Summer Means Yacht Rock

Nearly 40 years later, I still namecheck him during almost any discussion of underage sex.

 

That song is seriously creepy.

 

Yes, it is.

Stick to Bertie Higgins and "Key Largo." Or something like that.

The opening lines of Mardones' piece should give us pause.

 

Is this thread about Jose Fernandez?

 

I agree. The Doobies with McDonald in charge are much better, though his peak with them didn't last very long, maybe two albums tops. There's a couple of pre-McDonald songs I don't mind, but most of it is crappy boogie rock or acoustic bullshit like "Black Water".

The "Minute By Minute" album is their best. "Depending On You" is a pretty cool song.

 

At least Bread works as proto-Yacht Rock, as they're definitely an influence on crap outfits like England Dan & John Ford Coley, and "Baby Imma Want You" is a small guilty pleasure, but you're right, anything before '76 shouldn't count.

The worst they play that isn't Yacht is "Rock The Boat" by Hues Corporation. Not Yacht Rock at all, but you know some programmer got lazy and put it in the playlist because it has a nautical reference in the song title. Dumb.

I hate "Into The Night" and that damn "Georgie Porgie" song they play, but I suppose they are Yacht.

I heard "She's Gone" on there today. Not Yacht Rock. That's a straight up blue eyed soul song. Closer to Tavares (who covered it) than any Yacht bands.

Hall & Oates have some definite Yacht Rock songs, but they also have many more songs that are definitely not Yacht.

 

I always thought a "Southern rock" format would do well in Birmingham, Atlanta or Charlotte, but you suffer the same issues as Yacht Rock. You've either got to expand your definition of the genre past the 250 or so songs that define the term or face the problem of turning over your entire playlist every 8-10 hours, resulting in audience burnout.

At least SiriusXM gets your money upfront. (And why I never owned a radio station.)

 

I read "Into the Night" and thought folks were talking about the B.B. King song and movie of the same name starring Goldblum and Pfeiffer.

 

Listened to a podcast about Creedence and learned how they were no where near the Bayou or the South but they were able to convey the "Swamp Rock" sound. I wish more people would act like we are all more alike than different.

 

I know so many Southern rock fans ... then again, spent plenty of years in the target area for it.

Don't know how I got to not being much of a fan of it. Never fit my ear (which I'm sure sounds about as silly as golfers claiming that certain courses "don't fit their eye" and will probably draw similar eyerolls).

 

I never really thought of Hall & Oates as yacht rock. If you're looking to improve the playlist, they certainly wouldn't be out of place. I always felt like yacht rock was rooted in a late 70s sensibility. Sort of a companion to disco.

 

Bumping this by three years. I hadn’t heard this song, except for one very scratchy time on AM, in more than 10 years. I had looked for it for probably as long, if not longer. I kept thinking it was Michael McDonald and the Doobies from the late 70s. Instead, it’s Sergio Mendes and it’s from ‘83.

It came on the radio today when one station did it’s daily flashback song. I cranked it up, and had a big smile on my face. So sue me.