The Royal Scam - The Caves of Altamira

I find it more rare these days that an album comes out from a band and i can simply say, "I love EVERY song on this album."
Nowadays, i find myself buying 1 or 2 songs that i love from an album, but could really care less about the rest.
You would think that over the years music technology becoming so evolved that all music would progressivly have gotten better over the years... WRONG! Music seems to be getting progressivly worse! People with little or no talent are becoming stars and selling albums. Remember the days when bands and singers actually had to have talent to make it big?!?! HaHaHa unfortuanately i don't! I wasn't alive during that era, but thank god that music is still around today for me to listen to.
Don't get me wrong there are definitely exeptions that come along and remind us what great music really sounds like. A breath of fresh air!

The first time my father introduced me to Steely Dan's album "The Royal Scam," I remember thinking that i had never heard music like this before. Every song we listened to just had this "flow," easy listening at its finest! Donald Fagen's unique voice alongside the blend of jazzy, rock and R&B sounds just grab your ears from the start. To be honest, i can't tell what the hell he's talking about in most songs.... but i love it!!! The Royal Scam keeps you intrigued from the start of "Kid Charlemagne" all the way to the end of the title track "The Royal Scam."

Thanks to my father and his love of tunes with a bluesy, jazzy rock 'n' roll, i think i can truely say i know what really good music sounds like.

~Penny Lane
My hands down favorite song on the album ( tough, tough decision) has to be "The Caves of Altamira"