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Circus Money | 
 enlarge | Artist: Walter Becker
Label: Mailboat Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 3248
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 4505
UPC: 698268450523
EAN: 0698268450523
ASIN: B0016KJS3I
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Door Number Two | | • | Downtown Canon | | • | Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore | | • | Upside Looking Down | | • | Paging Audrey | | • | Circus Money | | • | Selfish Gene | | • | Do you Remember The Name | | • | Somebody s Saturday Night | | • | Darkling Down | | • | Gods Eye View | | • | Three Picture Deal |
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Product Description
It's been 14 years since Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker's last (and first) solo album was released. Now, at long last, the wait is finally over for the second. Circus Money finds Becker's sardonic sensibility completely intact and each of the album's songs, inflected with jazz, reggae, and rock phrasing, is a masterpiece of musical understatement and lyrical nuance.
Album Description
Asian pressing of the 2008 sophomore solo album from one-half of Steely Dan includes the bonus track 'Dark Horse Dub'. It's only been 14 years since Walter Becker's last (and first) solo album was released. Now, at long last, the wait is finally over for the second. Circus Money finds Becker's sardonic sensibility completely intact and each of the album's songs, inflected with Jazz, Reggae and Rock phrasing, is a masterpiece of musical understatement and lyrical nuance. Produced by Larry Klein, Circus Money's songs (11 of which were co-written with Klein) explore modern malaise in a smilingly subversive way that is sure to curry favor with critics as well as Dan fans. Stand out tracks include 'Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore', 'God's Eye View' and Becker's jaundice take on the LA lifestyle archetype: 'Three Picture Deal'. Sonic 360.
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Almost like Don Walter September 10, 2008
A lovely album by someone who is, let this be clear before you listen, the main man behind Steely Dan, together with Donald Fagen. The line-up is the same as the Dan studio albums and the road crew I saw last year, so tight, so steady and well educated. Very relaxed, well composed and very very clever. So good to hear the man do this on his own. Walter Becker has clearly been influenced and gave his influences to... and that is what it should be like. I truly love the interaction and the voice of Carolyn Leonhart in particular. Good stuff and the real fan should have it.
 phenomenal album September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was blown away by this album. I enjoyed 11 Tracks of Whack but not as much as Fagen's first two solo efforts. Hence I mistakenly was led to believe that Becker was somehow not as genius as Fagen. This album proved me wrong twice over. Spectacular album. Many have mentioned the originality (or novelty as some more cynically put it) of the songs (reggae) but what has impressed me the most is the quality of the lyrics. Amazing.
My faves: Downtown Canon, Darkling Down, God's Eye View, Bob is Not Your Uncle Anymore
OK songs: Upside Looking Down, Circus Money
If your a SD fan, there should be no need to recommend this album. And if you're not, then you should be.
 ...and now during Fagen's intermission....Walter August 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely love Steely Dan. There has never been a time, nor will there ever be, when I couldn't sit down and listen to any of their albums and immediately take off right where I left off. SD music always sounds current and relevant and...there isn't anything like it. But the Steely Dan sound depends heavily on Fagen's voice and when it's absent, even with the great musicians, arrangements and production, WB just can't carry it off. Walter contributes at least 50% to the Dan songwriting and arranging so you have to give him credit for that but he just doesn't have the pipes to be the up-front guy. It must be tough to be the "other" guy especially when your counterpart is Don Fagen. To be fair though I must say that I've not been exactly blown away with Fagen's latest releases either. There's an unmistakable synergy that's missing in their solo efforts.
Steely Dan August 30, 2008
For all steely Dan fans; starving for new material; this album is for you.
Although it is missing Donald Fagen; there is a Steely Dan sound in every track. Highly recommended.
This CD gets better with every listen August 10, 2008
It has the sounds of the first rate Steely Dan arrangements on it
and Walters voice, the background singers and the reggae groove
make this music distinctive.
A fine effort from the man that is one half of the Steely Dan duo.
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