Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1974/2023)
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (Hybrid SACD CD Layer) (1974/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 196 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 78 Mb | 00:33:48
Soft Rock, Jazz Rock | Label: Analogue Productions
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 196 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 78 Mb | 00:33:48
Soft Rock, Jazz Rock | Label: Analogue Productions
Pretzel Logic — Steely Dan's gold-selling third studio album reissue. Hybrid Stereo SACD release from Analogue Productions! Mastered direct to DSD from the original master tape by Bernie Grundman.Tracklist:
Steely Dan's gold-selling third studio album Pretzel Logic, charted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and restored the group's radio presence with the single "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," which became the biggest pop hit of their career and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1974 album was produced by Gary Katz and was written primarily by Walter Becker (bass) and bandleader Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards). 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, except for drums, where founding drummer Jim Hodder was reduced to a backing singer, replaced by Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro on the drum kit for all of the songs on the album. Steely Dan's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter played pedal steel guitar and hand drums.
Pretzel Logic has shorter songs and fewer instrumental jams than the group's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy. Steely Dan considered it the band's attempt at complete musical statements within the three-minute pop-song format. The album's music is characterized by harmonies, counter-melodies, and bop phrasing. It also relies often 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.
Rolling Stone praised the album, calling Steely Dan the "most improbable hit-singles band to emerge in ages."
"When the band doesn't undulate to samba rhythms (as it did on 'Do It Again,' its first Top Ten single), it pushes itself to a full gallop (as it did on 'Reelin' in the Years,' its second). These two rhythmic preferences persist and sometimes intermingle, as on 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number,' which jumps in mid-chorus from 'Hernando's Hideaway' into 'Honky Tonk Women.' Great transition." — the review said.
AllMusic gave the album 5 stars, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine noting that "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.
The album's cover photo featuring a New York pretzel vendor was taken by Raeanne Rubenstein, a photographer of musicians and Hollywood celebrities. She shot the photo on the west side of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, just above the 79th Street Transverse (the road through Central Park), at the park entrance called "Miners' Gate."
After a brief battle with esophageal cancer, Walter Becker died on September 3, 2017 at the age of 67. Steely Dan has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001. VH1 ranked Steely Dan at No. 82 on their list of the 100 Greatest Musical Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone ranked them No. 15 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.
01. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
02. Night By Night
03. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
04. Barrytown
05. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
06. Parker's Band
07. Through With Buzz
08. Pretzel Logic
09. With A Gun
10. Charlie Freak
11. Monkey In Your Soul
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Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic (AP Hybrid SACD CD Layer)
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EAC extraction logfile from 31. March 2024, 21:45
Steely Dan / Pretzel Logic (AP Hybrid SACD CD Layer)
Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B1ST c Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
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Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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9 | 26:10.54 | 2:17.25 | 117804 | 128103
10 | 28:28.04 | 2:44.19 | 128104 | 140422
11 | 31:12.23 | 2:36.01 | 140423 | 152123
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