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Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 08/13/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3890): The Royal Scam by Steely Dan
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Today's album of the day
The Royal Scam by Steely Dan (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1976.
Country: 
Overall rank: 1,028
Average rating: 81/100 (from 280 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Kid Charlemagne
2. The Caves Of Altamira
3. Don't Take Me Alive
4. Sign In Stranger
5. The Fez
6. Green Earrings
7. Haitian Divorce
8. Everything You Did
9. The Royal Scam
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Luigii
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Age: 30
- #2
- Posted: 08/13/2021 20:03
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Banger album. Let's go! Then again any Steely Dan album from there classic period is really enjoyable and can be anyone's favorite.
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- #3
- Posted: 08/14/2021 01:02
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Not my favourite Dan record, but still a great record. With Kid Charlemagne on it, how could it be anything else? But there are plenty of other fantastic songs on it too!
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment 
- #4
- Posted: 08/14/2021 04:57
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Excellent. A very different, unique album. Even by Dan standards. Lots of cool, dark deep cuts. I'm particularly partial to Don't Take Me Alive.
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- #5
- Posted: 08/14/2021 17:35
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Great album, maybe my second favorite Dan record after Aja. Kid Charlemagne has to be my favorite Steely Dan song.
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EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor
Age: 34
Location: Gotham
- #6
- Posted: 08/14/2021 17:40
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Listened to this the other day and again yesterday.
For me it seems very similar to Aja, but just doesn't do anything as well as Aja does. That said, still a solid album from a group of talented musicians.
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an-outlaw
Location: Highcoombe 
- #7
- Posted: 08/14/2021 19:39
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Kid Charlemagne is one of the best opening tracks 
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Skinny
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- #8
- Posted: 08/15/2021 08:15
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I’ve probably listened to Steely Dan more than I’ve listened to anybody else over the past year, and this album is the one I think is most unique (from that classic period). This is not a good thing. It’s more theatrical, more silly, more consciously “dark”, more reliant on predictable guitar solos, more Andrew Lloyd Webber, more white than anything else they did in that period. They were always such an unusual rock band, but The Royal Scam feels very much like a 1976 prog-rock album. There are still some great moments, but it’s just very, very silly. In fact, it’s maybe the only one of that classic run that I don’t love.
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