Your song of the moment (Part 3)

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this stretches credulity cuba it cant be true. like, cmon, youve certainly heard the chain, or Dreams

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Here’s a guide:

If the music is terrible, it’s Steely Dan or the Eagles

If it sounds good it’s probably Fleetwood Mac or middle era Blue Oyster cult

I hope this has clarified Dad Rock identification for this thread

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incorrect

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They’re just 2 boomer bands I don’t care about with weird fake-person names that have an ee sound in them. Like my brain just thinks of them as one band

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i dont know how a person would confuse stevie nicks with donald fagen tbqh

speaking of

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tfw when your song of the moment effects your song of the moment so you gotta post your song of the moment in your song of the moment

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Who?

Thought about this in the shower. I’ve said this in passing before but tried to analyze it out. Most millennials have boomer parents who were into their own pop music, roughly the hippie stuff of the late 60s thru 70s rock, and so grew up with that kind of music being ambient. They just have like a bone marrow-level relationship with that music.

But my parents were turbo nerds who hated all that music. Growing up my ambient music was, in order of prominence:

  1. Classical
  2. Jazz
  3. The oldies station (which at the time, late 80s and early 90s, was all 50s and early 60s music - when I think “what did it sound like to be in the car with my parents” the sense-memories that spring to mind are like, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Mister Sandman, and Chantilly Lace)
  4. A tie between show tunes on my mom’s side and synth-heavy “easy listening” stuff on my dad’s side (like Mannheim Steamroller and smooth jazz)

Until I was an adult I had no concept of the catalogues or cultural significance of like… the Stones, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Who, or whatever the heck Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan are (in my brain, EEuh Guy). To the extent I know anything about any of them now it’s random and patchwork.

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for sure i was just making a joke about how one of those bands has a cis guy singing and one has a cis woman singing

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Oh I didn’t mean that whole post as a response to you specifically I just literally have never heard the name Donald Fagen before lol

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he and Walter Becker are Steely Dan

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I think you overestimate the extent to which millennial tastes in older music are inherited from their parents, or perhaps I underestimate it, which would be typical of either of us

anyway I have no meaningful memories of my parents liking music or wanting to share it with me much at all (my dad was a big ZZ Top fan) but I love Steely Dan and the Beatles so what

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in high school my parents had a massive “bookshelf” of like 100+ CDs that was basically a column in the middle of our living/dining/kitchen space so in addition to inheriting their favorites ambiently (eg. the grateful dead is basically in my bones thanks to my deadhead dad’s years of bootleg tapes) i could also just grab albums at random that broadly reflected both my dad and stepmoms tastes

i’ll always remember the exact day i started to actively pursue my own musical likes was when i nearly fell asleep in class, woke up with “Burning down the House” stuck in my head, told my parents about it later, and they (after scolding me for sleeping in class lol) handed me the original release of Stop Making Sense. ah memories

Speaking of [tongues]

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