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Charted: Oct. 30, 1982

Rating: 4.377 (average of 9 ratings)

Genre: studio rock

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

  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

Sales (in millions):

sales in U.S. only 1.0
sales in U.K. only - estimated 0.3
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated 1.3

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 11
peak on U.K. album chart 44

Singles/Hit Songs:

  • I.G.Y. (10/9/82) #26 US, #8 AC, #17 AR
  • New Frontier (1/29/83) #70 US, #34 AC

Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more. Mojo Magazine’s 100 Greatest Albums

The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
Review:
“A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late ‘50s/early ‘60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date.” JA

“Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit I.G.Y.) and Cold War fears (the wonderful The New Frontier, a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication.” JA

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Last updated November 16, 2010.