SiriusXM’s Yacht Rock channel is perfect new summer soundtrack

examiner.com ^ | August 22, 2015 | Dawn Lee

[SamAdams76]

All it took was hearing the opening strains of Christopher Cross’ profound, “Sailing” online at SiriusXM’s new Yacht Rock channel online before bookmarking it on the computer. It was already locked in on the car radio. The station programming two-week trial began Aug, 21 at 5:00 p.m. ET on SiriusXM Channel 31. The good news is that it is a featured channel all the way through Labor Day weekend. The bad news is that, currently, that’s when it ends, too.

If you love the music of Christopher Cross, Toto, Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, Player, and more, this is the only SiriusXM channel you’ll be playing for the next two weeks...

[ETL]

Another great song of theirs and also a yacht song is "Take It Easy On Me."

Yes, I like that a lot too. I have a greatest hits CD of theirs. Other good ones on there are "Lady", "(Hold On) Help Is On The Way", and "(Have You Heard About) The Lonesome Loser".

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The real “Yacht Rock.”

Adult language warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX1Nh6c80wo

This was the best. Episodes 1-4 are good too, the later ones not so much.

[BreezyDog]

Yawn..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......and I have a 21 foot yacht.

[dfwgator]

“Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?”

[ETL]

Great one! Haven’t heard it in a while. Am downloading the original version now off YouTube.

Bertie Higgins - Key Largo (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3PQ5tGyNwc

[dfwgator]

An SCTV Tribute to Michael McDonald.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HzWMqLeiE

[Skooz]

I’m still on nonspeaking terms with SiriusXM since they dropped Pops channel 75 from the lineup—just so they could add some more Britney Spears channels.

[ifinnegan]

I have nothing negative to say about Weird Al.

[ifinnegan]

How about this one.

Yachting Type by the Yachts

1979

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eGB9VvOrPgo

[txhurl]

southern Cross, CNnN, channel sounds great. I do CH 34, Lithium 90s grunge.

[ETL]

Not by any means a yacht song, but a good one from the same general time period as Cool Change.

Wild Fire - Michael Martin Murphey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPxzkD6XVc

[Fiji Hill]

“Sailing” is probably the top pop song of 1980. A massive super hit that stayed at number one for a month and played on the radio for months. That song brings back fond memories of the RNC convention that year. Ronald Reagan and better days ahead. In fact, the 1980s were the best decade of my life and when that song came out, those days were just beginning.

This song is the one that reminds me of the 1980 Republican National Convention. I was there, and it was being played all over Detroit.

My favorite song from the 1980's is this one, from 1985.

[SamAdams76]

Wow, I forgot about them. An obscure new wave band from the Stiff label, who came up around the same time as Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson.

However, the song doesn't quite fit the format of "Yacht Rock" which has a laid-back, almost nautical soft-rock vibe.

[ETL]

Please translate...

:)

Seriously. I have no idea what you said.

[MichelleWSC3]

“Here’s one of my favorite “yacht” songs.”

-—One of my fav’s too. Here’s a live version with John Farnham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JPLJk-UOHc

[Conan the Librarian]

We live on our 36ft Ta Shing Tashiba. When we go sailing, we listen to nothing but the wind.

We have found that the world is much more interesting without other sounds covering things up.

Just the sound of the waves and wind.

[txhurl]

Crosby Stills n Nash... Southern Cross. Great sailing track. Sorry was on idiot tablet.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I’m sorry but there’s no universe in which Christopher Cross is any form of “rock.”

[dfwgator]

Yacht Dance - XTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgLwO8T5BP4

[SamAdams76]

This is my favorite yacht picture. You can't see the yacht but the happy expression tells you all you need to know about the yacht experience.

I'm thinking "Key Largo" might be playing over the speakers.

"Looking good, Billy Ray! Here's looking at you kid!"