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    Nightfly favorited and reviewed The Nightfly
    
    ♪ My all-time favorite album and the inspiration for my screen name. ♫
    
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    Really superb album with a host of jazz greats contributing including the Brecker brothers, Larry Carlton, Marcus Miller & Steve Khan.
    
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    Morgan favorited and reviewed The Nightfly
    
    If you care or are interested at all in how recording engineering works, this album is a great one to study and read about. one of the first albums of popular music to be recorded in a fully digital... more
    
    If you care or are interested at all in how recording engineering works, this album is a great one to study and read about. one of the first albums of popular music to be recorded in a fully digital format (the very first being Ry Cooder's "Bop Til You Drop"), it is usually considered by people in the know to be a masterpiece of sound engineering.
    
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    peterpanpenduko favorited and reviewed The Nightfly
    
    An intelligent and so smooth album from one of the architects of Steely Dan.
    
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    Andree Robinson-Neal liked and reviewed The Nightfly
    
    New Frontier was one of my favorite first MTV videos back in the day...LOVE Donald Fagen!
    
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    What a beautiful world this will be...
    
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    Jason liked and reviewed The Nightfly
    
    Forgotten little perfect pop record from 1983....and yes, Morgan, in no small part thanks to the engineering :).
    
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Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan's penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen's connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. He romanticizes a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.," celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fallout shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early '60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set's a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fagen's yearning "Maxine" and a creamy update of Dion & the Belmonts' "Ruby Baby." --Sam Sutherland

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By Donald Fagen, 1990

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