heard today (in a "taco del mar") a cover of THE FAGEN/NIGHTFLY ARRANGEMENT of "Ruby Baby"
clearly impossible
― Bangelo, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, taco del mar is disgusting!
― jaxon, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone check this out? http://www.amazon.com/Nightfly-Trilogy-3-MVI-DVD-4-CD/dp/B000M06SVS
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I think i first heard "Ruby Baby" (and prbly "The New Frontier" as well) at a Wendy's.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard "IGY" at a Denny's last month.
― o. nate, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
God, I wanted to be the kid in "New Frontier," minus the design-learning part.
― Terrible Cold, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
according to wikipedia: The Nightfly is widely considered to be one of the best engineered albums ever made. Some audio engineers use it to evaluate the quality of playback equipment.Out of curiosity, which other records were used for this purpose? Part of what got me into listening to Steely Dan in the first place was curiosity stemming from this very subject, but I can only remember hearing it come up w/r/t Aja and the Nightfly.
Out of curiosity, which other records were used for this purpose? Part of what got me into listening to Steely Dan in the first place was curiosity stemming from this very subject, but I can only remember hearing it come up w/r/t Aja and the Nightfly.
Interesting question. I've read this about Dark Side of The Moon, altough i think engineers preferred it as an example of using the full range of the stereo field.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
for the second time in less than two weeks I just have heard a car go past on my street blasting "I.G.Y."
― jamescobo, Friday, 9 May 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to say, everything else sounds like shit when played after The Nightfly. It sounds bleeding fantastic on my new system.
― sam500, Friday, 9 May 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
just got it today actually! Nightfly is of course gloriously immaculate in 5.1 - strangely enough the mix doesn't do "I.G.Y" any favors, but OH MY GOD "The Goodbye Look" sounds spry and lively as hell. Morph the Cat is a revelation, instantly my favorite Fagen-related project since the Nightfly; I predict that I'll be torturing my neighbors with it for the next few months. Kamakiriad or w/e still bores me so much that it reminds me of middle school, but at least it bores me in 5.1 now.
― jamescobo, Sunday, 18 May 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
what are the '10 extra tracks' on disc 4?? what era are they from? are they any good?
― pisces, Sunday, 18 May 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
The cover of "Ruby Baby" is wondrous.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, March 13, 2006 7:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
Just listened to this in decent headphones for the first time ever and there's a woman sighing (or something) at about 24 seconds.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 7 December 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Unless memory fails -- it's been a while -- that's Valerie Simpson.
― Andy K, Sunday, 7 December 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, she's definitely on it. It's...erm...added a whole new dimension to the track.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 7 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the best things about this LP is that it can be found at second hand stores for about 50 cents.
hm. bummer since i just bought it from emusic for, like, 4 bucks.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 16 January 2010 07:24 (fourteen years ago) link
good album tho
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 16 January 2010 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"i hear yr mad about brubeck . . ."
― painu vittuum... (jdchurchill), Friday, 23 April 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw some "Early songs of becker and fagen" record for a couple dollars and didn't pick it upit was gone the next dayif I see it again should I get it?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 23 April 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The horns on "I.G.Y"...sigh. So wonderful.
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 23 April 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Flawless classic.
― Now, Friday, 23 April 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"Early songs of becker and fagen
nah
otm
― iatee, Friday, 23 April 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this album more than any in the Steely Dan catalog.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 April 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this good but lets not get carried away like poor EZ here
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a weird Dan fan anyways - my favorite is The Royal Scam and my least favorite is Aja.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 April 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, April 23, 2010 12:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
did it have like a reel of tape in a metal case or something on the cover?
i bought that once....you're not missing anything great....i ended up selling it back later on....i guess if it's like $2 just to satisfy your curiosity maybe
― m@tt (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 23 April 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
MTV used to play the New Frontier video constantly.
I'm trying to think of some solo debut albums from lead singers that are better than this, and there aren't many.
When does the Kamakiriad re-evaluation begin? That will be a tougher sell.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 23 April 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG thanks for reminding me of that "New Frontier" video! Just watched it on YouTube and realized it was one of those videos that had seared images in my young, impressionable brain but could never recall what they were from. That whole animated sequence with "the Reds" just took me back to my childhood.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
proud that i started this thread... seven years ago...
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 23 April 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
That would be...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bHSVCs9rX0A/ShuWRawo87I/AAAAAAAAGQc/wUlsXorepBM/s400/Fagen,+Becker,+And+Diaz+-+1971+-+You+Gotta+Walk+It+Like+You+Talk+It+(Or+You%27ll+Lose+That+Beat).jpg
But there are loads of different releases of those early demos around (search Becker and Fagen at Amazon), so if you miss that one you'll probably see another soon enough. They all have practically the same track list: stuff like Brain Tap Shuffle, Let George Do It, Android Warehouse, etc. Think I got one from FOPP for a couple of quid years ago. Wouldn't have paid any more than that for it though. Vaguely interesting if you're into the Dan, but you'll probably never play it more than twice.
― Phil Will, Friday, 23 April 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
does that have soul ram on it? that song is the shit.
― 51|)e|-|4x012z (ojo), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is at least as good as the best of SD's catalogue.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I could not disagree more strongly.
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 23 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
true, it's better than the best of SD
― dyªº (dyao), Saturday, 24 April 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Not long ago I interviewed drummer Ben Perowsky, who shuttles back and forth between jazz and indie rock; he also played on the Walter Becker album. He said it was hilarious hanging out with him in Hawaii, because Becker had just installed all this absurdly expensive digital equipment in his house and was basically making the album just to test the equipment, and it kept screwing up and erasing entire takes. Every time it did this, Becker would compose these elaborate, scathing emails to the president of Sony, which he would never send.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Saturday, 24 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, I'm listening to Gaucho right now (the song), and I retract my statement. aerosmith otm
― dyªº (dyao), Saturday, 24 April 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
playing this so much the last two weeks <3 <3 <3
― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"I saw some "Early songs of becker and fagen" record for a couple dollars and didn't pick it upit was gone the next dayif I see it again should I get it?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, April 23, 2010 12:31 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark"
assuming you meant the You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It soundtrack, it's worth it for 'Roll Back The Meaning' alone. amazing song
― missingNO, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
So the cover is basically him pretending to be Mort Fega?
― calstars, Thursday, 6 June 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
cover of book is revealed:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bRPFRg0HL._SY300_.jpg
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
stoked.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
I am giving this another shot.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRFSc0MBz0s
― how do i shot cwmbran? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 September 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
Ha! Nice scatting & the band is in the pocket. Not sure about the improvised lyrics.
― o. nate, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
listening for the first time, and whoaa- completely classic. up there with gaucho and aja
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
feels like what would naturally have happened after gaucho but less cynical. even "the goodbye look" plays it sweet. it's in the class of great SD albums but Aja is an unattainable pinnacle for me tho
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
Multitracked Fagen on "Ruby Baby" is godhead
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
the title track kills me
I've got plenty of java And Chesterfield Kings But I feel like crying I wish I had a heart like ice Heart like ice
there were these DJs I would hear really late on the weekends, these older AM radio guys who were pushed to the 3 AM slot and would spin Sinatra and big band and '50s-'60s classic jazz (nothing fancy or experimental, only as wacky as mid period tony bennett perhaps?) this album reminds me of them I guess.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 03:58 (ten years ago) link
so you say there's a race of men in the trees - you're for tough legislation?thanks for calling. wait all night for calls like these.
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Classic no question
anyone read Eminent Hipsters yet
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link