Donald Fagen's Nightfly - Love it or Hate it?

How can something be excessively perfect? Maybe it's like over abundant or past history.

I suspect the human element is lost or reduced when something becomes so perfect that every drum beat is identical. Sometimes it is the little imperfections or slight variations that give feeling to music... a little emphasis here, a little restraint there. There is a mechanical or machine like sound to the drumming on this album....stunning album, without a doubt, but unsettling to those who fear the Borg ;-)

Are we listening to the same LP? The Borg? Wow.

I suspect the human element is lost or reduced when something becomes so perfect that every drumbeat is identical. Sometimes it is the little imperfections or slight variations that give feeling to music... a little emphasis here, a little restraint there. There is a mechanical or machine like sound to the drumming on this album....stunning album, without a doubt, but unsettling to those who fear the Borg ;-)

Couldn't have said it much better. Donald Fagen's albums always seemed like most of the emotion, that was there in the creation of the album, was lost during the recording and production.

Interestingly, I am a perfectionist myself and a scientist (hate to admit it), but music is providing a balancing force in life for me on the other side. With Donald Fagen I am missing a little the spontaneous emotion that is there in the creation of any type of art. In music, I need to capture and experience some of that raw artistic energy.

Hope this helps clarify my notion of "too perfect".

Rene

Hope this helps clarify my notion of "too perfect".

Sorry, we'er going to have to agree to disagree on both the estimation of emotion and the definition of "too perfect"! ;-)

Sorry, we're going to have to agree to disagree on both the estimation of emotion and the definition of "too perfect"! ;-)

Of course, emotional connection is very listener dependent :-) .

But I will make sure to put Donal Fagen on my table tonight. Interestingly, I even own two copies of Nightfly (CD and Vinyl)....

All the best,

Rene