There are some bands and musicians that I've listened to for many years and never tire of like: Van Morrison, Little Feat, Randy Newman, R.E.M., David Byrne/Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Ry Cooder etc. The music is timeless and, where there's quality it lasts.
One rock/jazz band stands out head and shoulders over many others though and that's Steely Dan. From the first releases right through to the last Steely Dan and Donald Fagan's music has gripped me. The whimsical and cryptic lyrics supported by complicated composition and almost uniquely pure sound is as good today as it was in the 1970s.
I was lucky enough to see Fagan and Becker playing in Auckland a few years before Becker died. It rates to me as one of the best concerts I've been to.
I watched this You Tube clip the other day and, to me, a musical appreciator without much musical knowledge found the discussion of the blues mu major and the construction of Deacon Blues fascinating.
If you don't like it then don't shoot me - I'm only the piano player.*
* Not really. My mother sent me off to piano lessons when I was a kid but I was too lazy to learn properly and then the teacher caught my brother and me pinching apples off her tree.
Yeah, very interesting.
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