Yacht Rock is certainly not my favourite genre, but there are some tunes that I do like.

What Stones songs perhaps qualify as Yacht Rock? Beast of Burden? Quite a bit of Steel Wheels?

What do you think?

(as an aside, here is my favourite Yacht Rock tune of the moment:

Lindsay Buckingam 'Trouble'

I will stick to barge boogey!

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With recent ticket prices, I can only afford Kayak Rock. (And with kayaks, it’s not so much the rock...it’s all about the rolllll! )

(Anyone who suggests It’s All Over Now shall be bitten...as soon as I’m out of lockdown.)

Did you just make that up, yacht rock? That would be music you would commonly find coming from a yacht? Well at one time that would be Loggins & Messina, or Crosby, or Jimmy Buffett. These days I would think this might fit






That would be my yacht anyway.


How about Satisfaction or Miss You?


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Maybe. Can't really think of anything else. Beast of Burden too funky to be yacht rock.

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Did you just make that up, yacht rock? That would be music you would commonly find coming from a yacht? Well at one time that would be Loggins & Messina, or Crosby, or Jimmy Buffett. These days I would think this might fit

That would be my yacht anyway.


How about Satisfaction or Miss You?


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That's funny - I wouldn't consider Jimmy Buffett as yacht rock. Wasn't there a Sirius channel called that?

Very few tracks the lads have made would qualify for that genre. Yacht rock, even the name conjures up sterile soulless 80s gated reverb madness! Perhaps one or two from Steel Wheels, that's about it.

Agreed on Kayak rock With only one paddle what can you do!

Yacht rock is soft rock that embraced smoother R&B sensibilities in combination with layered vocal harmonies and state-of-the-art production.
Must have electric piano on it.

Think Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Toto, Kenny Loggins, Gino Vannelli... acts like that.

Maybe stuff like Fool to Cry or Beast of Burden. But also; not really.

Never thought of Lindsey’s Trouble as Yacht Rock. Brilliant tune though.

Biggest Mistake, perhaps?

BowieStone, 'Trouble' ticks all the criteria you mention! (except I don't think it has electric piano)

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Biggest Mistake, perhaps?

Nah, that's more like "chick music"... I wouldn't call it yacht rock.

I don't think anything they did falls under that category, but agree some stuff on SW is the closest they ever got.



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The Stones and "yacht rock" don't belong in the same sentence - the closest you'll get is some Jagger solo material,
but even that's a stretch as most yacht rock acts are somewhat popular w/many loyal fans (Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Doobie Brothers, etc.).

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Naah ... the Stones aren't yacht rock at all. Some "older" groups went into that territory in the late 70s, like Crosby Stills & Nash, or The Beach Boys (around Love You?), but the Stones never sounded like it, not even in their schmaltziest electric piano disco phase. They're too loose, too "black", too British, and not slick enough. The closest I can think of are some of the falsetto-laden stuff like Tops or No Use In Crying.

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Naah ... the Stones aren't yacht rock at all. Some "older" groups went into that territory in the late 70s, like Crosby Stills & Nash, or The Beach Boys (around Love You?), but the Stones never sounded like it, not even in their schmaltziest electric piano disco phase. They're too loose, too "black", too British, and not slick enough. The closest I can think of are some of the falsetto-laden stuff like Tops or No Use In Crying.

Or perhaps, "Fool To Cry"

"No Anchovies, Please"

Wouldn't "Angie" fit in this category?

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Yacht rock is soft rock that embraced smoother R&B sensibilities in combination with layered vocal harmonies and state-of-the-art production.
Must have electric piano on it.

Think Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Toto, Kenny Loggins, Gino Vannelli... acts like that.

You are correct. "Yacht Rock" is the new label for what was once called "Soft Rock"--that bland stuff you'd hear playing in a dentist waiting room. Bread was perhaps the first group to really define and own that turf.

There used to be an LA station that played that stuff with the slogan, "Rockin' You Softly." Which is a contradiction.

"Rockin' You Softly" is like saying "F**king You Limply!"


Back in the day, I remember a lot of good-looking girls who really LIKED this type of music. My question to the guys out there is, did you ever date or go with a girl whose tastes in music were horrendous, who loved stuff that you just could not stand?

If you did, were you able to respect yourself in the morning?

In the early 80's I worked with a good-looking woman who complained to me that her ex-husband only wanted to listen to Chuck Berry (which was kind of a rare, cool thing back then) in the car, while she liked... John Denver. I didn't know what to say. Part of me wanted to ask her out, but I just couldn't face the thought of having to subject myself to John Denver.

Even worse, she told me that years earlier she had seen Led Zeppelin in 1971 at the Forum, but was real ho-hum about it. It was just another date for her. What a great show that must have been, and what a waste of a ticket.



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Great stories, Loog Droog!

"Yacht rock"? oh shit... You Americans are funny people.... Never heard the label before, but just from the semantics of it and the clues people are here giving I can only think that the Stones do not at all fit to the category. Put Maccas or whatever FabFours there it might do better (doesn't 'everybody' love - that is, not to be bothered by - soft-sounding, melody-driven Beatles, no?). Probably some of their easy-going, soft tunes might sound relevant ("Angie", "Fool To Cry", Keith's 'adult' ballads?), but they are way too 'difficult' and controversial to fit. Too much edge. Of course, some boring Hairball here tries to use this opportunity to bash Jagger in any way as possible - he is as predictable and cruel as the last US president as we know - but Mick's antics and music has always been way too controversial to please such easy-listening expectations. And people know, hear and recognize that. Mick's way too distinguished. Too much middle finger there (although they are mostly fingered towards too conservative, lazy, bored, racist (MAGA) rock audiences, but that's the potential audience for 'yacht rock' as well). Even in worst Mick's musical adventures - say, "Let's Work" - there's nothing yacht rock. He would run those people away shocked... Most likely anybody, but surely them...

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Haha what a shithead....

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I'm not a fan of Soft Rock (see above) and while some genres become more defined after the fact (like "Sunshine Pop") the term "Yacht Rock" seems like another pointless snarky label. (Not unlike "Dad Jokes")
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Then there's these guys, who take the ball and run with it...

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For those unfamiliar with the term , the first words of my original opening post link you to the Wiki definition of Yacht Rock.

Also, Doxa, love much of your writings but I am certainly not from the USA

It's a growing genre here, too, to the point that bands use it in their marketing (+ they dress the part). However, it's hard to tell how it differs from soft rock, musically.

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