RIP Greg Kihn

Aja is my 1A after Deacon Blues. Pure magic.

 

Yacht rock is anything a 30 something mom of many could sing along to in the late 1970s/early 1980s while laying out on a deck that was the equivalent size of the above ground pool attached to it while drinking wine with an ice cube.

 

My Steely Dan top five:

1. Hey Nineteen
2. Deacon Blues
3. Kid Charlemagne
4. King of the World
5. Peg

 

1. Aja
2. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
3. Black Cow
4. Pretzel Logic
5. The Fez

 

Midnight Cruiser

 

Any song you can picture being followed by “Steal Away “ by Robbie Dupree is yacht.

 

Great call on the Fez! I would place FM in mine.

 

Dan Top 10
1. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
2. Everyone's Gone To The Movies - the sickest concept for a song ever created, but it is catchy as fuck ... part of its subversiveness.
3. Dirty Work
4. Doctor Wu
5. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
6. Peg
7. Midnite Cruiser
8. Barrytown - I'm quite partial to Side A of "Pretzel Logic"
9. Show Biz Kids
10. Deacon Blues

All fantastic. Could easily go 25-ish deep on Dan songs.

 

Well that's gonna be in my head for a week. Jerk.

 

That's a pretty good song to be stuck in your head though.

 

Top 5:
Don’t Take Me Alive
Only a Fool Would Say That
King of the World….one of their best unknown songs
Black Cow
Brooklyn

 

Wait. I missed something here. Was somebody trying to make the argument that Greg Kihn was yacht rock?