Yacht Rock

Just found the 2 part episode from the show Documentary Now! called "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" and loved it.

Could not find any place to discus this show/episode and really kinda think it is a sequel/tip of the hat to Yacht Rock and things like the Eagles documentary.

I thought it was really good. It all looked great and the Blue Jean Committee music is quite well done.

soft is not smooth, and the blue jean committee is more like bread or seals and crofts than Toto or Loggins

You have Loggins, Hall and McDonald with parts in the BJC, which I thought was a fun coincidence. Daryl Hall gets one of the best lines in the movie.

I've seen a listing for a cover band locally that does yacht rock called Yachtly Crew.

little feat is yacht rock i am not accepting questions at this time

yachts (on the bayou) rock

I wonder which song in particular Mark is thinking of

little feet is not yacht rock get a grip

"dixie chicken" could segue nicely into "the pina colada song"

pina colada song is not yacht rock

The NY-based yacht rock band A.M. Gold just played my little Jersey town square last night.

The rather front-loaded set list:

Takin' It to the Streets
Ride Like the Wind
Reelin' in the Years
Brandy
Baby Come Back
What a Fool Believes
Steal Away
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Peg
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Baker Street
Maneater
Who Can It Be Now
Rosanna
Careless Whisper
Footloose
Little Red Corvette
Private Eyes
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
All Night Long
The Power of Love
You Make My Dreams

OK, which song was more out of place, "Little Red Corvette" or "Wake Me Up"?

"What a Fool Believes" into "Steal Away" make it obvious just how much "Steal" is a pale rewrite of "Fool."

Local amateur musicians playing live through shitty PA systems aping professional musicians in million dollar studios is one of the hardest things for me to listen to. Ymmv

captain beefheart: yacht rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfX5Ymxf4Rg

I rewatched all of Yacht Rock a couple months back. Justin Roiland's voice really jumps out now, after Rick and Morty. This is one of my favorite bits I completely forgot about: https://youtu.be/jGwJPqgA3N4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p079rws8?fbclid=IwAR0yN5ALfYSp0hLnSKQeZHQInSwvfMLbEQGWjiun-RnD8mdMK4hYXMZHLr4

No info on when it's gonna air tho

That looks sexy

Starts this Friday on BBC4

once you get that taste...it's like you're a pilot...you're in trouble...you gotta fly..you gotta keep flying...

There are plenty of gigantic Yacht Rock playlists out there, but mine is - I believe - the first one curated to present a (roughly) chronological history of the genre. Please enjoy YACHT ROCK: A PURIST'S HISTORY and let it soothe your troubled soulhttps://t.co/tZOWyTamHB

— Hollywood Steve (@hollywoodsteveh) April 3, 2020

these guys have a discord now and JD will be spinning an hour of yacht at 10 PM EST

pablo cruise hits mini poll: "love will find a way," "whatcha gonna do" or "find your place in the sun." I'm going with whatcha gonna do.

that Hollywood Steve playlist is great, I listen to it a lot

Many things, Richard. 1) I coined the term yacht rock. https://t.co/lDhhay3TQ8

— JD Ryznar (@JDRyznar) August 3, 2020

These guys have been touring the country (but mainly gigged heavily in Atlanta) since 2006.

https://www.yachtrockrevue.com

That JD Ryzar thread just posted specifically calls Yacht Rock Revue out as a "shitty cover band" that "dragged the term through the mud".

lol JD seems angry because...people aren't defining Yacht Rock the way he imagined. Yacht Rock Revue has been incredibly successful, which is probably another reason JD is mad. So really, he's mad that most people don't agree with him.

i'm wondering if the guy who coined the term "zolo" gets this mad about people he doesn't like being characterized as "zolo"

i can totally see it, some impassioned rant about how for god's sake "dog police" are not zolo and it is a total perversion of what the true spirit of zolo is supposed to stand for

or maybe he's just down for whatever, who knows

lol JD seems angry because...people aren't defining Yacht Rock the way he imagined. Yacht Rock Revue has been incredibly successful, which is probably another reason JD is mad. So really, he's mad that most people don't agree with him.

― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:56 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he created the term! then people took the term and expanded it to be meaningless (what yacht rock revue or the Sirius station term yacht rock is just any 70s or early 80s soft rock of any and all varieties, which is meaningless).

he also has had personal tragedy in his life (his wife died of cancer) and probably spends more time being defensive on twitter about a term he created than he might if things were going better for him in his life

On a happier note, Chris Molanphy's latest episode of Hit Parade is about yacht rock (and very much comes down on JD's side) -- subscription only but it's worth it, 35 bucks for the entire year of Slate's general collection of things.

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2020/07/yacht-rock-was-smooth-music-played-by-70s-80s-studio-pros

And inspired by that, I wrote this:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-coping-40130176

He has also a subtle sense of humor about it which can be missed at first glance if you’re not really tuned into his groove

he also has had personal tragedy in his life (his wife died of cancer)

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver)

has he adopted a meat-only diet

I didn't see that JD thread as angry - he was just correcting Richard Marx on his assumption that it was a derogatory term and also pointing out that it's not just a catch all for soft rock in general

i can totally see it, some impassioned rant about how for god's sake "dog police" are not zolo and it is a total perversion of what the true spirit of zolo is supposed to stand for

I didn't know I wanted this to happen.

he also has had personal tragedy in his life (his wife died of cancer) and probably spends more time being defensive on twitter about a term he created than he might if things were going better for him in his life

He created the term, I get it. Calling some band he's probably never listed to "a shitty cover band" because they don't play his ordained playlist is just petty.

I don't think Twitter or the Internet in general is very forgiving for being a dick based on personal tragedies.

he's not really the one being a dick

They’re not respectful of the music. They were fans of the webshow and trademarked the term out from under us. Nick, the leader, said in an interview that he doesn’t even like yacht rock. Half of their set isn’t even yacht rock music.

— JD Ryznar (@JDRyznar) August 3, 2020

He has listened to them and even had them on the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast. I think he even went to one of their concerts at one point.

Come hang out on the discord

https://discord.gg/sZXXWR

JD enjoys being the Supreme Leader of What Yacht Rock Music Really Is and he will not have anyone telling him what it is.

"trademarked the term out from under us" is an absolute classic. Dude needs a better lawyer.

I didn't see that JD thread as angry - he was just correcting Richard Marx on his assumption that it was a derogatory term and also pointing out that it's not just a catch all for soft rock in general

― chonky floof (groovypanda), Thursday, August 6, 2020 2:53 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this, and also calstars otm

seeing this as some form of gatekeeping is just really missing the point

I’m totally in favors of being a serious nerd about this, its hella lame when ppl are all “billy joel! billy ocean! I love Yacht rock! Lolololol”

Yes

I suppose you could theoretically say there's a kind of conflation happening there that's equivalent to pretty much tagging everyone over a certain age as boomers.

had no idea Yacht Rock lifers would have such a Manowar-ish attitude towards the posers in their scene

"do u even know Michael McDonald's eldest's child's name is??? do u?"

I’m totally in favors of being a serious nerd about this, its hella lame when ppl are all “billy joel! billy ocean! I love Yacht rock! Lolololol”

― brimstead, Thursday, August 6, 2020 11:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

I had a friend bragging that she finally liked hair metal and then announced the band she liked was REO Speedwagon

o_o

She couldn't fight that feeling any more!

idk man, definitions / conceptions of musical genres can (and should) change over time, you just gotta accept it

just gotta roll with the changes

nicely done

kev’s mullet is the bridge between speedwagon & metal