Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill album art
From Wikipedia:
Can’t Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972, by ABC Records. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. The album is one of Steely Dan’s most stylistically eclectic, encompassing the sounds of soft rock, folk rock, jazz rock and pop, alongside philosophical, elliptical lyrics. […]
The title of the album is a reference to the opening line of the Bob Dylan song “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”. The album cover features a photomontage by Robert Lockart. It includes images of muscle-men and a line of prostitutes […] waiting for clients, which was chosen because of its relevance to the album title.
The album contains some of the group’s best known hits including “Do It Again”, “Dirty Work”, and “Reelin’ In the Years”.
While the band logo is custom lettering, Lockart used a font for the title: it’s Roger Excoffon’s Mistral. The liner notes one the back are credited to Tristan Fabriani – a pseudonym for Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, They are set in Trump-Mediäval featuring its italic with some swash alternates and terminal forms.
3 Comments on “Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill album art”
Iconic artwork for an iconic album, you know back when albums didn’t make you want to throw up by the fourth or fifth song.
An article about Steely Dan’s album art that does not tell us who the cover art artist is.
Isn’t it Robert Lockart? Because that name get mentioned twice in the decription, plus a third time in the credits.
As this is Fonts In Use, the article is primarily concerned with the fonts used for the album cover, not so much with the art.