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

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

Love it.

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)

I totally agree with what's been said. It would be on my Top 10 list for sure. I have read several times that this could have been "AJA II", if Steely Dan had done it.

The MOFI pressing is wonderful and I also have a Japanese pressing that is stunning...