Donald Fagen

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

10/01/1982 | Warner Bros / Wea 

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All Music Guide Review

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, All Music Guide

The Nightfly Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • I.G.Y.
  • 6:05
  • Sound Clip for I.G.Y. from The Nightfly


  • 2
  • Green Flower Street
  • 3:40
  • Sound Clip for Green Flower Street from The Nightfly


  • 3
  • Ruby Baby
  • 5:38
  • Sound Clip for Ruby Baby from The Nightfly


  • 4
  • Maxine
  • 3:50
  • Sound Clip for Maxine from The Nightfly


  • 5
  • New Frontier
  • 6:23
  • Sound Clip for New Frontier from The Nightfly


  • 6
  • The Nightfly
  • 5:45
  • Sound Clip for The Nightfly from The Nightfly


  • 7
  • The Goodbye Look
  • 4:47
  • Sound Clip for The Goodbye Look from The Nightfly


  • 8
  • Walk Between Raindrops
  • 2:38
  • Sound Clip for Walk Between Raindrops from The Nightfly


    • Credits of The Nightfly

    • Roger Nichols
    • Percussion, Engineer, Sequencing, Special Effects
    • Greg Phillinganes
    • Synthesizer, Soloist, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Synthesizer Bass, Clavinet, Piano
    • Donald Fagen
    • Organ, Synthesizer, Harmonica, Arranger, Horn, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Vocals, Vocals (Background), Main Performer, Liner Notes, Horn Arrangements, Synthesizer Harp
    • Rob Mounsey
    • Synthesizer, Horn, Keyboards, Horn Arrangements

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