Pirates

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  Favorite Albums of All Time

  Stu

  (1981)

  “When he pulled off the road

  Step in a waltz of red moon-beams

  Said he fit an APB, a robbery nearby

  And he go for his wallet and they thought he was going for a gun

  And the cops blew Bird away…”

  I think of this album as the last hurrah of the singer-songwriter genre which flourished in the 70s but was killed off in the early 80s by synth-pop and MTV. It's musically and emotionally dynamic, displaying a wide range of moods (often within the same song). The recording, production, engineering, and musicianship are Steely Dan caliber.