For a while, in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, the radio was overwhelmed with Steely Dan music. Many of us who liked their music grew tired of hearing the same tunes over and over.
Such is the price of popularity.
Phil Collins went through the same thing.
All of his music was professionally done, as he was backed by other very experienced group members from Genesis.
Many of Phil’s hits were played over and over again, until some folks got tired of hearing any of his work.
The average musician never gets anything close to that level of popularity, and would loved to have achieved it.
Same with The Eagles.
Your comment brought back a memory I had from my childhood ironically enough.
I was pretty small, and had a stomach ache in the back of a hot car from eating some gummy bears (or whatever) while my mom was driving around doing errands.
And the song “Deacon Blues” was playing on the radio in that memory (I didn’t know the name of the group or song at the time obviously)
Maybe that was the cause of my life long disliking Steely Dan.
Coincidently...I remember Willy Nelson’s “On the Road Again” playing as well that day..and I cant stand him either.
Back in the vinyl days, Steely Dan had the cleanest and clearest audio around.