Donald Fagen - New Frontier (lyrics)

5th track from "Nightfly" (1982). Make bunker love, not Cold War! Continuing in Steely Dan's smooth pop-jazz mode, solo Fagen describes his adolescent fantasy during the late '50s/early '60s of enticing a beautiful young lady into sharing an overnighter in his family's fallout shelter.

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"We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of the 1960s, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. ... Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus."

~President, John F. Kennedy

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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.

~AllMusic review by Jason Ankeny

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Donald Fagen - lead vocals, background vocals
Larry Carlton - lead guitar
Ed Greene - drums
Abraham Laboriel - bass
Hugh McCracken - harmonica
Roger Nichols - percussion, special effects
Michael Omartian - piano, electric piano
Starz Vanderlocket - percussion, background vocals

Gary Katz - producer

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