Thursday, November 20, 2025

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974)

 

The third album from this band from USA.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, pedal steel guitars, keyboards and vocals.

A number of guests added percussion, bass, guitars, banjo, keyboards, woodwinds and backing vocals.

This album is clocking in at just short of thirty-five minutes. The music is art-rock with some fusion and jazz influences.

This album is also a zillion of albums best selling albums. It starts with one of this band's signature songs... Rikki Don't Loose That Number. A four and a half minutes long quirky art-rock masterpiece and one of the better known songs from the 1970s.

Quirky is the word that pops up in my head over and over throughout this album. The songs, the pieces of music is all quirky with some great vocals and details too.

This album makes it easy to understand why this band has this legends status. There is no surplus fat on this album. All the songs are very good or better.

This is one of the better albums from the 1970s and a great album in it's own right. This band has won me over with this album.

4 points 

 

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