― 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:57 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:17 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 2 April 2005 05:22 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 4 April 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:03 (eighteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
dude, taco del mar is disgusting!
― jaxon, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:57 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard "IGY" at a Denny's last month.
― o. nate, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:29 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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.
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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
And tonight they're arrangingA small reception just for me
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:42 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Steve khan going hard
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 June 2023 00:08 (nine months ago) link
Never heard this! Thank u brim
― calstars, Saturday, 24 June 2023 00:44 (nine months ago) link