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

Nice album. I just picked up a mint copy at the thrift a few weeks ago for a buck. Not my normal listening fare, but definitely worth bringing out every once in a while. Hell, it's worth it alone for that cool looking turntable cover.

Just listened to the whole cd before I hopped on the computer. Great stuff!

lyrics are irreverant and music is very bumptious. good stuff.

I think it is great but I find the drum tracks very artificial and tiring...catchy/distinctive at first then boringly monotonous.

If you read up on it......they went back and edited the drum track and replaced every beat with one "ideal" recorded beat....kind of an electronic drum set before they had electronic drum machiness such as became popular by groups like New Order. An interesting sound because each drum hit is so precisely the same even if the timing is still as per the drummer in the group studio sessions. (Syncopation varies but not the sound of each beat)