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Steely Dan, The Royal Scam

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1265574

Disk length: 41m 18s (9 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1999

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Kid Charlemagne 4:38
2. The Caves Of Altamira 3:33
3. Don't Take Me Alive 4:16
4. Sign In Stranger 4:23
5. The Fez 4:01
6. Green Earrings 4:05
7. Haitian Divorce 5:51
8. Everything You Did 3:55
9. The Royal Scam 6:30

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Review

Ever the primary conceit of mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, 1976's The Royal Scam marks the first time the Steely Dan duo actually owned up to the fact. Musically, it's their edgiest, most guitar-driven record (thanks to Becker and a murderer's row of session greats that includes Larry Carlton, Elliot Randall, Dean Parks, and Denny Dias). Lyrically, the songs cut an ever-sardonic, presciently discomforting slice of modern life that was a couple decades ahead of the game (who else was extolling the virtues of condom-couture, à la "The Fez," mid-Me Decade?). Though it didn't garner the radio attention of Aja, its more jazz-suffused, multiplatinum follow-up, Scam boasts a diverse, occasionally muscular musical rhetoric and some of the Dan's most telling portraits (the deranged, yet all-too-familiar killer of "Don't Take Me Alive," "Kid Charlemagne"'s drug-culture celebrity, the tropical convenience of a "Haitian Divorce"). Small wonder many Dan fans consider it their best. --Jerry McCulley

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 19s (+0m 1s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 19s (+0m 1s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 19s (+0m 1s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 20s (+0m 2s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 20s (+0m 2s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 20s (+0m 2s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 20s (+0m 2s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 21s (+0m 3s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 23s (+0m 5s)

The Royal Scam

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 41m 35s (+0m 17s)

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