What’s your strategy for getting someone with otherwise hip tastes into the Dan?

So, my buddy is only a mild Dan fan, and writes off their late 70’s period in general as he doesn’t like the ‘over-produced’ sound of Aja, among other things (yeah, I know…)

I was once similar, actually - only listening to Can’t Buy a Thrill - but what made things click for me was actually Gaucho. In exposing him to that album and trying to get him to change his opinion, my argument was that the insane amount of sonic control present in that album makes it skip past ‘yacht-rock’ and into almost like experimental funk/electronic territory. Those grooves and sounds are like a brilliant lab experiment. I’ve heard other albums that at least try to sound like Aja. I’ve never heard any that approximate Gaucho...

We did this for a podcast, if anyone’s curious: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/losing-my-opinion/id1624290518