I don't find their actual music "bleh" at all.

But it's possible I'm a wee white pussy.

I utterly loathe Steely Dan. I just file them in the "not going to 'get it'" category. I know tons of people with great taste in music, even very similar tastes to mine, who love them, but I just can't find whatever it is you all find so endearing in them. They just grate on my nerves. Every negative that article mentions is exactly how I feel about them. That they're subversive is cool - I get that part - but the music is just so . . . bleh that I can't even imagine a scenario in which I would want to listen to it. It isn't some elitist thing - I simply do not like them, and have a reaction similar to what someone mentioned in that article has: "They gross me out." Plain and simple, and I don't even claim to fully understand it - but it is exactly how I feel about it.

What damns Steely Dan most in the end, I think, is success itself. When I first loved them in the mid-70s, nothing could have been less cool than the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys were seen as the ultimate white-bread band, a group of overfed and over-the-hill surfers who were still singing about Daddy's T-Bird. Steely Dan, in contrast, were wiseasses with hip chords and burning guitar solos. But in 2006, the rocknescenti see Pet Sounds as the hippest thing going — essential groundwork to today's indie-pop scene. What does Brian Wilson — also laden with fancy chords and lush instrumentation — have that Becker and Fagen don't? Trouble, mainly.

This is so not worth the argument.

Just fuck'em is all.