Absolutely! I’m just interested that some young people are listening to what I would consider to be less important bands of decades ago. But I also think yacht rock is bigger than I thought it was.
Our kids weren’t even a twinkle in our eye when Steely Dan, et al, were in their heyday, so I just wonder how they are discovering this music.
A lot of old music apparently goes viral on TikTok.
And Guardians of the Galaxy with it’s epic soundtrack!!
Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson’s tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center (with Bonhom’s son, Jason) was incredible. Her voice was perfect for it.
I listen to that about once a month. When the choir rises up, it gives me chills every time!
Mind blowing! thanks for sharing that!
I actually went through a big Steely Dan phase in college (1990s) and it was triggered by listening to De La Soul’s “Eye Know” and loving the sample of “Peg” in there.
I love that music lives on and in new ways.
I became interested in Laura Nyro songs after she was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. She wrote so many great songs at a young age.
I noticed younger people listening to 70s soul groups like the O’Jays and the Spinners a few years back.
My S24 is really into Phish! His good friend’s dad got the friend group into it and he has started going to some of the shows, including MSG on NYE.
Oh I love 70’s soul groups!
Ooh, no. Ask a musician. Steely Dan is very musically significant, as my 17-year-old son will explain to you at length. It has to do with how they blended genres and the technical complexity of their music, along with their lyricism. All very innovative and distinctive. He picked up his Steely Dan obsession from my husband (who’s also a longtime fan). My son has a top-ten list of favorite Steely Dan guitar solos (he likes making top-ten lists, but this is pretty specific, even for him).
Both of my kids love music from my (GenX) generation – Steely Dan, Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Tears for Fears, Hall and Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson. My son also like Beach Boys, and he’s generally a fan of what’s come to be called yacht rock. They also like classic R&B: Stevie Wonder, Commodores, Earth, Wind, and Fire (part of the appeal is that my daughter was in fact born on the 21st night – well, afternoon – of September). They got a lot of this from me and my husband, but also from soundtracks of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Stranger Things, TikTok, and Spotify lists shared between friends (that’s where my son picked up on the Beach Boys). They love new music, too, and classical music (especially my son), but they’re well-versed in the music of the 70s and 80s.
It also occurs to me that my kids have picked up new music every time a pop star dies and we play their music nostalgically. 2016 was a big year – they became fans of David Bowie, Prince, the Eagles (Glenn Frey), and George Michael/Wham in turn.
My grandson absolutely loves Def Leopard!!
If your kids (or you!) haven’t seen it, the Beastie Boys Story live documentary special is quite good; it’s fun and silly but also heartfelt and introspective about how they wished they had behaved differently at times.
Oh, thank you! I’ll share it with them.
Well it appears that I need to give Steely Dan a lot more credit. I will spend a couple of hours listening to them to appreciate what others clearly do.
I like them - in small doses haha - but one of my friends feels exactly like you do. “What is the point of Steely Dan?”she will say 
I guess everyone has a band they feel like that about. Of the ones that have been mentioned above, that’s Def Leppard for me. I love hard rock/metal but I find them super arbitrary. I have other friends I can’t say that in front of lol
My younger s’s wife is a massive Beatles fan, to the point that their older s’s middle name is Jude.
Over the holidays my H was showing some of my family a radio unit he had bought that had an 8-track player in it. I was asking if it also had a cassette player (also sort of an ancient piece of tech). My college senior nephew who is pretty trendy said that he has a cassette player and uses it all the time to play music from a few decades ago.
Oh my gosh. Does he have any 8-track tapes?
I have a memory of being about 6 yo with just about the entire tape from an 8-track spooled out on the living room carpet. I had no idea - I just saw the bit of tape you could see and assumed it only went once around the inside of the cassette! I don’t recall now why I was taking it out but it just kept coming lol. My dad was not impressed.