Can't Buy A Thrill - Analogue Productions Edition

Steely Dan's platinum-selling debut studio album now on UHQR. Definitive reissue Ultra High Quality Record, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl on a 45 RPM LP release limited to 20,000 numbered copies. Mastered directly from the original master tape by Bernie Grundman and pressed at Quality Record Pressings using 200-gram Clarity Vinyl® - the purest possible pressing and most visually stunning presentation and packaging with a tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jackets with film lamination by Stoughton Printing.

Steely Dan's platinum-selling debut studio album Can't Buy A Thrill, released in November 1972, was a commercial success, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard chart. It later appeared on many professional listings of the greatest albums, including Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000) and Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (2003) The album was written by band members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, and produced by Gary Katz. Its music features tight song structure and sounds from soft rock, folk rock, and pop, alongside philosophical, elliptical lyrics. Two songs recorded during the Can't Buy A Thrill sessions were left off the album and released as a single: "Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway." This is the only Steely Dan album to include David Palmer as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after Donald Fagen expressed concerns over singing live. Drummer Jim Hodder also chips in lead vocals on one song, "Midnite Cruiser" (sometimes spelled "Midnight Cruiser"), as well as singing the "Dallas" single. By the time recording of the next album began, the band and producer Gary Katz had convinced Fagen to assume the full lead vocalist role.