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

Tvad,
I agree that it was pricey, at least for me. But it's certainly not any more ridiculous than a lot of other things I see in "audiophilia".

I gotta pipe in here cause I just got my SOTA back up and running after about a year of down time, my friend from our Audio club picked me up a Rega RB300 arm for Christmas and came over today to install it...its stock and I am running it on a Star/Saphire along with a Audio Technica AT-ML150/OCC cart into a Sound Valves tune pre with a humble yet pretty good sounding tube phono stage, the arm board he had when he was using the Rega arm is cut from a
Corian Counter and I am spinning this as I post it really really sounds great! I played a London FFRR pressing of Holst "The Planets" by The L.A. Philharmonic and that sounded great aswell........anyway it is great to have vinyl again, I missed it! PS thanks KARL!!!!!!!!!!!

So Chadnliz, how does your post relate to "The Nightfly"?

Well if you were a bit more literate or careful when you read I stated I was listening to the vinyl version of "The Nightfly" while I was posting, I understand you got rubbed wrong on a private issue when I didnt agree with you, now it appears you troll me posts in an effort to insult me.
Do you not have anything better to do?

Plain & simple: love it! Anything touched by Fagan is pretty much guaranteed to be interesting either intellectually, sonically or musically.

Being a drummer, I agree with others who find the percussion a bit one dimensional. The recording history of Fagan & Becker is riddled with stories of overzealous perfectionism. Their demands of machine perfect time/groove are legend.

I had the chance to see Steely Dan this past summer in Charlotte, NC. Their performances were lifeless shells of the classic hits that I learned and 'borrowed' from coming up, as they saw fit to replace extraordinary grooves with over-simplified, generic and very forgettable drumming. It was very disappointing.