Yacht Rock a Dockumentary

sfidc3 said

With all friendly respect, you don't know many musicians do you?

It's easy and lazy to just call everything rock......just like the Rock and Roll HOF (it's not a rock and roll HOF, it's a Music HOF, and that's just fine)....

In the end, it's just a label, you can call it whatever you want, and labels are very much subjective....

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I can ask the few that I do know - though I'm quite sure of the answer.

And I'm not simply calling everything rock. While I agree that what is and isn't rock can be heavily subjective, I think there are basic keystones of rock - including the strength of the rhythm section, the tempo and time, and the instrumentation and subject matter . . . and certainly much of Steely Dan fits those criteria. If you can listen to those songs I posted, including Reelin' in the Years, Black Friday, etc. (and there are others) and provide a defense of the notion that it's not rock, then cheers mate - but you can't.

So notwithstanding this supposed but unidentified universe of musicians a majority of which allegedly don't consider Steely Dan rock, is there any other basis for saying these songs in particular aren't rock?