Retroactively given to the music of The Doobie Brothers, Toto, and Christopher Cross, yacht rock is defined by glossy production, smooth hooks, and virtuosic musicianship. HBO’s Yacht Rock ...

What you might not realize is that the term “yacht rock” was coined not by music critics or even the musicians themselves, but by a ragtag group of comedians who lovingly parodied some of ...

Yacht Rock has a place in our lives. The smooth-sounding music from the West Coast, a mix of pop/rock with jazz and R&B melodies, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s (think Christopher Cross ...

what we now know of as yacht rock was simply soft rock, largely of the 1970s variety, but occasionally dipping into the 80s as well. It was music that was smooth, slick and did little to challenge ...

(AP Photo/Erich Schlegel, File) NEW YORK (AP) — The stress of Thanksgiving is over. Now it's time to heat up leftovers, relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: ...

This article was first published on All About Jazz on April 20, 2019. The website Really Smooth Music provides the definition of the term Yacht Rock as being "a variation of popular Soft Rock that ...

Now it's time to heat up leftovers, relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-'70s songs of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Christopher ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here’s the first thing you need to know about yacht rock: even if you’ve never heard of it, you probably know every song.

The songs were wistful things in which men explored their emotions: “There’s something about Yacht Rock where men embraced being a sad sack loser in a really big way,” said one contributor.

Now it’s time to heat up leftovers, relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-’70s songs of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and ...

Price asks for his general thoughts about the music subculture his band launched. Fagen responds: “Oh, yacht rock. Well, I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you go f- — yourself?” It’s a ...