Abracadabra

by Steve Miller Band, Steve Miller

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1990
Label:	Capitol/Emi Records / Capitol
UPC:	0077774610223
Rank:	2341

Tracks

1. Keeps Me Wondering Why
2. Abracadabra
3. Something Special
4. Give It Up
5. Never Say No
6. Things I Told You
7. Young Girl's Heart
8. Goodbye Love
9. Cool Magic
10. While I'm Waiting

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Steve Miller Band   Primary Artist
Steve Miller   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Keyboards,Synthesizer
Kenny Lee Lewis   Bass,Guitar
Greg Douglass   Guitar
Lonnie Turner   Bass
Byron Allred   Keyboards,Synthesizer
Gary Mallaber   Drums,Keyboards,Percussion
Gerald Johnson   Bass
John Massaro   Guitar

Technical Credits

Jeff Lancaster   Design
David Alexander   Photography
Steven Haworth Miller   Composer
David Cole   Mixing,Engineer
Steve Miller   Drawing,Composer,Producer
Kenny Lee Lewis   Composer
Greg Douglass   Composer
John Palladino   Executive Producer
Lonnie Turner   Composer
Tommy Steele   Design,Artwork,Art Direction
Gary Mallaber   Composer,Engineer,Producer
Steve Miller Band   Performer
Ben Sidran   Composer
John Massaro   Composer
Nels Israelson   Photography