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Media Type: CD
Artist: FAGEN,DONALD
Title: NIGHTFLY
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Japanese only SHM pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.

The first solo album in 13 years from Donald Fagen, Morph The Cat is another contemporary classic from half of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo Steely Dan. With Fagan's adventurous musical depth, uniquely layered lyrics and entertaining subject matter (from a conversation with the ghost of Ray Charles to a romantic liaison with an airport security guard named Joan), Morph the Cat is the newest chapter chronicling the most sophisticated music in rock.

Sun Mountain by Walter Becker And Donald Fagen

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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 Café 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

Japanese only SACD-Hybrid pressing. Warner. 2011.

The first solo album in 13 years from Donald Fagan, Morph The Cat is another contemporary classic from half of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo Steely Dan. With Fagan's adventurous musical depth, uniquely layered lyrics and entertaining subject matter (from a conversation with the ghost of Ray Charles to a romantic liaison with an airport security guard named Joan), Morph the Cat is the newest chapter chronicling the most sophisticated music in rock. Special Edition CD-DVD-Audio that features 5.1 mixes.

Re-issue of Steely Dan's Greatest Rarity, the "You've Got to Walk it Like You Talk It" Film Soundtrack by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker Recorded in 1971.

Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan's penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen's connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. He romanticizes a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.," celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fallout shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early '60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set's a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fagen's yearning "Maxine" and a creamy update of Dion & the Belmonts' "Ruby Baby." --Sam Sutherland

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