Product Description
Rare Actual 1982 Japanese First Pressing ~ Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese, Plus Jap Insert. Wonderful Audiophile Sound Quality! Beautifully Produced, Intricately Detailed, Carefully Constructed & Arranged Songs From The Steely Dan Man ~ Donald Fagen.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds superb!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light wear, insert has some age spots.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Imagine
I.G.Y.
Green Flower Street
Ruby Baby
Maxine
Side 2:
New Frontier
The Nightfly
The Goodbye Look
Walk Between Raindrops
AMG –
The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz. 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. 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.