Why aren't there many women on the Yacht Rock scene - Maybe Rickie Lee Jones?

[SamAdams76]

[knarf]

The very first Ricky Lee I heard ... fell in love immediately

[DouglasKC]

I enjoy that station too but for some unfathomable reason my wife hates it. The only thing I don’t like is the Thurston Howell wannabe dj. Just get a regular guy or girl.

[VTenigma]

Sorry, I’d rather have a tooth extraction than listen to yacht rock.

[SamAdams76]

Ironically my dental hygienist plays Yacht Rock while she is cleaning my teeth. My next appointment is May 19. Please remind me.

[discostu]

I rebel at the whole yacht rock concept. It started as a pejorative used by idiots to dismiss music they couldn’t bother to listen too. Then some people who liked those bands accepted it. I don’t. It’s really not a scene. It’s a randomly applied label.

[knarf]

I think this was the B side of easy money

[Eddie01]

Yacht Rock example for the uninitiated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw

[VTenigma]

Two words; ear buds.

[Free Louie]

Well, she is a notorious bitch, for one. But then Darryl Hall is a notorious prick, so.....:)

I dunno. Not sure we should even allow some of the best bands of all time to be classified as “ yacht rock.” — seems sacraligeuos to me.

[SamAdams76]

Steely Dan is my favorite Yacht Rock artist.

There is not aa single Steely Dan song that I don't like. Now a few of them get overplayed like "Reelin' In The Years" and "Peg" but even those do not ever get tired.

The solo stuff by Donald Fagen isn't bad either.

[MtnClimber]

RICKIE LEE JONES Walk Away Rene

[kellymcneill]

Why the ATMs with that title?

[SamAdams76]

I forgot to include my super awesome experience at the Big Y supermarket in Bethel, CT yesterday afternoon. I am going to prepare another post about that at some point in the future. That is an awesome story and it also includes technology!

[discostu]

Steely Dan is awesome. And one of the best reasons to reject to yacht rock label. Their music isn’t actually easy listening (which most yacht rock falls under) just watch any clip of the drummer playing Aja. Lyrically when you get right down to it Steely Dan is a punk band. More “junkies winos pimps and whores” in their music than in most punk catalogs, including the guy who gave us that wonderful phrase Mike Ness. Nothing yacht about it. A surface listen would make them seem similar to Chris Cross, and others in that “category” but they’re just not.

[SamAdams76]

I think we all need to have fun with it though (the Yacht Rock label). I don't own a yacht myself but the Yacht Rock "sound" does lend itself to lazy afternoons in the sun with the meat marinating for the grill and a cooler of ice, cold beverages.

Also, a dog that likes to run in the yard and catch frisbees. Well at least TRY to catch one!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I rebel at the whole yacht rock concept. It started as a pejorative used by idiots to dismiss music they couldn’t bother to listen too. Then some people who liked those bands accepted it. I don’t. It’s really not a scene. It’s a randomly applied label.

Exactly. "Yacht Rock" is meaningless - just about any '70s ballad ends up lazily categorized as "Yacht Rock", and so do songs from other real categories like Philly Soul and disco. The only actual song that should be considered "Yacht Rock" is "Sailing" by Christopher Cross - a song I consider horrible. It has nothing in common with music by the likes of Steely Dan aside from the fact that oxygen breathers who walked on two legs wrote and performed both.

[discostu]

I hate lazy labels. Especially when they’re used to dismiss. I mean I do respect that fans of the music have taken control of the term. That’s always a good thing. But the term still bugs me. Certainly a lot of music under that label is summertime afternoon music. Nothing goes with BBQ and alcohol like Jimmy Buffett.

[wally_bert]

One of really higher ups at the office sounds a lot like the yacht rock announcer. Ironically, the office guy is a self proclaimed super cheapskate.

I love Steely Dan music.

[escapefromboston]

I liked this station but I thought Sirius got rid of it.