What is the best YACHT ROCK single of all time?

Southern Cross - Croby, Stills and Nash.

Cool Change - Little River Band

Moonlight waaa waaaa

Feels right waaaaaa waaaa

Debbie Brothers? OP, your autocorrect is a square and probably a narc.

These people have no soul

Sign Of The CROSS

OP is deganged. There was never any kind of music called YACHT ROCK. OP must be that asshole with the endless music polls.

*deranged

yacht rock is a genera of music of a certain style from that era. it does exist, r7. pull your head out of your ass once in a while.

Would Malo - Suavecito fit into Yacht Rock?

The only song on OPs list worth hearing is "I Can't Go For That"

The Captain and Tenille

The Pina Colade song guy also wrote one about cannibalism

The Pina Colada song is now old fashioned kitsch, but cannibalism is very much TODAY. So I guess some of his songs are timeless.

In The Long Run = The Eagles.

Seals and Croft - Summer Breeze

Bee Gees - One

Randy Vanderwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most

Dan fogelberg

Sergio Mendez

Debbie Boone

Keep on Loving You

I'm gonna beat your little bum and then insert a plum, AMANDA

This poll was all male so I made one for females:

I love Sailing by Christopher Cross. That is 80s music.

I second "Cool Change."

"Breezin'" by George Benson

What this thread really needs is some fucking DR. HOOK!

Another great one..."Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins.

Who knew Burt Reynolds could sing?

Al Stewart - Time Passages - 11/12/1978 - Capitol Theatre

[bold]He came from somewhere back in her long ago.

Tryin' hard to recreate

What had yet to be created

Once in her life.[/bold]

I can never decide if I love or hate the lyrics to this song.

Leaving L.A.

So many Steely Dan songs. Starting with "Peg."

"Babylon Sisters" by Steely Dan

Spotify playlist - 106 Yacht Rock classics:

I didn't think much of Yacht Rock at the time, but some of it is nice

Reading the song lists really takes me back, this was the music my parents listened to all the time.

This comedy series re-enacts the history of yacht rock. Pretty funny.

Give me Yacht Rock over Cock Rock any day!

[bold][italic] I'M NOT A FAN OF WHERE THIS FUCKING Southern California early 80s yacht music IS going!!! I'm not a fan of it AT ALL!!!!!! [/bold][/italic]

Here's the "I keep forgetting" episode of the comedy series. It was sampled in the rap song "Regulators" by Warren G and Nate Dog

lol r36

Songwriting contest between Hall and Oates and Loggins and McDonald

"I Just Wanna Stop" - Gino Vannelli

"Get Used To It" - Roger Voudouris

Kenny Loggins - This Is It. That is the classic YACHT ROCK song of all time. Along with Dr. Hook's "Sexy Eyes."

Another vote for Peg.

Joe Jackson - Steppin Out

Little River Band - Reminiscing

Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me

Joe Jackson, Yacht Rock, R42?

I don't consider the Doobie Brother's What A Fool Believes to fall under this Yacht Rock category. It's more of a blue eyed soul song. But it is the best song among the poll listing.

R44 Have you heard Steppin Out? It definitely falls into that category of soft rock that reminds you of going to the grocery store on downs, wading through the icy Quaalude surf.

Yes, R46, I've heard Steppin' Out.

America - Tin Man

This may get extra 70s points because the lyrics make no sense.

Not sure if this belongs in the men's or women's thread:

Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks - Whenever I Call You Friend

"Lotta Love," Nicolette Larson

Goodbye Girl--David Gates Feels So Good--Chuck Mansion Ebony Eyes--Bob Welch

Sanford Townsend Band-Smoke From a Distant Fire

Whoops, lost control of that.

Goodbye Girl--David Gates

Feels So Good--Chuck Mangione

Ebony Eyes--Bob Welch

R50 Unless Larson is a tranny, I'm fairly sure she belongs in the women's thread.

How Much I Feel by Ambrosia PWNS all other yacht rock songs ever.

[quote]Unless Larson is a tranny, I'm fairly sure she belongs in the women's thread.

Well, we do have the Debbie Brothers ...

My god, I grew up in the seventies and early eighties and this music was definitely the sound of that era.

Bump, since posters are making Yacht Rock playlists.

If you like this music, the link below is the definitive playlist, at 541 songs.

Anything by Boz Scaggs could be played on a yacht in the 80s.

Here's one of the better definitions of the genre:

[quote] Yacht rock is the smooth, impeccably produced jazz- and soul- inflected rock music produced largely between 1977-1984 by a select group of studio musicians and vocalists, songwriters, and producers, and the project bands they drifted in and out of.

[quote] The four key ships in the yacht rock armada are Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, and Toto, with the commodore being, of course, Michael McDonald. The first mates are David Foster and Jay Graydon, who are somehow involved in pretty much every yacht rock album of note. The crew includes the Pocaros—particularly Jeff on drums—the Pages on vocals, Steve Lukather on guitar, Steve Gadd, and a several other well-known session musicians you'll see over and over again. Electric piano is a usually a must; acoustic guitars, strings, and tropical instruments such as steel drums are usually a must not.

[quote] Yacht rock themes usually reflect the ennui of the era; the end of relationships, futile, fleeting hookups with pretty young things, drugs and booze, nostalgia for the simple pleasures of the early ‘60s, and longing to leave it all behind and escape to someplace warm and exotic. The Fool is the protagonist of many of the songs.

Magnet and Steel - Walter Egan

Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics

That's yacht rock

"I'm gonna take a lotta drugs . . . "

And I did - Valium and Tylenol PM. The aneurysm killed me at 45.

What a waste, right?