Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (1982) {1997, Japanese Reissue}
BAND/ARTIST: Donald Fagen
- Title: The Nightfly
- Year Of Release: 1982 / 1997
- Label: Warner Bros. Records / WEA Japan #WPCR-1094
- Genre: Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Soft Rock
- Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u, Log) / MP3 CBR320
- Total Time: 00:38:55
- Total Size: 254 / 121 Mb (Full Scans)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The Nightfly is the debut solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Donald Fagen. Produced by Gary Katz, it was released October 1, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. Fagen was previously best known for his work in the group Steely Dan, with whom he enjoyed a successful career in the 1970s. The band separated in 1981, leading Fagen to pursue a solo career. Although The Nightfly includes a number of production staff and musicians who had played on Steely Dan records, it was Fagen's first release without longtime collaborator Walter Becker. Unlike most of Fagen's previous work, The Nightfly is almost blatantly autobiographical. Many of the songs relate to the cautiously optimistic mood of his suburban childhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s and incorporate such topics as late-night jazz disc jockeys, fallout shelters, and tropical vacations. Recorded over eight months at various studios between New York City and Los Angeles, the album is an early example of a fully digital recording in popular music. The nascent technology, as well as the perfectionist nature of its engineers and musicians, made the album difficult to record. The Nightfly was well-received, both critically and commercially. It was certified platinum in both the US and UK and generated two popular singles with the top 40 hit "I.G.Y." and the MTV favorite "New Frontier". Among critics, The Nightfly gained widespread acclaim and received seven nominations at the 1983 Grammy Awards. The relatively low-key but long-lived popularity of The Nightfly led Robert J. Toth of The Wall Street Journal in 2008 to dub the album "one of pop music's sneakiest masterpieces."
Track List:
01. I.G.Y (International Geophysical Year) [6:05]
02. Green Flower Street [3:43]
03. Ruby Baby [5:40]
04. Maxine [3:50]
05. New Frontier [6:22]
06. The Nightfly [5:47]
07. The Goodbye Look [4:51]
08. Walk Between Raindrops [2:41]
A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late '50s/early '60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit "I.G.Y.") and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication. ~ Jason Ankeny
Track List:
01. I.G.Y (International Geophysical Year) [6:05]
02. Green Flower Street [3:43]
03. Ruby Baby [5:40]
04. Maxine [3:50]
05. New Frontier [6:22]
06. The Nightfly [5:47]
07. The Goodbye Look [4:51]
08. Walk Between Raindrops [2:41]
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