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To: discostu
Steely Dan is my favorite Yacht Rock artist.

There is not aa single Steely Dan song that I don't like. Now a few of them get overplayed like "Reelin' In The Years" and "Peg" but even those do not ever get tired.

The solo stuff by Donald Fagen isn't bad either.

11 posted on 05/01/2021 7:02:29 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76

Steely Dan is awesome. And one of the best reasons to reject to yacht rock label. Their music isn’t actually easy listening (which most yacht rock falls under) just watch any clip of the drummer playing Aja. Lyrically when you get right down to it Steely Dan is a punk band. More “junkies winos pimps and whores” in their music than in most punk catalogs, including the guy who gave us that wonderful phrase Mike Ness. Nothing yacht about it. A surface listen would make them seem similar to Chris Cross, and others in that “category” but they’re just not.


15 posted on 05/01/2021 7:08:31 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: SamAdams76

It’s an insult to call Steely Dan Yacht Rock.


26 posted on 05/01/2021 7:34:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: SamAdams76

Steely Dan has so many great deep cuts that never got radio play.

My favorite Dan song is “King of the World”.


67 posted on 08/01/2022 4:09:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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