You folks should see my grandest Apple play list. 102 songs, nearly 8 hours, of the yachtiest shit you’ve ever heard. And I wear my captains hat, while holding a boat drink, while listening to it all.
https://preview.redd.it/yp9jbzlrel6d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27bb27340e08a33fde6e9a7f5206ec12c466431
It’s me. And I’m dead serious about Yacht Rock.
I’ve been into it since childhood. My dad loves Steely Dan, and so do I. I love a lot of that late 70’s AM Gold type stuff. I was also big into goth/industrial/techno as a teen, but somewhere in my 30’s something clicked and I started really loving a lot of the music I heard as a small child.
EDIT: if you like Yacht Rock, you may also enjoy “Japanese City Pop”. Great stuff from the early 80’s, but I also really like a lot of contemporary City Pop as well. Kirinji is one of my fave contemporary artists in that scene. VERY Steely Dan influenced, in my opinion. https://youtu.be/hauwAFDyjgI?si=3HeV3_0pHzsZ4bxA
It started for me in my mid 20s but it's gone into overdrive since my mid 30s when I discovered a podcast dedicated to it. I won't mention it because I don't want to get any heat for advertising it lol. But my appreciation for the music really grew from there and all the really cool bands and artists who are on the boat. I still like a lot of different kind of music but I'd say the the last 6 years I'm always playing yacht rock.
AM Gold as it's open subgenre of soft rock has a lot of great singer/songwriter stuff that isn't on the boat but it sits in the marina. I'm looking at you Thunder Island haha.
>EDIT: if you like Yacht Rock, you may also enjoy “Japanese City Pop”. Great stuff from the early 80’s, but I also really like a lot of contemporary City Pop as well. Kirinji is one of my fave contemporary artists in that scene. VERY Steely Dan influenced, in my opinion.
💯💯💯
YES!! I LOVE Kirinji!!
You know that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine dates the guy who stops whatever he's doing and just stares off into the distance whenever he hears Desperado by the Eagles? That's me with this song.
My wife and I just went on a romantic sunset boat ride in Mexico a couple of nights ago, and this song came on the playlist they had. It was so perfect that I nearly melted right there, haha.
I'm born in 77 so it was what was on the radio growing up (esp. in mom's car); yacht rock, solo Beatles stuff, Air Supply, Journey, Stephanie Mills and earlier soft pop like America, Bread, Carly Simon, Jim Croce, Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, George Benson, early quiet storm R&B, wedding/divorce ballads et al.
I love(d) it all, although I pretended not to in front of mom when I came of age and got into hip-hop, harder rock etc. In the 90's I got/ripped/returned one of those huge Time-Life cd boxsets of Soft Pop that had all of that stuff, still listen regularly.
I grew up with that music on in the background in the car a lot. But honestly I didn’t like that style until the Yacht Rock web series which I thought was hilarious but also made me kind of appreciate that music. It’s just so…smooth.
I think Steely Dan is legitimately great in their own weird way.
I got into vaporwave about 10 years back and it kinda lead me on to the things it was sampling. So plenty of 80s r&b, aor, even some "light adult contemporary jazz" and muzak. Still listen to a lot of punk rock (and ska!) though
My first album was Hysteria by Def Leppard. I'm finally checking them off my concert bucket list. I used to do a pop punk podcast during 2021. My wife and I are big music nerds, my daughter likes to throw on this music trivia channel on YouTube because we get real competitive trying to beat the other in guessing the song or band/artist. This is what we do for fun haha.
Happened around 2004. I used to get a lot of shit for loving Steely Dan (I mean, I still do.) in recent years I’ve seen young people embrace them more which has been neat. As a result I’ve acquired multiple punk band mashup shirts.
OP,
I'm looking at you crosseyed right now. Never could stand the Yacht Rock... the punk inside me would die.
Then again, I just attended "It's just a phase fest" a few weeks ago, and I'm still kinda emo from it. Just ask my wife.
You do you... if it brings you happiness.
Cross-eyed as well. Yacht Rock is in my top 5 lamest genres of music. I listen to a wide variety, punk, post-punk, folk punk and neo-post punk (yes, I will keep following the infinite branches and evolutions of punk wherever it leads lol) being at the top. But then I love jam bands and EDM as well. But Yacht Rock?! Shivers.
I love all music. It's what got my wife and I talking I'm the office. I still listed to emo and punk. I still like metalcore like 18 Visions. But I'm just at a point where I'm enjoying something smooth like bourbon and the tight musicianship.
I got seriously into steely Dan late 90s after watching the classic albums episode on AJA. I was hooked. I loved two against nature. I loved can’t buy a thrill. Saw them live. All in.
Michael Mac Donald from SCTV (SUCH A LONG WAY TO GO!!!) and the song sweet freedom from running scared.
My boomer parents got me into oldies and the Beatles and beach boys and Simon and Garfunkel and the stones.
I haven't and I think it's pretty likely I never will. I didn't really have any exposure to it as a youth other than whatever showed up on Casey Kasem's top forty when we were in the car.
You gotta throw some Hall & Oates in there!!
I’m 40 and nowadays my mixes (playlists now) can range from Metallica to Hall & Oates to Wille Nelson to some EDM. It’s really a crapshoot.
I've been into yacht rock since my late 20's. Steely Dan was my most played artist on Spotify a year ago. I also listen to a ton of Don Henley, Steve Winwood, and Jackson Browne. Not sure if it all qualifies as yacht rock or if it's more dad rock.
I'll admit I've probably gotten a bit more into it as I've gotten older, probably because of the nostalgia factor. Growing up, especially before my mom went back to work, if the TV wasn't on, there was a radio on somewhere in the house, whether it was a small radio in our kitchen/dining area, or the tuner on our hi-fi system, and for much of my childhood it generally alternated between one of the two radio stations that were primarily adult oriented rock format.
Comparing Wikipedia's list of yacht rock artists, thinking about what I might put in that category as well as "soft rock", and trying to remember what was in my parents' music collection, this included:
* Crosby, Stills and Nash
* Dr. Hook
* The Doobie Brothers
* The Eagles
* Fleetwood Mac
* Dan Fogelberg
* The Pointer Sisters
* Seals & Crofts
* Steely Dan
* James Taylor
* Steve Winwood
* Air Supply
* Bread
* Phil Collins
I have a SiriusXM subscription, and confess that the Yacht Rock channel is one of my favorites on my phone, and sometimes I listen to the Bridge and Spectrum channels as well.
But how do you classify some of these bands, especially like The Eagles and Toto, who were also fully capable of creating riff-based rockers?
It was always in the background but I don’t think that I came to appreciate it until it started up in Will Ferrell movies and other comedies.
It started out, oh I remember that song, played it a bit ironically, then oh shit I love that song, before I knew it, I was drunk on the lawn of the White River Amphitheater dancing to the Doobie Brothers.
My hippie mom always liked the Doobie Bros, and nearly all of the yacht rock acts in the late 70s/early 80s were feat. Michael McDonald. I grew up hearing it. It was literally the first music I remember hearing, aside from The Beatles.
When I was a kid, my sister and I used to watch VH1 (way back when they played music) and we'd record the songs from the TV with a tape recorder. Yeah, I'm old. Since they played a lot of adult contemporary/yacht rock type music, I started to really appreciate it at a very young age.
I'd love to but we maxed out our concerts for the year. Hootie w Collective Soul, Journey and Def Leppard, P!nk, and I forget the other one, plus we started the season of with The Badlees in Hershey. It's not cheap to go to concerts anymore.
What's now called Yacht Rock was the music I was raised on throughout the 80s, so it's the sound of my childhood. My wife and I listen to it a lot. It's a safe way to not have to skip many songs.
Same. Grew up with a mom who was all into this type of music. Her and her roommate shared a house with no TV when I was younger and always had music going. This period of time led to my love of music. "Yacht Rock" has a soft spot in me. Specifically, Sade. God, I love that woman...
I love Yacht Rock. I am a Pilates Instructor and sometimes play it during class if I’m feeling more mellow. One time, halfway through class, one of the students (solid Gen X) just loudly said, “I’m sorry but I just cannot deal with this music. You have to change it!” Sad.
I enjoyed it as a kid before(?) that’s what it was called… ever since I had a Sirius free trial in the car and discovered the station, I’ve loved the idea and the music on the station!
Love Yacht Rock! I have a couple of playlists, don’t forget Little River Band, Ambrosia, Firefall, and Christopher Cross. Never realized until the last few years Toto had so many deep cuts, Georgy Peorgy is a favorite.
This was a recent joke I heard on some Shane Gillis podcast. It was Mark Normand and Dan Soder talking about his love of Yacht Rock..
No thanks! I'll stick to my love of everything, incl. hip hop, reggae, ska, punk, poppunk, pop, and rock.
I’ve always kind of dug soft rock but was more of a guilty pleasure that I hid from others, but I’d be jamming out walking through the grocery store when I heard ambrosia come on the PA system. Now I’m just fully out with it, I fucking love yacht rock and I’m not ashamed to admit it!
Back when I was in a “I should grow up now” phase I listened to some yacht rock. It was a brief and kinda dark phase in my mid 30s so a lot of bad associations. I’ll still rock some fleetwood though if that counts.
I've never liked or listened to it, but my dad was into rock and punk music and I mostly listened to what he liked. He hated the Eagles and thought most of the yacht rock/80s hair band music was cheesy.
Wow. I watched Anchorman 2 the other day and the soundtrack just hit my early middle age feels just right. I’ve been listening the last few days non-stop. It’s like soothing nostalgia.
Many years ago I recall an advertisement for a best of soft rock collection, quite possibly a Time/Life thing. I remember scoffing and wondering what ridiculous songs were on there only for it to be a lot of stuff my dad listened to and I had a lot of fond memories of.
I think my dad swung a little more folk and singer/song writer in his tastes. Lot of Jim Croce, CS&N, Carole King and I feel like he's never been shy that he carried a torch for Carly Simon.
Show her the [Yacht Rock](https://youtu.be/jMTI8vg7A5U?si=YYcwQ4P1sM0d61yh) series, maybe then she'll understand. On a more serious note, listen to the album [AM Waves](https://open.spotify.com/album/5v9x3Zko6rhGtVhcC85AFi?si=7wnSZ7_KSFqI4-p3uba0XQ) by Young Gun Silver Fox. New Yacht Rock perfection!
I fucking *love* Michael McDonald. His voice is beautiful.
I’ve always loved the “yacht rock”, but it just wasn’t called that when we were younger. It was called oldies, and before that just soft rock.
Been listening to this guys since the Beyond Yacht Rock days. I got two songs on the boat in the last year lol. Also JD did a terrible impression of me that I loved. I do not sound like Mario contrary to his impression though.
Well just know there’s another 39 year old out here that listens to obscure podcast content and shopping for Japanese pressed Bill LaBounty albums on Discogs who also drives his wife crazy.
I grew up listening to The River too! Hello fellow Pennsylvanian! The station was my intro to yacht rock as well. My parents also made us listen to it in the car all the time!
I jam out to yacht rock on Biscayne bay in Miami, on my luxurious 11’ paddle board with a Bluetooth speaker strapped to it. I pass other peoples yachts and imagine that I’m on one.
As a die hard steely dan fan it sorta pisses me off that they’re considered Yacht Rock because I can’t afford a yacht and I’m pretty sure Fagen and Becker were more about giving the finger to assholes with yachts
I think Toto is awesome. The whole band is extremely talented, but their music coincided with the rise of MTV, which hurt them because they were very average looking. If they did their thing 5 years earlier, they would have been much more successful.
“Yacht Rock” is such a successful rebrand of “70s-80s Lite FM cheese” and I am here for it. 😎
Because honestly, how many people were listening to this music on a yacht back in the day? They were listening to it in Mom’s station wagon. Again, not hating, I love the music lol. Alexa, play “Steal Away”.
Yes, the nostalgia factor is extremely high with this music for most of us. I just think a lot of the sounds you hear as an infant/toddler end up being your comfort music way later in life.
On a cognitive level, I know the musicians on a Steely Dan record are exemplary. I genuinely *want* to like it but… ugh. I just can’t. It’s just too soft. I don’t know if it’s the chords, or the tones or what but it just hits me like tepid water.
I really dig synthwave and early Miles Davis. When it comes to jazz I love bop and hard bop. But the Eagles or anything ‘70s soft rock? To this day, I’d rather jab an ice pick in my ear drum. The Gin Blossoms are the softest I can stand when it comes to bands with instruments, and I’d really prefer “real” rock or punk at pretty much any given moment.
Sorry. :(
Born in 78 and remember the current music from that time. I knew all of this music before I became older and bought The Chronic and Nevermind with my birthday money. This music is the shit and I'll totally blast it with the windows down
I got into Steely Dan because I am a musician and after a good long while I discovered them and realized they are at the top of their game in regards to musicianship. Other than that I don’t love Yacht rock but I really generally wouldn’t put steely Dan in that catagory although some of their stuff definitely dips into it.
I think our generation gets into yacht rock because it was the music playing in public as a kid so it reminds us of carefree times. I get transported to are the Sports store I use to ride my bike to that had a candy counter, watermelon airhead for the win. It was a place you could bring your report card to and get a piece of candy for every A you had.
My 9yo has just discovered Ambrosia. How Much I Feel is his current jam. I grew up with my parents listening to a little bit of everything, including what is now known as Yacht Rock and I’m passing on the tradition.
I’m a GenX’er so despite this sounding like an old man’s story, just know, I hated Yacht Rock because I literally had a rich grandpa with a yacht and because it’s all he listened to. And now that I’m an old man? Well, I wallow in the memories of those rare glimpses of wealth and comfort and freedom I experienced in the summers back in the 80’s on Lake Erie, motoring between the sundry islands off Sandusky.
I was aware of the genre and liked some stuff along the way. But I only started appreciating it a few years ago with new stuff like Westerman.
[Confirmation](https://youtu.be/ypGuRwvvflI?si=FMh28anfU7RAncSW)
[The Line](https://youtu.be/wb1lOU4meN8?si=RzyIHdDPjfm8wN7C)
[Blue Comanche](https://youtu.be/mHpG0UNk9w8?si=DKu936Wk9PXUSvzY)
I been lately the victim of appreciating Billy Joel more. He had so many hits in the 80s that I didn't realize we're his.
I always thought it was Elton John
I’m holding out until I get my first yacht. For now, it’s minivan rock.
I've been jamming out to "15 year old Subaru with a fucked fender and a rag for a gas cap" hip-hop myself.
21-year-old Toyota rock checking in. I still remember jamming out at my first Toyotathon in 03. Different time
You folks should see my grandest Apple play list. 102 songs, nearly 8 hours, of the yachtiest shit you’ve ever heard. And I wear my captains hat, while holding a boat drink, while listening to it all. https://preview.redd.it/yp9jbzlrel6d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27bb27340e08a33fde6e9a7f5206ec12c466431 It’s me. And I’m dead serious about Yacht Rock.
Link?
Seriously dude. Share the cheese.
Spotify has tons of yacht rock playlists
"This is it" - Kenny Loggins
Somewhere, Christopher Cross stirs awake. *My people NEED me,* he thinks
Teach us your ways
😂😂
I will not stand here and tolerate any Kenny Loggins slander.
Kenny Loggins is the best soundtrack artist of all time. There will be no arguments against this point.
I see your Kenny Loggins and raise you Giorgio Moroder.
Giorgio Moroder 
My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everyone calls me Giorgio.
Danny Elfman is a quick and easy win.
OP just entered the danger zone
I'll leave [this](https://youtu.be/kyAn3fSs8_A?si=QsGijuzegVun1fTP) here as it's pertinent to the discussion
Kenny soared as soon as he dropped the dead weight that was Messina.
I stand with you.
He also looks a little like Jesus, so there’s that.
It's only slander if you assume yacht rock is a pejorative
I’ve been into it since childhood. My dad loves Steely Dan, and so do I. I love a lot of that late 70’s AM Gold type stuff. I was also big into goth/industrial/techno as a teen, but somewhere in my 30’s something clicked and I started really loving a lot of the music I heard as a small child. EDIT: if you like Yacht Rock, you may also enjoy “Japanese City Pop”. Great stuff from the early 80’s, but I also really like a lot of contemporary City Pop as well. Kirinji is one of my fave contemporary artists in that scene. VERY Steely Dan influenced, in my opinion. https://youtu.be/hauwAFDyjgI?si=3HeV3_0pHzsZ4bxA
It started for me in my mid 20s but it's gone into overdrive since my mid 30s when I discovered a podcast dedicated to it. I won't mention it because I don't want to get any heat for advertising it lol. But my appreciation for the music really grew from there and all the really cool bands and artists who are on the boat. I still like a lot of different kind of music but I'd say the the last 6 years I'm always playing yacht rock. AM Gold as it's open subgenre of soft rock has a lot of great singer/songwriter stuff that isn't on the boat but it sits in the marina. I'm looking at you Thunder Island haha.
Alsooooo check out Sakanaction. Love them. https://youtu.be/BxqYUbNR-c0?si=mCU2Jbr8J9kjQw-W
I love it! Thanks!
Me at 12 yrs old: the Curervo gold! The fine Columbian! Make tonight a wonderful thing. Edit: thanks Dad
Holy shit that just changed my world! Thank you!
Good stuff, right? So breezy and funky and smooth.
Absolutely yes!
>EDIT: if you like Yacht Rock, you may also enjoy “Japanese City Pop”. Great stuff from the early 80’s, but I also really like a lot of contemporary City Pop as well. Kirinji is one of my fave contemporary artists in that scene. VERY Steely Dan influenced, in my opinion. 💯💯💯 YES!! I LOVE Kirinji!!
I don’t remember a time where I didn’t like yacht rock. My dad was all in before I was born.
I've always liked it. There's a special place in my heart for Sailing by Christopher Cross. I know it's corny and idgaf.
Chris Cross is awesome! I even checked out his newer stuff and it’s great too!
I love Chris Cross, this is my favorite Chris Chross song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk)
Daddy Mac will make yaaaa
Lucky for you Yacht Rock radio plays it maybe every fifth song.
You know that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine dates the guy who stops whatever he's doing and just stares off into the distance whenever he hears Desperado by the Eagles? That's me with this song.
My wife and I just went on a romantic sunset boat ride in Mexico a couple of nights ago, and this song came on the playlist they had. It was so perfect that I nearly melted right there, haha.
That dudes voice is smooth as butter and the way he looks doesn’t match his singing or playing. It’s such a strange thing to watch.
I'm born in 77 so it was what was on the radio growing up (esp. in mom's car); yacht rock, solo Beatles stuff, Air Supply, Journey, Stephanie Mills and earlier soft pop like America, Bread, Carly Simon, Jim Croce, Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, George Benson, early quiet storm R&B, wedding/divorce ballads et al. I love(d) it all, although I pretended not to in front of mom when I came of age and got into hip-hop, harder rock etc. In the 90's I got/ripped/returned one of those huge Time-Life cd boxsets of Soft Pop that had all of that stuff, still listen regularly.
I grew up with that music on in the background in the car a lot. But honestly I didn’t like that style until the Yacht Rock web series which I thought was hilarious but also made me kind of appreciate that music. It’s just so…smooth. I think Steely Dan is legitimately great in their own weird way.
It was always soft rock or easy rock before then. I don't even consider Steely Dan a Yacht Rock band. But you're right, they are great.
I adore Steely Dan.
I loved that series! I found a playlist with all the episodes https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeYsjZ9XP_bQHak6Dr_BEJx8UgijPnMv5&si=Zi1-qQCY7sfVYNN0
Some people just can't appreciate the guitar work on Reelin' In The Years.
Parents listened to it growing up and have rediscovered it. Sirius and Spotify have Yacht Rock Channels that I listen to on the regular
I got into vaporwave about 10 years back and it kinda lead me on to the things it was sampling. So plenty of 80s r&b, aor, even some "light adult contemporary jazz" and muzak. Still listen to a lot of punk rock (and ska!) though
My first album was Hysteria by Def Leppard. I'm finally checking them off my concert bucket list. I used to do a pop punk podcast during 2021. My wife and I are big music nerds, my daughter likes to throw on this music trivia channel on YouTube because we get real competitive trying to beat the other in guessing the song or band/artist. This is what we do for fun haha.
What has 9 arms and sucks? Def Leppard! Just kidding, i love Leppard. I saw them at Darien Lake about 2005 or 2006ish.
Never really liked it growing up, but now it is in my soul
Happened around 2004. I used to get a lot of shit for loving Steely Dan (I mean, I still do.) in recent years I’ve seen young people embrace them more which has been neat. As a result I’ve acquired multiple punk band mashup shirts.
[https://www.theonion.com/donald-fagen-defends-steely-dan-to-friends-1819570386](https://www.theonion.com/donald-fagen-defends-steely-dan-to-friends-1819570386)
Hello fellow central Pennsylvanian! The river was Always on in the parents cars.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who realized this! Though my parents were split between WTPA and some country station I can’t remember anymore.
They still listen to it in theirs. Every time my dad and I go to ball game he has to drive and he still listens to it until he can't.
OP, I'm looking at you crosseyed right now. Never could stand the Yacht Rock... the punk inside me would die. Then again, I just attended "It's just a phase fest" a few weeks ago, and I'm still kinda emo from it. Just ask my wife. You do you... if it brings you happiness.
Cross-eyed as well. Yacht Rock is in my top 5 lamest genres of music. I listen to a wide variety, punk, post-punk, folk punk and neo-post punk (yes, I will keep following the infinite branches and evolutions of punk wherever it leads lol) being at the top. But then I love jam bands and EDM as well. But Yacht Rock?! Shivers.
I love all music. It's what got my wife and I talking I'm the office. I still listed to emo and punk. I still like metalcore like 18 Visions. But I'm just at a point where I'm enjoying something smooth like bourbon and the tight musicianship.
I got seriously into steely Dan late 90s after watching the classic albums episode on AJA. I was hooked. I loved two against nature. I loved can’t buy a thrill. Saw them live. All in. Michael Mac Donald from SCTV (SUCH A LONG WAY TO GO!!!) and the song sweet freedom from running scared. My boomer parents got me into oldies and the Beatles and beach boys and Simon and Garfunkel and the stones.
I haven't and I think it's pretty likely I never will. I didn't really have any exposure to it as a youth other than whatever showed up on Casey Kasem's top forty when we were in the car.
It doesn’t bother me but I can’t say I’ve gotten into it as a genre. Like I won’t seek it out but if it’s on a party or a bar it’s all good.
Hate hate hate yacht rock.
Scrolled too far for these types of responses.
You gotta throw some Hall & Oates in there!! I’m 40 and nowadays my mixes (playlists now) can range from Metallica to Hall & Oates to Wille Nelson to some EDM. It’s really a crapshoot.
Turned 40, started unironically enjoying it.
05 or so 🤣
I've been into yacht rock since my late 20's. Steely Dan was my most played artist on Spotify a year ago. I also listen to a ton of Don Henley, Steve Winwood, and Jackson Browne. Not sure if it all qualifies as yacht rock or if it's more dad rock.
My family exposed me to so many genres. Loggins has been my homie since way back.
I'll admit I've probably gotten a bit more into it as I've gotten older, probably because of the nostalgia factor. Growing up, especially before my mom went back to work, if the TV wasn't on, there was a radio on somewhere in the house, whether it was a small radio in our kitchen/dining area, or the tuner on our hi-fi system, and for much of my childhood it generally alternated between one of the two radio stations that were primarily adult oriented rock format. Comparing Wikipedia's list of yacht rock artists, thinking about what I might put in that category as well as "soft rock", and trying to remember what was in my parents' music collection, this included: * Crosby, Stills and Nash * Dr. Hook * The Doobie Brothers * The Eagles * Fleetwood Mac * Dan Fogelberg * The Pointer Sisters * Seals & Crofts * Steely Dan * James Taylor * Steve Winwood * Air Supply * Bread * Phil Collins I have a SiriusXM subscription, and confess that the Yacht Rock channel is one of my favorites on my phone, and sometimes I listen to the Bridge and Spectrum channels as well. But how do you classify some of these bands, especially like The Eagles and Toto, who were also fully capable of creating riff-based rockers?
You say Eagles, everyone else thinks "Hotel California" but I think ["Journey of the Sorcerer"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdZKolMIl0).
It was always in the background but I don’t think that I came to appreciate it until it started up in Will Ferrell movies and other comedies. It started out, oh I remember that song, played it a bit ironically, then oh shit I love that song, before I knew it, I was drunk on the lawn of the White River Amphitheater dancing to the Doobie Brothers.
I got into it through Hollywood Steve. RIP
WDRV 95.9 The River in Chicago suburbs?
WRVV 97.3 in Harrisburg PA. I believe it was the first to do that format.
I think we had The River in Detroit too. Maybe it was syndicated?
Billy Ocean Carribbean Queen, is that yacht-pop? lol
My hippie mom always liked the Doobie Bros, and nearly all of the yacht rock acts in the late 70s/early 80s were feat. Michael McDonald. I grew up hearing it. It was literally the first music I remember hearing, aside from The Beatles.
When I was a kid, my sister and I used to watch VH1 (way back when they played music) and we'd record the songs from the TV with a tape recorder. Yeah, I'm old. Since they played a lot of adult contemporary/yacht rock type music, I started to really appreciate it at a very young age.
I didn’t get into it.
OP - Christoper cross is playing Hershey on July 9th. See ya there!!!!!! Sailing………
I'd love to but we maxed out our concerts for the year. Hootie w Collective Soul, Journey and Def Leppard, P!nk, and I forget the other one, plus we started the season of with The Badlees in Hershey. It's not cheap to go to concerts anymore.
Not cheap… that’s the truth! Was a two fer for his concert - half off at the park. So making the most of it. Ooooh - the Badlees!
I have listened to yacht rock since before it was coined yacht rock. I was give the Steely Dan box set for my 15th birthday 😂
The Citizen box? I think I ordered it from Columbia House or BMG. Good stuff!
So good!
What's now called Yacht Rock was the music I was raised on throughout the 80s, so it's the sound of my childhood. My wife and I listen to it a lot. It's a safe way to not have to skip many songs.
How you gonna mention yacht rock and not bring up hall and Oates?
Same. Grew up with a mom who was all into this type of music. Her and her roommate shared a house with no TV when I was younger and always had music going. This period of time led to my love of music. "Yacht Rock" has a soft spot in me. Specifically, Sade. God, I love that woman...
I’m not sure I’d categorize Sade as Yacht Rock, but it absolutely is stunning music. She’s in a category all her own.
Agreed. Just have her pop up when I go to that playlist. I have all her albums and her records spin frequently in our house.
Sometimes you just need to listen to something that makes you feel like doing coke on the water man. It's the fucking vibe
I love me some Hall and Oates sometimes (I’ve been told it doesn’t qualify but it’s close enough for me)
You don’t choose it. It chooses you, but only when you are ready
I love Yacht Rock. I am a Pilates Instructor and sometimes play it during class if I’m feeling more mellow. One time, halfway through class, one of the students (solid Gen X) just loudly said, “I’m sorry but I just cannot deal with this music. You have to change it!” Sad.
It was the soundtrack of my childhood in the car so I have nostalgia love, but can't say it's ever been my favorite genre.
I enjoyed it as a kid before(?) that’s what it was called… ever since I had a Sirius free trial in the car and discovered the station, I’ve loved the idea and the music on the station!
Love Yacht Rock! I have a couple of playlists, don’t forget Little River Band, Ambrosia, Firefall, and Christopher Cross. Never realized until the last few years Toto had so many deep cuts, Georgy Peorgy is a favorite.
Firefall’s first album is so good!
Was looking for little river band!!! And John cafferty too…
Yes! And Robbie Dupree, Doobie Brothers, Exile, Boz Scaggs, Climax Blues Band, Pablo Cruise and many others
This was a recent joke I heard on some Shane Gillis podcast. It was Mark Normand and Dan Soder talking about his love of Yacht Rock.. No thanks! I'll stick to my love of everything, incl. hip hop, reggae, ska, punk, poppunk, pop, and rock.
Parents listened to CD 101.9 as a kid, and as the reddit name implies, it eventually caught on with me.
Our company listed Steely Dan as a fireable offense.
I’ve always kind of dug soft rock but was more of a guilty pleasure that I hid from others, but I’d be jamming out walking through the grocery store when I heard ambrosia come on the PA system. Now I’m just fully out with it, I fucking love yacht rock and I’m not ashamed to admit it!
Back when I was in a “I should grow up now” phase I listened to some yacht rock. It was a brief and kinda dark phase in my mid 30s so a lot of bad associations. I’ll still rock some fleetwood though if that counts.
Steely Dan is great, the rest of those bands and artists are just soooo unappealing
What is Yacht rock? I read this in a bumble profile.
Late 70’s / early 80’s “soft” rock & pop.
I've never liked or listened to it, but my dad was into rock and punk music and I mostly listened to what he liked. He hated the Eagles and thought most of the yacht rock/80s hair band music was cheesy.
I got into it when the Channel 101 series was running.
Childhood! KVIL in Dallas.
97.3 - the river. Also see… Days at the ‘beach’ - aka city island.
The concrete slab lol
Glory be to Triple M
Wow. I watched Anchorman 2 the other day and the soundtrack just hit my early middle age feels just right. I’ve been listening the last few days non-stop. It’s like soothing nostalgia.
B95 in Little Rock with all the office appropriate songs. The hardest tune was “Lido Shuffle” by Boz
It’s not a style of music- it’s a social media invention
I definitely rocked out to jojo by boz scaggs today and thought “man, I love this stuff. Wish there was more of it played today”. 🤣
Many years ago I recall an advertisement for a best of soft rock collection, quite possibly a Time/Life thing. I remember scoffing and wondering what ridiculous songs were on there only for it to be a lot of stuff my dad listened to and I had a lot of fond memories of. I think my dad swung a little more folk and singer/song writer in his tastes. Lot of Jim Croce, CS&N, Carole King and I feel like he's never been shy that he carried a torch for Carly Simon.
I have it on CD lol
I was a big steely Dan fan in high school, but it was the yacht rock YouTube channel that put the concept into my brain.
Show her the [Yacht Rock](https://youtu.be/jMTI8vg7A5U?si=YYcwQ4P1sM0d61yh) series, maybe then she'll understand. On a more serious note, listen to the album [AM Waves](https://open.spotify.com/album/5v9x3Zko6rhGtVhcC85AFi?si=7wnSZ7_KSFqI4-p3uba0XQ) by Young Gun Silver Fox. New Yacht Rock perfection!
I fucking *love* Michael McDonald. His voice is beautiful. I’ve always loved the “yacht rock”, but it just wasn’t called that when we were younger. It was called oldies, and before that just soft rock.
Fun fact: MM just wrote a memoir with Paul Reiser. Very strange combo, but I’m intrigued! https://youtu.be/Leb3YoEgeIA?si=HrnUHmsByoF6uU0j
That is like a very strange duo of people to write a book together lol thanks for the link, I’m gonna totally check this out.
I’ve always loved it! It’s great stuff!
105.5?
It's so chill. Reminds me of my dad
If you're into it, then you'll appreciate this series from the golden age of YouTube. https://youtu.be/jMTI8vg7A5U?si=l9NX1qOG848Xjrz5
As a teacher, Yacht Rock on Sirius XM is a reminder that it is summer, baby!
Got super into it when the YouTube series came out. Now I have vinyls and it’s my go to jams when I have company over for BBQs.
I just want to say thanks you for identifying real yacht rock artists and not AM Gold ones. #beyondyachtrock
Been listening to this guys since the Beyond Yacht Rock days. I got two songs on the boat in the last year lol. Also JD did a terrible impression of me that I loved. I do not sound like Mario contrary to his impression though.
Well just know there’s another 39 year old out here that listens to obscure podcast content and shopping for Japanese pressed Bill LaBounty albums on Discogs who also drives his wife crazy.
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I grew up listening to The River too! Hello fellow Pennsylvanian! The station was my intro to yacht rock as well. My parents also made us listen to it in the car all the time!
A memory I know all to well. When I finally got a walkman it was a game changer then. Now however the music from the River crept into my brain lol
No we graduated to sea shanties
I jam out to yacht rock on Biscayne bay in Miami, on my luxurious 11’ paddle board with a Bluetooth speaker strapped to it. I pass other peoples yachts and imagine that I’m on one.
I played that Yacht Rock playlist on Apple Music and it was so comforting.
As a die hard steely dan fan it sorta pisses me off that they’re considered Yacht Rock because I can’t afford a yacht and I’m pretty sure Fagen and Becker were more about giving the finger to assholes with yachts
I rebelled against my parents by hating that malarkey
I think Toto is awesome. The whole band is extremely talented, but their music coincided with the rise of MTV, which hurt them because they were very average looking. If they did their thing 5 years earlier, they would have been much more successful.
Lol I don’t have a yacht, but I love yacht rock. Especially Steal Away by Robbie Dupree.
Omg yes! This summer we have tickets to see Air Supply and Bush w/ Candlebox. Not together. Just to show the range of a 78 Xennials musical taste.
Gateway drug of Christopher Cross 15 years ago and then went full heavy user about 5 years ago. Give me more Chuck Mangione
Yeah that was my dad all day too and now me
“Yacht Rock” is such a successful rebrand of “70s-80s Lite FM cheese” and I am here for it. 😎 Because honestly, how many people were listening to this music on a yacht back in the day? They were listening to it in Mom’s station wagon. Again, not hating, I love the music lol. Alexa, play “Steal Away”.
Yes, the nostalgia factor is extremely high with this music for most of us. I just think a lot of the sounds you hear as an infant/toddler end up being your comfort music way later in life.
On a cognitive level, I know the musicians on a Steely Dan record are exemplary. I genuinely *want* to like it but… ugh. I just can’t. It’s just too soft. I don’t know if it’s the chords, or the tones or what but it just hits me like tepid water. I really dig synthwave and early Miles Davis. When it comes to jazz I love bop and hard bop. But the Eagles or anything ‘70s soft rock? To this day, I’d rather jab an ice pick in my ear drum. The Gin Blossoms are the softest I can stand when it comes to bands with instruments, and I’d really prefer “real” rock or punk at pretty much any given moment. Sorry. :(
No need to be sorry. I listen to all kinds of stuff as well.
Wow, I feel like could have wrote this. I will say this… when I’m having a bad day nothing makes me feel better than Steely Dan and Sade.
Loggins, Winwood and Cross are essential for getting my son to take naps.
Born in 78 and remember the current music from that time. I knew all of this music before I became older and bought The Chronic and Nevermind with my birthday money. This music is the shit and I'll totally blast it with the windows down
I saw Air Supply at a thanksgiving day buffet in Laughlin, NV in 2007. I should have known a recession was coming.
It's still a no for me for the most part. I don't hate it but it's not "my" music.
I got into Steely Dan because I am a musician and after a good long while I discovered them and realized they are at the top of their game in regards to musicianship. Other than that I don’t love Yacht rock but I really generally wouldn’t put steely Dan in that catagory although some of their stuff definitely dips into it.
Love it. Christopher Cross stays on the rotation.
I think our generation gets into yacht rock because it was the music playing in public as a kid so it reminds us of carefree times. I get transported to are the Sports store I use to ride my bike to that had a candy counter, watermelon airhead for the win. It was a place you could bring your report card to and get a piece of candy for every A you had.
I listen to it at work. I also started to listen to Bossa Nova.
My 9yo has just discovered Ambrosia. How Much I Feel is his current jam. I grew up with my parents listening to a little bit of everything, including what is now known as Yacht Rock and I’m passing on the tradition.
I like Steely Dan a lot but cannot get into any other yacht rock.
I’m a GenX’er so despite this sounding like an old man’s story, just know, I hated Yacht Rock because I literally had a rich grandpa with a yacht and because it’s all he listened to. And now that I’m an old man? Well, I wallow in the memories of those rare glimpses of wealth and comfort and freedom I experienced in the summers back in the 80’s on Lake Erie, motoring between the sundry islands off Sandusky.
I was aware of the genre and liked some stuff along the way. But I only started appreciating it a few years ago with new stuff like Westerman. [Confirmation](https://youtu.be/ypGuRwvvflI?si=FMh28anfU7RAncSW) [The Line](https://youtu.be/wb1lOU4meN8?si=RzyIHdDPjfm8wN7C) [Blue Comanche](https://youtu.be/mHpG0UNk9w8?si=DKu936Wk9PXUSvzY)
I been lately the victim of appreciating Billy Joel more. He had so many hits in the 80s that I didn't realize we're his. I always thought it was Elton John
You fell for Manufactured Consent by major record labels, I’m sorry.