Track Listing DISC 1: 1. I.G.Y. 2. Green Flower Street 3. Ruby Baby 4. Maxine 5. New Frontier 6. Nightfly, The 7. Goodbye Look, The 8. Walk Between Raindrops
DISC 2: 1. Trans-Island Skyway 2. Countermoon 3. Springtime 4. Snowbound 5. Tommorrow's Girls 6. Florida Room 7. On the Dunes 8. Teahouse on the Tracks
DISC 3: 1. Morph the Cat 2. H Gang 3. What I Do 4. Brite Nitegown 5. Great Pagoda of Funn, The 6. Security Joan 7. Night Belongs to Mona, The 8. Mary Shut the Garden Door 9. Morph the Cat - (Reprise)
DISC 4: 1. Rhymes 2. Big Noise New York 3. True Companion 4. Confide in Me 5. Blue Lou 6. Shaghai Confidential 7. Green Flower Street - (Live) 8. Century's End 9. Hank's Pad - (previously unreleased, Live) 10. Viva Viva Rock 'N' Roll - (previously unreleased, Live)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 190 min. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The multimedia Steely Dan collector's bonanza NIGHTFLY includes all three of Dan frontman Donald Fagen's solo albums: THE NIGHTFLY, KAMAKIRIAD, and MORPH THE CAT, plus bonus tracks, audio interviews, music videos, and more. When Fagen's 1982 solo debut, THE NIGHTFLY, was first released, its smooth, accessible textures seemed like a natural extension of Steely Dan's 1980 album, GAUCHO. Revealing as much about what Fagen's bandmate Walter Becker brought to the Dan mix, NIGHTFLY and its two successors are more subtle in their subversion than Becker and Fagen's group efforts. While they offer a similarly rich sonic menu that sounds just as meticulously constructed, there's not as much jazz roughage, and the irony is buried a bit deeper. If you squint really hard, you could almost mistake these crafty cuts for straight pop music.
Editorial Reviews 5 stars out of 5 -- On THE NIGHTLY TRILOGY, sleek musical contours provide a counterpoint to the anxiety that permeates the lyrics....Fierce intelligence and unerring taste are the gears that turn its complexities. Uncut
3 stars out of 5 - For clean jazz-pop lines topped with rare lyrical sophistication, Fagen's three solo albums are hard to beat. Q
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