Yacht Rock

[Mike Sellers]

Comprehensive history: https://youtu.be/jMTI8vg7A5U

[Lew Zealand]

Zoidberg wrote:
This is a pretty definitive list: https://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.

[btfc]

PeterB wrote:
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

A few more:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSfONJYIyGM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlU4IxiuHY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HEL_qqXGjHU

[btfc]

Out of category, but a favorite boat related song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jheEi_R0kV0

*NSFW Lyrics!!

[decay]

Prestige Worldwide?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsOJrw5PJE

[vision63]

decay wrote:
Prestige Worldwide?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsOJrw5PJE

That was excellent.

[August West]

decay wrote:
Prestige Worldwide?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsOJrw5PJE

miley-laughing001:

[Will Collier]

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...

[August West]

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."

[pinkoos]

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:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7okD9d...8fd17d495c

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

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/dear...lWruxxzMPz