For someone who wasn't originally meant to sing, Donald turns a phrase incredibly. He ends his lines so uniquely that you know it's him.

Welcome to what you'll be listening to for the rest of your lives boys. ALL of Don's solo work is elite. He is our generation's Miles Davis, Gershwin, Mozart, etc. We need a reaction to Maxine. Keep it up.

One of first fully digital recordings. The sound is so pristine that sound engineers still play it to test their systems.

The Nightfly album is a masterpiece, right up there with the best SD. About as perfectly recorded and sounding an album can get. The "theme" of the album is his days growing up in the late 50s listening to radio. The song Nightfly is kind of an homage to the late night jazz DJs he grew up listening to. Notice how the girl backups sing that "radio station tag line".  

This was one of the first all digital DDD recordings when it came out in 1982.

I knew you guys would dig this. 😉

On top of the incredible music, the lyrics to this song is genius. He is a Jazz DJ in Baton Rouge and he gets annoyed at callers and sarcastically says "thanks for calling I wait all night for calls like these",  In the 2nd verse he does a commercial break (spring for that new jar of Patton's Kiss and Tell) and then at the bridge, he opens up to the callers about his failed love life. Amazing!

I cannot wait for Pretzel logic, my favorite Steely Dan. Appreciate y'all.

Steely Dan frontman’s solo debut had a whopping seven Grammy nominations.  Every song is excellent and smooth. As you might expect,  The Nightfly instantly garnered a reputation as an audiophile album par excellence, becoming “a popular demonstration record in hi-fi stores across the globe. Sony was so impressed with The Nightfly’s sound quality that it asked for permission to make it one of the first albums released on CD so that it could be used to demonstrate the then-new format at audio trade shows.  I have the original release album, and it's one of my treasures.  Give more of the tunes a spin - you won't regret it, believe me.  IGY, NEW FRONTIER, MAXINE, AND RUBY BABY (all killer no filler).

Marcus Miller's bass and that little run, priceless!

Donald hired the same musicians and sounded so similar in so many ways… it’s basically a Steely Dan album.

Masters of catchy AND complex

This is a great album.  I love the songs IGY and New Frontier as well from this album.  Lots to enjoy gents! All the best

This was one of the first albums to be recorded all-digitally and it is so crisp

After you listen to all of Gaucho, you'll find that this album 2 years later is the natural followup soundwise. At least it is to my ears. Keep in mind the reason Fagen did this as a solo album is because Walter Becker unfortunately was going through some serious drug issues during this time, which is why they put a hold on "Steely Dan".

"Ruby Baby". His interpertation of a 1950's classic. SMOOTH!

Yeah!  I was rocking this album back in the day.  Wait until you get to "Ruby Baby" and "Maxine".

Musicianship, production and mixing on this album are impeccable. It's the one I always use to test new audio equipment.

"So you say there's a race of men in the trees
You're for tough legislation  Thanks for callin
I wait all night for calls like these."
So majestically snide! Only DF.

It's like I'm watching two kids in a Steely Dan/Fagen candy store. The tummy ache is on me!

Donald didn't mess around, session dudes were no joke!

Not one bad song on that recording. The entire album is fantastic.😊