"Just machines will make big decisions, programmed by cats from a small island land. They'll be clean when their work is done. They'll be totally free and totally young." Glad I checked this out. I always wondered what he said.
Thank You Donald Fagen for all your wonderful music. You are my favorite band of all time. I'm 54. I was with you from start to finish all through my life. I even helped cut a tree at your house once. I hope you continue for many years producing your unique and wonderful music. Your friend, - Steve
hey jraytunes, keep that vinyl, along with that counsel stereo, those are rare to find !!! if you can, can you get one of the Youngbloods called "Right now" ?
i like the old big stereo with 33 & 45 albums...love this song.wish the new performers will make songs that are less noisy..like this type.".just chilling" songs..
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 80's I would hear my father play this. i never knew the name but I am so glad I found it. What a relaxing song. my vacation song.
This Album IS growing up in the 50's and 60's. This cut celebrates the International Geophysical Year (around 1957) when everyone thought that the world would be like the song--unlimited resources; computers working and man at leisure. Then NIGHTFLY about early FM radio; New Frontier in the time of JFK and the threat of Nuclear war...trying to keep the high school love alive with Maxine. This is a true, well structured time capsule. A treasure!
This Album IS growing up in the 50's and 60's. This cut celebrates the International Geophysical Year (around 1957) when everyone thought that the world would be like the song--unlimited resources; computers working and man at leisure. Then NIGHTFLY about early FM radio; New Frontier in the time of JFK and the threar of Nuclear war...trying to keep the high school love alive with Maxine. This is a tru, well structured time capsule. A treasure!
@jlimarzi All very true. We had the cold war, but we were not so scared... Nowadays, we are afraid of everything. It's incredible. We live in the age of fear and distrust.
@VernonVince Ditto. I say the same thing myself all of the time. And I would HATE to be a kid these days! What a life! Spend all of your $%*&!!! time playing with an iPod or Wii and think that you're in heaven. Can't even walk up to the neighborhood store by yourself. When we were kids, we had FREE ACCESS to gasoline and matches, never burned ourselves up. Now, everyone is locked up and supervised. Kids couldn't organize a sandlot ballgame for all the tea in China. (excellent song)
Had a U.S. postage stamp in my collection as a kid. 1957 International Geophysical Year, Brussels, Belgium. Pres.Eisenhower was of course the US.Supreme Allied Commander, was very strategic and well respected, using this global event with 30,000 scientific researchers on 7 Continents to share their findings. The pres. used this summit as a compass to gauge the tech. advancements of the other countries.In short, it was between the US & USSR. Yes, I am a nerd and ugly, any others out there?
Born in 76,my parents gave me a great foundation of music,Stevie,The Stones,MJ,Jimi Hendrix,The Dramatics and Prince.By the 80's because of the MTV generation,I was into metal,pop,new wave and rap.I heard The Nightfly album and lost it,it's one of the greatest albums...EVER! I discovered Steely Dan and Donald Fagen and proclaimed it as the best music I have ever heard,PERIOD!You can't place this music in a certain genre,this is music that defines all walks of life no matter where you're from.
I'm 12 and all but Donald deserves respect,90 minutes from ny to Paris,the concorde and many more but this man predicted the future!!how many artist do you know that have done that?He deserves the most respect.more than Obama could ever receive.
first heard this while watching the simpsons "future drama" episode....you can learn alot from watching them..like NEVER buying the "first flying car"......ie:THE FIRST IPHONE HAD NO CAMERA!!!! REALY APPLE,REALY???????the first xbox 360 red ring machine,first ps2 dust sucker......never buy any new tech until they work the kinks out......
Ironic? Well, IIRC, Fagen said Nightfly is basically about a look at the future from the perspective of the past (1957). So the viewpoint is more naive than ironic. But of course, the song came out in 1982, so he's clearly being ironic when he sings, "well, by '76, we'll be A-OK". So where's my spandex jacket? ;-)
@rstanis2 : Of course it's ironic, kid! Having been born a few years before Sputnik, I've lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Apollo space program, the race riots of the '60's, OPEC's 'gas crisis', Reagan's Star Wars, and witnessed just about each and every Space Shuttle launch. I'm just glad I've made it this far. Glad to have taken the ride with Fagen and Steely Dan as we need some music for the new frontier!
100% ironic song - genius move pairing it to such a 'happy' song. A trick they repeated many times throughout their career.... It's sad when people don't see the intended meaning though..
Yeah, we had the cassette of this album back in the 80's. I really wished it would have been produced differently. but the songs are great & IGY was a incredible way to start off this record... I'm a nightfly kinda guy ;)
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 ...!!!
so many negative comments. Donald is just telling like it WAS. WE got sold a dream, and we're still trying to make it. Undersea by rail = The Chunnel. 90 minutes from NY to Paris = Concorde. Cities powered by the sun (vs. nuke,coal,oil) = still working on it....
You said, "We're still trying to make [the dream]." It's meant to be taken literally as everything will happen as he sings about in this new future? When cities are powered by the sun everything will work out better? There's bound to be problems with that world just the same as now. I bet those advanced technologies will come someday soon, but it will not be any more glorious a world as it is now. Technology works both ways. I thought this is purposely an ironic song. No?
The man who engineered this tune, Roger Nichols (who won a total of 6 Grammys with Steely Dan) has been battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer and after many months in the hospital is destitute. If you can, please help Roger and his family by going to his website rogernichols dot c o m and giving generously! Thanks.
I LOVE Steely dan,and I LOVE this,too.Fagen and Becker were great together,but Fagen on his own still kept that one of a kind synthesizer sound in there...sounds awesome!!
@Soulquarium I am glad i am not the only one who appreciates this kind of technology, with all the devices we all use today, i pods and mp3, i wish record players were still used by everyone today. :(
Over 100,000 people have watch this vid because they realize the power of vinyl is very different from mp3. They realized what great results it has. :)
Excellent track, but then the man is class. Got the music bargain of my life just over a year ago in a charity shop. They were selling CDs for 50p each, and they had a box set with all his three CDs in the trilogy, plus the two video discs and the extra audio disc. The CDs were sealed by tape, so I couldn't check them, but the shop charged me £2 for the set! I did go back and give them, the extra £1.50 when I discovered their mistake, but what a fantastic bargain! Lucky or what?
@Notarapeist - thats all part of the 'experience' my friend...but, try a half speed recorded vinyl disc played at 45rpm from Mobile Fidelty...you might never listen to a CD again!
Like Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" (written about World War II, but especially relevant to Vietnam), the International Geophysical Year actually happened in 1957-58, yet the concept fit the early 1980s perfectly.A classic, timeless song.
Oh yes, do preach on! I love this jam! I love this album! I was there! High School years '80-'85. Graduated on "Hip Hop", but I liked most all of them '80s jams. Still do! Yet still an Ole' School "Hip Hop" beathead! Anyway, I grew up hearing "Peg", "Hey Nineteeen", "Do it Again", etc., and whatnot. I wasn't familiar with the group Steely Dan, and I didn't make the connection until I got into Donald Fagan's solo projects, and then I was like wow! this explaines alot! Peeese!
So few people write such beautiful, complex, well-structured songs like this one, and with an interesting message to boot! Definitely one of my favorite songs, ever.
@macsnafu Agreed. Used to listen to this song as a 45 vinyl single back when I was in high school in the early 80's and listening to this again brings back fond memories and reminds me of what great music used to be all about...
Ever since Can't Buy a Thrill I 've loved Fagen & Becker- every track they've recorded including the solo stuff. They've produced some seminal work and have influnzed many musicians and bands often raising the bar by introducing a jazz interest for younger guys (and girls). Long may they play reign! God bless 'em. I'm a Beliver!
@ToeIn2194 i.g.y = International Geophysical Year. 1957 to 1958 , a rare moment in history when the major countries of the world took part in joint scientific study of the Earth.
so beautiful and kind of afflicting how this song and the vision of this turntable turning brings me back and reminds me of a wonderful time that will never return.
The cover of this album is a master of how an album cover should be and its relation with what you´ll find inside.
Hello, J! As a child, I was fortunate enough to have a father who was an audiophile--he was the first on the block to have individual stereo "components"--and I still have possession of his turntable. There is truly nothing like the sound produced by a diamond needle and vinyl........Just listen to how amazing the production of this song is in this format--especially the chorus vocals and tambourine hits! Thanks for the nostalgic moment.
Thank you jraytunes, you have made my week. I'm in Mexico a place called Coszumel via Carnaval Cruises and this is the best part of the cruise. I'm chilling with my bottle of Pacifico knowing that this is a Beautiful world and a Glorious time to be Free. It's night time and the bar owner has given me carte blanc to play music from lap top for the guests at my own whimsy. Surprised the number of people who love this song. Fagan rocks the socks off any artist out there in the modern era. Thank you
i played this song to my wife tonight, asking "remember this one ?".....she said she hadn't heard it before, man I'm glad i didn't grow up listening to ABBA or the Grease soundtrack
nice high def video of an album version... I suspect most folks, like me LOVE the song and hoped to AT LEAST find a video when they got here and only found a great video of the greatest album ever spinning and IT ain't even got direct audio ... we have to listen thru your computer mics... whew...
Love everything about this song,not least the irony; even though 1976 was pretty A - OK for me. But then as Tolstoy remarked "All happiness is based on an illusion".Guess this is pretty much an epitaph for my generation,although I'm incredibly grateful to have lived through this era.May you live in interesting times etc!
"well by '76 we'll be a-okay". My, oh, my. The future ain't what it used to be. I think the underlying theme of this song is to poke the baby-boomer generation with biting irony for giving up so easily on their promises to the next generation. Kids, -- if you're in here -- we let you down. We got to the 21st Century and promptly drove it into a ditch. Here's the keys. Bury me in a spandex jacket.
@mjordan552 Your comment is sad and funny too. It gives me pause to think. Chills too. I'm from that generation to ,and all I can think is what a bummer we came to.
I remember being in grade school and we were all hopeful about the 21st Century. Gleaming cities, no more racism and supersonic airliners. Wow, what a let down. I lived this long for this??
@mjordan552 Man i love it. I'm 17 born in 92 and wow that was some well spoken words... Hey, its my generation that im going to be saying the same exact thing right after you!!!! Aaron.
Perhaps the understated compliment of the last few decades.
(As for the higher rated comments below, and with all due respect, I recall the 'drop and roll,' days from my 'elementary,' days of lower education, but putting that kind of 'scare,' into kids that age, only drove myself and my closest friends from 'engineering,' us away from contributing to any 'race,' with our Soviet competitors.
Donald Fagan & Steely Dan speaks to those that "get it" There are those that will never "get it" But for those that do "get it" we get to enjoy music that is off the beaten path yet speaks to the soul
This song brings back some of my college memories vividly. Too bad the copyright police censored it off one of my YouTube videos. I agree that this was one of his best, even of his entire career. It sounds light and airy, but you have to have been in the time it came out. The early 80s held a lot of promise after the turbulence of the 60s and 70s. At that time, there was no digital age, there was no internet, no wireless phone explosion. People actually talked to each other face to face.
Remember me in 1983 so so listening this song...today stay very happy listen now. Very important post. Congratulations. Wanderful this song. I like so much. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i remember rollerskating to this song with my sister everytime i heard it on the radio. in many ways, i still am hopeful of what a beautiful world it can be.... Fuzzy Soul Tiger, Mr. PJ
I'm not sure if it's just the audio on your video, but the record appears to be playing a little too fast.
Compare it to the sample on Amazon and you can hear it's about half-a-semitone out of key. It might be just video (luizflex's video sounds off-key too) or the turntable but thought I'd let you know.
Fagen's wry take on our history of overly-happy predictions about the future is a delight here. "Machines to make big decisions, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision."
I first heard this song on the soundtrack for "Heavy Metal" - a great soundtrack, btw - and always found it a bittersweet reflection on the world that could have been, that we all believed was coming in the 60s and 70s.
Let's keep this video on top, folks! This is as authentic as it gets. Forget HQ.
sastal 7 months ago
"Just machines will make big decisions, programmed by cats from a small island land. They'll be clean when their work is done. They'll be totally free and totally young." Glad I checked this out. I always wondered what he said.
bnegs521 7 months ago
Thank You Donald Fagen for all your wonderful music. You are my favorite band of all time. I'm 54. I was with you from start to finish all through my life. I even helped cut a tree at your house once. I hope you continue for many years producing your unique and wonderful music. Your friend, - Steve
Dave40522 7 months ago
Now that's how I remember listening to IGY!
bluematteo 7 months ago in playlist Steely
hey jraytunes, keep that vinyl, along with that counsel stereo, those are rare to find !!! if you can, can you get one of the Youngbloods called "Right now" ?
sr71ablackbird 7 months ago
Reminds of Green Onions by Booker and the MG's. Just has such a jazzy flair to it. Awesome.
FFJabarr 7 months ago
@FFJabarr that's a good song also.
sr71ablackbird 7 months ago
I grew up in the 80's and early 90's as a kid and mid-late 90's as a teen, this song has been one of my faves since 87 when i was 6.
Johnlindsey289 7 months ago
I bought this as soon as it was released. Still have it.
chuckm51 7 months ago
They have a habit of playing oldies on the PA system where I work and this one is played quite frequently throughout the day.
thinthin54 7 months ago
I hear this song at work many times a day.
thinthin54 7 months ago
@thinthin54 Many times a day? Where you work is it still 1982 by chance?
bnegs521 7 months ago
Over 200,000 views. I wonder how many belong to me? It's a good amount I know that.
bnegs521 7 months ago
The sound on this is excellent! If you check out another recording of this on youtube it is not nearly anywhere as good. Great upload.
bnegs521 7 months ago
1982 the nightfly warner brothers
playsbass1969 7 months ago
1982 the nitefly
playsbass1969 7 months ago
i like the old big stereo with 33 & 45 albums...love this song.wish the new performers will make songs that are less noisy..like this type.".just chilling" songs..
chrissygavina 7 months ago
1982,, video hits
PAUL53ify 7 months ago
OLD SCHOOL RECORD PLAYER!LOVING ITTTT !
jimmiearm 7 months ago
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 80's I would hear my father play this. i never knew the name but I am so glad I found it. What a relaxing song. my vacation song.
johnnycoco73 8 months ago
This Album IS growing up in the 50's and 60's. This cut celebrates the International Geophysical Year (around 1957) when everyone thought that the world would be like the song--unlimited resources; computers working and man at leisure. Then NIGHTFLY about early FM radio; New Frontier in the time of JFK and the threat of Nuclear war...trying to keep the high school love alive with Maxine. This is a true, well structured time capsule. A treasure!
jlimarzi 8 months ago
This Album IS growing up in the 50's and 60's. This cut celebrates the International Geophysical Year (around 1957) when everyone thought that the world would be like the song--unlimited resources; computers working and man at leisure. Then NIGHTFLY about early FM radio; New Frontier in the time of JFK and the threar of Nuclear war...trying to keep the high school love alive with Maxine. This is a tru, well structured time capsule. A treasure!
jlimarzi 8 months ago
@jlimarzi All very true. We had the cold war, but we were not so scared... Nowadays, we are afraid of everything. It's incredible. We live in the age of fear and distrust.
VernonVince 8 months ago
@VernonVince Ditto. I say the same thing myself all of the time. And I would HATE to be a kid these days! What a life! Spend all of your $%*&!!! time playing with an iPod or Wii and think that you're in heaven. Can't even walk up to the neighborhood store by yourself. When we were kids, we had FREE ACCESS to gasoline and matches, never burned ourselves up. Now, everyone is locked up and supervised. Kids couldn't organize a sandlot ballgame for all the tea in China. (excellent song)
LesbianVampireLover 7 months ago
great sound!
thepheoniix 8 months ago
Had a U.S. postage stamp in my collection as a kid. 1957 International Geophysical Year, Brussels, Belgium. Pres.Eisenhower was of course the US.Supreme Allied Commander, was very strategic and well respected, using this global event with 30,000 scientific researchers on 7 Continents to share their findings. The pres. used this summit as a compass to gauge the tech. advancements of the other countries.In short, it was between the US & USSR. Yes, I am a nerd and ugly, any others out there?
mistressofaminer 8 months ago 3
@mistressofaminer yes, there are plenty of us out there, just some are too afraid to admit it is all...lol....
sr71ablackbird 7 months ago
@mistressofaminer My name is Donald Fagen, and I would like to be penpals.
alexmortland 7 months ago
Me gusta mucho esata cancion, para mi una de las mejores. lastima del audio, paro se ve porque..
julioquiroznajera 8 months ago
Born in 76,my parents gave me a great foundation of music,Stevie,The Stones,MJ,Jimi Hendrix,The Dramatics and Prince.By the 80's because of the MTV generation,I was into metal,pop,new wave and rap.I heard The Nightfly album and lost it,it's one of the greatest albums...EVER! I discovered Steely Dan and Donald Fagen and proclaimed it as the best music I have ever heard,PERIOD!You can't place this music in a certain genre,this is music that defines all walks of life no matter where you're from.
TheDarryl76 8 months ago
I'm 12 and all but Donald deserves respect,90 minutes from ny to Paris,the concorde and many more but this man predicted the future!!how many artist do you know that have done that?He deserves the most respect.more than Obama could ever receive.
JonathanToddTV 9 months ago
first heard this while watching the simpsons "future drama" episode....you can learn alot from watching them..like NEVER buying the "first flying car"......ie:THE FIRST IPHONE HAD NO CAMERA!!!! REALY APPLE,REALY???????the first xbox 360 red ring machine,first ps2 dust sucker......never buy any new tech until they work the kinks out......
wes19er 9 months ago
@wes19er Same it was a catchy tune so i serached for it after i finished watching the episode.
Metzen09 8 months ago
Brave New World indeed.
St3v3Patrio7 9 months ago
i think it is a mono steup but great video . this is real music.
mountain177 9 months ago
Are you using mono playback or do you just have a really bad speaker hookup? This is not Hi-fidelity, which really does an injustice to a great song.
trogwolf 9 months ago
Ironic? Well, IIRC, Fagen said Nightfly is basically about a look at the future from the perspective of the past (1957). So the viewpoint is more naive than ironic. But of course, the song came out in 1982, so he's clearly being ironic when he sings, "well, by '76, we'll be A-OK". So where's my spandex jacket? ;-)
macsnafu 9 months ago
THE REAL LIFE
manotales 10 months ago
Thats for posting! Loved that you played the album. On a record player. Brings back good memories.
ramrod20042000 10 months ago
@ramrod20042000 "Loved that you played the album. On a record player." Shouldn't this be one sentence? Just sayin'. :P
KingNast 10 months ago
@KingNast You are correct! I put a period where a comma was needed.
ramrod20042000 10 months ago
@rstanis2 : Of course it's ironic, kid! Having been born a few years before Sputnik, I've lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Apollo space program, the race riots of the '60's, OPEC's 'gas crisis', Reagan's Star Wars, and witnessed just about each and every Space Shuttle launch. I'm just glad I've made it this far. Glad to have taken the ride with Fagen and Steely Dan as we need some music for the new frontier!
seacat562 10 months ago
100% ironic song - genius move pairing it to such a 'happy' song. A trick they repeated many times throughout their career.... It's sad when people don't see the intended meaning though..
basehead617 10 months ago
Yeah, we had the cassette of this album back in the 80's. I really wished it would have been produced differently. but the songs are great & IGY was a incredible way to start off this record... I'm a nightfly kinda guy ;)
victorserene 10 months ago
what a great song love it steely dan were fantastic
bethanyemily1 10 months ago
Steely Dan is the best group..ever.....I am the biggest fan of Donald Fagen...My fav is the fez
ShyanneGoesRawr 10 months ago
we'll be totally free yes and totally young --OH OH OH OH
MultiShades 10 months ago
Slightly ironic extolling the virtues of vinyl when the Nightfly was one of the first albums to be digitally mastered. Great song.
usagi0912 10 months ago
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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 ...!!!
robertoamor2011 10 months ago
so many negative comments. Donald is just telling like it WAS. WE got sold a dream, and we're still trying to make it. Undersea by rail = The Chunnel. 90 minutes from NY to Paris = Concorde. Cities powered by the sun (vs. nuke,coal,oil) = still working on it....
seacat562 10 months ago
@seacat562
You said, "We're still trying to make [the dream]." It's meant to be taken literally as everything will happen as he sings about in this new future? When cities are powered by the sun everything will work out better? There's bound to be problems with that world just the same as now. I bet those advanced technologies will come someday soon, but it will not be any more glorious a world as it is now. Technology works both ways. I thought this is purposely an ironic song. No?
rstanis2 10 months ago
...what a beautiful (new) world (order) it will be...what a glorious time to be enslaved .....yippeee! :-( at least the music makes us happy ;-)
thanks Donald for all the memories...makes me less fearful of man's ugliness to his fellow man.
keybobrob 10 months ago
Spandex jackets, one for everyone!
TomServo420 11 months ago
Wow ! nice ☆☆☆☆☆ thank you up ^-^/
PopsTake4 11 months ago
Awesome song!
lincoln3000 11 months ago
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The man who engineered this tune, Roger Nichols (who won a total of 6 Grammys with Steely Dan) has been battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer and after many months in the hospital is destitute. If you can, please help Roger and his family by going to his website rogernichols dot c o m and giving generously! Thanks.
KyleKeilman3 11 months ago
steely dan isn't a band it is the to incredible minds of walter becker & donald fagen
monochrome35 11 months ago
I think a lot of people miss the intended irony of the lyrics of this song.
cargoweasel 11 months ago
I remember right now and love steely dan,,not just Donald Fagan at all--everything comes from the works ---------great song
MultiShades 11 months ago
"what a glorious time to be free'...well, I do not feel so free.
lucbear 1 year ago
@lucbear BE FREE don't need to feel it,,just be it ,,good for you ----------and on and on ------peace
MultiShades 11 months ago
. . . love it!
henryjanok 1 year ago
I LOVE Steely dan,and I LOVE this,too.Fagen and Becker were great together,but Fagen on his own still kept that one of a kind synthesizer sound in there...sounds awesome!!
dutchy1176 1 year ago
I'm 30 years old. My dad use to play these old records for me. I now play them for my kids.
Soulquarium 1 year ago 15
@Soulquarium Oh! You too huh? I grew up on this album and I like playing this for my little one as well.
LadyofWar1980 11 months ago
@Soulquarium chuuch
superduperpluma 10 months ago
@Soulquarium I am glad i am not the only one who appreciates this kind of technology, with all the devices we all use today, i pods and mp3, i wish record players were still used by everyone today. :(
MRresievil310 9 months ago
@Soulquarium Try some Derek and the Dominos in concert LP,,They will thank you.
multishades1 8 months ago
@Soulquarium same here dude, i'm 31... ahhh the sound of nostalgia! nothing better
toffee20 7 months ago
i love this song...always been a favorite. :)
iluvacuras 1 year ago
Such a good song.
Michaelmexp 1 year ago
Beautiful Classsic!!!!!
blackcaesar72 1 year ago
Over 100,000 people have watch this vid because they realize the power of vinyl is very different from mp3. They realized what great results it has. :)
Verd1m5 1 year ago 2
I'll bet that stereo system has an 8-track attachment off to the right!
RAV52 1 year ago
I am just so totally in love with his music. It makes me happy. I can't ask for more.
marymac1607 1 year ago
Yes,Synth Blues harp.
wearestellar 1 year ago
Who is playing the blues harp? Donald?
woosailor 1 year ago
nice song from a very nice record
dakarlion1 1 year ago
You are so cool...
JScribbler 1 year ago
The tonearm....is it original, or did you craft it yourself?
Thanks.
dwsh1 1 year ago
Ahhh my fav song. So spacey, this song makes me feel like I'm traveling, around the clouds, into space.
Palmar3s 1 year ago
Great album. One of my all time favorites. Reminds me of college as well. Still have the LP.
hockeytown49341 1 year ago
Beautiful and hopeful. There's no other words in the English language to describe it.
androgenousandy 1 year ago
A blue-eyed soul brother. Love it!
chakafan2 1 year ago
I love this song!
universalmessenger 1 year ago
I can't get enough of this song! Thanks:)
louiseduvee 1 year ago
@louiseduvee NIETHER CAN I BRO
7thvenom 1 year ago
@7thvenom I'm female:)
louiseduvee 1 year ago
@louiseduvee THEN I AM IN LOOOOVE !!! NOTHING LIKE A LADY WITH GOOD MUSIC TASTE . WHATS UR FAV STEELY SONG ?
7thvenom 1 year ago
@7thvenom I love them all - and, I'm married, but thank you:)
louiseduvee 1 year ago
Another song to be played at my funeral for all to enjoy .... Wonderful....
ahutch70 1 year ago
How could 10 people not like this epic song?? Very odd IMO - Great posting my friend - the whole album is fantastic -
MrChubbleyWarner 1 year ago
@MrChubbleyWarner ....defies logic, I agree
woosailor 1 year ago
Excellent track, but then the man is class. Got the music bargain of my life just over a year ago in a charity shop. They were selling CDs for 50p each, and they had a box set with all his three CDs in the trilogy, plus the two video discs and the extra audio disc. The CDs were sealed by tape, so I couldn't check them, but the shop charged me £2 for the set! I did go back and give them, the extra £1.50 when I discovered their mistake, but what a fantastic bargain! Lucky or what?
SouthCoastMackem 1 year ago
I LOVE THIS SONG ITS SO COOL
SUGAHMAMA420 1 year ago
Was there a video for this song?
loudmusic67 1 year ago
Featuring the irreplaceable Jeff Porcaro on drums. RIP, dude.
niamhorourke 1 year ago
The sound of vinyl . Yeah I hear the vinyl but not the music.
Notarapeist 1 year ago
@Notarapeist - thats all part of the 'experience' my friend...but, try a half speed recorded vinyl disc played at 45rpm from Mobile Fidelty...you might never listen to a CD again!
MrChubbleyWarner 1 year ago
Peaked at #8 Adult Contemporary and #26 Pop in Billboard
mrtelevision 1 year ago
Like Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" (written about World War II, but especially relevant to Vietnam), the International Geophysical Year actually happened in 1957-58, yet the concept fit the early 1980s perfectly.A classic, timeless song.
eauhomme 1 year ago
Oh yes, do preach on! I love this jam! I love this album! I was there! High School years '80-'85. Graduated on "Hip Hop", but I liked most all of them '80s jams. Still do! Yet still an Ole' School "Hip Hop" beathead! Anyway, I grew up hearing "Peg", "Hey Nineteeen", "Do it Again", etc., and whatnot. I wasn't familiar with the group Steely Dan, and I didn't make the connection until I got into Donald Fagan's solo projects, and then I was like wow! this explaines alot! Peeese!
lxolxo7 1 year ago
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this song is the bomb...
lukenew3 1 year ago
this song is the bomb
lukenew3 1 year ago
Watching vinyl makes me dizzy. Thank you though.
Michael71777 1 year ago
So few people write such beautiful, complex, well-structured songs like this one, and with an interesting message to boot! Definitely one of my favorite songs, ever.
macsnafu 1 year ago 29
@macsnafu Agreed. Used to listen to this song as a 45 vinyl single back when I was in high school in the early 80's and listening to this again brings back fond memories and reminds me of what great music used to be all about...
bcbest 1 year ago
@macsnafu Have you purchased it?
steve171274 1 year ago
@macsnafu so few people have time --window --thanks
MultiShades 9 months ago
CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Song.
The7legacy 1 year ago
Ever since Can't Buy a Thrill I 've loved Fagen & Becker- every track they've recorded including the solo stuff. They've produced some seminal work and have influnzed many musicians and bands often raising the bar by introducing a jazz interest for younger guys (and girls). Long may they play reign! God bless 'em. I'm a Beliver!
MrLiamox 1 year ago
Love this.Thanks. What does I.G.Y stand for? Anyone know/
ToeIn2194 1 year ago
@ToeIn2194 i.g.y = International Geophysical Year. 1957 to 1958 , a rare moment in history when the major countries of the world took part in joint scientific study of the Earth.
mars552 1 year ago
Steel Dan's bittersweet irony still entrances......
navet1953 1 year ago
God Bless!
bobbaffert 1 year ago
Luv this song!! Thanx for posting!! ;^)
bumblebeebattv 1 year ago
COOLNESS! I used to have a console like this when i was a kid in the 70's, love the vid
6dadman 1 year ago
so beautiful and kind of afflicting how this song and the vision of this turntable turning brings me back and reminds me of a wonderful time that will never return.
The cover of this album is a master of how an album cover should be and its relation with what you´ll find inside.
DancedWithHim 1 year ago
Hello, J! As a child, I was fortunate enough to have a father who was an audiophile--he was the first on the block to have individual stereo "components"--and I still have possession of his turntable. There is truly nothing like the sound produced by a diamond needle and vinyl........Just listen to how amazing the production of this song is in this format--especially the chorus vocals and tambourine hits! Thanks for the nostalgic moment.
TheAmorfati 1 year ago
Thank you jraytunes, you have made my week. I'm in Mexico a place called Coszumel via Carnaval Cruises and this is the best part of the cruise. I'm chilling with my bottle of Pacifico knowing that this is a Beautiful world and a Glorious time to be Free. It's night time and the bar owner has given me carte blanc to play music from lap top for the guests at my own whimsy. Surprised the number of people who love this song. Fagan rocks the socks off any artist out there in the modern era. Thank you
BTC141 1 year ago
@BTC141 Feel like I'm there. Thanks for the fantasy!
ToeIn2194 1 year ago
@ToeIn2194 Cheers.
BTC141 1 year ago
And here I thought I was going to the storeroom.
Ypipable 1 year ago
i played this song to my wife tonight, asking "remember this one ?".....she said she hadn't heard it before, man I'm glad i didn't grow up listening to ABBA or the Grease soundtrack
TheHackman44 1 year ago
@TheHackman44 lol.. good one .. and that's the good thing with those songs: they don't grow old . :)
loranalary 1 year ago
@TheHackman44 lol thats good
bossou5555 1 year ago
@bossou5555 thats true!!!! my wife has never heard this song.....strange but true
TheHackman44 1 year ago
nice high def video of an album version... I suspect most folks, like me LOVE the song and hoped to AT LEAST find a video when they got here and only found a great video of the greatest album ever spinning and IT ain't even got direct audio ... we have to listen thru your computer mics... whew...
DIRKWORKS2 1 year ago
Love everything about this song,not least the irony; even though 1976 was pretty A - OK for me. But then as Tolstoy remarked "All happiness is based on an illusion".Guess this is pretty much an epitaph for my generation,although I'm incredibly grateful to have lived through this era.May you live in interesting times etc!
thejuliehigham1956 1 year ago
"well by '76 we'll be a-okay". My, oh, my. The future ain't what it used to be. I think the underlying theme of this song is to poke the baby-boomer generation with biting irony for giving up so easily on their promises to the next generation. Kids, -- if you're in here -- we let you down. We got to the 21st Century and promptly drove it into a ditch. Here's the keys. Bury me in a spandex jacket.
mjordan552 1 year ago 2
@mjordan552 Your comment is sad and funny too. It gives me pause to think. Chills too. I'm from that generation to ,and all I can think is what a bummer we came to.
ToeIn2194 1 year ago 2
Love donald Fagen... The Night Fly is a wonderful album... Its perfect!!!
AMH9217 1 year ago
That is an awesome system. What manufacturer is it, and do you know what year?
ThatHoodieGuy 1 year ago
@ThatHoodieGuy If i had to guess....looking at the tuner bar...it looks like an old RCA or Emerson system. Can't swear to it, though.
atomic3939 1 year ago
yea!! makes me happy
listening to good music on the way that it should be
21 years- know what to listen
sanderino 1 year ago
I remember being in grade school and we were all hopeful about the 21st Century. Gleaming cities, no more racism and supersonic airliners. Wow, what a let down. I lived this long for this??
mjordan552 1 year ago 2
@mjordan552 Man i love it. I'm 17 born in 92 and wow that was some well spoken words... Hey, its my generation that im going to be saying the same exact thing right after you!!!! Aaron.
AMH9217 1 year ago
EXCELENTE TEMA DEL RECUERDO,SALUDOS DESDE PERÚ...................
spidersoul69 1 year ago
Donald Fagan is a genius.
Perhaps the understated compliment of the last few decades.
(As for the higher rated comments below, and with all due respect, I recall the 'drop and roll,' days from my 'elementary,' days of lower education, but putting that kind of 'scare,' into kids that age, only drove myself and my closest friends from 'engineering,' us away from contributing to any 'race,' with our Soviet competitors.
Thanks 'jraytunes,' and thanks Mike.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
Donald Fagan & Steely Dan speaks to those that "get it" There are those that will never "get it" But for those that do "get it" we get to enjoy music that is off the beaten path yet speaks to the soul
rc6257 1 year ago
This song brings back some of my college memories vividly. Too bad the copyright police censored it off one of my YouTube videos. I agree that this was one of his best, even of his entire career. It sounds light and airy, but you have to have been in the time it came out. The early 80s held a lot of promise after the turbulence of the 60s and 70s. At that time, there was no digital age, there was no internet, no wireless phone explosion. People actually talked to each other face to face.
RNBMusicNJ 1 year ago 19
@RNBMusicNJ Funny how you said there was no digital age...this song is one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music ;)
geoffreyefloyd 1 year ago
@geoffreyefloyd LOLOL THIS IS TRUE !!! BUT IT STILL SOUNDS SO ORGANIC !!!!
PEACE
7thvenom 11 months ago
Always loved Steely Dan. When DF came out with this one, I jumped on it! I was born in '58...IGY
ealicea42 1 year ago
Always loved Steely Dan. When DF came out with this one, I jumped on it!
ealicea42 1 year ago
I loved this song since I first heard it in 1982.
doctorhill11 1 year ago
IGY = International Geophysical Year. Really.
sisyphus321 1 year ago
Remember me in 1983 so so listening this song...today stay very happy listen now. Very important post. Congratulations. Wanderful this song. I like so much. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
gideonerosa 1 year ago
just wonderful.....haven't listened to it for ages!!!!!!!!!!!, thanks
candelamacias 1 year ago
WTF, call that a stereo!
dennisrrhodes 1 year ago
InterGalactic Year
2949holly 1 year ago
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InterGalactic Year
2949holly 1 year ago
inter galactic year
2949holly 1 year ago
Inter Glactic Year
2949holly 1 year ago
Inter Galactic Year
2949holly 1 year ago
i remember rollerskating to this song with my sister everytime i heard it on the radio. in many ways, i still am hopeful of what a beautiful world it can be.... Fuzzy Soul Tiger, Mr. PJ
FuzzySoulTiger 1 year ago
I Got You :-)
ckwrich1 1 year ago
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR THE LONGEST. THANK GOODNESS FOR YOUTUBE AND THE NET.
MrLamont20 1 year ago 2
I'm not sure if it's just the audio on your video, but the record appears to be playing a little too fast.
Compare it to the sample on Amazon and you can hear it's about half-a-semitone out of key. It might be just video (luizflex's video sounds off-key too) or the turntable but thought I'd let you know.
mooseblaster 1 year ago
aah the lovely warmth of the vinyle ... love it !
loranalary 1 year ago
this is one of the best songs on earth!!!!!!
EddieRamon 1 year ago
だから格好良すぎるやろ！
leafletor085 1 year ago
international geophysical year...sans IGY...
nelantoinette15 1 year ago
Now THIS is a "feel good song"
slimjim77M 1 year ago
Looked for this song for months Great sound on a Classic Vinyl . Thank YOU :)
radiodjfureal 1 year ago
OMG this tune is the best of feel good music of my teenage hood thank you for posting :)) SWEET
radiodjfureal 1 year ago
I always thought that this was a Steely Dan song.
crlaw75 1 year ago
Fagen's wry take on our history of overly-happy predictions about the future is a delight here. "Machines to make big decisions, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision."
Gravida12 1 year ago
what a fantastic track from a timeless album from a brilliant artist....... thank you for uploading this!
cousiwa09 1 year ago
I got goose bumps at 1:13!
IronManPenisBook 1 year ago
I first heard this song on the soundtrack for "Heavy Metal" - a great soundtrack, btw - and always found it a bittersweet reflection on the world that could have been, that we all believed was coming in the 60s and 70s.
belmurru 1 year ago
What a glorious time to be free, no matter what year it is....he got that right.
Ella3334 1 year ago
Hit #8 AC, #17 rock, #26 pop, #54 soul in Billboard. God bless!
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