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Yacht Rock - Rolando - 02-21-2022
Wife put on a yacht rock playlist last night,
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/yacht-rock-essentials/pl.1870421bdeb74580831f17505e5d32d9
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?
Re: Yacht Rock - Markintosh - 02-21-2022
"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.
Re: Yacht Rock - Filliam H. Muffman - 02-21-2022
How about some easy listening death metal?
https://youtu.be/LhMuQ8JBBXo
Re: Yacht Rock - PeterB - 02-21-2022
Hmmm... yacht rock? The ones that immediately came to mind were these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzgQoGvSKA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0UXsl_5fdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MAg_yWsq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USUP-4sadg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EErSKhC0CZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTQAaJWW54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
Re: Yacht Rock - anonymouse1 - 02-21-2022
Didn’t even know there is such a thing.
Re: Yacht Rock - C(-)ris - 02-21-2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock
Re: Yacht Rock - PeterB - 02-21-2022
C(-)ris wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock
That's crazy... without even looking at the Wikipedia page, I'd nailed some of the songs.
I also just Googled and found this:
https://www.metv.com/lists/these-20-yacht-rock-jams-will-send-you-sailing
https://www.metv.com/quiz/ahoy-match-these-yacht-rock-bands-to-their-smooth-soft-rock-hits
Re: Yacht Rock - Zoidberg - 02-21-2022
This is a pretty definitive list: https://www.yachtornyacht.com
Re: Yacht Rock - Markintosh - 02-21-2022
^ That is some serious over-analysis.
Re: Yacht Rock - Sam3 - 02-21-2022
So, basically soft rock, or in radio terms, Adult Contemporary.