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DescriptionAll tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. Steely Dan – 1974 - Pretzel Logic (2014 Japanese SHM-SACD) [FLAC@88.2khz24bit]  Steely Dan  Wikipedia: Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of funk, R&B, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, the band enjoyed great critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies". Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured steadily ever since. Recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, Steely Dan's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written "cerebral, wry and eccentric" songs about drugs, love affairs, gambling, and crime. The pair is also known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio: Over the year they took to record Gaucho (1980), an album of just seven songs, Becker and Fagen hired at least 42 studio musicians and 11 engineers. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from live performances, becoming a studio-only band. After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.In a VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Steely Dan were listed at #82. Pretzel Logic (2014 Japanese SHM-SACD)  Artist: Steely Dan Title: Pretzel Logic Format: SACD, Hybrid, Album, Limited Edition, Remastered, Reissue Producer: Gary Katz Release Date: February 20, 1974, (Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014) Recorded: October 1973 to January 1974 at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles, California SHM-SACD Mastering: Manabu Matsumura at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo, in 2014 Label: Universal Music Japan Catalog: UIGY-9568 Bar Code: 4 988005 838223 ASIN: B019GLCPV0 Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Jazz Rock, Soft Rock Duration: 33:52 Wikipedia: Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by the 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. They recorded the album at The Village Recorder in West Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz and prominent Los Angeles–based studio musicians. The album was a commercial and critical success upon its release. 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 in 1999 to retrospective acclaim from critics. Written primarily by Walter Becker and bandleader Donald Fagen, who also sang and played keyboard. The album marked the beginning of Becker and Fagen's roles as Steely Dan's principal members. They enlisted prominent Los Angeles–based studio musicians to record Pretzel Logic, but used them only for occasional overdubs. Steely Dan's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter played pedal steel guitar and hand drums. Steely Dan often incorporated jazz into their music during the 1970s. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" appropriates the bass pattern from Horace Silver's 1965 song "Song for My Father", while "Parker's Band" features Charlie Parker–influenced riffs and a lyric that invites listeners to "take a piece of Mr. Parker's band." Baxter's guitar playing drew on jazz and rock and roll influences. On "East St. Louis Toodle-oo", he imitates a ragtime mute-trombone solo. Certain songs incorporate additional instrumentation, including exotic percussion, violin sections, bells, and horns. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: 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.  01. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number - 4:30 02. Night By Night - 3:36 03. Any Major Dude Will Tell You - 3:05 04. Barrytown - 3:17 05. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - 2:45 06. Parker’s Band - 2:36 07. Through With Buzz - 1:30 08. Pretzel Logic - 4:28 09. With A Gun - 2:15 10. Charlie Freak - 2:41 11. Monkey In Your Soul - 2:31 Personnel: Steely Dan: Donald Fagen – keyboards, saxophone, lead vocals Walter Becker – bass, guitar, background vocals Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – lead guitar Denny Dias – guitar Jim Hodder – backing vocals Additional Musicians: Michael Omartian – keyboards David Paich – keyboards Ben Benay – guitar Dean Parks – guitar, banjo Plas Johnson – saxophone Jerome Richardson – saxophone Ernie Watts – saxophone Ollie Mitchell – trumpet Lew McCreary – horn Timothy B. Schmit – bass, background vocals Wilton Felder – bass Chuck Rainey – bass Jim Gordon – drums Jeff Porcaro – drums Victor Feldman – percussion Note: This is not my rip My thanks to the original uploader    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Related Torrents
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