Comments on: Donald Fagen, The Nightfly http://suggestaholic.com/donald-fagen-the-nightfly/ An aging hipster's guide to aging hiply. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nigel http://suggestaholic.com/donald-fagen-the-nightfly/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Nigel Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:25:42 +0000 http://suggestaholic.com/donald-fagen-the-nightfly/#comment-5 So you say there's a race of men in the trees...you're for tough legislation. Thank for calling. ...('I wait all night for calls like these') Yeah, that album is the bees knees. The most feel-good thing Fagen ever recorded. You ever notice how both Nightfly and Kamakiriad end with tunes that have a loose, "live in the studio" party-jam feel? I think Kamakiriad is almost as good, though it doesn't have any tunes that are as ridiculously catchy as I.G.Y. or New Frontier. On the other hand, Kamakiriad's ballads are superior ("On the Dunes" is the greatest supper club soul tune Ray Charles never recorded, while "Maxine" is one Fagen tune I actually can't listen to very often). Sadly, I don't think any of the three records Fagen has put out since 2000 have first-tier songs like Nightfly and Kamakiriad. I hope he reconnects with his muse at least one more time. So you say there’s a race of men in the trees…you’re for tough legislation. Thank for calling.
…(’I wait all night for calls like these’)

Yeah, that album is the bees knees. The most feel-good thing Fagen ever recorded. You ever notice how both Nightfly and Kamakiriad end with tunes that have a loose, “live in the studio” party-jam feel?

I think Kamakiriad is almost as good, though it doesn’t have any tunes that are as ridiculously catchy as I.G.Y. or New Frontier. On the other hand, Kamakiriad’s ballads are superior (”On the Dunes” is the greatest supper club soul tune Ray Charles never recorded, while “Maxine” is one Fagen tune I actually can’t listen to very often). Sadly, I don’t think any of the three records Fagen has put out since 2000 have first-tier songs like Nightfly and Kamakiriad. I hope he reconnects with his muse at least one more time.

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