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Donald Fagen - I.G.Y. (REACTION)
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2023
- @AirplayBeats reacts to Donald Fagen’s IGY
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The charm of this tune is the lyrics. The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was 1957-1958, an international effort from over 60 countries to learn all about Earth. The endpoint was a future like the Jetson’s (a 1962 cartoon sitcom) having flying cars, “spandex jackets for everyone”, an orbiting wheel in space, etc. It was a time of unbounded optimism, and naïveté following WWII. I remember the excitement of the future, almost too good to be true, and alas it was. Great tune of the times, captures that excitement. Hope this provides some backdrop and thanks for listening. You’ll love all the Donald Fagan solo albums!
Thanks for the insight! Very fascinating little nugget of information.
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are.
The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, it's very brightly colored, it's very loud, and it's fun for a while.
Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?"
And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
~ Bill Hicks ~
It's characteristic of Fagen's sense of humor that, of all of these fabulous things that were predicted in 1957 (trans-Atlantic railway, space travel for consumers, government-issued spandex jacket), NONE of them came true.
"A just machine to make big decisions.... programmed by fellas with compassion and vision" - how prophetic is that lyric. Brilliant.
Well, we have yet to see if AI will be "just, and programmed by fellas with compassion and vision"...
@@funkaholic1972 I'm with donald on this one. it won't be. think about the fellas programming them.
“We’ll be free when their work is done, we’ll be eternally free and eternally young”.
I.G.Y. was a real thing when I was a kid. This song perfectly capture what it was supposed to be about.
Everyone had such an amazingly bright outlook for the future, even up until when I was a kid in the 90s (9/11 changed that attitude real quick). This song is so bittersweet.
Coming back as the great reset. The darksider version.
You probably already know - this was one of the first all digitally created albums. Every track is great.
Pretty sure it was THE first
@@esdel1955 It was predated by Bop till you Drop and Christopher Cross amongst others and there were jazz and classical releases years earlier. 3M 32 track system
The Nightfly is a classic album , great songs , musicianship & production.
By the time the verse gets to "Just machines will make big decisions" my heart breaks for that innocent boy and all of his dreams which have been turned pretty much to ash. My heart weeps for that little boy in all of us when we see what the world has become.
Very well stated.
The old "little boy" typing this is beginning to wonder if humanity has run it's course.
Sure seems so…there is a giant flush coming
I couldn’t agree more. The state of things today brings this little girl to tears 😢
Well...grow up people. We had our childhood time to step up and face the reality. There is bad with the good and it needs to be confronted.
Always a sad song to me.
Fagen's Nightfly album is still widely considered an audiophile reference album, “The Nightfly” by Donald Fagen is a musical classic. The incredible “I.G.Y.” is a great example. The song sets the tone for the album and is both sonically and lyrically intriguing. Just what you'd expect from a talent like Donald Fagen. Thanks, guys, for showcasing Fagen's solo tunes. Every track on this album is amazing/cool.
I used to book all the music at a beachside restaurant. We had an in house sound system so the musicians could just come in, plug and play. Almost every single act, whether solo or a band, would play this album through the sound system while they were setting up and tuning their instruments. One day it dawned on me this was no coincidence and I asked one of the band members and he said this album was perfect. Perfect tuning, perfectly engineered, and sung pitch perfect. No better standard to use to set up the band for a gig. Interesting. Fagen is a master.
One of the first ever digitally recorded records I believe, and still the "go to" for any audiophile wanting to test drive new speakers. Producer Gary Katz (all Steely), engineer Roger Nichols (Aja, Gaucho) and mastered by Bob Ludwig (Zeppelin, Springsteen, Hendrix, Rush, Nirvana etc)...legends, especially after this album.
Roger Nichols engineered all of the original Steely Dan Albums.
The first album recorded digitally for a major label was Bop Till You Drop by Ry Cooder. It's phenomenal, digital or analog notwithstanding.
"90 minutes from New York to Paris"..... Who remembers the Concord...?
Not one bad song on that album. Still sounds fresh and relevant 😎
What you said.
Word. I could not fathom this would still sound as great 40 plus years later.
Woohoo! My favorite reactors with one of my favorite albums!!!!❤😊
International Geophysical Year totally recreates the hopefulness we were feeling in the early 60’s and late 50’s with space exploration, civil rights, futuristic designs, etc. ❤
Fagen on Melodica again.
Ruby Baby and Maxine are masterpieces on this record. The whole record is flawless.
Yes. :)
The blend of Rock and Jazz. I never knew the name of this tune for so many years, but when came on the radio, I had to pull over to enjoy the music. One of the greatest songs about life on earth and how it was it was going to be in the future.
The International Geophysical Year was back around 1958. We were all very optimistic about the future. Then the bullets of Dallas, Memphis, New York and LA came in the 1960s and we were all disillusioned.
International Geophysical Year was 1957-8 a worldwide program of geophysical research that was conducted from July 1957 to December 1958. IGY was directed toward a systematic study of the Earth and its planetary environment.
Great reaction! I bet it's the finest song you'll hear all week. You'll still enjoy listening to it in 41 years time
Digging your Steely Dan and Fagen reactions. My favorites for 40 years. Keep ‘em coming.
Listen to how clean and crisp this sounds... 40+ years old!!!
The time and effort that Fagen spends to make songs perfect is amazing. It seems like he nails it every time.
As wonderful as any Dan track - a top ten favourite still played regularly. 'Undersea by rail, 90 minutes from New York to Paris' - just great.
"Here at home we'll play in the cities
Powered by the Sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
They'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone."
Who knew irony and joy could be such a fantastic combination?
"it picked right where gaucho left off" perfectly put
Such a beautiful song this is! 🎶🎶🎶👍👍
IGY is referring to the International Geophysical Year, a global science initiative for new discoveries and innovations, held from July 1957 to December 1958. The song basically made fun of a few 'futuristic' concepts, like everyone wearing spandex jackets, robotics, space exploration, and foretold the use of solar energy. iGY changed the scientific landscape, and this song changed the musical landscape of the early 80s.
Another great song and with that beautiful hook. ⭐️😁
Back in the day this song/album transformed my one-bedroom, 50 year old house surrounded by methland, into a small haven of laid-back classiness and respectability...with the help of a Kenwood amp and low watt lightbulb.
Nice.
I love the scene you have set; beautiful
God this song touches my soul every time
This is a great album. No drop off from “The Dan.”
In the very early 90s, Fagen released another "solo" CD called "Kamakiriad". Check out "Snowbound" of that CD. Lovely.
A great song from a great album. The Dan sound is still here. Steely Don!😂🎶
I can remember hearing this alot on the radio. Thanks for bringing it back around. Will be added on my playlist 🎶🎵 Thanks!!
still an amazing song, I have been sold on Steely Dan since Can't Buy a Thrill, I graduated high school in 1973...I had the freakin 8track! lol
I’m not surprised you’ve heard this, it was a pretty big hit (so was New Frontier). IMO, you should do Maxine next. One of the best, most beautiful songs ever written by anyone, anywhere.
Yes! The incomparable Michael Brecker's tenor sax solo is worth the price of admission alone.
I second (or third) Maxine. Also "Ruby baby" (actually a cover, but I forgot the original singer).
@@Phillphine Dion
100%. In my Top 5 all time for sure.
Maxine that is
Hey What can you say 🤷🏾♂️ just excellent.his second album Kamakiriad is hella good also the guy doesn't miss
I especially love “The Nightfly”, “Maxine”, and “The Goodby Look”
Yes, top three of this album for sure!
Oh yeah you definitely heard this. This is one of those tunes that's always playing on supermarket sound systems lol. The lyrics are great written from the point of view of a little kid in the '50s. Being at some world fair with all kinds of displays about how the future is going to be awesome, which of course is sadly ironic."By 76 we'll be a-Ok"
you guys are putting out tons of content on great songs. tough series for the Kings tho!
I had forgotten about this song but it came back to me within just a few notes. Yet another great song by the heart and soul of Steely Dan.
Perfection and grace. Like the smile on my face.
Listened to Steely Dan as a kid from my parents, never caught on.
Bought this after college, went back to SD and haven’t looked back.
I've known this since it was released/played frequently on the radio, long ago: it was easily recognized on the many times it subsequently popped up, when I've been walking through businesses with an "adult contemporary" channel playing on the in-store system. That may be where you recall it from.
The Dan and Donal Fagen, my goto feel good music. Never fails.
The "I.G.Y." of the title refers to the "International Geophysical Year", an event that ran from July 1957 to December 1958.[2]: 217 The I.G.Y. was an international scientific project promoting collaboration among the world's scientists. Fagen's lyrics discuss the widespread optimistic vision of the future at that time, including futuristic concepts such as solar-powered cities, a transatlantic tunnel, permanent space stations,[4] and spandex jackets.
The song references the vision of postwar optimism in America and the Western world. The "76" referred to in the song is 1976, the U.S. Bicentennial year.[5]
The best track from this album pure brilliant!!!
"NEW FRONTIER" is another really good one....!
Excellent choice...
Yes yes. Please check out more of Donalds solo work. You will not regret it. Either Florida Room, or Good Stuff.
The instrument you are looking for is either a "melodica" which is blown with the mouth and the notes are emitted by the keys or it is a "clavinet" but I'm not quite sure. I:G:Y: was the first solo project and it immediately charted as a top LP everywhere. Today all of his solo albums (on vinyl) have become extremely expensive. A really great musician. Best regards @all from hamburg (germany)
Sounds like a melodica, to me.
5th grade music teacher played a melodica ...
not this well, tho !
The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument.
Lots of great musicians on this album too… including my favorite guitarist, the great Larry Carlton 🎸
This was a HUGE HIT!!!
The entire album is a gem.
Wait till you get to “The Goodbye Look!” This whole album is GREAT! The Goodbye Look does it for me!😄
Love it
Great tune. Yes it was a big hit. Those harmonies!! 1972 Can't Buy a Thrill, 1982 Nightfly, and all in between. 1993 Kamakiriad, 2000 Two Against Nature. Impressive to say the least. So many great songs on Nightfly. New Frontiers, Maxine, Walk Between Raindrops and more. He even covers the song 'Ruby' (Baby). For contrast and fun go to 1993's 'Teahouse On The Tracks' and 'West Of Hollywood' from Two Against 2000. Enjoying your channel guys...
The lyrics. Play it through again and listen to them carefully. 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Great tune
Fun fact: Rick Derringer plays guitar on this track, and he was the guitarist on Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein vid you guys covered. Also, the Brecker Bros holding down the horn section and giving it their special groove. The great Anthony Jackson on bass (if you don’t know him, you need to).
I remember buying the cassette to The Night Fly back in '82. Sounds just as nice today as it did some 41 years ago.
This is so good!!! I could listen all day ❤
The Late Show Stephen Colbert's questionert asks guests 'one song to listen to for the rest of your life what is it?' my Answer - Donald Fagen's I.G.Y.
IGY = "International Geophysical Year"
This tune got some FM radio airplay back then...
James Gang. Funk 49. You'll love it🔥🎶🔥🎶
It was Capital Radios song of the week. Still did fuck all chartwise. It is pure heaven. I love you guys reaction. You get it.
Fagen is a musical genius
You have to place your vinyl on THAT turntable!
His Brooks button-down shirt is also super cool and great quality alongside everything else!
International Geophysical Year (IGY), worldwide program of geophysical research that was conducted from July 1957 to December 1958. IGY was directed toward a systematic study of the Earth and its planetary environment.
Great reactions!!!
On one of your Steely Dan reactions ypu said they arent classic rock. Well sorta true. But at the same time youd hear them on radio between Rick Derringer and Cheap Trick. Or Pink Floyd and Rainbow. Deep Purple or Kiss. And another track from this record ended up on the 1981 Heavy Metal motion picture soundtrack. Thats how much esteem the rock community has for The Dan and its members.
Always hear Happy to be stuck w you by Huey Lewis n the news
Melodica- but a big one. I don’t know the name, but I always love it.
This is my jam here though I can never pick a favorite Steely Dan song this one hits different depends on how you feel at the time but this is something different to me
As I've said before, my very first 5.1 DVD-Audio disc. Sound quality floored me!
Yeah❤❤❤❤❤❤
Was sampled in 14 other songs
The soloing instrument is an electronic synthesizer. The Hohner Melodica DF plays on stage isn't on any of their recordings from the 70's and 80's. The synth you heard was bending notes with a "pitch wheel" used mostly with the left hand. The Melodica is not capable of bending notes(pitch). I own several of them and 2 synths.
❤️❤️❤️
Gentlemen , dippin into the inventory .
A Deep well ...
From the same album, try WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS his jazziest song ever!!!
This is my favorite album.of all time. #2 is Abbey Road
Talk about your work day going by faster when listening to music. The hospital I worked at as a Professional Billing Representative [ claims biller ] began allowing us to listen to music with headphones. Around 2004. On a portable CD player.. This album was one of my regular listens.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has a few solo albums.
His On An Island is very good. Another Gilmour album is Rattle That Lock . The title song is great. Haven't heard the rest of it.
Great reaction as usual guys. I see y'all are finishing up
The Wall. Been a fun trip reliving that epic album with you two. I was 20 when it came out. I related to it a lot.
As many people did and still do. As one of y'all said, some of the songs aren't good on their own as far as wanting to listen to them again. These songs are perpetuating the story. Setting up upcoming songs.
But as a whole, the album rocks and every song means something. But as far as Donald Fagen solo albums go, please react to more. They are all great.
All the songs are great on this album, but please do New Frontier next, my favorite Fagen solo song. You won't regret it.
SNOWBOUND!
Apparently, this album felt so personal to Fagen that he almost didn’t release it, and almost had a nervous breakdown.
He also went into an eight year writer’s block after it was released.
IMO, Fagen and/or Steely Dan were never the same (or as good) after the Nightfly.
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At times they were better, and certainly different. For instance, I would swap Walter Becker’s Hat Too Flat for Everyone’s Gone to the Movies. I agree some of the later songs were lacking and the best of the first incarnation probably stands above most of what came after The Nightfly, but all of us were different by then and had different expectations.
Some amazing songs on Sunken Condos, DF’s fourth solo . But it came out in 2012, he’s due for another😏
@@hklinker I think “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies” was a fantastic tune!
As for expectations, for me Fagen and Becker set the bar so incredibly with everything through The Nightfly, which is why (for me) everything post-Nightfly has been a bit of a disappointment….to varying degrees.
They just never regained their previous magic, but at least they were touring and sharing it live, so perhaps that was the tradeoff?
@Rosemary I too love Sunken Condos and think it’s an amazing set of songs. My only complaint is that the audio production dipped on that album.
I heard the same thing about Fagen's breakdown, and a later interview where he said that by the end of SD, the studio had become his life, and with Becker gone, he lost that--a major loss for him. Yeah, he said he'd make demos, and the next day they wouldn't sound good to him. That broke my heart. How much that must have sucked for a man of his massive talent. Life can be strange.
Also agree with your opinion that The Nightfly was the last great SD/Fagen album. But what a peak it was, and there's plenty great later stuff. Cousin Dupree, Jack of Speed. I really enjoy this concert video SD made for Two Against Nature. All the best! ruclips.net/video/KhITNSSD4OA/видео.html
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melodika
They used this on an episode of The Simpsons
The mixture of optimism for the future and cynical realisation that it won't turn out that well makes this song bitter sweet. The 'whooo' after the line 'eternally free, eternally young' sums up that cynicism for me.
I think that is the album's theme, along with enjoying childhood dreams that didn't come true. It takes me to that classy, wise, sunny world he dreamed of.
Donald Fagan IS Steely Dan - He uses the best session musicians in the business
Fagan would say he and Becker were.
Shanghai Confidential (instrumental) Fagan
Try to find 'Second Arrangement', SD's lost hit
Final album 'Everything Must Go' title track and 'Things I Miss the Most'
Ok, this will sound morbid, but I was torn between this song and “PEG” by Steely Dan as one of three to be played at my funeral; I went with Peg because of the groove, but man how I love this song ❤
Can't you have four songs?
We need another bonafide International Geophysical Year to save the planet.
Donald plays the Melodica on a lot of tracks, but this time he's playing a Synth-Harmonica.
Okay guys...Don't forget to go back and react to the Relayer album by Yes!!! It's been a while!
Donald's playing a melodica.
Blues Synth Harp. Melodica is the instrument you're thinking of. The blues synth harp is played with a midi instead of a portable plastic instrument.
Pretty sure the instrument in question is a Melodica.
That instrument is the lyricon.
To this day I am still not 100% sure exactly what a "hit" song is. That said.. this track reached 26 on the Billboard chart and 8 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. I do recall it getting a lot of air play when it was released back in 1982. I love every track on The Nightfly album. Great reaction, guys. Take care.
When they were recording Gooseneck an engineer accidently erased the tape and Fagen was never happy with the 2nd take. He walked out of the studio.
I'm with dude in the NWA shirt but then again.... When I first heard this song I was sure, and I mean SURE, that I'd heard it all my life but I'm not so sure that's true. If that makes any sense. Because I definitely wasn't aware of it when it was first released in 1982