My music listening has recently shifted to an all 70's all the time gear.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I'm able to bring CDs and listen to music at work. Recently I was listening to Steely Dan's Aja just about every day (I was SPELLBOUND as a kid when my sister brought the vinyl of this home). I made a compilation disc of Elton John I've been listening to. Everything from "Bennie and the Jets" to "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", "Philadelphia Freedom" and "Levon". Among other old music I've been listening to.

Remembering the way Elton John TOWERED over the world of popular music. And deservedly so.

I really feel that popular music was vastly inferior in the 90's. There is no towering figure like Elton John. There is no Steely Dan.

I don't think there are any less talented people in any era. Perhaps the increasing corporatization of the music biz has led to more cranked out "hip" angry youth products like Limp Bizkit (their musical legacy will not endure). I'm under no illusions. I know there was payola and graft in pop radio starting from the beginnings in the 50's.

I tried posting this earlier but it looked like it posted then vanished into the ether. Sorry if it's a dupe.

[Richardo]

1. Even Steely Dan is not Steely Dan

I recently got CDs of "Can't Buy A Thrill" and "Gaucho" which I only had in vinyl and had not heard for YEARS. What a pleasure to hear them again. :smoke: :thumbsup:

I have the recent Steely Dan CDs ("Two Against Nature" and "Everything Must Go") and while good, to my ears they do not compare to the 70s stuff.

[maveric]

3. Aja is a masterpiece.

I played it out 25 years ago and I still play it out.

[DBtv]

4. I really liked the last two Dan releases.

To me, they were in some ways even better.

Hard to beat the classics, though.

[DBtv]

2. You are correct in your assesment, IMNSHO.

Since the music business has gone 21st century corporate, creativity has been squeezed out of popular music for commercial profitability.

My current favorite bands are outside of the radio/record company cookie cutter system.

Check out Widespread Panic. <http://www.widespreadpanic.com>

[SW FL Dem]

5. We're big fans of Steely Dan and Elton here

I also love the Moody Blues and Fleetwood Mac. I have all my 70s Lps but nothing to play them on anymore.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. They're fun just to look at though, aren't they?

LPs used to decorate my dorm in college (transition to CD's during my undergrad years).

I haven't had a turntable for a while. During a move I almost gave away all my LPs. I thought for a second and said WHAT AM I DOING? and took them back.

I've got a Beatles White album that's white vinyl. An old Rolling Stones album with a hexagonal shaped album cover. Black Sabbath "Paranoid". Quadrophenia. I almost gave this stuff away!

[legin]

7. Yup

just bought in the last couple of weeks the hit Joan Armatrading album of 1976 called also Joan Armatrading with the tune 'Love and Affection' on it. Sort of an impulse buy, but I'm very happy I did, there is not really a duff track on the album and 'Love and affection' isn't the best track either.

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