Wife put on a yacht rock playlist last night,
[music.apple.com]

And I realized that
"What A Fool Believes" by Los Hermanos Marihuanos sounds sooo much like
"He's So Shy" by the Pointer Sisters!

My daughter asked "Dad, what IS yacht rock?"

I thought about it...
"It's what people in their 30s and 40s listened to in the mid to late 70s....It's basically Easy Listening music, the Boomer equivalent of Lawrence Welk and pre Rock-N-Roll Pop Music....Think adult bubblegum. Not Hard Rock, not R&B. Kinda whitebread, but good"

Anybody have a favorite or forgotten tune?

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"Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan comes up pretty frequently on the XM Yacht Rock channel. I made a lot of mix tapes with that song...if you know what I mean.

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Loving life in Lake Tahoe, CA

How about some easy listening death metal?

[youtu.be]

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In tha 360. MRF User Map

Hmmm... yacht rock? The ones that immediately came to mind were these:

[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]

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Freya says, 'Hello from NOLA, baby!' (Laissez bon temps rouler!)



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Didn’t even know there is such a thing.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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[en.wikipedia.org]

That's crazy... without even looking at the Wikipedia page, I'd nailed some of the songs.

I also just Googled and found this:

[www.metv.com]
[www.metv.com]

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Freya says, 'Hello from NOLA, baby!' (Laissez bon temps rouler!)

This is a pretty definitive list: [www.yachtornyacht.com]

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^ That is some serious over-analysis.

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“Live your life, love your life, don’t regret…live, learn and move forward positively.” – CR Johnson
Loving life in Lake Tahoe, CA

So, basically soft rock, or in radio terms, Adult Contemporary.

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Comprehensive history: [youtu.be]

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This is a pretty definitive list: [www.yachtornyacht.com]

Wow, that list is tightly anchored (sorry...) to 1980 or thereabouts. I'd love to see a bar graph, weighted by yachtiness per year just to see how strongly 1977-1983 dominates.

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Hmmm... yacht rock? The ones that immediately came to mind were these:

[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]

A few more:

[m.youtube.com]
[m.youtube.com]
[m.youtube.com]
[m.youtube.com]



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Out of category, but a favorite boat related song:

[m.youtube.com]

*NSFW Lyrics!!

Prestige Worldwide?

[www.youtube.com]

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Prestige Worldwide?

[www.youtube.com]

That was excellent.

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Prestige Worldwide?

[www.youtube.com]

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

I wasn't even aware of it until the band Yacht Rock Revue started getting a lot of buzz in Atlanta; that was a dozen or so years ago and it's practically a subculture here now. They sell out fair-sized venues (notably Chastain Park) at least a couple of times a year, own a bar and live venue of their own (Venkman's), tour nationally and have a bunch of offshoot bands.

The secret? They're really, really good. We caught Elton John's Vegas show about 3-4 years ago, then saw YRR a few weeks later.... and their version of "Tiny Dancer" crushed Elton's...

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The secret? They're really, really good.

Yep! I wasn't aware of the named genre, but I did get a kick out of wiki page description, "...common stylistic traits include high-quality production, clean vocals..." that's my personal understanding of just about all genre's production. If I want to dirty-up the vocal, that would come after I had cleanly captured it. For me, production values are a necessary, if not sufficient, ingredient of "really, really good."

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

I didn't click on all those YT links, so not sure if this was mentioned, but Questlove put out a comprehensive yacht rock/dentist pop playlist in tribute to his friend, Anthony Bourdain, after his death:

[open.spotify.com]

Here's someone's attempt to copy it over to Apple Music:

[music.apple.com]

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The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado

I hadn't heard of it until I "discovered" it (channel 310) during my 3 month trial of SiriusXM. That got me a little curious and then I found this on YouTube. [www.youtube.com]

The term "Yacht Rock" utterly sucks btw.

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I wasn't even aware of it until the band Yacht Rock Revue started getting a lot of buzz in Atlanta; that was a dozen or so years ago and it's practically a subculture here now. They sell out fair-sized venues (notably Chastain Park) at least a couple of times a year, own a bar and live venue of their own (Venkman's), tour nationally and have a bunch of offshoot bands.

The secret? They're really, really good. We caught Elton John's Vegas show about 3-4 years ago, then saw YRR a few weeks later.... and their version of "Tiny Dancer" crushed Elton's...

Their Beatles and Prince shows are the best.