a co worker has all his cd's he burned a copy of nightfly for me this is so going to newyork with me the vibe is awsome and morph the cat is comming to
I may have posted this before but my youngest Daughter is named MAXINE after the Beauty of this composition - she turned out to be even more beautiful, gifted and talented than you would believe!
If you don't have a favorite memory centered around this Song, Album , Group, Individual, you :
1) Are not from the Planet Earth,
2). Were born void of "soul
3) Could be a cartoon character
4) All of the above This album was and still is a timeless , quintessential masterpiece from an epic musical talent we call Donald Fagen. If I had 1 hour to live and 1 album to go out with , this would be my pick. O.K., maybe Lynard Skynard's Street Survivors is a possibility too.
He studied a Berklee (sp?) in Boston. He knows his $hit.
But he can also jam ("Reelin' in the Years", "bohdisattva").
I have 9700 songs on my iPod. This one never lets me down. No matter how stragled up the city makes me, I can listen to this over and over and over and over again.
I love it when people say "this is elevator music" or "old fashioned" or whatevr. I just love that.
This is one of my all time favorite albums. It just submerges you into it's world for 45 minutes, like all of the greatest albums. Being a pianist, I think I prefer it to the more guitar-heavy Dan albums too.
I don't know why, but the harmony reminds me of that dizziness about the head you get when you walk around the city all through the night till the daylight starts to sting your eyes in the morning.
Louis Armstrong, the "Father of Jazz" said" "There's only two kinds of music...good and bad". Steely Dan is GOOD! "Satchmo" would be really proud of you Donald and Walter. I'm a jazz musician, and you continually enrich my music and my life. Keep up the outstanding work. You are totally unique and rich in your excellence. -Dennis Edwards Music
talking smack sorry. I grew up with all this. beautiful. it's music perfection. Fagan and a few more made some of the best music. Thank You guys for being there along the way. i'll be playing you music by my death bed someday. assuming i don't get hit by a bus. unless i get hit by a bus and live and am crippled to the edge of my life then I'll play you by my death bed. Okay be well.
On another Youtube site, I listed the singer/composers who have always taken me to a wonderful, magic place in my head - they are Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Laura Nyro, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Carole King, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. But I forgot Donald Fagen. I couldn't define "genius" if anybody asked me too, but still these guys are all it. You not only know, but you KNOW you know. Words unnecessary.
That comment couldn't have been any more white. Well said you perfect white person. Oh don't forget the lines of cocaine on the glass coffee table. Oh and the white girl with now ass. What else..... ah the beta video player you payed too much for. Oh I don't know, there's just too many. Got it the coast drive is from Santa Barbara to Carpineria then down Linden ave. No no there might be some low riders there, they make me ur you uncomfortable. Just sayin
@D84D Dude I get the whitey tighty referance. And maybe so but look at the influences Donald has worshiped. Jazz phenomenons. like Cole Porter, Theoloneus Monk, Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gilespie and Miles Davis. All great music come from the same place we all come from. Mother Africa. We all share the same origin. it only makes since that all great music has the same origin.
Oye... que chingón se oye esta rola, solo dan ganas de estar escuchando la canci´no una y otra vez... una y otra vez... disfrutando del momento de intimidad con tu mera, mera... definitivamente.... que chingón... pinches gringos... son bien reatas para el jazz...
If you deposited a million dollar lottery winning, quit your job, and are sitting on a sofa in your new split level home with your loving significant other, and just getting the most amazing and relaxing buzz from your favorite drink on a cool, clear spring night while smelling the food on the grille and looking out your patio at your new cars as the sun slowly sets, this would be the perfect song to christen your brand new Bose system.
@boswell69 Bose and song are diametricly opposed concepts, If you had ever heard a real pair of speakers, you would realize this concept. Love DF, but not on Bozo systems
@avengerspeel * * * Your words paint as beautiful, dark and drugged a mood picture as this wonderful musical piece. One has to marvel at the exquisite craftsmanship of each musician. This is one of those rare gems whose components flare like sapphires under the full moon of a perfectly clear sky. I can't help but think Babylon Sisters redux. * * *
@Just4Th3Lulz If one is able to possess that much money, its possible for one to have such a moment. I didn't draw up the fantasy to include deadly deseases, cheating spouses, white collar crime, asteroids hurling toward the earth, nuclear proliferation, mass killing, sexual predators, ethnic cleansing, rape, tsunami's or Lady Gaga.
@Just4Th3Lulz "Maxine" put this fantasy in my head and I shared it with other Fagan fans. Its not real. The people in the fantasy don't actually exist and the million dollars is made up. The fantasy is not an instructional manual on how to invest money any more than "The Wizard of Oz" is a tornado survival video. Its all imaginary. Instead of reporting this to Suze Orman or Donald Trump, you'd be better off contacting a mental health specialist. Please hurry. It may be too late.
@Just4Th3Lulz Realists who spend all their time identifying the logical fallacies of other people's imaginary creations need therapy. Would me reassuring you that the imaginary person in my made up paragraph went back to work and invested his money wisely help you take the first step toward mental stability? Good. Now take a deep breath and press the first number. Baby steps.
@avengerspeel I'm sorry for using reality to understand your wonderland. No, it will not reassure me that your imaginary person was to use his money wisely. Honestly I couldn't care less if it were too spend it all on drugs and dog fights. No, I am not a realist who spends ALL my time trying to understand your imagination because I honestly don't give a fuck. Actually, I have a world of my own where I was Hitler. Fagan helped me realize how much of I remind myself of Hitler and hating Jews.
@avengerspeel Looks like you picked up a Zionist Troll. Never mind IT. These are born of hatred and use any excuse to proffer more, no matter the venue. Blocking and ignoring them is best! Enjoy the good music and keep your head held high. That bothersome moron will have to try spreading It`s misery elsewhere! = )
@1BigCREE1Redtail Thank you. There are times to mix politics, however perverse, with music, but not this time. This song is pure bliss. This whole album is a finely polished diamond.
@avengerspeel RIGHT! Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, Michael MacDonald, Boz Scags, Ambrosia. A nice apartment in Upper East Side Manhattan with a view to Central Park, Is that too much to ask?
@nickdfoxy The only thing I have to do with Bose is owning a pair. The only thing I'm trying to sell is Donald Fagan because his voice is God's favorite ambrosia turned to sound and sent to earth so that we may channel divine ecstasy to our ears from now until the midst of forever.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
WOOooooooo...luv it....great memories!!! Donalds the Man!!...he knew what he was doing hiring those studio musicians!!...the session kats he chose knew how to interpret his stuff just so!
One of the geniuses who reads these comments asked the fantastically ignorant question of "one wonders what walter becker actually adds to Steely Dan". Since this person is obviously not particularly bright, he or she should stick to Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber.
@thet0nzz Yep. The Nightfly is pretty much the best album Steely Dan ever recorded without Walter Becker. :) I never get tired of listening to it. The lyrics to Maxine are especially sublime.
Fagen sings all the background parts on this song. Amazing musicianship! Marcus Miller is brilliant on bass, too. Fagen's songs are a who's who of studio musicians.
Listening to Nightfly is like reading Kerouac...a truly sublime and sensational experience that forces the mind on a journey to more idealistic times.
My Dad was a trucker. Sometimes, he would take me on the road with him, play this song-and sing along to it(he had a great voice! R.I.P Pop!) over and over again...I was 8 or 9 at the time.I sing along with him!! Brings back so many memories...I always loved the vocal arrangement on this...Brillant!! Nightfly is AWESOME...Thanks boswell69 my friend...You put a smile on my face today:-)
@TheMonolith75 ...same w/ me and my Dad...he drove trucks too, and he lived for anything Fagen/S. Dan did...I grew up on this stuff...even for what it is I eventually got into on my own terms, I always kept room in my diet for anything Fagen/Becker did...
@TheSetibevol88 Well,it was really my older brother and mother,who listened to Steely Dan.And some how,my father got into them lol! He was R&B all the way...MOTOWN! But,Steely Dan has all those qulities as well.They are a very versitlie group that can do no wrong.That's what make them so great! Yeah,I grew up on Steely Dan too.It wasn't a day go by in my childhood that I didn't hear their songs!!! BTW,my dad was known as 'The Wiskey Man' on the road...LOL!!
Fagen is a genius in the true sense of the world! Innovated this things not even found in jazz really. A completely new perspective. Only behind Lennon/mcartney, Gershwin and Dylan in terms of greatest songwriters.
Actually the tracks were indeed recorded on a 3M machine (one of two Fagen & Becker bought) but not on Beta which is a Sony format. The 3M reel to reel machines were cutting edge at the time but never seemed to be able to achieve interchangeability with its twin which was the original goal of this “bi-costal” pair in their Steely Dan guise.
about time too! classic stuff from a superb album with larry carlton guitar,marcus miller bass,ed green drums,greg phillinganes piano and the much missed micheal brecker on sax solo! these songs are golden!!
To dowcushmanclark: You're quite welcome and I agree! You might wanna check out Oxark Mountain Daredevil's track "You Know Like I Know" (Stereo Version). I always thought Rundgren would've like the like-minded feel of the tune--to me it's a masterstroke, a beautiful song.
@MrWallygator2 I agree with you guys on the Rundgren connection - I'm an English Todd-head and a big Steeley Dan/Fagen fan. Amazes me about Fagen that he has that ability to capture an era in a song and you can feel that resonance even though it may have been an era you never lived through. And my God, those jazz phrasings in Steeley Dan's material and the post Big-Band references in Fagen's 'Nightfly' tracks. Incredible songwriting that works like an archive of stuff you didn't know you knew!
Such a nice song that reminds me so many things from the '80... And I stil got chickenskin by listening Michael Brecker's Sax solo ;) Thxx to DF for this great album!!!
got it when it 1st came out...the navy exchange sold out of the album so i had to by tn cassette ( yes that long ago )...drove from Seattle to Norfolk, Va.....played it all the way there and until it wouldn't play anymore....
@326kahri I had it on cassette, too! It hit the player and didn't come out for months. Maxine got a lot of rewind, God, I still absolutely love this song.
I think he is one of a few musician who combined the finest artistry and making profit. Maybe he was chosen to do so... Maybe it was a necessity...
tsuyoshiNYC 5 days ago
Sublime
Eisteoir 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Unbelievable record. Arrangements? These are beyond arrangements - Fagen is the Einstein of musical taste.
fishybishbash 3 weeks ago
a co worker has all his cd's he burned a copy of nightfly for me this is so going to newyork with me the vibe is awsome and morph the cat is comming to
batman66ism 1 month ago
Say what you want, but to me this song is about addiction.
Still one of the most righteous tunes out there...
scrogg67 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I may have posted this before but my youngest Daughter is named MAXINE after the Beauty of this composition - she turned out to be even more beautiful, gifted and talented than you would believe!
billyconnearly 2 months ago
Just beautiful!!
Naimasturn 2 months ago
If you don't have a favorite memory centered around this Song, Album , Group, Individual, you :
1) Are not from the Planet Earth,
2). Were born void of "soul
3) Could be a cartoon character
4) All of the above This album was and still is a timeless , quintessential masterpiece from an epic musical talent we call Donald Fagen. If I had 1 hour to live and 1 album to go out with , this would be my pick. O.K., maybe Lynard Skynard's Street Survivors is a possibility too.
pauljoynes1 2 months ago
Wonderful tune.Love his voice on this one.Does it remind anyone else of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds?
vladamih 2 months ago
Yes. Just mmmmmm.
Fagen is a very, very taleted musician.
He studied a Berklee (sp?) in Boston. He knows his $hit.
But he can also jam ("Reelin' in the Years", "bohdisattva").
I have 9700 songs on my iPod. This one never lets me down. No matter how stragled up the city makes me, I can listen to this over and over and over and over again.
I love it when people say "this is elevator music" or "old fashioned" or whatevr. I just love that.
Right. It's old fashioned.
FlaschDJ 3 months ago
@FlaschDJ No disrespect-but he studied at Bard College which is where he met Walter Becker. He didn't even study music while in college.
frink32 1 week ago
which model hyundai did you get?
swimmerB0B 3 months ago
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JackBootCharlie 3 months ago in playlist jazzclub
this song represents a time when music was really good. They don't make this good anymore. Also avengerspeel is right: It would be the perfect song!
crackerman3772 3 months ago
Mmmmm.
Just Mmmmm.
GerryMATW 4 months ago
sooooooooooo cool...almost afraid to walk, may slip on the ice!
TheIrishlad12 6 months ago
This is one of my all time favorite albums. It just submerges you into it's world for 45 minutes, like all of the greatest albums. Being a pianist, I think I prefer it to the more guitar-heavy Dan albums too.
pianobillf 6 months ago
Nice work...adventurous shit....
kevinherbert 6 months ago
I go for 10 mile walks everynight and this album and Kamakiriad is on my IPod, as well as every other Steely Dan album. :)
jazzwing 6 months ago 4
I don't know why, but the harmony reminds me of that dizziness about the head you get when you walk around the city all through the night till the daylight starts to sting your eyes in the morning.
JottScintille 6 months ago
Solid album, great concept and just timeless. I never get tired of listening to it.
InhumanCondition 7 months ago
Louis Armstrong, the "Father of Jazz" said" "There's only two kinds of music...good and bad". Steely Dan is GOOD! "Satchmo" would be really proud of you Donald and Walter. I'm a jazz musician, and you continually enrich my music and my life. Keep up the outstanding work. You are totally unique and rich in your excellence. -Dennis Edwards Music
jennifer86010 7 months ago
talking smack sorry. I grew up with all this. beautiful. it's music perfection. Fagan and a few more made some of the best music. Thank You guys for being there along the way. i'll be playing you music by my death bed someday. assuming i don't get hit by a bus. unless i get hit by a bus and live and am crippled to the edge of my life then I'll play you by my death bed. Okay be well.
D84D 8 months ago
On another Youtube site, I listed the singer/composers who have always taken me to a wonderful, magic place in my head - they are Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Laura Nyro, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Carole King, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. But I forgot Donald Fagen. I couldn't define "genius" if anybody asked me too, but still these guys are all it. You not only know, but you KNOW you know. Words unnecessary.
simplydiv22 8 months ago
wow what's with all the hate on here?
Mr1337drummer 8 months ago
Hmmm~~
germanwatcheskorea 8 months ago
That comment couldn't have been any more white. Well said you perfect white person. Oh don't forget the lines of cocaine on the glass coffee table. Oh and the white girl with now ass. What else..... ah the beta video player you payed too much for. Oh I don't know, there's just too many. Got it the coast drive is from Santa Barbara to Carpineria then down Linden ave. No no there might be some low riders there, they make me ur you uncomfortable. Just sayin
D84D 8 months ago
@D84D Dude I get the whitey tighty referance. And maybe so but look at the influences Donald has worshiped. Jazz phenomenons. like Cole Porter, Theoloneus Monk, Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gilespie and Miles Davis. All great music come from the same place we all come from. Mother Africa. We all share the same origin. it only makes since that all great music has the same origin.
pdxbiker2009 8 months ago
nice and layed back!
bobbyearlhelms 9 months ago in playlist Steely Dan/Donald Fagen Mix
This will be my Bridal Party Dance song right after our first dance at my wedding: "And We'll Fill the Place with Friends!!!!"
JulianneCurtis 9 months ago
Oye... que chingón se oye esta rola, solo dan ganas de estar escuchando la canci´no una y otra vez... una y otra vez... disfrutando del momento de intimidad con tu mera, mera... definitivamente.... que chingón... pinches gringos... son bien reatas para el jazz...
celamarpa 9 months ago
avengerspeel, I bet even if you had all of that, you'd give it all up , along with your right arm, to have written this song.......
iBeep2009 10 months ago
buena cancion a traves del tiempo me gusta como la primera vez que la escuche
TheNiki1527 10 months ago
buena cancion a traves del tiempo
TheNiki1527 10 months ago
If you deposited a million dollar lottery winning, quit your job, and are sitting on a sofa in your new split level home with your loving significant other, and just getting the most amazing and relaxing buzz from your favorite drink on a cool, clear spring night while smelling the food on the grille and looking out your patio at your new cars as the sun slowly sets, this would be the perfect song to christen your brand new Bose system.
avengerspeel 10 months ago 41
@avengerspeel I totally agree.
boswell69 10 months ago
@boswell69 Bose and song are diametricly opposed concepts, If you had ever heard a real pair of speakers, you would realize this concept. Love DF, but not on Bozo systems
ericjdee 8 months ago
@ericjdee You got my attention. I'm old and still a bit in the 70's.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@boswell69 What a fantasy - well put!!
pianobillf 6 months ago
@avengerspeel and the next day you wake to find you have cancer .... rather be poor pal.
stillben 10 months ago
@avengerspeel * * * Your words paint as beautiful, dark and drugged a mood picture as this wonderful musical piece. One has to marvel at the exquisite craftsmanship of each musician. This is one of those rare gems whose components flare like sapphires under the full moon of a perfectly clear sky. I can't help but think Babylon Sisters redux. * * *
pinmode 10 months ago
@avengerspeel All those things are what I feel just hearing this song.
chrism823 9 months ago
@avengerspeel >Implying a million dollars is worth anything nowadays.
Just4Th3Lulz 8 months ago
@Just4Th3Lulz If one is able to possess that much money, its possible for one to have such a moment. I didn't draw up the fantasy to include deadly deseases, cheating spouses, white collar crime, asteroids hurling toward the earth, nuclear proliferation, mass killing, sexual predators, ethnic cleansing, rape, tsunami's or Lady Gaga.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@avengerspeel >completely disregarding economics
>completely forgetting that if you quit your job, you will need someplace to live, eat, to get around on. And continue to pay for it.
Just4Th3Lulz 8 months ago
@Just4Th3Lulz "Maxine" put this fantasy in my head and I shared it with other Fagan fans. Its not real. The people in the fantasy don't actually exist and the million dollars is made up. The fantasy is not an instructional manual on how to invest money any more than "The Wizard of Oz" is a tornado survival video. Its all imaginary. Instead of reporting this to Suze Orman or Donald Trump, you'd be better off contacting a mental health specialist. Please hurry. It may be too late.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@avengerspeel I should be put locked away in some kind of mental asylum for being a realist.
Just4Th3Lulz 8 months ago
@Just4Th3Lulz Realists who spend all their time identifying the logical fallacies of other people's imaginary creations need therapy. Would me reassuring you that the imaginary person in my made up paragraph went back to work and invested his money wisely help you take the first step toward mental stability? Good. Now take a deep breath and press the first number. Baby steps.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@avengerspeel I'm sorry for using reality to understand your wonderland. No, it will not reassure me that your imaginary person was to use his money wisely. Honestly I couldn't care less if it were too spend it all on drugs and dog fights. No, I am not a realist who spends ALL my time trying to understand your imagination because I honestly don't give a fuck. Actually, I have a world of my own where I was Hitler. Fagan helped me realize how much of I remind myself of Hitler and hating Jews.
Just4Th3Lulz 8 months ago
@Just4Th3Lulz Sad. Get help. You make me sick. Leave me alone.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@avengerspeel DURR HURR.
Just4Th3Lulz 8 months ago
@avengerspeel Looks like you picked up a Zionist Troll. Never mind IT. These are born of hatred and use any excuse to proffer more, no matter the venue. Blocking and ignoring them is best! Enjoy the good music and keep your head held high. That bothersome moron will have to try spreading It`s misery elsewhere! = )
1BigCREE1Redtail 7 months ago
@1BigCREE1Redtail Thank you. There are times to mix politics, however perverse, with music, but not this time. This song is pure bliss. This whole album is a finely polished diamond.
avengerspeel 7 months ago
@avengerspeel Well put! I`ll sing to that!!! hehehe
1BigCREE1Redtail 7 months ago
@avengerspeel RIGHT! Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, Michael MacDonald, Boz Scags, Ambrosia. A nice apartment in Upper East Side Manhattan with a view to Central Park, Is that too much to ask?
morik1 8 months ago
@morik1 Absolutely perfect. Thank you.
avengerspeel 8 months ago
@avengerspeel Really nailed it with the split level part. I like that.
tslammah 7 months ago
@avengerspeel Nice try, Mr. Bose saleman.
nickdfoxy 6 months ago
@nickdfoxy The only thing I have to do with Bose is owning a pair. The only thing I'm trying to sell is Donald Fagan because his voice is God's favorite ambrosia turned to sound and sent to earth so that we may channel divine ecstasy to our ears from now until the midst of forever.
avengerspeel 6 months ago
@avengerspeel JK man.
nickdfoxy 6 months ago
@nickdfoxy Sorry, my man crush on Fagen is showing. I'll get help. By the way, can I interest you in a split level near the Great Lakes?
avengerspeel 6 months ago
@avengerspeel This is the only comment that I have even seen worth posting on you tube. Well said.
hynjalu 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donald Fagen
Smooth. Very Steely Dan. Love it instantly.
durko83 10 months ago
so nice and refreshing to listen to that, what a sound.
naedsukram 11 months ago
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justplayfm 11 months ago
WOOooooooo...luv it....great memories!!! Donalds the Man!!...he knew what he was doing hiring those studio musicians!!...the session kats he chose knew how to interpret his stuff just so!
keybobrob 11 months ago
Makes me feel good every time...
umriseljacino 11 months ago
Underrated!
sweetkees 11 months ago
SMILE
SelenaEchoLeyc 11 months ago
Fagan is awesome on this LP. Elton who - boy you said it!
maddadram1 11 months ago
fagen should knighted. elton who?
rayboludo 1 year ago
i agree with yamakin.
karaokebymartin 1 year ago
wow no dislikes. that's a rarity.
chibimaru8 1 year ago
One of the geniuses who reads these comments asked the fantastically ignorant question of "one wonders what walter becker actually adds to Steely Dan". Since this person is obviously not particularly bright, he or she should stick to Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber.
3brujon 1 year ago
classic had this lp in the eightys
free101100 1 year ago
I love the low brass lick at the very end of this song!
STIRKDAWG 1 year ago
80s coke music
DoomCity202 1 year ago
Shhhh...be quiet...listen to the genius at work.
garwood34 1 year ago
...one wonders what Walter Becker actually adds to SD.
thet0nzz 1 year ago
@thet0nzz Yep. The Nightfly is pretty much the best album Steely Dan ever recorded without Walter Becker. :) I never get tired of listening to it. The lyrics to Maxine are especially sublime.
philumber 1 year ago
@philumber fagan without becker, i like it better.
RJiminez51 11 months ago
@thet0nzz
...not much!
Ahaha!
mrcndrn 1 year ago
so beautiful......
Burt472 1 year ago
the voice of steely dan..fabuluso
myrtany 1 year ago
Fagen sings all the background parts on this song. Amazing musicianship! Marcus Miller is brilliant on bass, too. Fagen's songs are a who's who of studio musicians.
koibster 1 year ago
Listening to Nightfly is like reading Kerouac...a truly sublime and sensational experience that forces the mind on a journey to more idealistic times.
noirtriptyline 1 year ago
Man, I just Donald Fagen at the Beacon a few weeks ago and he was simply awesome.
wjsalts 1 year ago
@wjsalts fantastic show
0marigolds 1 year ago
My Dad was a trucker. Sometimes, he would take me on the road with him, play this song-and sing along to it(he had a great voice! R.I.P Pop!) over and over again...I was 8 or 9 at the time.I sing along with him!! Brings back so many memories...I always loved the vocal arrangement on this...Brillant!! Nightfly is AWESOME...Thanks boswell69 my friend...You put a smile on my face today:-)
TheMonolith75 1 year ago 4
@TheMonolith75 ...same w/ me and my Dad...he drove trucks too, and he lived for anything Fagen/S. Dan did...I grew up on this stuff...even for what it is I eventually got into on my own terms, I always kept room in my diet for anything Fagen/Becker did...
TheSetibevol88 1 year ago
@TheSetibevol88 Well,it was really my older brother and mother,who listened to Steely Dan.And some how,my father got into them lol! He was R&B all the way...MOTOWN! But,Steely Dan has all those qulities as well.They are a very versitlie group that can do no wrong.That's what make them so great! Yeah,I grew up on Steely Dan too.It wasn't a day go by in my childhood that I didn't hear their songs!!! BTW,my dad was known as 'The Wiskey Man' on the road...LOL!!
TheMonolith75 1 year ago
The most iconic album cover ever.
levanyzzuf 1 year ago 2
biiiim
jazzyow 1 year ago
Thankyou for posting. I haven't been able to find this in a long while. Incredible song!
jpandtheSupercats 1 year ago 3
Me personally, I more than love this (trip) song. Thankyou so much! APB
THESILKSTER2000 1 year ago
Fagen is a genius in the true sense of the world! Innovated this things not even found in jazz really. A completely new perspective. Only behind Lennon/mcartney, Gershwin and Dylan in terms of greatest songwriters.
wyatbroadcasting 1 year ago
I wonder how many like me named their daughter Maxine after this phenomenal song?
I had to! And I'm French by the way, but live in the US and my daughter was born in the US.
The most perfect in the world, a classic, a legend and i can't tell how perfectly it fits my daughter! Thanks for uploading
StoryeTime 1 year ago 2
superb...!
clodomiro2 1 year ago
One of the all time greatest tunes.
pepipopupapa 1 year ago
Beautiful song from one of the best Albums ever!
MultiGemini666 1 year ago
なつかしいなあ。当時このジャケット部屋に飾ってレコードが擦り切れるくらい聴きました。自分の音楽のルーツのひとつ。
yamakin115 1 year ago 11
@yamakin115 What he said.
thegrapetree 11 months ago
Actually the tracks were indeed recorded on a 3M machine (one of two Fagen & Becker bought) but not on Beta which is a Sony format. The 3M reel to reel machines were cutting edge at the time but never seemed to be able to achieve interchangeability with its twin which was the original goal of this “bi-costal” pair in their Steely Dan guise.
RSBSTEADICAM 1 year ago
How fucking beautiful this piece!
lavorincasa 1 year ago
Donald Fagen = Pure Genius
kitschykitty 1 year ago 36
@kitschykitty I have this cd. You won't get an arguement from me.
IRONMANHONDO87 1 year ago
My Best song
pinkmoon1966 1 year ago
about time too! classic stuff from a superb album with larry carlton guitar,marcus miller bass,ed green drums,greg phillinganes piano and the much missed micheal brecker on sax solo! these songs are golden!!
MrTonedeff 1 year ago
maravilhoso
478159 1 year ago
The 'Nighfly' is the first all digital album.
Recorded on 3M Beta digital tape, mastered digitally, and designed for release on CD.
The first!
Nacho66 1 year ago
To dowcushmanclark: You're quite welcome and I agree! You might wanna check out Oxark Mountain Daredevil's track "You Know Like I Know" (Stereo Version). I always thought Rundgren would've like the like-minded feel of the tune--to me it's a masterstroke, a beautiful song.
MrWallygator2 1 year ago
im in my jazz choir at school and we are singing this song, its truely an amazing song
doodman147 1 year ago
Still sounds wonderfull after all this time, Faultless.
slever2111 1 year ago
Absolutely Superb!
nurvrax 1 year ago
Bravo! What a great vocal arrangement! Cool, cool, cool!
SuperSirmike 1 year ago
The horn arrangements in this one are the most immaculate Fagen has ever recorded.
levanyzzuf 1 year ago
ice cool, as ever.
howden123456 1 year ago
Fantastic song --- and it makes a great segue with "Marlene" by Todd Rundgren (on Something/Anything, 1972) in case anyone is interested.
dowcushmanclark 1 year ago
@dowcushmanclark
Anyone who appreciates this song and has the wherewithal to suggest "Marlene" by Todd has GOT to be a swell person in my opinion--Thanks!
MrWallygator2 1 year ago
@MrWallygator2 Hey Man --- thanks for the kind words. I love rock 'n roll but a ballad with a great melody always gets me.
dowcushmanclark 1 year ago
@MrWallygator2 I agree with you guys on the Rundgren connection - I'm an English Todd-head and a big Steeley Dan/Fagen fan. Amazes me about Fagen that he has that ability to capture an era in a song and you can feel that resonance even though it may have been an era you never lived through. And my God, those jazz phrasings in Steeley Dan's material and the post Big-Band references in Fagen's 'Nightfly' tracks. Incredible songwriting that works like an archive of stuff you didn't know you knew!
Cat171000 1 year ago 3
hitting all the great ones tonight
bigTbone5877 1 year ago
Love, love, LOVE this song. Beautiful. My fave from the album, too (w/ IGY a very close second).
dfay67 1 year ago
My favorite song on this super album. Thanks!
mirthlynhaha 1 year ago
eu tenho esse disco ...trouxe de New York....é belíssimo!!!!!
Kniagansky 1 year ago
I love this song !!
mcbdpb 1 year ago
what an ending
EddieRamon 1 year ago
Almost 30 yrs. and stands the test of time .
Eisteoir 1 year ago
I have always loved this song. Never understood how it went so undernoticed
TheOUTLAW1982 1 year ago
SmoothAsSilk
SnuffGunnion 1 year ago
Such a nice song that reminds me so many things from the '80... And I stil got chickenskin by listening Michael Brecker's Sax solo ;) Thxx to DF for this great album!!!
fromouterspace1000 1 year ago
this song messes me up in a good way. thanks for posting.
timreyes58 1 year ago
Nice song, boswell69. Thanks
TheCalebson 1 year ago
got it when it 1st came out...the navy exchange sold out of the album so i had to by tn cassette ( yes that long ago )...drove from Seattle to Norfolk, Va.....played it all the way there and until it wouldn't play anymore....
326kahri 1 year ago
@326kahri I had it on cassette, too! It hit the player and didn't come out for months. Maxine got a lot of rewind, God, I still absolutely love this song.
mightyluv 1 year ago
i only just discovered this music. he sounds like a male version of Sade to me. very beautiful. thank you for posting.
jonasser8 1 year ago
@jonasser8 sade? df is perhaps the greatest modern musician of our time!
empiricalpoet 1 year ago
@empiricalpoet
so? this song reminds me of Sade.
jonasser8 1 year ago
had the cd, can't find it now, thanks boswell69 !!
fatsimba95 1 year ago
5ive stars*****
Channel2DotNet 1 year ago
Timeless classic work by DF! Thanks Bos!
mancmuso1 1 year ago
Great album. I used to have this from Mobile Fidelity. LOL! Wish I still did...
IronManPenisBook 1 year ago