Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Trilogy (3-MVI DVD + 4-CD Box Set)
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Artist: Donald FagenEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, MVI DVD + Bonus CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I.G.Y.
- Green Flower Street
- Ruby Baby
- Maxine
- New Frontier
- The Nightfly
- The Goodbye Look
- Walk Between Raindrops
- True Companion
- Green Flower Street (Live)
- Century's End
- New Frontier Video
- Century's End Video
- Trans-Island Skyway
- Countermoon
- Springtime
- Snowbound
- Tomorrow's Girls
- Florida Room
- On The Dunes
- Teahouse On The Tracks
- Big Noise New York
- Confide In Me
- Blue Lou
- Shanghai Confidential
- Dean Seay Interview/Reprise Pro
- Tomorrow's Girls Video
- Snowbound Video
- Morph The Cat
- H Gang
- What I Do
- Brite Nitegown
- The Great Pagoda Of Funn
- Security Joan
- The Night Belongs To Mona
- Mary Shut The Garden Door
- Morph The Cat (Reprise)
- Rhymes
- Hank's Pad (Live)
- Viva Viva Rock N Roll (Live)
- World Caf?? Interview (2006)
- Rhymes
- Big Noise New York
- True Companion
- Confide In Me
- Blue Lou
- Shanghai Confidential
- Green Flower Street (Live)
- Century's End
- Hank s Pad (Live)
- Viva Viva Rock N Roll (Live)
Free Music Notes for The Nightfly Trilogy (3-MVI DVD + 4-CD Box Set)
Free Music Review: "Pleasing" A Steely Dan fan?
Hit: 5 Stars
...I can't imagine how anyone really could please a hardcore SD fan, listening since Reeling In The Years came over the airwaves in early '72...Since then Becker and Fagen have consistently rocked the world for people who listen to McCoy Tyner, opera, and Weather Report. I can still go through their playlist on my iTunes and scarcely skip over a song.
But that's Becker and Fagen. Most of these songwriting duos reveal rather quickly their liabilities when they finally go solo. If you haven't heard much of these three albums, grit your teeth at the sticker shock, and wonder how this can possibly swim in the same waters as Aja, Royal Scam or Two Against Nature, you are in for one big surprise after another. It will take about a weekend to really listen to the whole thing, and it really is what amounts to a large body of work, something like "All Things Must Pass" or "Tommy". And these are not only fine masterings of excellent music. Here you get an MVI disc of each original album that appends several music videos and bonus tracks, a CD of the original album, and a fourth CD of the bonus tracks by themselves, all in your choice of glorious Dolby 5.1, Dolby Surround, PCM bitstream analog, cool graphics, liner notes, lyrics, and it's all slightly bent around the incredible concepts and obsessions of Donald Fagen, which include nostalgia, science fiction, retro-futurism, a glory in crackpot, conspiracy, fringe lunatic thinking, film and broadcast radio.
I refer you to other reviewers' listings of the songs, merely to say that I am in love with many of the songs, but especially IGY, Brite Nightgown, Morph The Cat, Snowbound, Tomorrow's Girls (the incredible video as well)... There are more. If my loving them leaves a vagary, then I'll say I love them for the same reasons I love Haitian Divorce, Home At Last, Peg, Josie, and Everything Must Go, except these all sound even better, audio-wise.
One musical note: surround sound like this should be played on good stuff, I suggest checking out Cambridge Audio, NAD or Marantz, which make some really decent players and decoders for less than you would expect. Also, check out the incredible separation of several percussion tracks, which occurs on nearly each song, and many times accompanied with a plucked, highly accented, muffled-string technique on the guitar, similar to ska or reggae beats. All crystal clear, as well.
Like I said, a tall order pleasing the Dan fan who has everything. This delivers the goods.
The Nightfly Trilogy (3-MVI DVD + 4-CD Box Set) Poster
ALBUM OVERVIEW:As half of seminal pop/jazz/rock outfit Steely Dan, Donald Fagen is one of contemporary music's most inventive masterminds. His solo career leveraged strengths of his writing, producing and performing partnership with Walter Becker in Dan, and explored new territory along a more personal singer-songwriter trajectory. With his 1982 solo debut The Nightfly, Fagen won massive critical acclaim for a fluid, soulful work he described as representing "certain fantasies that might have been entertained by a young man growing up in the remote suburbs of a northeastern city during the late fifties and early sixties, i.e., one of my general height, weight and build." Reviewing it for Rolling Stone, David Fricke wrote, "this album is about dreams . . . Fagen conjures a world where all things are possible, even to a kid locked in his bedroom." 1993's Kamakiriad continues Fagen's sonic journey by following the adventures of a mythic lead character touring the world in a fant! astic car. With 2006's GRAMMY?-winning MorphThe Cat, Fagen delivers a masterpiece rivaling Nightfly's potency that Rolling Stone called his "catchiest, most immediate compositions in decades." Together, these works spotlight the ongoing genius of a true music visionary - on Rhino's stunning new MVI editions, they're a sensory revelation.
MVI CONTENT:
. Donald Fagen's complete Nightfly trilogy - The Nightfly, Kamakiriad & Morph The Cat - on 3 MVI discs and 3 bonus CDs
. 3 bonus audio tracks on The Nightfly MVI. 4 bonus tracks on the Kamakiriad MVI. 3 bonus tracks on the Morph The Cat MVI
. A fourth bonus CD that compiles all 10 extra tracks on one disc
. DTS 5.1 Surround, Dolby 5.1 Surround, and Advanced Resolution PCM Stereo mixes of all three albums
. Pre-encoded MP3 audio files of every song
. Two audio interviews with Donald Fagen, one from 1993 and one from 2006
. Digital Album Booklet (PDF) with expanded liner notes for each album with a track-by-track commentary by the artist
. Music videos for "New Frontier" and "Century's End" from The Nightfly and "Tomorrow's Girls" and "Snowbound" from Kamakiriad
. Ur-Tone? computer application - create custom Donald Fagen ringtones
. Song Lyrics
. Photo Gallery
. Special web links to the artist's site and to ringtone purchase
. MVI Updates - register to gain access to bonus content
SELECTIONS:
*The Nightfly MVI
1. I.G.Y.
2. Green Flower Street
3. Ruby Baby
4. Maxine
5. New Frontier
6. The Nightfly
7. The Goodbye Look
8. Walk Between Raindrops
-Bonus Audio
1. True Companion
2. Green Flower Street (Live)
3. Century's End
-Bonus Video
1. New Frontier (music video)
2. Century's End (music video)
*Kamakiriad MVI
1. Trans-Island Skyway
2. Countermoon
3. Springtime
4. Snowbound
5. Tomorrow's Girls
6. Florida Room
7. On The Dunes
8. Teahouse On The Tracks
-Bonus Audio
1. Big Noise New York
2. Confide In Me
3. Blue Lou
4. Shanghai Confidential
5. Dean Seay Interview/Reprise Promo (1993)
-Bonus Video
1. Tomorrow's Girls (music video)
2. Snowbound (music video)
*Morph The Cat MVI
1. Morph The Cat
2. H Gang
3. What I Do
4. Brite Nightgown
5. Great Pagoda of Funn
6. Security Joan
7. Night Belongs To Mona
8. Mary Shut the Garden Door
9. Morph the Cat (Reprise)
-Bonus Audio
1. Rhymes
2. Hank's Pad (Live)
3. Viva Viva Rock 'N' Roll (Live)
4. World Caf? Interview (2006)
-Bonus Audio
1. Rhymes
2. Big Noise New York
3. True Companion
4. Confide In Me
5. Blue Lou
6. Shanghai Confidential
7. Green Flower Street (Live)
8. Century's End
9. Hank's Pad (Live)
10. Viva Via Rock 'N' Roll (Live)
Donald Fagen Photo
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