Luckiest Music Generation: Steely Dan - Peg

[Genki Hikari]

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.

[hlthe2b]

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).

[Genki Hikari]

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.

[Duppers]

8. Indeed! 👍

Even my 35yo son agrees.

[walkingman]

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.

[Genki Hikari]

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.

[walkingman]

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

[Diamond_Dog]

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.

[tableturner]

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