Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (1982) CD Rip

Tracklist

01. I.G.Y. [0:06:03.93]
02. Green Flower Street [0:03:42.50]
03. Ruby Baby [0:05:39.06]
04. Maxine [0:03:49.73]
05. New Frontier [0:06:21.66]
06. The Nightfly [0:05:47.00]
07. The Goodbye Look [0:04:50.29]
08. Walk Between Raindrops [0:02:38.80]

A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late '50s/early '60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit "I.G.Y.") and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication.~Jason Ankeny