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Abracadabra

Steve Miller Band

SKU: SMBLP004

Barcode: 5014797138858

19.00 £19.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Edsel
  • Released Date: 10th September 2013
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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Steve Miller was always catchy and tuneful, but he never turned out an unabashed pop album until 1982’s Abracadabra. This isn’t just pop in construction, it’s pop in attitude, filled with effervescent melodies and deeply silly lyrics, perhaps none more noteworthy than the immortal couplet “Abra-Abracadabra/I wanna reach out and grab ya.” Those words graced the title track, which turned out to be one of his biggest hits, and if nothing else is quite as irresistibly goofy as that song, there still is a surplus of engagingly tuneful material, all dressed up in the psuedo-new wave production so favored by AOR veterans in the early ’80s. All of that may not make this one of Miller’s definitive albums, especially in the view of hardcore space blues heads, but it’s pretty damn irresistible for listeners who find “Abracadabra” one of the highlights of faux-new wave AOR. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Track Listings

1. Keeps Me Wondering Why
2. Abracadabra
3. Something Special
4. Give It Up
5. Never Say No
6. Things I Told You
7. Young Girl's Heart
8. Goodbye Love
9. Cool Magic
10. While I'm Waiting

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