Personally, I consider this Donald Fagen's magnum opus. Everything about this recording glows, but what blew me away was the vocal arrangement. This is fantasy. The kind of tone it creates lends itself to any number of images in the mind, anything from sailboating to space travel, etc. Fitting that it ended up in "Heavy Metal" by itself because it doesn't fit Steely Dan's material before it OR Donald Fagen's material afterward.
Personally, I consider this Donald Fagen's magnum opus. Everything about this recording glows, but what blew me away was the vocal arrangement. This is fantasy. The kind of tone it creates lends itself to any number of images in the mind, anything from sailboating to space travel, etc. Fitting that it ended up in "Heavy Metal" by itself because it doesn't fit Steely Dan's material before it OR Donald Fagen's material afterward.