Yacht Rock

[Rolando]

Wife put on a yacht rock playlist last night,
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/yach...505e5d32d9

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?

[Markintosh]

"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.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

How about some easy listening death metal?

https://youtu.be/LhMuQ8JBBXo

[PeterB]

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

[anonymouse1]

Didn’t even know there is such a thing.

[C(-)ris]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock

[PeterB]

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-yach...ou-sailing
https://www.metv.com/quiz/ahoy-match-the...-rock-hits

[Zoidberg]

This is a pretty definitive list: https://www.yachtornyacht.com

[Markintosh]

^ That is some serious over-analysis.

[Sam3]

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