I don't find myself putting it on very much, although I don't mind   
   when it pops up in my ITunes shuffle.   
      
   Definitely no Nightfly, but better than most new music out there.   
   The production certainly lacks Nightfly's warmth (as did Kamakiriad,   
   for the most part)...in fact, Everything Must Go is much easier on the   
   ears, production-wise, as well.   
      
      
   On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:31:14 GMT, "jimbo"  wrote:   
      
   >There does appear to be a fevered fawning for Fagan - as though everything   
   >he produces supersedes previous works.   
   >   
   >A dose of reality and honesty wouldn't go amiss here.   
   >   
   >personally Morph doesn't come anywhere near the nightlfly or even kamakiriad   
   >(still very chilled and ideal summer cruising tunes - as was the intention)   
   >   
   >this blind reverence for morph is mindless and embarrassing.   
   >   
   >Jim   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >"Lester the Nightfly"  wrote in message   
   >news:1144007359.638199.142120@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...   
   >> I'll vouch for Tim being on this news group for many a year. I even had   
   >> a drink with him a couple of years back, and no one loves Steely Dan   
   >> more than him.   
   >>   
   >> Tim, for what it counts, on first hearing I played the first 30 seconds   
   >> or so of each track off MTC and having skipped quickly from one to   
   >> another declared myself deeply dissapointed. Sure, the band was as   
   >> tight as ever and the lyrics clever, but I felt that it could offer no   
   >> more than a slick groove. And we Dan fans have come to expect more. So   
   >> I gave the album to my brother who expected little from it ( he   
   >> believes rock greats should never record more than 4 albums and quit   
   >> whilst ahead).I was suprised when he called me a couple of days later   
   >> and said he thought it better than Kamakeriad and the two recent Dan   
   >> albums. So, I listened again. Played it over and over in the car. And   
   >> now... I like it, quite a lot actually. Sure, it won't make my all time   
   >> top 10 albums, but it's better than 90% of all the albums I usually   
   >> buy. Some of the cords and key changes remind me of the Night Fly (no   
   >> bad thing),a couple of passages on the album take me back to Gaucho.   
   >>   
   >> I do think we are all wrong if we expect anything Donald (or for that   
   >> matter Steely Dan) writes in the year 2006 could come anyway near the   
   >> material of 1976. The benchmark was set so high, and I understand that   
   >> it's all too easy for us to feel dissapointed. But if I approach the   
   >> new material from a realistic standpoint, I'm a pretty contented   
   >> devotee.   
   >>   
   >> Steve (north side of Sheffield)   
   >>   
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