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Albums similar to Can’t Buy a Thrill

These are the albums most often named alongside Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Steely Dan, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
2. Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
3. Larry Carlton - Last Night
4. Sea Level - Sea Level
5. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma fleur
6. The Doobie Brothers - Livin’ on the Fault Line
7. Black Sabbath - Ozzy Years
8. John Lee Hooker - Chill Out
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
10. Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle
11. The Stranglers - Collection
12. Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Dreams
13. Bruce Cockburn - Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws
14. Rush - Caress of Steel
15. Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence
16. M.C. Solaar - Prose Combat
17. Mr. Big - Lean Into It
18. Pat Metheny - Travels
19. Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
20. Elton John - Madman Across the Water
21. Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
22. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
23. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
24. Eagles - Desperado
25. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
26. Led Zeppelin - Remasters
27. Dire Straits - Alchemy
28. Pat Metheny - We Live Here
29. KISS - Alive
30. The Beatles - Abbey Road

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