― Vincent Vern, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:37 (twenty years ago) link
I've been a Steely Dan fan for quite a few years, but never thought to investigate the solo albums. Downloaded 'IGY' today and man, it kicked my ass. What a wonderful, heartbreaking song. Can the other songs on Nightfly possibly be anywhere near as good as this?
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 22 October 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
-- paranoia is the hipster's disease (theundergroundhom...), October 22nd, 2004.
And producing China Crisis.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 October 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Really really interesting - just to hear all of the parts broken down...
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
search 'Junkie Girl', 'Book of Liars', 'This Moody Bastard', 'Down In The Bottom', 'Lucky Henry'. Destroy 'Cringemaker', 'Girlfriend'.
If people seriously can't find Kamakiriad, i'll put it up on slsk myself; if you're serious about the Dan, you should hear it.
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
and the rosie vela album!
― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Best song ever? I rather think it might be.
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link
If you get really desparate, you could listen to Howard Jones' cover of IGY, that would probably put you off it for a while.
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually I did stop listening to it, now I'm onto "Snowbound" and "Pixeleen"
Becker & Fagen should be given the Keys to the fucking City. They have improved my life beyond measure. God DAMN this is a wonderful world. [falls face down onto keyboard]
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link
i saw an ad for two morning-show DJs who were conspicuously ugly. so i thought, "haha, 'a face made for radio.'" then i thought of the cover of this album.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 2 April 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
i just listened to this on the way home from work! that tower records online sale had the nightfly for $7.99 so i picked it up, wanting to hear new frontier. walk between raindrops is pretty great too!
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 2 April 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Wow.
We are from such completely different worlds. "I.G.Y." is not only one of my least favorite songs ever, but hearing it actually makes me feel slightly ill. And, no, I'm seriously not being hyperbolic. It sounds utterly soulless to my ears.
But then I'm most assuredly not in any way a Steely Dan fan, which would appear to make my opinions very unpopular in this thread.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
what else is on it extras-wise, just the NEW FRONTIER video?
how soes it sound?
― piscesboy, Monday, 13 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Will (will), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
The guy I studied engineering under, for one.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
God, there's nothing QUITE like "Ruby Baby" for getting ready to leave for a great dinner and the company of friends on a Saturday night.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
geir otm
― tremendoid, Saturday, 2 June 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
According to the Brian Sweet bio the group used to warm up their vocal chords with 'Ruby Baby' before their live shows in the early 70s.
― calstars, Sunday, 3 June 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
MAN what a record.
― pisces, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Have had a casette copy of it for years. Don't listen too often to it though.
And afetr reading this thread I'm now belatedly getting this weird image of JBR -- sitting in a fridge and listening to "Maxine".
― t**t, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:26 (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.
― jamescobo, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, maybe I can use the word "curiosity" a few more times
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
New live album is perhaps unnecessary, but I'm enjoying it!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
it is good! ditto the new steely dan live album — yeah, unnecessary, but it sounds damn good.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
ha, yeah the Dan one is up next after I finish this one.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
Donald Fagen during James Hamilton's album cover photoshoot for his 1982 masterpiece, 'The Nightfly' pic.twitter.com/PLbuxfeUxI— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) October 14, 2021
― calstars, Friday, 15 October 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
Donald Fagen 'Yamaha KX88' keyboards store poster, 1983 pic.twitter.com/uZ5CluSyl8— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) October 15, 2021
― calstars, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
lolz
― tylerw, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
Trying to imagine how differently The Nightfly would have been received if that shot above had been the cover. People would have reviewed it like it was Fagen's version of The Idiot.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 15 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
Straight to VHS slasher vibes
― calstars, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
Does Don ever smile?
― calstars, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
His lips sometimes curl up to show his teeth, does that count ?https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xytRyW-HpC4/TxDDY2DV2QI/AAAAAAAAHjI/yeQw3oeq5ns/s1600/donald.jpg
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
lou chang/her brother/he's burning with ragelouuu chaaang buuurns wiith rage
― flopson, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
hey we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. can we buy you a drink? pic.twitter.com/YAFRQ8FZwV— boss (@bosscrood) September 6, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 September 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
creepy af
― calstars, Saturday, 10 September 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
With all due respect to Walter, some days this is my favorite Steely Dan album.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 June 2023 20:39 (ten months ago) link
And tonight they're arrangingA small reception just for me
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
I like it a lot too. I like all of Steely Dan's albums, but I do favor their first four - The Nightfly is not far behind.
― birdistheword, Friday, 23 June 2023 23:07 (ten months ago) link
I really really love “true companion” from the (year before’s) heavy metal soundtrack too. Gorgeous chord progressionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wbumIKJJ0
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 June 2023 00:06 (ten months ago) link
Steve khan going hard
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 June 2023 00:08 (ten months ago) link
Never heard this! Thank u brim
― calstars, Saturday, 24 June 2023 00:44 (ten months ago) link