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I came to this thread to make a variant of the "yachting type" joke that xhuxk made last summer.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Arriving like that. Better get a drink. Maybe a'lude with that. Are you from the future?

― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Ship ahoy! Just noticed that Yacht Rock 6 is now available for download.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

And it's a wretchedly unfunny detour. What the hell happened?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Ouch. They had a good thing going, I hope that didn't kill it.

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

This feels like a departure episode for them -- in the same way that South Park did "Not Without My Anus", the all Terence and Philip episode... except not as immediately funny. It lacks the punches to the gut that the others do, but I think might be appreciated more in time. I do hope #7 gets things rolling again.

― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I did LOL during the Hollywood Steve parts at the beginning and end though.

― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll grant that Hollywood Steve's "So can I go back to LA, and continue covering Yacht Rock?" bit gave me a smile. It does look like they intend to return to normal next episode - I'm going to speculate that "in time" this one will come to seem sort of like the Puppet Stuff diversions at Homestarrunner, or maybe Monster, a weird excursion in which the truly devoted can discover gems, but which you'd never recommend to someone who'd never seen the show before.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

The rock parodies on SCTV are amazing

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I actually enjoyed this diversion. It's like the Monkees' "Fairy Tale" episode.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it was hilarious, how the fuck else were they going to do the Jethro Tull episode?

Lest we forget

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/jethrotull2.jpg

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

My co-blogger Dexterity just did a really good post on "The Yacht". Handled with rescpect and disipline. More of the same please. And, needless to say, I don't wanna hear any of you indies complain.

― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Monday, 6 February 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, aythtok.blogspot.com

― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Monday, 6 February 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

That just gave me an idea -- preserve Wmsburg Brooklyn as a working "hipster colony," and make it into a tourist attraction for future generations.

Thanks a fucking lot -- Mayor Bloomberg just approved the rezoning for this. Your so-called hipsters are about to become as scarce as Indians at Jamestown settlement. Then you're fucked, because we invented everything, including drinking.

Hmm, ironic casino...note to self, call gaming commission.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i was gonna say the colonial aspect of YR6 seemed to echo the earlier statement about a "williamsburg hipster colony", as well as getting all meta on itself. for that, its funny.

BTW, since it was expressed in a different thread: HOLLYWOOD STEVE FOR EMP KEYNOTE!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

There's a new episode, but I can't get it to play :(

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

it's kind of weak. a holdover until ep. 7 in my humble o.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

no - ep 7 is up, i think

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, EP 7. it's the first done as a Quicktime instead of MP4. i think that's my problem.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hi, I'm Hollywood Steve, and you've caught me making love"

A task for y'all in cyberspace: my brother, an original-wave Yacht Rock devotee, wants me to see if I can track down the SCTV sketch referred to in Yacht Rock 4. Does anyone happen to have this lying around or something?

Episode 84, Volume One Disc Three of the DVDs, same episode as the Poocharé All Meat Dog Food commercial and the first Mrs Falbo's Tiny Town.

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

This is easily one of their best ones.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Completely agreed.

― Da Na Not! (donut), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

― Da Na Not! (donut), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh wow, fuck me, this one is great!

"See, I hit him on accident, but then I kidnapped him ON PURPOSE."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link

This made my night.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"You know what FUCK this stop sign."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link

SO 2004

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link

But is long haired AMG reviewer in Episode 1 Mr N** R******?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Def. not.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"supposed to be"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

ah. well, aside from being called "hollywood steve huey," which would make me still guess not, i have no clue.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Huey != me, but I admit when I first saw him I thought, "Oh Christ, we've created a stereotype!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, is there an actual Steve Huey who reviews for AMG? And does he review mostly yacht stuff?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 11 March 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

There is an actual Steve Huey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Searching P2P for "Yacht Rock" yields no music, but a cornucopia of porn.

― Justin, Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The new episode rules! "Fame, Fortune and Fagina..."

Any chance of a tracklisting for episodes 6, 7, 8?

― Ewan, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't know but Ronan, Golf Raver and Man of Oats, and I were singin along to "Against All Odds" the other night, utterly unironically i might add

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

NOT YACHT ROCK TRACER

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

that song is pretty awesome though, god if only bonnie tyler had recorded. if only!

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

There needs to be Hollywood Steve calendars for 2007.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link

January: OH HI! This is Hollywood Steve! You've caught me in my lab force-feeding eye shadow to puppies and kittens!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Episode 8 seemed kinda dashed off to me, a letdown after the well-scripted Episode 7.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

fame, fortune, and fah-gina

― m.c. (clikatowi), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

"I'm dismayed that the names "Captain" (!) and "Tennille" have gone unmentioned so far."

Not anymore.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Knowing that JD Ryznar (or an incredible simulacrum) has posted here I feel compelled to point out what a handsome young man he is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Holy crap, is that Hollywood Steve in a AM/PM commercial talking about lunner/linner? (lunch/dinner)?????

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

it probably is.

― m.c. (clikatowi), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Yacht Rock #9 is up as of the other day, FYI.

It ain't bad, but with the last few installments, Yacht Rock seems to be in a pattern of alternating between episodes in its "classic" format (lots of different bands, crammed full of small jokes) and curious side tangents (the Jethro Tull thing, Dr. Dre). I definitely enjoy the classic ones (1-5, 8) the best, but I kind of like that they do keep indulging in these footnote-like episodes whose sole purpose is to illuminate deliciously minor pieces of Yacht trivia. That's an ILMy spirit that I can't hate even if it makes me fear for the show's ratings survival.

I still REALLY REALLY want to see a story where Rosanna Arquette runs off with Peter Gabriel, finding his freakish antics and experimental music a refreshing change after all the smooth. Unfortunately, his search for jagged new world music sounds leads them on a trip to Africa, where he's so moved that he composes the brilliantly yacht-y "In Your Eyes." Just as Rosanna is moved to doubt that Peter is the man she thought he was, Toto (who have been following sneakily the whole time) unleash "Africa," and Rosanna realizes where she really belongs.

JD Ryznar, if you're reading this, please steal my idea. And also know that thanks to Yacht Rock, I now own and love Toto I and IV, as well as X-Static by Hall & Oates. Y'all rock.

Discussion topic for the rest of us: favorite moment/character in Yacht Rock? I think Loggins steals every scene he's in, with his smugly satisfied "I'm Alright" and his unbelievably nuanced lip-synch for "Don't Fight It" taking the cake.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"That's What A Fool Believes!"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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