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Yacht Rock

Posted on 06/28/2015 4:44:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76

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1 posted on 06/28/2015 4:44:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

This is the first I heard of it.


2 posted on 06/28/2015 4:48:26 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SamAdams76

“Miami Vice” had a lot to do with it ... And don’t forget the movie “Cocktail,” which gave the Beach Boys a huge #1 with “Kokomo.”


3 posted on 06/28/2015 4:50:06 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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Steely Dan doesn’t belong on this list.


4 posted on 06/28/2015 4:53:35 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: SamAdams76; Publius; left that other site
Ping to my music gurus - I had not heard this term before, although it seems apt.

Does "Southern Cross" qualify?


5 posted on 06/28/2015 4:54:09 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: SamAdams76

I always thought “Into The Night” by Benny Mardones was a creepy pedophile song.


6 posted on 06/28/2015 4:54:59 PM PDT by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: SamAdams76

Never heard of this term before.


7 posted on 06/28/2015 4:55:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U


8 posted on 06/28/2015 4:56:03 PM PDT by toddausauras
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How could that list possibly have excluded Southern Cross?
9 posted on 06/28/2015 4:56:46 PM PDT by Baynative ("I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top." - Will Rogers)
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To: Lurker
That point can be argued. But the song "Hey 19" from Gaucho is quintessentially Yacht Rock.

The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing

10 posted on 06/28/2015 4:58:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Lurker

The “Gaucho” album with “Hey Nineteen” I think qualifies.


11 posted on 06/28/2015 4:58:26 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Southern Cross is firmly in that other category, “Trop Rock” (Tropical).

Cut-offs, flip-flops and parrot shirts


12 posted on 06/28/2015 4:59:19 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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Perhaps you’re right. I just bristled at Steely Dan on the same list as Air Supply. I hated that band.

L


13 posted on 06/28/2015 5:00:17 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: AbnSarge
Cut-offs, flip-flops and parrot shirts

Of which Jimmy Buffett is still the undisputed master to this day. I recommend his concerts, tuneful and funny and he hasn't lost a step.

14 posted on 06/28/2015 5:01:34 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: SamAdams76

A less generous term is “corporate” rock. I’ll stick to “pop” rock.


15 posted on 06/28/2015 5:02:40 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: SamAdams76

Yep lots of Steeley Dan, and Sade playing on the docks. Still are.


16 posted on 06/28/2015 5:03:37 PM PDT by moehoward
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Air Supply?

Pass some gas!
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17 posted on 06/28/2015 5:05:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SamAdams76

Otherwise known as Songs That Have Always Sucked.


18 posted on 06/28/2015 5:05:33 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ConorMacNessa

In the radio business, we called it “soft rock” or “chicken rock.”


19 posted on 06/28/2015 5:08:34 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: SamAdams76

They were later albums, but I would categorize Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly” and “Kamakiriad” as Yacht Rock.


20 posted on 06/28/2015 5:08:55 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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