Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:14 PM

Luckiest Music Generation: Steely Dan - Peg

A song I was hooked on from the first second I heard note 1, even though it's not my favorite from their smash album, Aja (that would be the title track). The lucky part is that this was Top 40 for my generation. Not the deep album tracks, but what any ordinary schmuck could pick up on an AM station. Or even yokel teens like me in the boonies, with little else connecting me to a bigger music world.

This being Top 40 is what made us lucky to be around for it.

Love the Michael McDonald backing vocals, too.

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Luckiest Music Generation: Steely Dan - Peg (Original post)	Genki Hikari	Oct 2022	OP
It really is true that the 60s, 70s and some 80s-90s were the ultimate eras	hlthe2b	Oct 2022	#1
Lots of great music out there, but	Genki Hikari	Oct 2022	#3
Indeed! 👍	Duppers	Oct 2022	#8
No doubt the greatest music generation. The thing I miss the most is waiting for the next album and	walkingman	Oct 2022	#2
In a way, yeah, but honestly?	Genki Hikari	Oct 2022	#4
I agree. The ones that show off the artistic side of song selection is what make	walkingman	Oct 2022	#5
I played the grooves off my Aja album.	Diamond_Dog	Oct 2022	#6
K and R......Steely Dan, my favorite!	tableturner	Oct 2022	#7

Response to Genki Hikari (Original post)

Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:20 PM

hlthe2b (97,009 posts)

1. It really is true that the 60s, 70s and some 80s-90s were the ultimate eras

And I say this NOT to offend our younger members, but I do feel sorry for much (not all) of the musical offerings today (and in the couple of decades).

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Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:27 PM

Genki Hikari (1,766 posts)

3. Lots of great music out there, but

Listeners have to work to find it now.

When we were young, turn on an AM radio, and you'd probably find something worth listening to. Now you have to dig around through Youtube videos.

My son said what blew his mind was how many different genres we listened to, all in one place. It was nothing to hear Steely Dan, Parliament/Funkadelic, Van Halen, Chuck Mangione, Donna Summer and Willie Nelson on a Top 40 station over the course of an hour.

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Sun Oct 2, 2022, 02:33 AM

Duppers (26,648 posts)

8. Indeed! 👍

Even my 35yo son agrees.

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Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:23 PM

walkingman (6,033 posts)

2. No doubt the greatest music generation. The thing I miss the most is waiting for the next album and

then listening to the entire album. Something is missing when you don't take the whole album as part of the creative effort.

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Response to walkingman (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:29 PM

Genki Hikari (1,766 posts)

4. In a way, yeah, but honestly?

Most albums aren't all that great. For every Aja or Physical Grafitti, there were a score of one-hit-wonder + filler crap albums, even back then.

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Sat Oct 1, 2022, 06:37 PM

walkingman (6,033 posts)

5. I agree. The ones that show off the artistic side of song selection is what make

the Album. Ex: Dark side of the Moon or Led Zeppelin IV or Ziggy Stardust. JMO

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Sat Oct 1, 2022, 09:13 PM

Diamond_Dog (27,855 posts)

6. I played the grooves off my Aja album.

Every song good. But I’m partial to Peg and Deacon Blues.

Modern pop music today is just meh. Very few stations even play rock anymore. Late sixties and Seventies was THE era AFAIC.

Luckiest Music Generation: Steely Dan - Peg

1. It really is true that the 60s, 70s and some 80s-90s were the ultimate eras

3. Lots of great music out there, but

8. Indeed! 👍

2. No doubt the greatest music generation. The thing I miss the most is waiting for the next album and

4. In a way, yeah, but honestly?

5. I agree. The ones that show off the artistic side of song selection is what make

6. I played the grooves off my Aja album.

7. K and R......Steely Dan, my favorite!