Absolutely!

Tell me about some of your fave ‘Yacht Rock’ songs or bands
 

I can’t be the only Carmen fan right?

https://youtu.be/KvkfMRAi2ns

https://youtu.be/jfgnc6Ey0q0

https://youtu.be/bVljR4ugLNM

https://youtu.be/5mFUYm5QFUE

https://youtu.be/EzoazPPC7b8

https://youtu.be/POkE9eI23cU

https://youtu.be/jewWk8k4V5k

https://youtu.be/fQlKa1IeZF8

https://youtu.be/2ssCL292DQA

https://youtu.be/iN9CjAfo5n0

Tell me about some of your fave ‘Yacht Rock’ songs or bands
 

Just went through this thread & no one mentioned....PLAYER?!?!?!?!?

https://youtu.be/Hn-enjcgV1o

https://youtu.be/fh7T1wpUjRg

https://youtu.be/JODUBp66w-E

Send Deberg's thread privelages on a yacht to the middle of the ocean and sink it

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"Shake your booties down at the dock"

:D

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As I said earlier that album IMO was good start to finish,here's one from it that's perfect for the water too.

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This guy...

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Then this guy...

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Don't know I'd classify it yacht rock but IMO great song when at the lake and kicked back.

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It's now 311, which I thought was online only, but I tried it in my car last night and it was there, too. I hadn't realized my car radio went that high.

Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" was one of the very first albums I bought myself when I was a kid. I still really like that album along with "Time Passages", though I don't care for his other music all that much.

Still love this song:

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I just checked my home radio and 311 was unavailable on it. The home radio has an XM Select subscription, while my car has SiriusXM All Access, so I guess that's the difference.

I have a smart TV and a killer 5.1 surround sound, so with Youtube I have about 9,000 videos saved into about 40 different folders. I had bought about 300 concert DVD's until 2011 when I discovered this free library of music. One of my favorite chapters is "Now & Then" when I put an old video of a band and a current video back-to-back. Here are some current videos. There are hundreds of current videos of artist, just do a search because for many this is their main source of income is to get out and tour.

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Great call I'm also a big fan of Song On The Radio.

I would listen to mott the hoople on a boat anyday.

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If I had a big old old honkin yacht id blast Frankenstein to let everyone know get the **** outta my way while pushin wakes.

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If im on a yacht I gonna listen to some Ramones yacht music or not
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Most of the stuff posted sounds like American Top 40 by Casey Kasem every Sunday.

Year of the Cat is one of my favorite songs from the 70s. Amazing in every way.

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He was even better when we was in The Raspberries.

My fave YachtRock jams :

Late 60s/Early 70s Beach Boys ("Never Learn Not to Love", "Sail On, Sailor", duh)

Early/Mid 70s Fleetwood Mac with Bob Welch ("Future Games", "Sentimental Lady", "Emerald Eyes", "Why?", "Hypnotized", "Spare Me A Little of Your Love")

Are The Babys yacht rock? That was a band I liked back in jr high school and still have a couple of their albums in my music collection.

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I remember when it was hip to be square

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Al Stewart is excellent, the historical research he does on many of his songs is impressive.

See the guy in the top left of your video cover, that's keyboardist Jonathan Cain. I saw the Babys open for Journey in 1980 and they were fantastic, always liked John Waite's vocals, he had a solo hit in '84 Missing You. Journey had Gregg Rolie on keyboards and he along with guitarist Neil Schon founded Journey when they both split from Santana. All the early Santana hits were sung by Gregg Rolie, "Black Magic Woman" to name one. In '81 Gregg quit Jorney because he thought they were becoming too pop, so guess who Journey asked to join them, Jonathan Cain who had just toured with them in the Babys the year before.

Gregg Rolie with Journey

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Jonathan Cain from the Babys to Journey

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Here's a good Babys yacht rock song, "Everytime I think of You"

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Here's John Waite doing Missing You live this year in St. Louis

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They are great but definitely not part of Yacht Rock.

This is a winner for sure! :thumb:

I like the first half of this song but it ends up getting ruined by the backup singers' histrionics. I hate, hate, hate that style of "singing".

I do like to sing along with it and replace the title lyric with "Every time I sniff some glue", though. :)

Made up sub-genres are so confusing.

Fun fact: Jonathan Cain is married to President Trump's "spiritual adviser."

A little Chuck M.

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cool change - little river band

So let me get this straight. Yacht Rock is for people to listen to whilst on their OWN yachts? Or is it music produced by musicians WITH yachts?

Always thought this stuff was just soft rock. (except for the real rock stuff on here like Edgar Winter)...

...and Neil Schon married the woman who with her husband crashed an Obama White House party in 2005 without an invite and got 15 minutes of fame. She then went onto one of those Housewives shows. She had dated Neil Schon 20 years earlier but dropped him and married this guy. She then decided years later to leave her husband and showed up on a Journey tour bus and her and Neil have been together ever since.

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Tony Orlando and Dawn?

Did someone say Firefall?

This thread reminds me of:

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I will say I've never in my life heard the term "yacht rock" before.

I would just call these songs 70s soft rock.

This.

And that being said, no 70's soft rock thread is complete without a little Bo Donaldson.

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Is your dad my mom?

I think this one qualifies.

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Did you know Jay Ferguson was the lead singer for the band Spirit, the band Led Zeppelin stole the guitar part for "Stairway to Heaven" from?

Edit: He was "one" of the lead singers for Spirit. The other was Randy California.

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They had their own yacht rock song, too.

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did you know that Randy California apprenticed with Jimi Hendrix? I saw Spirit in concert in San Antonio in 1980 or 81. Put on a really good show.

I predict this song shows up in Guardians of the Galaxy III

Soft Rock and Yacht Rock are the same thing. One just sounds less boring.

Would you rather be on a yacht or in an elevator?

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Btw Commodores is technically R&B (because they're black) but belong with yacht rock imo.

Yacht?
Jimmy Buffett, but I’m kinda redneck.
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Yacht Rock definition from Wiki


Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast Sound[3][4] or adult-oriented rock[5]) is a broad music style and aesthetic[6] identified with soft rock.[7] It was one of the commercially successful genres of its era, existing between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.[8] Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, R&B, funk, and disco,[6] common stylistic traits include high-quality production, clean vocals, and a focus on light, catchy melodies.[5] Its name, coined in 2005 by the makers of the online video series Yacht Rock, was derived from its association with the popular Southern Californian leisure activity of sailing.

Seems like their marketing ploy sort of failed, based on how many people in this thread had never heard of the term. This shit is right in my wheelhouse.

I don't associate yachts with music. I associate them with rich people and the sea.

No one? At all??

I'm a huge fan of the Yacht Rock station on Sirius XM. Many of the songs listed here are not played on that station. Two of my favorite that are not listed here are:

Robert Palmer's "Every Kinda People", and
Dan Fogelberg's "Heart Hotels"


Question for Sirius XM'ers. Why can you get stations like Yacht Rock all year long on a computer, but only from Memorial Day to Labor Day on the vehicle version of Sirius? Seems like it should be easy to have the same set up on both cars/trucks as on a computer?

Two thumbs up on both!

It was 1982 and the Doobie Brothers were on one of their many "farewell tours". They were going to play Starlight, so 2 of my buddies and I bought tickets for ourselves and our wives. It's a long story how, but we wound up with seats 6 rows back, stage right. It was a beautiful summer night and our ladies were thrilled as they all had massive crushes on Michael McDondald. The air was thick with uuhhh---, you all know what it was thick with. The only thing that marred the evening was that my wife and my best friend's wife were extremely pregnant, 8 months and couldn't dance well. But that didn't stop their hormones raging and at least I was the very lucky beneficiary of that later that night. :D

Jimi Hendrix gave Randy his new last name because he played alongside two Randys. So he called one Randy Texas and the other Randy California, his real name is Randy Wolfe. Randy's heirs are the ones that were suing Led Zeppelin for the plagiarism. Randy drown in the ocean in Hawaii about 20 years ago trying to save his son, his son lived but Randy didn't. Spirit was one of my favorites when their first album came out, listen to the song Mechanical World, it's a trip. BTW, Jay Ferguson dropped out of performing in the early 80's and started writing TV themes, his most famous is the theme to The Office.

Thanks for the additional background. I didn’t know about the Randy Texas. Pretty funny. I knew about the lawsuit. Led zep ripped off a lot of songs in their day. I’ll definitely go back and listen to Mechanical world


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In my day we called that bubblegum rock :D

That's what I call what they call "country music" these days :)

FYP ;)

They were the shit when I was 9. Unfortunately they were gone by the time I was 10. LMAO

LMAO

Reminds me of this one,I called the radio station and asked them to play the OOGASHAKA song :D

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Stones first album was all blues covers.

Besides, that opening is similar, but not the same.

BTW, I am glad Deberg posted this here. Had it been in the Media thread, I would have missed it. This is a nice drive down memory lane.


No one has mentioned the Moody Blues. One of my favorites.


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Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 in Swindon, and titled the song after a girlfriend gave him a gift of satin bedsheets. The song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward.


An aside: In theory, 10cc got its' name by the amount of fluid in an ejaculate.

I was actually thinking about because my iPod just played "Blue World", which I think qualifies.

I think their 60s and 70s stuff (except the first album) is more Prog Rock. But their 80s stuff, which is pretty hit or miss, has some yacht rock gems.

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That's racist.

I listened to a bit of Jim Croce this morning, don't care what genre that is; it's good shit.

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JuNked nice call

KCunited

Benny Mardones Live 1980

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Benny Mardones Live 2017, he's had Parkinson since 2000


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I saw him in concert at Syracuse about 20 years ago. He put on a pretty good show as I recall.

We used to get high and listen to Bread and Gordon Lightfoot vinyls at my buddys house in high school.

Love me some yacht rock.

Wtf is Yacht Rock

Soul Train for people that can't dance.

Joe Jackson. Biggest hit was "Stepping out"
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Never was a big fan until I heard his double live album 80/86,wow was I surprised and hooked at the same time.

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I saw him in concert, probably 1985-ish time frame. Put on a really good show. I had forgotten all about the dude until I saw this threaad

One of my all-time favorite songs. You should’ve posted the original video, though. Creepy AF.

Yup. I'm 36 and was raised on this stuff. All I really listen to these days is, apparently, yacht rock and other very mellow music. Occasionally I'll jam out to some hardcore, but I much prefer the calm. I'd never heard of the term yacht rock, though :shrug: