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Donald Fagen
Released 1982

The Nightfly
05:43
9,225 plays

Ruby Baby
05:37
8,912 plays

Green Flower Street
03:41
8,600 plays

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- 1
- I.G.Y.
- 06:02
- 16,346 plays

- 2
- Green Flower Street
- 03:41
- 8,600 plays

- 3
- Ruby Baby
- 05:37
- 8,912 plays

- 4
- Maxine
- 03:47
- 7,127 plays

- 5
- New Frontier
- 06:18
- 12,458 plays

- 6
- The Nightfly
- 05:43
- 9,225 plays

- 7
- The Goodbye Look
- 04:47
- 7,848 plays

- 8
- Walk Between Raindrops
- 02:37
- 7,808 plays

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album review

A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late '50s/early '60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit "I.G.Y.") and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide