The Nightfly

• Artist : Donald Fagen
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0075992369626
• Is Adult Product? : No
• Label : WARNER BROS
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : WARNER BROS
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.40 inches (Height) x 5.60 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : WARNER BROS
• Release Date : 1984-04-24
• Running Time : 39
• SKU : 08090902-8140-0001303839
• Studio : WARNER BROS
• UPC : 075992369626

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- Product Description

Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan's penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen's connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. He romanticises a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.", celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fall-out shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early '60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set's a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fagen's yearning "Maxine" and a creamy update of Dion & the Belmonts' "Ruby Baby". --Sam Sutherland

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: I.G.Y.
  • 2: Green Flower Street
  • 3: Ruby Baby
  • 4: Maxine
  • 5: New Frontier
  • 6: The Nightfly
  • 7: The Goodbye Look
  • 8: Walk Between Raindrops

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