http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/07/21/donald-fagen-the-nightfly-round-70-not-grahams-choice-but-forced-in-to-it-by-toms-selection-system/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:03 (nine years ago) link
suggest ban
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
ha!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Anyone heard the comedy album by Tom Schiller and Donald Fagen, "Tom and Don"? I started listening to it on Spotify the other day.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
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?
― saer, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
I generally have a hard time remembering concrete things about music if I haven't listened to it several times.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure things needs to be remembered!
― saer, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
how is it smug? The sensibility is very different from Steely Dan's!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
I think it's a pretty cheerful and nostalgic album
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty romantic and almost gauzy
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
Back Cover Tracklist:
https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS665435-01B-BIG.jpg
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Lol at that cover photo
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
Woah paging the idgaf old man swag thread!
― badg, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
is he... wearing shoulderpads?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
I’ll have the 10 extras with a side of insouciance please
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
Lol at the cover. This is cheap though, 7LP's for 80 euros or so.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
a good thing?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdSCoK-geE
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 February 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link
What a find.
― pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 05:56 (five years ago) link
Night Music’s the gift that keeps on giving. Man.
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Sunday, 24 February 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link
Holy fsck! So good
― calstars, Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
I don’t where to put this so I am putting it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8fU18_IEGY
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
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?
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
Photograph is the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTM4MjY5OTYxNzI5NjE1Mjkw/517432200jpg.jpg
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
Guitar guy is indeed Jeff Beck.
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
Ah cool. He had one, maybe two inspired moments during his solo. Kind of a sleepy performance all around though. Probably the drummers fault.
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
You mean that hack Bernard Purdie? ;)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Sunday, 28 April 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
What? That was Purdie? No way
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/zx_4fwOfRXIDOnald explains the world as he knows it in ‘93
― calstars, Saturday, 13 July 2019 04:09 (four 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 (nine months 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