Steely Dan - Dirty Work video free download


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According to Wikipedia:

Can't Buy a Thrill is the first album by Steely Dan, released in 1972. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard chart[4] and has been certified gold (1973) and platinum (1993) in the U.S. In 2003, the album was ranked number 238 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[5]

The album was originally released in two-channel stereo and also in a special four-channel quadrophonic mix. There are some significant musical differences between the two mixes, such as extra lead guitar fills in the quad mix of "Reelin' in the Years".

The album cover features a line of prostitutes standing in a red light area waiting for clients, an image which was chosen because of its relevance to the album title.[6] The cover was banned in Francisco Franco's Spain and was replaced with a photograph of the band playing in concert. The title is taken from a lyric in the Bob Dylan song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on Highway 61 Revisited.[7] Walter Becker and Donald Fagen themselves commented on the album art in their liner notes to the reissued The Royal Scam, saying that album possessed "the most hideous album cover of the seventies, bar none (excepting perhaps Can't Buy a Thrill)."

Two songs recorded during the Can't Buy a Thrill sessions were left off the album and released as a single ("Dallas" and "Sail the Waterway"). This is the only Steely Dan album to include David Palmer as a lead vocalist, having been recruited after Donald Fagen expressed concerns over singing live. Drummer Jim Hodder also chips in lead vocals on one song, as well as singing the "Dallas" single. By the time recording of the next album began, the band and producer Gary Katz had convinced Fagen to assume the full lead vocalist role.

Lyrics:

Times are hard

You're afraid to pay the fee

So you find yourself somebody

Who can do the job for free

When you need a bit of lovin'

'Cause your man is out of town

That's the time you get me runnin'

And you know I'll be around

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I don't wanna do your dirty work

No more

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

Light the candle

Put the lock upon the door

You have sent the maid home early

Like a thousand times before

Like the castle in its corner

In a medieval game

I foresee terrible trouble

And I stay here just the same

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I don't wanna do your dirty work

No more

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I don't wanna do your dirty work

No more

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I don't wanna do your dirty work

No more

I'm a fool to do your dirty work

Oh yeah

I don't wanna do your dirty work

No more

Comments

8 years ago

gracelandtm

American Hustle brought me here. Not bad movie could have been more better but the music score was fun. That is why i am here :P

8 years ago

Keith Miller

My personal fave.

9 years ago

Marius C.

This should make the Sunday even better :)

9 years ago

Tom Carrizales

Tony Soprano brought me here

9 years ago

Stu B

Masterpiece.

9 years ago

chris beaupre

I'll always think of Tony Soprano singing this song.

9 years ago

Brad Homeier

American hustle! 

9 years ago

vickie nagle

I used to listen to this band with my cousin Frank. Awesome band. Awesome cousin. Forever memories.

9 years ago

Sterling Blake

I wish it was 1974 all over again!!!!!!!

9 years ago

Leeanne C

Such an under-rated song that is rarely played. 

9 years ago

70scarguy OLDS/BUICK

Love this song

9 years ago

hackettiano76

Hola comunidad!!!... Adoro este grupo, espero les guste... 

9 years ago

hackettiano76

Con mis mejores deseos comunidad!!!. STEELY DAN " Dirty Work "

9 years ago

Luke Black

Child hood love love!

9 years ago

FRIDAY NIGHT SESSIONS

*#RockBlock**: **#SteelyDan* Light the candle, put the lock upon the door. You have sent the maid home early like a thousand times before. Like the castle in its corner in a medieval game, I foresee terrible trouble... And I stay here just the same.I'm a fool to do your dirty work.Shoulda' rolled this one out for V-Day this year...#RRHK #OnThisDay 

9 years ago

Kath Galasso

"Like the castle in its cornerIn a medieval gameI foresee terrible troubleAnd I stay here just the same"Will the car start? Will the pipes freeze? Will we make it to Spring? It's not meant to be 0 degrees here. Yes, I'm cranky. And cold.

9 years ago

saltyninja

I play this when I'm doing dirty work around the house. I know I'm being a bit literal but I like it.

9 years ago

Michael Lombard

Now you have experienced awesome, nuanced but also KICKASS rock/ jazz rock etc. from our decade, the 1970s. These guys Becker & Fagan are among our music heroes. Still, all decades produce great music; just seems as though more of it came out of the 60s & 70s. A lot of tough stuff was going on then; Vietnam, Women's Lib, Civil Rights unrest, The loss of MLK & RFK; the Space Race; all fuel for great music 

9 years ago

TrueBlueSue49 .

Steely Dan - Dirty Work

9 years ago

KERRY JACOBS

This song is my life, I mean favorite song ha ha ha

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