My recent music listening has become all '70's, all the time.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I'm able to bring CDs and listen to music at work. Recently I was listening to Steely Dan's Aja just about every day (I was SPELLBOUND as a kid when my sister brought the vinyl of this home). I made a compilation disc of Elton John I've been listening to. Everything from "Bennie and the Jets" to "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", "Philadelphia Freedom" and "Levon". Among other old music I've been listening to.

Remembering the way Elton John TOWERED over the world of popular music. And deservedly so.

I really feel that popular music was vastly inferior in the 90's. There is no towering figure like Elton John. There is no Steely Dan.

I don't think there are any less talented people in any era. Perhaps the increasing corporatization of the music biz has led to more cranked out "hip" angry youth products like Limp Bizkit (their musical legacy will not endure). I'm under no illusions. I know there was payola and graft in pop radio starting from the beginnings in the 50's.

[tigereye]

1. Steely Dan still sounds great

and I used to love Elton JOhn... we used to play Goodbye Yellow Brick Road over and over and over. Some stuff from that period has held up well, but a lot of it caused me to rejoice when the punk era came.

[Bluebear]

2. Video killed the radio star.

Fact.