Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (1982) [Non-Remastered, Germany Press]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 100 Mb | Scans included
Label: Warner Bros. | # 23696-2, 923 696-2 | Time: 00:38:54
Soft Rock, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, West Coast Jazz
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 100 Mb | Scans included
Label: Warner Bros. | # 23696-2, 923 696-2 | Time: 00:38:54
Soft Rock, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, West Coast Jazz
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.