How Rick Beato & The Yacht Rock 'Dockumentary' Changes Everything For Me

[briansredd]

Thank you all SO MUCH for checking out this video! Music & DJing is something I love. Having an outlet like this to share my thoughts & ideas is everything. I really appreciate all of your views, comments, ideas & discussion on the topic. Even if we don't agree, as far as I'm concerned, we're still friends :)

[SKXBOB]

Yacht rock is just a name to define the inoffensive soft, easy listening music that adult boomers listened to while their GenX kids were listening to punk, guitar gods, metal, early glam, and early rap.

[iLanFrid]

Easy Listening. This is where "Yacht Rock" falls under. And it is as derogatory as Hair Metal.

[karmaandkerosene_music]

This first-world controversy is just dumb.

[thebarbaryghostsf]

I have always preferred the term "70's West Coast AM Radio", or the simple (but kind of vague) "AOR", to "Yacht Rock". Even "Soft Rock" works. As many have already noted though, Yacht Rock isnt supposed to be a genre, it's a vibe from dozens of genres. It's like Japanese "City Pop", there is no genre called "City Pop", but rather a collection of songs from New Wave, Disco, Jazz-Fusion, Pop, Funk, Soul, and others... but it's all City Pop, if it has that "vibe". Yacht Rock is exactly the same thing.

[billpatterson]

Yacht Rock is a vibe of several genres. I love it!

[rEdf]

At age 11 in 1975 I went on 2 day trip in a 30+ foot twin engine yacht around southern Vancouver Island with my parents and their friends new yacht along with their teenage son and his huge cassette and 8track collection of classic and progressive rock. I heard Genesis Live, Yes, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hawkwind, Steely Dan, E.L.P, Focus, Deep Purple, Allman brothers, many of these songs heard for the first time. Musically, for me that trip was life changing. but it was the Loggins & Messina 1974 live album, which I also remembered being played on that trip, with the image of Kenny and Jim on the cover operating a nice classy sailboat which for me really coined the phrase Yacht Rock. Im sure Seals & Croft and Crosby Still & Nash and the The Beach Boys Followed suit their own sailboat photo ops

[thebarbaryghostsf]

James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face" is definitely a Yacht Rock vibe for me.

[coolhandscoot]

Between how rick explained it and your video's make sense your smooth rock idea is a geat vibe.

[aammdj]

Man, life is just too short to worry about how or why some idiots want to label music. Listen (or PRACTICE) and enjoy!

[boogie]

I think classification is really down to good music and bad which is all subjective to the listener. I believe Zappa summed it best, “using words to describe music is like tap dancing architectural plans.”

[OTR]

yacht rock = what rich people listen to when theyre on their yachts.

Its not a genre, its a playlist & a vibe

[dr.emilschaffhausen]

This is all overblown. The name came from a comedy team who imagined the songs being played on a wealthy individuals yacht. Many musicians are wealthy individuals and many of them have what would be considered a yacht. Given that, it might be the perfect name! At the end of the day when you choose the station Yacht Rock you end up hearing a lot of great songs without having to work at it, and isn't that what matters?

[finisterfoul]

Rick Beato will be complaining about some new controversy next week. His interviews and song breakdowns are fantastic. His subjective opinions are narrowminded

[IllyaLeonovMorganFreepony]

I have never understood the need to classify everything. People will ask me "what type of music do you like?" I have never had an answer to that question.

[mr.d.]

I don't see any problem with calling this kind of music "yacht rock." I think it's a fun genre term.

[sammib]

I’ve always loved the tunes included in the genre - incredible musicianship & production & kind of camp. I recall it used to fall under the AOR label, music designed to be played on the then new FM radio stations

[rhomotor]

I like to think of it as music I grew up listening to on AM / FM radio. It's Michael McDonald, Robbie Dupree, Andrew Gold, Steely Dan, Ambrosia, Player, Firefall, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Little River Band, Pablo Cruise, America, Billy Joel,

[thebeebyboys]

Adult contemporary jazz inspired easy listening 1970-1988. AKA Yacht Rock

[andybond]

Because it is not a genre, just a made up term for someone's youtube channel