CAN'T BUY A THRILL

Their wonderful debut album filled with great pop-rock songs made its mark on the top 40 and introduced their unique sound and style to the world. Contains their most straight-forward, accessible, and radio-friendly songs, showing great melodies and hooks, but also being uniquely Steely Dan. The different lead vocals (David Palmer and drummer Jim Hodder) on some songs is a bit unsettling relative to the more familiar Fagen vocals, but the songs are great. Best songs-'Only a Fool Would Say That', 'Reelin' in the Years', 'Do It Again', 'Change of the Guard'. Sure, this is not prog, but it is still great, and has most of those quirky Steely Dan moments. Rating: 4.5