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Steely Dan are brill along with the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat .Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> I am a sad bastard then, to me it is always about quality music
> and having a good voice and I can actually understand what he
> is saying- I would rather have something slightly bland than
> the meaningless noise that passes for pop today, Wings and his
> solo career was always going to be a no-win situation after The
> Beatles just like Jagger & Richards and Plant & Page with their
> solo efforts are always going to be compared to their bands
> work and come up short, anyway think I will put my Best Of
> Steely Dan on now
>
>
> Keith Rasputin wrote:
>
> > Fans of Macca solo career are truly sad, deluded, not to
> > mention tone-deaf people with a penchant for really bland
> MOR.
> > The production on some of his solo work is incredible and
> very
> > clever but just no substance or balls to it. Who really
> enjoys
> > 'Band on the Run..' or that Grammy winner 'Rochestra..' ?

Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> I am a sad bastard then, to me it is always about quality music
> and having a good voice and I can actually understand what he
> is saying- I would rather have something slightly bland than
> the meaningless noise that passes for pop today

That's what the old folks used to say about Elvis. !happy!

Time for the pipe and slippers?

Nice to hear a favorable reference to Little Feat! I have a station devoted to them on Pandora. Steely Dan was also a great group, & I have been known to 'listen to the music' a time or 2....quaffed many a Bud to 'Black Water' on the jukebox in a low dive in Macon, Georgia, back in the day.....

strictlybroadband wrote:

> I'm sure he's produced some bearable tunes in the past 30 years, but nothing that compares with anything co-written with Lennon. Maybe John just felt sorry for the doey-eyed bastard and gave him joint credit out of pity.

I don't think anyone is buying that "Lennon plus three passengers" line about The Beatles anymore. Whatever the relationship, they both brought out the best in each others ability. You only need to hear the indulgent guff that made up large chunks of Lennon's solo output for evidence.