Label: Geffen Records (Japan), UICY-93517
Style: Jazz Rock, Pop Rock, Soft Rock
Country: New York, U.S.
Time: 34:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 227 Mb
Charts: US #8, AUS #18, CAN #5, NZ #23, UK #37. UK: Silver; US: Platinum.
Pretzel
Logic contains shorter songs and fewer instrumental jams than Steely
Dan's previous album, Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), as the group had
decided to attempt to produce complete musical statements within the
three-minute pop-song format. Music critic Robert Christgau wrote that
the album's solos are "functional rather than personal or expressive,
locked into the workings of the music".
The music on the album is
characterized by harmonies, counter-melodies, and bop phrasing, and
often relies on straightforward pop influences. The syncopated piano
line that opens "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" develops into a pop
melody, and the title track transitions from a blues song to a jazzy
chorus.
Steely Dan often incorporated jazz into their music during
the 1970s. For example, on this album, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
appropriates the bass pattern from Horace Silver's 1965 song "Song for
My Father", and "Parker's Band" features riffs influenced by Charlie
Parker 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, and on the instrumental cover of Duke Ellington's "East St.
Louis Toodle-Oo", he recreates a classic Tricky Sam Nanton trombone solo
on pedal steel. On that same track, Walter Becker uses talk box guitar
to recreate James "Bubber" Miley's famous plunger-muted trumpet melody.
Certain songs on the album incorporate additional instrumentation,
including exotic percussion, violin sections, bells, and horns. Victor
Feldman played a flapamba solo to introduce the song "Rikki Don't Lose
That Number" on the album, but this intro was removed from the single
release upon orders from Geffen Records.
"Charlie Freak" recounts the
tale of a vagrant drug-addict who sells his only possession—a gold
ring—to the narrator so he can buy a fix, which kills him.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel_Logic)
01. Rikki Don't Lose That Number (04:33)
02. Night By Night (03:40)
03. Any Major Dude Will Tell You (03:08)
04. Barrytown (03:22)
05. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (02:49)
06. Parker's Band (02:45)
07. Through With Buzz (01:34)
08. Pretzel Logic (04:32)
09. With A Gun (02:18)
10. Charlie Freak (02:44)
11. Monkey In Your Soul (02:34)
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