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“Regulate”—Warren G & Nate Dogg

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Tension Between Yacht Rock and the Steely Dan Renaissance

There's a great new book by Alex Papademus and John Lemay about Steely Dan. Of course, I am not the sort of guy who is immune to the charms of say weezer covering Africa by Toto even if 2018 weezer covers the also 1982 hit song Africa. The music was retroactively and lovingly reclassified as a yacht rock via the yacht rock early web video series and via the perpetual Steely Dan Renaissance.

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