Track Listing
1. Down In The Bottom
2. Junkie Girl
3. Surf And Or Die
4. Book Of Liars
5. Lucky Henry
6. Hard Up Case
7. Cringemaker
8. Girlfriend
9. My Waterloo
10. This Moody Bastard
11. Hat Too Flat
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Donald Fagen, Walter Becker | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel: Walter Becker (vocals, guitar, ukelele, bass); Dean Parks (acoustic & electric guitars); Adam Rogers (electric guitar); Bob Sheppard (woodwinds); Jon Papenbrook (horns); Bruce Paulson (trombone); Donald Fagen, John Beasley (keyboards); Fima Ephron (bass); Ben Perowsky (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Katherine Russell, Brenda White-King (background vocals).Recorded at Hyperbolic Sound USA and Signet Sound, Los Angeles, California.
Editorial Reviews
Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...[Becker] emerges with his own caustic voice and songs that are as ingenious as they are cranky.
New York Times (01/05/1995)
...WHACK has a certain persistent charm....applies elements of the [Steely] Dan philosophy to a new, more earthy paradigm, one that prizes the simple ripple of the electric guitar as much as a massive orchestration....
Musician (10/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...A wry, even even hard-boiled intelligence expressed in terse, minutely-detailed musical terms, a kind of hyper-modern lounge jazz....This is marvelous stuff...
Q (01/01/1995)
...delivers several compelling pop cuts, dressed with his imaginative jazzy guitar solos and charmingly slurred vocals... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (09/30/1994)
Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...[Becker] emerges with his own caustic voice and songs that are as ingenious as they are cranky.Musician (10/94, p.76) - ...WHACK has a certain persistent charm....applies elements of the [Steely] Dan philosophy to a new, more earthy paradigm, one that prizes the simple ripple of the electric guitar as much as a massive orchestration....Q (1/95, p.245) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...A wry, even even hard-boiled intelligence expressed in terse, minutely-detailed musical terms, a kind of hyper-modern lounge jazz....This is marvelous stuff...Entertainment Weekly (9/30/94, p.60) - ...delivers several compelling pop cuts, dressed with his imaginative jazzy guitar solos and charmingly slurred vocals... - Rating: B
New York Times (01/05/1995)
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