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Steely Dan – The Royal Scam (VG+/E) – LP, Worldwide 2025
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The Royal Scam is an LP by Steely Dan from 2025 released on the Geffen Records, UMe label.
About this album
The Royal Scam is one of Steely Dan’s most accomplished and caustic albums, sharpening the duo’s blend of pop hooks, jazz harmonies and sardonic wit. Issued in 1976, it features some of their most enduring songs, including Kid Charlemagne and Don’t Take Me Alive, and leans further into complex arrangements and immaculate studio craft than much of contemporary rock. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s tightly controlled approach gives the record its cool precision, while the lyrics sketch hustlers, outsiders and uneasy American dreams with unusual detail. It helped confirm Steely Dan as masters of sophisticated, adult rock.
Genre: Pop & Rock
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AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: Steely DanLabel: Geffen Records, UMe – 602445332489Format: LP, Album, Reissue, StereoUnits: 1Country: WorldwideReleased: 2025Genre: Pop & RockA1 Kid Charlemagne
A2 The Caves Of Altamira
A3 Don’T Take Me Alive
A4 Sign In Stranger
A5 The Fez
B1 Green Earrings
B2 Haitian Divorce
B3 Everything You Did
B4 The Royal Scam