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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.
The Nightfly - 24-bit Advanced 48000Hz PCM Stereo MVI Disc rip -flac+cue sheets
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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
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
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Kamakiriad 24-bit Advanced 96000Hz PCM Stereo MVI Disc rip - flac+cue sheets
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Any major dude will tell you that this immaculate jazz-pop collection sounds like it could have been recorded mere months, not 11 years, after The Nightfly. A Steely Dan LP in all but name, Fagen and Walter Becker offer killer horn charts, lite-funk grooves, airy guitar riffs and hipster sci-fi lyrics. --Jeff Bateman
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
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Morph The Cat 24-bit Advanced 96000Hz PCM Stereo MVI Disc rip - flac+cue sheets
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For all the delight their fans take in parsing their wry and obstinately obscure lyrics, Steely Dan wouldn't command the kind of following they have if they weren't such consummate craftsmen in shaping melodies, layering keyboard and guitar effects and applying sophisticated doses of jazz, funk and soul. On his own albums, of which Morph the Cat is only the third--and the first since 1993's Kamakiriad--the group's sardonic co-mastermind Donald Fagen avails himself to more socially observant and personally revealing themes. But here, too, it's the music's dark shimmer and bumptious grooves that get under your skin, carrying his serious intentions with them. The grandly allusive "Morph," named after what Fagen describes as a "vast, ghostly cat-thing" that hovers in the Manhattan sky (not unlike Woody Allen's catty mother in "New York Stories"), reflects with no loss of irony or oblique meaning on the angst and sense of loss felt in the post-9/11 world. There are visions of death--including his own--and political oppression. There's a comic romantic encounter with a female airport security guard and a reverent faceoff with the ghost of Ray Charles, whose essence is nailed: "Well, you bring some church but you leave no doubt/As to what kind of love you love to shout about." Even when Fagen's hipster sensibility flirts with preciousness, the music is so richly, radiantly alive, the collective power of the songs can't be denied. --Lloyd Sachs
1. Morph The Cat
2. H Gang
3. What I Do
4. Brite Nightgown
5. The Great Pagoda Of Funn
6. Security Joan
7. The Night Belongs To Mona
8. Mary Shut The Garden Door
9. Morph The Cat (Reprise)
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Donald Fagen - Trilogy 10 Extras flac+cue sheets
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 Viva Rock N Roll (Live)
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Release details
- Artist - Donald Fagen
- Album(s) - The Nightfly Trilogy
- Format - .Flac
- Audio Extraction/compression software used -DVDshrink / DGI Index / EAC
- Archeived - yes ( 5 part rar -the nightfly, 11 part rar - Kamakiriad ,
- 13 part rar - Morph the Cat & Trilogy & 10 Extras - 4 part rar)
- tagging/cue sheet included - yes
wow, you rock! been looking for a decent release of Kamakiriad. Thnx
ReplyDeletewha-hewwww. Great, thnx.
ReplyDeleteLove DF, still playing 'The Nightfly' regularly, never gets stale, had the trilogy more or less the day they were each released. thanks very much for the extras disc!
ReplyDeletegreat music in this blog, tanks
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ReplyDeleteDelicious!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant post. Thank you so much for your effort, work and patience. I converted the FLAC files to WAVE and burned them without difficulty. But how do I convert the files into a format that gives me the original 5.1 output on DVD - at least I think that's what the FLAC files are, since they are so big in size. Can you please get back to me on that one. Most appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHELP! I downloaded your rip of "The Nightfly" converted to wav from flac with dbPoweramp selecting "as sources" but couldn't burn it to disc with either EAC or Burrn!
ReplyDeleteWhat am I missing? Pls help, I really want to hear this goodie!
Ok, I used ImgBurn to burn the file to CD. BUT, it downsampeled Nightfly to 16-bit 2-channel audio.
ReplyDeleteThere's another step here...so please someone help me and the other poster here figure out how to burn it as 24-bit 48/96? What s/w should I use? Whatever...just give us a clue. Thanks.
Okay, I didn't think we'd get an answer from this guy, the blog's kinda old and vacated.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, in order to get 24-bit PCM stereo on disc, I used DVD-Audio solo and dragged the cue sheet into it. The program authored it as a DVD audio -- so don't try to burn to CD, it only gets downsampled. I'm sure there are other authoring programs out there, discWelder Chrome is another, but get DVD-Audio solo does the trick. Whew!
thanks!
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ReplyDeleteAWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for the work you put into these shares of DF!
Outstanding effort! ;-)
thank you!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Thank you for the high quality! And the rarities!
ReplyDeleteHoo boy! This is fabulous! Thanks to the linker who steered me here.
ReplyDeleteI also gotta say a big thanks to you and the guy who linked me here.
ReplyDeleteSame here to the dude who posted this link! What I like about these is that you have the actual individual FLAC files instead of a pre-packaged .iso. Very cool, thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for world's greatest UL. FLAC images play beautifully, but attempts to split into tracks (w/Medieval) result in apparently only splitting off the first track. Does anyone know what the problem might be?
ReplyDeletehi thanks for the flac files.
ReplyDeleteyou could back up files Morph The Cat please.
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