Can't Buy a Thrill

Can't Buy a Thrill
Studio album by
Steely Dan
ReleasedNovember 1972
RecordedAugust 1972
StudioVillage Recorder, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length40:57
LabelABC
ProducerGary Katz
Steely Dan chronology
Can't Buy a Thrill
(1972) 		Countdown to Ecstasy
(1973)
Singles from Can't Buy a Thrill
  1. "Do It Again"
    Released: November 1972[4]
  2. "Reelin' In the Years"
    Released: March 1973

Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released by ABC Records in November 1972. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. The album is one of Steely Dan's most stylistically eclectic, encompassing the sounds of soft rock, folk rock, jazz-rock and pop, alongside philosophical, elliptical lyrics.

A commercial success, in the United States Can't Buy a Thrill peaked at number 17 on the Billboard albums chart, bolstered by the popular singles "Do It Again" and "Reelin' In the Years", and was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was also met with positive reviews and has appeared on many retrospective "greatest albums" lists, including Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (2003).

  1. ^ Galen & Matthews 2007, p. 120.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Erlewine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Sheffield et al. 2004, p. 778–89.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 782. ISBN 9780862415419.