, ABCX 808 LP, Album, RE, black UK 1975

Side 1.

1. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
2. Night By Night
3. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
4. Barrytown
5. East St. Louis Toodle-O

Side 2.

1. Parker’s Band
2. Through With Buzz
3. Pretzel Logic
4. With A Gun
5. Charlie Freak
6. Monkey In Your Soul

Credits:

Art Direction – Ed Caraeff
Design – David Larkham
Engineer – Roger Nichols
Management – Kudo III
Orchestrated By – Jimmie Haskell
Other [Security] – Karen Stanley
Photography By [Cover] – Raeanne Rubenstein
Photography By [Inside] – Ed Caraeff
Producer – Gary Katz

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Recorded at the Village Recorders West Los Angeles. Overdub and mixdown at Cherokee Sound, Chatsworth, Calif.

Second UK edition of this album on black label ABC. The first UK edition was released on the ABC sub-label Probe (SPBA 6282). The third UK edition used the same matrix numbers but now applied the then-new multicolored ABC label design,

 

 

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout ABCL.5045A
Matrix / Runout ABCL.5045B
Matrix / Runout ABCL-5045-A4
Matrix / Runout ABCL-5045-B2
Matrix / Runout ABCL 5045A-2 S̶P̶B̶A̶ ̶5̶2̶8̶2̶ ̶A̶-̶2̶
Matrix / Runout S̶P̶B̶A̶ ̶5̶2̶8̶2̶ ̶B̶-̶1̶ ABCL 5045B-1
Matrix / Runout ABCL-5045-A3 4 ∴
Matrix / Runout S̶P̶B̶A̶ ̶5̶2̶8̶2̶-̶B̶1̶ ABCL-5045-A3 0 1 3

 

 

 

 

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Weight0,23 kg
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