August 1, 2006

"New Frontier"


"New Frontier" by Donald Fagen

from

The Nightfly (1982)


Levittown, 1951


Three Musicians (1921) by Pablo Picasso


Tuesday Weld (1963)


Nikita Khrushchev, United Nations in November 1960


Ambush perfume ad (1955)


Time Out (1959), Dave Brubeck


the limbo


Idealized American fallout shelter around 1957

2 comments:

jemison said...

Nightfly was such a kickass album (that's how I first heard it). It reminds me of that time.

Actually, I'm going to see Fagan and Becker in about nine more days. Steely Dan is playing in Tampa with Michael McDonald.

Chris said...

Absolutely. Every song is good (how often could you say that about an album?). And it's technically perfect (one of the first fully digital recordings):

"The Nightfly is widely considered to be one of the best engineered albums ever made; it is an early full digital recording. Some audio engineers use it to evaluate the quality of playback equipment." -Wikipedia

Have a good time at the concert! I bet they play at least "I.G.Y."