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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 /TiVo
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STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Lee Lewis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
Gerald Johnson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - STEVE MILLER, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist - Byron Allred, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Greg Douglass, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer - Steven Haworth Miller, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Lee Lewis, ComposerLyricist - John Massaro, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - John Massaro, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - John Massaro, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Greg Douglass, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Turner, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Lee Lewis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
STEVE MILLER, Producer - Steve Miller Band, MainArtist - Gary Mallaber, Producer, ComposerLyricist - John Massaro, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 Sailor Records
Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:25
- Main artists: Steve Miller Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Steve Miller - Owned
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2019 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1982 Sailor Records
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