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Official Yacht Rock. (Maintained by @jdryznar ) Coiners of term via our 2005 webshow. Now keepers of the fire. Discogs:

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Joined May 2008
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
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THE ONLY LEGITIMATE YACHT ROCK PLAYLIST IN THE WORLD!
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Yacht Rock
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We are aware that Hall has a restraining order on Oates.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Guys who coined the term โ€œyacht rockโ€ seats at the Steely Dan show.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
7 years
Walter Becker's passing is rough. Steely Dan is still one of the best live acts in the world. Thanks for everything.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
The days of wasting away in Margaritaville are over. Now it is time to flourish in Drinkscotchwhiskeyallnightlonganddiebehindthewheel City.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
7 years
Hello, friends! Beyond Yacht Rock is putting the brakes on a little bit this year due to family and work issues. We will be releasing episodes and minisodes intermittently and have some cool stuff planned for later in the year, so donโ€™t unsubscribe! Thanks for your support.
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Weโ€™re recording our first real episode since December tonight. Look for them every other week.
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Yacht Rock
6 years
I love Yacht Rock music so much and my heart is so broken that weโ€™ve failed to tell the world what it is and now idiots use it as an excuse to play cheap garbage. ๐Ÿ™
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Yacht Rock
2 years
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Yacht Rock
4 years
Ironic that this is a show with a theme of relevance anxiety, yet you guys have kept ours at bay for fifteen years. Thanks to all of you for keeping the fire!
@in_yacht
Today in Yacht Rock
4 years
Episode 1 of โ€œYacht Rockโ€ premiered on Channel 101 on this day in 2005. The series starred JD Ryznar, Hunter Stair, Dave Lyons and โ€œHollywoodโ€ Steve Huey, and rekindled interest in the smooth music and artists that comprise the genre.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
This is like Frank Gehry paying tribute to the in house Chick-Fil-A architect.
@BrianWilsonLive
Brian Wilson
1 year
Love and Mercy, Jimmy Buffett
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Honestly, if we made yacht rock today, armed with our greatly expanded knowledge of the genre and musicians, it probably wouldn't be as funny or fun to make.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Look who got interviewed AARP!
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Yacht Rock
11 months
Happy 45th, yacht rock perfection.
@MichaelMcD_Real
Michael McDonald
11 months
Happy 45 years to โ€œMinute by Minuteโ€!ย Originally released on December 1, 1978, this was the 8th studio album by @TheDoobieBros that won a total of 4 Grammys. This RIAA 3X Platinum album featured many more timeless hits, including the No. 1 Billboard hit, โ€œWhat A Fool Believes".
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Yacht Rock is quite the genre, don't you think?
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Yacht Rock
1 year
We have suffered a terrible tragedy.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Y'all might want to resubscribe to Beyond Yacht Rock on your podcast apps. What will probably the very, absolutely last final episode released under that podcast name will be dropping Wednesday.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Not enough.
@biiilyedwards
Billy Edwards
1 year
Too much Steely Dan for a twenty year old to own? Possibly
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Yacht Rock
4 years
Jesus, Cliff. Relax.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
YACHT ROCK IS NOT A BESMIRCHMENT
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simon day
1 year
NOT FUCKING YACHT ROCK DO NOT BESMIRCH THE MASTER !
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Weโ€™re back! New Yacht or Nyacht Minisode outโ€ฆ
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Everyone buy another copy of Thriller!
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Yacht Rock
7 years
You dont know the half of it, newsboy.
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Chuck Todd
7 years
So one thing I learned tonight, "Yacht Rock" has quite the cult following.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Billion Dollar Record Club has felled its first billionaire. Rest in silence, Jimmy Buffett.
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Holy shit. Fuck this world.
@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
7 years
And you'll get to hear my 4 rules for what actually qualifies as a Yacht Rock song because this is important goddammit
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Ya Mo Be There in front, Takinโ€™ It To The Streets in back.
@barneyhurley1
Barney Hurley
2 years
Michael McDonald publicity shot, 1986
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Yacht Rock
3 years
โ€œLeave the Door Openโ€ is maybe the yachtiest song to win song and record of the year since the early 80s. It may not make the boat, but itโ€™s complex pop music with real instruments by some of the best of the best, so Iโ€™ll take it as a win for yacht rock.
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Yacht Rock
6 years
The Jay Graydon solo in โ€œPegโ€ is a tiny yacht inside of a huge yacht.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
6 years
New Rule: anyone that was cool with the GOP inventing $2 trillion out of thin air for freebies for people with yachts that have tiny yachts inside doesnโ€™t get to demand how we pay for people who need chemotherapy treatments.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT FUCKING CAKE
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Today in Yacht Rock
2 years
Michael McDonald and fellow yacht rocker Amy Holland were married on this day in 1983. The couple continues to perform and tour together.
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Yacht Rock
4 years
I believe you have picked one for us, 1978 casino ad.
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Smooth pop music influenced by jazz & R&B, produced in the late 70s-early 80s and driven by elite studio talent.
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Yacht Rock
5 years
Coined in 2005 by me and my friends, spending our free weekends working our asses off to make a fun webshow about our favorite music that we found the perfect name for.
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Yacht Rock
6 years
James mo be there.
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Billion Dollar Record Club is working.
@theeroamer
jocelyn romo
1 year
people on discogs will straight up spend $1000 on a late 80s private press album that sounds like this
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4 years
I hope Dick Kleiner has been enjoying the Punlitzer Prize he won in 1978.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Hall & Oates just walked in.
@barneyhurley1
Barney Hurley
3 years
Michael McDonald on stage at The Forum, Inglewood, California during The Doobie Brothers' 1978 'Minute by Minute' world tour
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Happy Birthday Michael McDonald!
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Yacht Rock
6 years
1) This article spreads false yacht rock 2) "Yacht Rock is what we want it to be." Fuck you. 3) Nick doesn't even like Yacht Rock. 4) These fuckers stopped Christopher Cross from doing a Yacht Rock tour. 5) Once again, eat a dick @YachtRockRevue
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Yacht Rock
3 years
This article was chugging along and lost me at the Pina Colada Song, saying Rupert Holmes displays the musicianship of Steely Dan, which is like saying your favorite planet is a sandwich.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Wow. This list soared too close to the sun and then just plummeted.
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Phil Mazza
2 years
@yachtrock Ok, yeah, itโ€™s shit.
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Yacht Rock
4 years
TIL that the first time Michael McDonald met Warren G, Warren was in a car (In NYC) and when he saw Michael on the street, stopped to talk to him for a couple minutes. So we got it SPOT ON in the webshow. Warren G WAS in a car when he first met Michael McDonald.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Uh, Luke? Weโ€™ve got that term you lack right here.
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Almost there!
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Be there with us please!
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Yacht Rock
4 years
This billboard should just say "WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES IS ON THIS! YOU WON'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS SONG!"
@barneyhurley1
Barney Hurley
4 years
Billboard to promote the release of Kenny Loggins' 1978 album 'Nightwatch' on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California
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Yacht Rock
7 years
He was also in a state of crisis over his own relevance and the sketch edged him to his lowest point, drinking whiskey in the alley with Messina while enduring Loggins and Steve Perry try to turn him on to rock music using karate.
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MediaREDEF
7 years
Michael McDonald Was โ€˜So Stonedโ€™ While Watching โ€˜SCTVโ€™ Sketch About Himself ( @mwardlaw - @ultclassicrock )
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Yacht Rock
5 years
Spotify's Yacht Rock playlist is so ill-informed and randomly curated, they should just rename it, simply: "Songs."
@retrohitradio
Retro Hit Radio
5 years
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what #YachtRock is. @Spotify if youโ€™re going to use a term you didnโ€™t invent, perhaps consult with the people that did!! @yachtrock
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Yacht Rock
2 years
A classic. This cat was an outlier to the scene who managed to create high quality yacht rock on his own. He shocked many with his whiteness and soothed more with his smoothness.
@bobbycaldwell
Bobby Caldwell
2 years
Bobby passed away here at home. I held him tight in my arms as he left us. I am forever heartbroken. Thanks to all of you for your many prayers over the years. He had been "FLOXED," it took his health over the last 6 years and 2 months. Rest with God, my Love. -Mary Caldwell
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Yacht Rock
3 years
How did these weirdos ever make it?
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steely dan video
3 years
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Renting his costume was one of the biggest expenses in all of Yacht Rock. $70 for the weekend!
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sarahannelloyd.bsky.social
7 years
omg i'm rewatching yacht rock and i never connected that james adomian plays vincent price. this is incredible.
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Yacht Rock
4 years
HOLY SHIT! HOW MANY MORE ESSENTIAL YACHT ROCK SONGS ARE HIDING OUT THERE? MICHAEL MCDONALD GEORGE BENSON DUET!!!!
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
7 years
No you're not. We were first.
@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
7 years
On Labor Day Weekend, I'm the 1st-ever guest DJ for @YachtRockSXM . Picked my top 12 songs. SUN 12PM et SUN 8PM MON 4PM MON 11PM TUES 11AM
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Erik, you're being ignorant. Not only is late 70s Steely Dan Yacht Rock, Steely Dan is the primordial ooze from which Yacht Rock emerged. And Yacht Rock isn't an insult. This is like wanting to fight a guy for calling your Ferrari a "precision, well-made vehicle."
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Make sure youโ€™re still subscribed to the podcast! Minisode drops tomorrow!
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Love that yacht rock!
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Yacht Rock
4 years
Thanks, Patricia Arquette! We wouldโ€™ve made an episode about you but Toto fucked up and called the song โ€œPamelaโ€ instead.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Hot knife through smooth butter.
@jamestaylor
James Campbell Taylor
3 years
Itโ€™s Larry Carltonโ€™s 74th birthday today. If this isnโ€™t the greatest guitar solo on a studio recording I donโ€™t know what is. Turn it upโ€ฆ #kidcharlemagne #steelydan #yestheresgasinthecar
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Life, you see, is a meaningless string of sailing cliches.
@darrenrovell
Darren Rovell
1 year
Jimmy Buffett with just about one of the best quotes about life you will ever see. (H/T @brandonwenerd )
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Yacht Rock
2 years
RIP to the Bach. A composer who elevated pop music complexity, clearing the waters for yacht. Every yacht rocker loved him. (Fagen appreciated his Stravinsky-esque angularities - duh.) Then, he became a yacht rocker himself. And won a prize for it!
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
Fuck this ignorant hack. Here's the only list that matters. Stay in your lane, Simmons.
@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
6 years
My Sunday gift to you... I made the only Yacht Rock playlist on @Spotify that truly matters.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
Guess what weโ€™re recording tonight? Youโ€™ll find out within the month.
@PlatoPutty
Billy Jack O'Toole
6 years
@yachtrock Daft Punk - Fragments of Time #yachtornyacht ?
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Hall & Oates aren't Yacht Rock, so they aren't invited, but how bout a Doobies reunited with Michael McDonald/Steely Dan/Loggins/Toto festival. Undercards like Bill Champlin/Marc Jordan/JaR/Pablo Cruise. Ugh. Sorry. You see why people have to get Yacht Rock right? WHAT A SHOW!
@PinkPalmJen
Jennifer Gaskell
6 years
Itโ€™s about time @kennyloggins @TheDoobieBros and @halloates took it on the road for a @yachtrock summer music festival.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Until we can get to the bottom of why is down once we hear from Patrick Kolodgy (email sent!) here is the original google spreadsheet we updated live while we recorded.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
We will do regular Yacht or Nyachts when BYR ends, in fact, we plan on spinning Yacht or Nyacht into it's own podcast. Also, you guys are gonna love our new podcast idea.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
1 year
Holy fuck!
@degriffin87
dgriff
1 year
@yachtrock big day for yacht rock fans with iOS17! Song credits included right in Apple Music.
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Need a break from the repetitive SiriusXM Yacht Rock Channel? Hereโ€™s over 10 hours of actual Yacht Rock.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
4 years
Not a yacht rock song. Not a yacht rock radio station.
@downwithddubs
Rochelle Lanphear
4 years
Listening to @YachtRock Radio on @SIRIUSXM making my way across this United States!
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Yacht Rock
7 years
Tune into the Beyond Yacht Rock Podcast, where you'll hear my four rules for sports writing.
@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
7 years
And you'll get to hear my 4 rules for what actually qualifies as a Yacht Rock song because this is important goddammit
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Listen to a Porcaro Shuffle today. I recommend his greatest, Rosanna. Groovemaster General. Yacht Pocket deep enough for the entire LA session scene.
@in_yacht
Today in Yacht Rock
2 years
Jeff Porcaro, the most prolific drummer in yacht rock, passed away on this day in 1992. Aside from his work as a founding member of Toto, his drumming can be heard on numerous YR tracks, including โ€œI Keep Forgettinโ€™โ€, โ€œMorninโ€™โ€, โ€œFMโ€, โ€œTurn Your Love Aroundโ€ and โ€œBad Sneakersโ€.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
8 years
We're gonna pass half a million listens in the next day or so. Thanks for an awesome year, everyone!
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Joni Mitchell pulling her music from Spotify to protest Joe Rogan means Joe Rogan caused this top 10 Michael McDonald background vocal performance to be that much harder to get to, so @yachtrock is now officially censuring Joe Rogan.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
5 years
I've been kicking nyachters asses moderating r/yachtrock on reddit. Removing posts left and right. Any reddit-using firekeepers should be on there.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
8 years
Thank you, listeners. Not a huge deal in the overall world of podcasts, but it means a lot to us.
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Yacht Rock
7 years
SO FUCKING WEAK.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
Tuff beyond all comprehension.
@barneyhurley1
Barney Hurley
3 years
Happy Birthday to John Oates who turns 74 years young today - pictured here with Daryl Hall, NYC, 1975
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Happy Birthday to the Seal King! Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@in_yacht
Today in Yacht Rock
6 years
Michael McDonald was born on this day in 1952. After beginning his career as a backing vocalist with Steely Dan, McDonald was the frontman of the Doobie Brothers. He went solo in 1982. McDonaldโ€™s unmistakable baritone, songwriting and keyboard playing helped define Yacht Rock.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
A dad taking an instrument away from his girl and putting a doll in her hand. People telling girls they'll never be as good as (fill in the blank man). Men not taking female musicians seriously because they just want to fuck them. Sexism is systemic, deep rooted and discouraging.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
The band on this. Woof.
@MichaelMcD_Real
Michael McDonald
2 years
โ€œI Keep Forgettinโ€™ (Every Time Youโ€™re Near)โ€ was Michaelโ€™s hit single off of his debut solo album โ€œIf Thatโ€™s What It Takesโ€. The song peaked at number 4 on the @billboard Hot 100 andย was later sampled in Warren G and Nate Doggโ€™s 1994 single โ€œRegulate.โ€
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Yacht Rock
1 year
Hey Gang. We're launching 2 new podcasts. The first one is called The Yacht or Nyacht Podcast- just rating songs on the yachtski scale. We put a rough cut of the first episode on our patreon Just $2 to join.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
Thank you for ruining the term, Yacht Rock, everyone but us.
@yachtrockradio
Yacht Rock Radio
6 years
โฆGreat article on @bozscaggsmusic โฉ. Even tho heโ€™s not a fan of the term #YachtRock , we still love u #BozScaggs !
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Congrats to Young Gun Silver Fox for their first show in L.A. at the Troubadour last night. The band was fantastic and the crowd was electric. Such a thrill to see so many people going out of their minds for Fender Rhodes music.
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Yacht Rock
6 years
Look at this. Porcaro played drums on Aretha's "What a Fool Believes." Big reason why it's on the boat.
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Probably the last big gasp of the original yacht rock era.
@in_yacht
Today in Yacht Rock
2 years
โ€œMoonlightingโ€ premiered on ABC on this day in 1985. The showโ€™s theme song, sung by Al Jarreau, was released as a single in 1987. It reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 18, 1987 and is certified yacht rock.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
YES! FINALLY!
@YachtRockRevue
Yacht Rock Revue
6 years
Hey @yachtrock , want to help us put together our setlists for two shows at the @elreytheatre in September? #yachtrock
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
Dear @coastalliving , 1) Quibble? Fuck you. 2) Ultimate my ass. 3) Donโ€™t shout us out then toss us aside and kick us in the balls with this crap list of random songs 4) Iโ€™m so sick of this shit 5) Youโ€™ve made me never want to live near the coast
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
7 years
The fact you didnโ€™t talk to us before you wrote this means your entire paper is garbage.
@HoustonPress
Houston Press
7 years
Do you know what yacht music is?
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Yacht Rock
7 years
It's Friday night! I'm gonna search for "Yacht Rock" on Twitter and do some Yachtsplaining.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
2 years
is back up. I don't know why! P. Kolodgy, the mysterious webmaster, remains evasive, slipping in quietly to save the day once again.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
Yacht is a genre that draws from Jazz and R&B, so there's soul and complex arrangements. Lyrically, Yacht is dark, bitter and full of hopeless despair. Very few sweeping strings, much e-piano and e-guitar. Air Supply's sentimental with simple songs and the wrong sound. Questions?
@RealKevinBrewer
Kevin Brewer (official)
6 years
@yachtrock Why isn't Air Supply yacht rock?
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Yacht Rock
2 years
Jimmy Buffett music fails to hold up on so many levels.
@danielralston
Daniel Ralston
9 years
In "Cheeseburger in Paradise" Jimmy Buffett says he wants a burger not too precise then spends the whole song customizing a burger. Insane.
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Yacht Rock
3 years
At a Kenny Loggins concert. Fuck you, not at Kenny Loggins people!
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Yacht Rock
5 years
For the record, Jimmy Buffett is not a Yacht Rock artist.
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
7 years
Pina Colada song isn't a Yacht Rock song, America.
@SIRIUSXM
SiriusXM
7 years
. @YachtRockSXM has docked on Ch. 17 & summer can officially begin! โ›ต๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿšค Pina coladas optional but recommended (not while you're driving!) ๐Ÿ๐Ÿน
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@yachtrock
Yacht Rock
6 years
I donโ€™t know anything about art but imagine if everyone started hanging jackson pollocks in the impressionist gallery. And you wrote the first book coining the term expressionism. As an intellectual with a strong, thought out point of view, youโ€™d go insane.
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