Death to false yacht rock!

You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you!

 

So will Loggins murder Messina in a battle for scene supremacy following a spate of lounge burnings? Stay tuned!

 

Never.

Great thread BTW (even though I love the armadillo tank)

 

Has anybody mentioned the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver ? I know they are from the otherside of the pond ,but I saw them open as support for Queen at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1975. I think they sailed there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDjuRlaNAg also they had albums called Slipstream & Lifeboat.

 

Pablo Cruise

 

Then we're both standing I guess, , . My stance had little to do with the second remark (no, he isn't) and more to do with Tunnel of Love, Human Touch, and Lucky Town -different as they are in production values - as being lumped together, and all in this genre (a wild and wacky thread too!) and then all summarily dismissed as 'bad' albums, with which I obviously disagree with, and that's what I'm responding to.

 

I worked with Jay Ferguson on a film I co-produced for the DoD. His more recent soundtrack work is nuthin' like yacht rock. It's more industrial electronica...

 

Ew. I like to pretend that album doesn't exist.

 

What an odd thread.

Interestingly, the posters who seem most concerned about what constitutes "real" or "fake" yacht rock are antonkk and Rosskolnikov, who are both in Russia. Listen, gents, since you weren't here at the time -- yacht rock doesn't exist. Or at least the term didn't, until recently. (In fact, I had never heard the phrase until this thread.) Soft rock, that was used a lot. California rock, sometimes. But no one ever claimed to be making yacht rock in the 1970s and 1980s. And whatever you call the general style, it wasn't an ideological movement such as early punk, where certain fans were obsessed over who was "real" and who was not. So lambasting ELP and Bruce Springsteen (!!!) for being false practitioners of a genre that didn't really exist and whose name was invented decades after the fact seems very strange...particularly since Bruce and ELP were never trying to compete with Pablo Cruise or Christopher Cross in the first place.

But obviously I'm taking this waaayyy too seriously...

 

Yes, you do...

 

In Russia, yacht rocks YOU!

 

I reject the term "yacht rock" altogether, as it was coined by people who don't have an appreciation for bands like Loggins & Messina and Jimmy Buffett. There's no such thing as "false" yacht rock. The term "yacht rock" attemps to falsify all music under it's sarcastic label.

 

That's Soviet Russia to you, pal!

 

What do you get if you cross Yacht Rock and Black Metal? Viking Metal!

 

You just gave me a ridiculous idea

 

Glad we're in agreement!

 

Relevant Simpsons quote/good-natured threadcrap:

 

Actually there is a Yacht Rock band here in Atlanta
that fills a 1200 seater whenever they play.

They did a Beatles-cover show called 'Please Please Rock Me' and it was a hit too.

 

Starting a band? When can we expect Invocation of the Margarita Frost by Impaled Boatcaptain?

 

This was a bit much....

 

I come from the land of the ice and snow
Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice and dip in salt
Shake tequila, triple sec and lime juice with ice, strain into glass, and serve...

 

More like great trolls...it is amazing how many folks feel the need to post in threads about music they despise, I suppose it is their need to try..and I stress the word try... to feel superior, when in reality they just come off as pathetic.

 

I played these at the store and outside on the PA yesterday:

 

Do the suit lapels on that England Dan & John Ford Coley record wrap around onto the back of the album cover?

 

And you didn't get drive-by'd?