Donald Fagen - The Nightfly flac album

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 ". ) and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," a memoir of.

Donald Fagen's solo debut established him as a more grounded, autobiographical writer away from Steely Dan as it launched a trilogy of albums that wouldn't conclude for decades. The Nightfly, released in October 1982, uses an overnight stint by a DJ at the fictional WJAZ to transport listeners back to a moment in time from Fagen's youth at the turn of the '60s. At the same time, the album's sound is refreshingly contemporary, as bright as Steely Dan's era-concluding Gaucho album had been muddled. Fagen appeared on the album cover as "Lester the Nightfly," based on real-life disc jockeys like Symphony Sid. His long-held passion for jazz played out there too (note that old Sonny Rollins record on the turntable). Albums like that provided a window to the world for the young Fagen during a time of hope and fear.

Donald Fagen ‎– The Nightfly. Songs composed and arranged by Donald Fagen except "Ruby Baby" which is by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and arranged by Donald Fagen.

After its 1982 release, The Nightfly-Donald Fagen’s solo debut following his split from Steely Dan partner Walter Becker-racked up seven Grammy Award nominations. Widely acclaimed for its vivid lyricism, the album is a nostalgic homage to Fagen’s youthful memories of the 1950s, with sly references to the era’s jazz and pop culture. The wistful title track imagines a lonely DJ ruminating on isolation. But the tone of the album is set by the hit single . What a Beautiful World), an optimistic look at the future through the innocent eyes of a 1957 scientist. I'm Lester the Nightfly Hello Baton Rouge Won't you turn your radio down Respect the seven second delay we use. So you say there's a race Of men in the trees You're for tough legislation Thanks for calling I wait all night for calls like these. I thought I'd provide that small and perhaps obvious insight. Great song, great album.

Scottish Indie punks We Were Promised Jetpacks have a new album, Unravelled, out this month. I like the band, but I love the name. Because quite frankly, we were promised jetpacks, and according to the movies, all those rotten nasty teenagers who hang out with the Biff's of the world should be riding through the town square on hoverboards this time next year. But back when science was still actually trying to make our lives better, Donald Fagen recorded The Nightfly, one of the first commercial (and certainly commercially successful) records to be recorded completely digitally. Released on Warner Brothers Records, October 1982. Produced by Gary Katz, Robin Hurley.

All in all, it was almost a concept album centred on seedy people of the night; pretentious hipsters with faux-Chinese pastimes, who listen to late-nite musak and dabble in Class-A drugs for the hell of it. The irony is that Steely Dan hadn’t realised that they’d accidentally made an album for those people, not about them. Perhaps then, one of the more fascinating feature of Fagen’s 1982 solo debut The Nightfly is that it sounds more like Gaucho than Gaucho does, but in all its super-cleanliness and focussed virtuosity, it managed to set itself apart for two crucial reasons.