Yacht Rock

Once you actually read the lyrics to What a Fool Believes, you can understand its shittiness in totally new ways.

at the Southside Lounge

41 Broadway (Wythe & Kent Sts.)

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

An Evening of Yacht Rock

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

with Tedward

Starts at 10PM

Episode 1
Michael McDonald-Sweet Freedom
George Benson-Breezin'
Loggins & Messina-Sailin the wind
Kenny Loggins-Whenever I call You Friend
Doobie Brothers-What a Fool Believes
Doobie Brothers-Sweet Feelin'
Doobie Brothers-You Never Change
Hall and Oates-Alley Katz
Kenny Loggins - What a fool Believes

Episode 2
Michael McDonald-Sweet Freedom
Steely Dan: Peg
Doobie Brothers - What a fool believes
Hall and Oates-Sara Smile
Hall and Oates-Portable Radio
Kenny Loggins-This is It
Kenny Loggins-Love has come of age
Christopher Cross-Sailing

Episode 3
Michael McDonald-Sweet Freedom
Bad Caddyshack Theme - Rick Johnson
Steely Dan-King of the World
Kenny Loggins- This is it (Live)
Steely Dan-Time Out of Mind
Kenny Loggins - Keep the Fire
Doobie Brothers-How do the Fools Survive
Journey - Lights
Journey - Anyway you want it
Steely Dan - Kid Charlamagne
Kenny Loggins-I'm Alright

Episode 4
Something by Benetictine Monks
Michael McDonald-Sweet Freedom
Toto-Hold the Line
Toto-I Won't Hold You Back
Toto-Make Believe
Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
Doobie Brothers - You Never Change
Christopher Cross-Ride the Wind
Loggins & Messina - Sailing the wind
Kenny Loggins/Steve Perry-Don't Fight it
Michael McDonald-Love Lies
Toto-I'll supply the Love
Toto-Rosanna

Episode 5
Samuel Barber- Adagio for Strings
Michael McDonald-Sweet Freedom
Michael McDonald - Believe in It
Michael Jackson - Beat it
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Kenny Loggins - I Gotta Try
Michael McDonald - I Gotta Try
Christopher Cross - Sailing
Kenny Loggins - This is it
Van Halen - Eruption
Michael Jackson - Human Nature

The acting is horrible, though. I know it's "supposed to be," but to me it's just sort of embarrassing. Keep trying, I guess, or get people who can act, seriously!

me = worst friend ever.
yacht rock = proof that the world is way too small.

i am thinking of doing an official screening out here.

He also wants me to suggest, in case Hollywood Steve and company are still in our harbor, that an episode attempt to explain the Doobies' "Real Love," released concurrently with McDonald's solo album and yet featuring essentially no Doobie contribution. My brother avers that it's the smoothest thing McDonald has in fact ever recorded. Was it his payoff to the Doobs to let him leave the band? Or did being with the band provide some sort of restraining focus that enabled McDonald to achieve his greatest heights?

Lest we forget

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

Michael McDonald performing on 'Soul Train' in 1982 pic.twitter.com/tPm6qOvwIq

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) September 10, 2021

Where do you go to buy jackets like that in 1982?

literally everywhere iirc

^^Reagan's Finest Executive Order

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).

https://www.yachtornyacht.com/

A useful reference