Friday, July 19, 2019

Day 0322 - Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan "Pretzel Logic" (1974)

 
I really enjoyed SD's first album on this list.  The second album was nice in a "play it in the background" sort of way.  This one bounds back to the foreground with an attention-grabbing selection of songs

Apparently the band decided to play around with various song genres.  A lot of older genres are explored, but mixed with more modern elements, including a ragtime track with steel guitar, tin pan alley with bursts of sunny Californian pop, calypso mixed with piano balladry.

This is my kind of jam! 

1 comment:

  1. There are a bunch of acts from the era that were just uber-consistent - could easily have included almost everything Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Roxy Music released in the late 1960s and most of the 1970s.

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