Audio CD review:
Donald Fagen - Tomorrow's Girl

Donald Fagen - Tomorrow's Girl

Band: Donald Fagen Title: Tomorrow's Girl Rating: Release Date: 10 June, 1993 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Tomorrow's Girls [Edit] 2: Shanghai Confidential 3: Confide in Me 4: Century's End 5: Tomorrow's Girls [Single Version]

Customer Reviews Nice alternative take on "Girls", and great gospel rave-up (Sometimes I wish artists or whoever makes these decisions would stop all this cute stuff and not make it so hard for semi-obsessed people like myself to complete their collections. First of all, I should point out that I actually accidentally purchased the 2-cut CD *single*, not the 5-cut CD/EP that I thought I was getting. But I digress. . . ) The alternate cut of "Tomorrow's Girls" which is on *both* the single and the EP has a clearer, bouncier sound -- the drums and percussion are really outstanding -- I wish he'd used this soundscape on the whole Kamakiriad album, which I think sounds sort of compressed and artificial. "Confide In Me" is interesting, sort of a gospel/blues rave-up rave-up, very heavy on the piano and harmonica, and I don't know when he wrote it, but it would indeed have sounded out of place on Kamakiriad -- great song, anyway, worth the price of the single -- quite different from anything I've every heard him or Fagen & Becker do before or since; the five-cut EP, which I'm looking forward to hearing, has an instrumental "Shanghai Surprise", and a bonus of "Century's End", which is available elsewhere, notably on Steely Dan's "Gold" compilation, or on the "Bright Lights, Big City" soundtrack. this was my Jam "Tommrrow's Girl" with that tight Drumming&organ right on time with the trademark Steely Dan Groove all on point. back in 93 I use to Bump to this cut a whole lot. still one of the cuts that moves me from that album. . You can see a complete list of all Donald Fagen discography, or go back to the Donald Fagen tabs