It's just a dugout that my Dad built
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
I taped this off my mate I the eighties and played it so much that I know every note and word. I reckon I picked up this CD version in the mid-00s at HMV at Fort Dunlop in Brum, when they used to do, like, 5 CDs for a tenner deals.
Bear in mind, I heard this long before I’d ever been more than peripherally aware of Steely Dan – I didn’t start investigating them until a bloke I worked with put Peg on a tape for me and I recognised it from De La Soul’s sample.
It’s an odd record this: a concept album based in a 1950s American world of late-night radio and nuclear threat, played out in very highly-produced eighties jazz-rock-pop.
Listening to this is like putting on my house slippers for me. If someone had filled them with warm treacle. I’ve noticed over the years, however, that for many other people it’s like nails down a blackboard.
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