Track Listing 1. Down in the Bottom 2. Junkie Girl 3. Surf and/or Die 4. Book of Liars 5. Lucky Henry 6. Hard up Case 7. Cringemaker 8. Girlfriend 9. My Waterloo 10. This Moody Bastard 11. Hat Too Flat 12. Little Kawai
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Bob Sheppard, Donald Fagen, Paulinho Da Costa | | Producer: | Donald Fagen, Walter Becker | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Walter Becker (vocals, guitar, ukelele, bass); Dean Parks (acoustic & electric guitars); Adam Rogers (electric guitar); Bob Sheppard (woodwinds); Jon Papenbrook (horns); Bruce Paulson (trombone); Donald Fagen, John Beasley (keyboards); Fima Ephron (bass); Ben Perowsky (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Katherine Russell, Brenda White-King (background vocals). Recorded at Hyperbolic Sound USA and Signet Sound, Los Angeles, California.
Editorial Reviews Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...[Becker] emerges with his own caustic voice and songs that are as ingenious as they are cranky. New York Times (01/05/1995)
...WHACK has a certain persistent charm....applies elements of the [Steely] Dan philosophy to a new, more earthy paradigm, one that prizes the simple ripple of the electric guitar as much as a massive orchestration.... Musician (10/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...A wry, even even hard-boiled intelligence expressed in terse, minutely-detailed musical terms, a kind of hyper-modern lounge jazz....This is marvelous stuff... Q (01/01/1995)
...delivers several compelling pop cuts, dressed with his imaginative jazzy guitar solos and charmingly slurred vocals... - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (09/30/1994)
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