i’m very into the steve lukather/toto of it all, tbh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
does 'yacht rock' alienate casual music listeners? the adult contemporary station in my city does a yacht rock specialty program every saturday night (w/ that specific branding) and given that it's not a very adventurous station otherwise i have to assume it's far from the only one
― dyl, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
Yacht rock is meant to alienate people that do not own a yacht.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
i didnt mean the broad genre as it exists out in the world -i meant the ryznar group & the podcast & the detailed criteria of why things are or are not yacht rock
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
ah yeah fair enough, i find all that pretty alienating myself
― dyl, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
as long as it alienates parrotheads, thats the most important thing
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Do I Do - Stevie WonderVirtual Insanity - JamiroquaiDon’t Stop Til You Get Enough - MJ
If even these are yacht rock, I've been yacht rocking since before yachts rocked.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
the problem with the expansive "Yacht rock" playlists and Sirius channels is that they want to include mostly big hits, and many of the most yachty songs were minor hits, non-hits, or deep cuts.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Hate to break it you veg but Seals and Crofts are on the boat
I mean I guess they technically made it onto the boat with a couple later songs, but "Summer Breeze" is decidedly marina rock, nyacht yacht!
I really dug the podcast eps where they would define other new genres, like divorcecore and what have you. Was kind of bummed when that concept eventually fell by the wayside.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah, The divorcecore one is especially great, I’ve revisited that one several times.
― calstars, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
the best yacht rock is basically just white dudes doing r&b y/n
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
already regret that post lolI just remember when allMusic had some “soft rock” feature and Andy kellman’s list was just cool smooth 70s soul records
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
xpost calstars thats a great onepvmic but my fave is the bald metal episode, i freakin love almost every song in that top 10
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6kVRZHsbV6LZEBiqzSzFvq?si=Y0GJdSBsRJW-uxRtzTtQCQ&dl_branch=1The only reason to pay for Spotify
― calstars, Monday, 6 September 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah the Random Genres I Made Up episodes were incredible podcasts and the most ILM-y podcast I've come across to date. Shame they had to stop under the circumstances they did. Apparently they have some new stuff paywalled but DJ sets isn't really what I want from them.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
Michael McDonald performing on 'Soul Train' in 1982 pic.twitter.com/tPm6qOvwIq— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) September 10, 2021
― calstars, Friday, 10 September 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
Where do you go to buy jackets like that in 1982?
― calstars, Friday, 10 September 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
literally everywhere iirc
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 September 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
^^Reagan's Finest Executive Order
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 September 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
i've read where ppl say eagles are not yacht. the long run singles sorta fell like yacht in that they all have that miserablist sense of what was lost being gone forever, so they're kinda kinfolk in spirit but lack the essential denialism of escape through hedonistic pursuits. yacht seems peppy and up and slick but what's the impetus? pushing away realty, what a fool believe. yacht is the mellow-presenting counterpart of disco, which goes hard and don't mince words: last dance, last chance, because the end of history. eagles are just full of gripes, and i can't tell you why.
anyway.
if my thesis is that soft rock is warm, open, even in its most melancholic aspects, yacht is closed off, escapist, avoiding the topic re: love and america and the future, and yada yada, hotel california and maybe rumours are critical to the genre because they function as the line of demarcation between soft and yacht in pop, even if they're not included in the yacht canon proper. they're the open declaration of bad vibes being the status quo that yacht is running away from. eagles say you can never leave, that's not yacht but yacht tries anyhoo. the chain is broken but we can still share the night together, for whatever that's worth.
nb i'm off a tangent that extends beyond the original parameters of the toto/ loggins/ cross/ michael mcd axis of what yacht is to include about all of late 70s early 80s soft rock that has that oh yeah, all rught self-serving tip that someone else posited that seems so sum up that whole ... thing (guffman reference).
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:22 (eight months ago) link
https://www.yachtornyacht.com/
A useful reference
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 23 September 2023 12:31 (eight months ago) link