Here's my top 10 Yacht Rock Songs:


The obvious No. 1 Yacht Rock song of all time, no?


Great band out of L.A.


Maybe this is No. 1? Hard to choose?


Which Steely Dan song? This one!


Yacht Rock at it's most romantic


Love the hook on this.


Bozz Scaggs - from guitar hero to yacht rock king!


I like this better than Sailing.


Obvious choice.


Maybe the first real yacht rock song.

What's yours?

oh boy a dom list thread!

So they call "soft rock" yacht rock these days?

It's been my experience that having Jimmy Buffett on the stereo makes for good sailing. Maybe start off with Boat Drinks?

Assuming what we're after here, given Dom's list, is a certain level of sophistication presumably held by a white man of a certain age, the songs he remembers and thinks are appropriate for his yacht. In no particular order:



Car on a hill

Ah, Joni. The L.A. sound at its smoothest.



Wooden ships

This kind of guy likes songs about sailing. But Christopher Cross sucks.




You're no good

A little bit dirty, for swaying on the poop deck.



Steppin' Out

While the imagery is New York, reminiscent of when the money first started tumbling in for our captain.



Baker Street

Smooth woodwinds



Dr My Eyes

More L.A. goodness




Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody who owns a yacht really care?



No Time

A logical follow on



Already Gone

The kings of the L.A. sound. For leaving port.




Peace of Mind

The best thing money can buy.

Have there been a lot of advances in the Yacht Rock canon since the last OOT Yacht Rock thread?

thread is lacking BANGERS

The albatross and the whales, they are my brothers....

The times they are a-changin'

Seals
Toto
Chris Cross
McDonald

All fabulous Yacht artists, smooth as a freshly oiled teak deck. Some of you are missing the fairly obvious 'tongue in cheek' nature of these almost smooth jazz artists. There needs to be a certain sarcastic nature and Chopin and Crosby, Stills just completely miss on that level...

This can only mean we are due for v3.0 of the tyler durden CUTCO thread

Toto IV is just ridiculously good on land or water. Although, you do need warm weather to enjoy it. Steely Dan had some great “summer bbq music” too. “Bodhisattva” comes to mind as a less remembered gem.

Or you could always just throw on The Cure’s Disintegration and jump overboard when it’s over.

Ooh, nice...that should be on my list!

Yeah, this.

Yacht Rock needs to have a non-hippy sound to it. It is crisp, clean, and sparking...and it is NOT just more soft rock.

So, the Zima of music then.

Edit: jfc I was all over the other thread and have absolutely no memory of it. Age and weed is a terrible thing.

The only thing that remains is obv my love for Joni Mitchell.

Dom, you clearly have an ear for true yacht rock, which makes it very odd that you did not include the song that is truly the essence of yacht rock. I am a sailor; I sail. Therefore this is simple fact:




Thread also deserves a link to Hollywood Steve, who you might find lounging in his music room, with the definitive history of yacht rock:

Right up Dom's alley:

This is not yacht rock. Even tho there is a boat in it.

Then don't even click on mine. I was just OOT'ing off zikzak's post.

Had no idea this was a serious thread. My apologies.