donald fagen, "the nightfly" -- c or d?

otm

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

Multitracked Fagen on "Ruby Baby" is godhead

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.

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.

Classic no question

anyone read Eminent Hipsters yet

The whole album is a classic, but I consider "I.G.Y." in particular to be one of my all-time favorite tracks ("New Frontier" is also great, definitely a worthy follow-up single)

Big fan of "Maxine" over here

Classic no question

anyone read Eminent Hipsters yet

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, December 24, 2013

yeah, didn't like it at all...someone should have told him to skip the nasty tour diary that takes up the last 80 pages...the rest are essays already published(?). felt like a ripoff

I think that Steely Dan may be my ultimate example of 'band whose music I like but whose main members I hate'.

Ugh. Tour diary seems very un-Dan/Fagen

Steely Dan....On The Road.

Dear god no

Didn't care for the book at all but I bought it for a friend; he can hash it out.

the book couldn't have been more disappointing

Ian Penman's long, meandering review of Eminent Hipsters is fantastic - http://www.city-journal.org/2014/bc0119ip.html

Epic.

Thanks for the link, brilliant piece

Nice essay - I wonder if the book is as good as he makes it sound though.

it's not

and it's not Annie Hall he should be referencing, more like Stardust Memories...the contempt he shows for his fans is a real turn off

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/07/21/donald-fagen-the-nightfly-round-70-not-grahams-choice-but-forced-in-to-it-by-toms-selection-system/

suggest ban

ha!

Anyone heard the comedy album by Tom Schiller and Donald Fagen, "Tom and Don"? I started listening to it on Spotify the other day.

Nick listened: I don’t remember finding this offensive at all, or all that bland or alienating etc etc. But at the same time, I don’t remember ANYTHING about it at all.

Often posited as a negative, but is it? Does something have to be memorable to be good? If you went for a 3 hour walk in the woods, how much of that would you remember?

I generally have a hard time remembering concrete things about music if I haven't listened to it several times.

I'm not sure things needs to be remembered!

Like Aja, it sounded too clean, too smug, too lift musak.

c'mon, this is sorta the point. just look at the album cover! i can understand why someone wouldn't like it, but it's like criticizing thrash metal for sounding aggressive.

how is it smug? The sensibility is very different from Steely Dan's!

I think it's a pretty cheerful and nostalgic album

it's pretty romantic and almost gauzy

Nightfly and Blonde Redhead were the soundtracks to my chemotherapy.

I wouldn't say it's a "fond" memory, but I have very tranquil, peaceful memories of slipping out as the intro to "Goodbye Look" played.

Both kinda stimulating and relaxing at the same time, if that makes any sense.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y61%2BlCb7L._SS500.jpg

Missed this from October: Nightfly Trilogy Box reissue (on CD & Vinyl) minus all the DVD 5.1 stuff but with the added attraction of Sunken Condos.

Back Cover Tracklist:

https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS665435-01B-BIG.jpg

Lol at that cover photo

Woah paging the idgaf old man swag thread!

is he... wearing shoulderpads?

I’ll have the 10 extras with a side of insouciance please

Lol at the cover. This is cheap though, 7LP's for 80 euros or so.

So distracted by the cowbell on New Frontier, it’s the only thing I can hear on this track now. And it just doesn’t let up

a good thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdSCoK-geE

What a find.

Night Music’s the gift that keeps on giving. Man.

Holy fsck! So good

I don’t where to put this so I am putting it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8fU18_IEGY

took me a minute but good to see old D. What's that big black and white photograph on his keyboard? Also who's the guitar guy - could it be old Jeff Beck?

Photograph is the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTM4MjY5OTYxNzI5NjE1Mjkw/517432200jpg.jpg

Guitar guy is indeed Jeff Beck.

Ah cool. He had one, maybe two inspired moments during his solo. Kind of a sleepy performance all around though. Probably the drummers fault.