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re: Is yacht rock the most universally loved genre?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 8:49 pm to Kafka
Posted on 10/12/25 at 8:49 pm to Kafka
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As I've posted before, "Yacht Rock" was for people who wanted to party like a rock & roller, drug out like a rock & roller, but not actually listen to rock & roll.
Well, I was likely 7-13 years old, so I’ve never thought of it in those terms.
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Posted on 10/12/25 at 8:55 pm to High C
quote:I was around the same age, so I didn't think like that then eitherquote:Well, I was likely 7-13 years old, so I’ve never thought of it in those terms.
As I've posted before, "Yacht Rock" was for people who wanted to party like a rock & roller, drug out like a rock & roller, but not actually listen to rock & roll.
Though even then, I realized they were different from the big rock acts like the Stones or the Who
My basic point still stands: YR is for people who want to listen to Rock Lite
Posted on 10/12/25 at 9:02 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:So YR joins that club of terms that began as a joke/insult and was later adopted by its targets, along w/Cowboy, Quaker, and Disc Jockey
It was a web series on very early YouTube that gave it that moniker as a joke because they always envisioned some rich guy on a yacht chilling out to it.
quote:That's like asking a guy who was wounded at Omaha Beach to invade Normandy again
There’s a bunch of yacht rock bands that tour. The best is Yacht Rock Revue., but there are other good ones.
Check them out if you can.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 10:09 pm to Kafka
You either like the music or you don’t. The moniker is irrelevant.
Like every genre, there is good music and bad. I like a lot of it, but not all.
You don’t like the Doobie Bothers?
Like every genre, there is good music and bad. I like a lot of it, but not all.
You don’t like the Doobie Bothers?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 10:46 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:I disagree. That someone would listen to something called "Yacht Rock" is fascinating to me. There seems to be a self-deprecation in it, whether conscious/intentional or not
The moniker is irrelevant
quote:I can take or leave them. I don't consider them YR anyway
You don’t like the Doobie Bothers?
YR is James Taylor, Liinda Ronstadt, CSN, the Stevie Nicks FMac... YR is essentially the child of The Kingston Trio & the Great Folk Music Scare (a number of YR figures began as folkies). Like the original Folk audience, Soft Rock fans did not want to hear loud power-chorded/distorted electric guitars. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but YR also ended up removing much of the vitality of R&R as well, like when Nashville took the redneck energy out of honky tonk country.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 10:40 am to Kafka
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Kafka
Christopher Cross and Hackamore Brick are frequently on the same playlist for me
Posted on 10/13/25 at 1:02 pm to GEAUXT
Big Yacht Rock show coming at the Dixie in Ruston on October 25.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 4:39 pm to Kafka
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That someone would listen to something called "Yacht Rock" is fascinating to me.
That someone is so insecure that they care about what a broad category of music is called, and use it as a factor in whether they listen or not is fascinating to me.
Posted on 10/13/25 at 8:53 pm to GEAUXT
The issue is what you consider to be yacht rock. There are some obvious choices, but it can very much be a matter of personal opinion.
On one occasion, when asked about yacht rock, Christopher Cross told the interviewer, GFY…
On one occasion, when asked about yacht rock, Christopher Cross told the interviewer, GFY…
This post was edited on 10/13/25 at 9:00 pm
Posted on 10/13/25 at 9:58 pm to Zappas Stache
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Beloved by incels maybe. It's shite music
So bitter
Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:38 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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That someone is so insecure that they care about what a broad category of music is called, and use it as a factor in whether they listen or not is fascinating to me
Posted on 10/14/25 at 10:53 am to High C
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Little River Band FTMFW
I do love reminiscing about the great music of the past.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:00 am to Zappas Stache
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Beloved by incels maybe. It's shite music
Oh boy. A typical Zappa REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:56 pm to Zappas Stache
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Beloved by incels maybe. It's shite music
Hah…
Women get moist listening to yacht rock.
Go do missionary with your Asperger lover
Ya phag
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:40 pm to GEAUXT
Is Simply Red yacht rock? Because thats my shite
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:55 pm to cfish140
Sirius xm changing the yacht rock channel to the Taylor Swift channel is an all time L moment.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 11:13 am to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:Correct. The label/name should mean little in music. The question should be:
You either like the music or you don’t. The moniker is irrelevant.
Like every genre, there is good music and bad. I like a lot of it, but not all.
You don’t like the Doobie Bothers?
How does it make you feel? Further, much good music should make you move, whether it be dancing, swaying, or tapping your foot, etc.
I literally got into the Grateful Dead at an older age because I was randomly listening to a playlist and I just liked the way some songs sounded sonically. I wanted to find out who it was, and that started me down an unending rabbit hole.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 1:23 pm to Zappas Stache
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It's shite music
You couldn't play the guitar solo on Kid Charlemagne if your life depended on it.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 3:38 pm to Zappas Stache
I prefer Yacht Rock on 311
Posted on 10/17/25 at 3:10 am to GEAUXT
Yes there is something soothing about it. Especially getting older in life. I went and saw Christopher Cross and Toto this summer. Great concert. There were people there wearing captain hats and Yacht rock tshirts.
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