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Oh hell yeah! I was a son of baby boomers hanging with doobie rolling, coke snorting, all night beach bonfire partyers, occasional boat tripping around San Diego before yacht rock was labeled yacht rock. I saw the Doobies play a concert at Jack Murphy stadium after the Padres choked. That’s when big concerts were performed after baseball games.
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Looks like somebody had an enjoyable time at their Loverboy Summer Camp this year.Comment
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I like the groups/artists featured in the trailer well enough. Always did. Mostly because I initially listened to all that stuff when it first came out and I was too young to care if the stuff wasn't cool or hip or whatever. The fairly recently coined term 'Yacht Rock' seems a little...whatever.
Don't have any interest in seeing a Behind The Music-style documentary on the genre, though.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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You're all such losers.
Here's the real story:
Yacht Rock was a chemistry set experimentation cooked up somewhere in the basement(s) of Warner Bothers Records. It was a suburban reaction to the likes of Alice Cooper and that shitty Scottish band who had my all-time favorite dead rock star Sweet (or The Sweet - I really don't give a shit). The emphasis was to formulate a series of test tubes given to producers and record executives that rock and roll needed be so offensive and vile and loud and abrasive and retarded. No, rock and roll needed to "mellow" it needed to take its Mental Heath Day from all those Altomont and Woodstock and bad shows with badder acid and turn it into something bland. No, make that beyond bland. These Scientist were shitheads like your second homoerotic fantasy Ted Templemen, Lenny Waronker, Richard Dashut and Jeff Fenster who cleverly concocted a new breed of semi-white danceable music played by extraordinary musicians.
They also believed that music could be more "cerebral" and "adult" and tiresome tunes about date rape with 15 minute guitar solos (see: Zeppelin) was growing stale. Oh, you could still play your electric gee-tur but you had to "tone it down" and do all acoustic and be more sensitive if you wanted a slice of all that freaky liberal dropout college pussy spending their money on Volvos and cocaine. Sex was still cool to write about but now it was bad sex and the aftermath of bad sex. So was writing about "the ghetto" and social upheaval with bad sex while on cocaine. Heartache and not the bad sex heartache was also an staple to these tunes as was condescension. Yacht rockers had seen the world, man. They had lived it somehow without ever having a fucking yacht but they lived it. and you never will so fuck you. When Loggins and Messina sang:
If you've been thinking you're all that you've got then don't feel alone anymore
When we're together, then you've got a lot 'cause I am the river and you are the shore
All from their yacht they weren't fucking around.
You don't know them but they are you bothers. Look at them raised in this living hell
There are too many to mention: Pablo Cruise, Early Dire Straights, Fleetwood Mac, Doobies, that limey fucker who sang "The Lady In Red" (yeah, who knew limeys were yacht rockers), Toto, Eagles, reformed Black Sabbath, anything Linda Rondstandt ever sang in the 70s, your perverted uncles Steely Dan, Phil Collins when he showed up 15 years too late. The list goes on. Yacht rock is a grandiose tell told only by those who could afford the $5,000 stereo systems they listened to shit on. It was music for the rich, the educated that spent 6 years at Sarah Lawrence studying the intricate details of ethnic studies and theater only to end up paying for a dive apartment off of East Colfax surrounded by meth addicts and hopeless drunks.
When Yacht Rock died sometime @81-82 it was replaced by "ballad rock" which is Yacht Rock with guitar solos. Ballad Rock is music for the poor and uneducated which is why MAGAs love REO Speedwagon when they went all sugary and Van Halen - another known Templemen homoerotic project for another day. Yacht Rock continues to live on. You can still hear it corpse being fucked hard in the likes of Spotify playlist and every TV show about Boomer vomit as they drive their Suburus to Trader Joe's hoping to feel all ethnic again. To feel better about themselves.. To know that this was when music was music and males could wear cargo pants to Kmart and not be laughed at. Yeah, those were the fucking days.
And now thanks to fucktard Boomers in BMWS Yacht Rock is making a comeback...I guess? Why not? Not long ago a partner wanted to go anal while listening to Ed Sheeran or was it Bruno Mars? Anyhoo, No dice. Put on some Jay Ferguson and in six months times or less I'll have full-blown AIDS. Oh, yeah, everything is making a comeback, baby. Yacht Rock to fascism.
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The "shitty Scottish band" (Sweet) weren't on Warner Brothers. They started out on Bell Records (same label as the Partridge Family, and the last Monkees album after the actual musicians Mike Nesmith & Peter Tork had left the band). And appropriately enough, the early Sweet records weren't much better, with Brian Connolly singing bubble gummy songs played by Mike Chapman's studio musicians .
Their "B" sides were better, of course.....
The band themselves actually played on those.
Eventually they abandoned the bubble gum shit and made albums themselves. But by then, they had moved to Capitol. Still not WB.Eat Us And Smile
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Airs on November 29 on HBO (that’s Black Friday for you shopaholic idiots). Kristy, I’ll buy some new scented candles for our slumber party.Comment
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What about this? Is there any need for this?
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Lefsetz offers up his comments.
Starts off with:
"This is pretty terrible. And to think I was looking forward to it. All you’ve got to know is they spelled
Mo Ostin’s name Mo “Astin,” what’s next, TOETO?"
And finishes up with:
I wanted more. I was looking forward to this.
But there’s nothing here to see.
Don’t bother.
Full stopry at:
lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/11/30/the-yacht-rock-dockumentary/
Originally posted by sadaistComment
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"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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Mushroom’s hot take:
This is Yacht Rock 101. This dockumentary is good for a quick introduction to what yacht rock was all about. On that level, it should be enjoyable if you’re going to tune in.
Yes this 1.5 hour dockumentary is too short for an in-depth study of yacht rock. That costs too much money. You want more? Make your own fucking documentary.
Reading about yacht rock and imagining (or remembering) the scene is more fun than watching 1.5 hours on TV. I have spent more than 1.5 hours reading about yacht rock. I have been a student for 7 years. And I loved this documentary, so fuck all!
One important point in the dockumentary must be accentuated: yacht rock artists were the original Emos. Listen to these guys talk: Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, dudes from Toto… But all these guys made everlasting music.Comment
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