![]() After the scene-setting first verse ("So you say there's a race of men in the trees? You're for tough legislation?/Thanks for calling, I wait all night for calls like these"), the character drops the cool posturing and pines for a lost love, steeling himself to push the emotional torment out of his mind as he delivers inane commercial copy. (The back cover completes the story: a rear view of a faceless suburban tract home, a single light burning in an upstairs bedroom, where no doubt a youngster much like the character in Steely Dan's previous hit "Deacon Blues" - or a young Donald Fagen himself - is listening to The Nightfly and soaking up the tunes and attitude.) While much of the album is delivered with a knowing nod and wink, including the singles "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier," "The Nightfly" itself is one of Fagen's least ironic lyrics ever. ![]() ![]() The title track of Donald Fagen's first solo album is illustrated by the album's stylish front cover, a black-and-white shot of a hipster-cool Fagen in front of an old-school turntable and microphone in a darkened DJ booth, necktie loosened, Chesterfield King at hand, and a classic Riverside label LP spinning in front of him.
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