Yacht Rock

the best yacht rock is basically just white dudes doing r&b y/n

already regret that post lol

I just remember when allMusic had some “soft rock” feature and Andy kellman’s list was just cool smooth 70s soul records

xpost calstars thats a great one
pvmic but my fave is the bald metal episode, i freakin love almost every song in that top 10

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6kVRZHsbV6LZEBiqzSzFvq?si=Y0GJdSBsRJW-uxRtzTtQCQ&dl_branch=1

The only reason to pay for Spotify

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.

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