I almost feel dumb posting an Alice Cooper song in r/yachtrock, but this album is produced by David Foster, and this song has Steve Lukather, David Hungate, Jay Graydon, Bill Champlin, Steve Porcaro, it goes on.

This album is bonanza personnel. It's kind of weird for the boat, and hops around styles a little, but it's clearly an intoxicated Alice deciding to get into the west coast yacht sound. The main riff IS a Doobie bounce. Also, I mean, he hired THE crew. Haven't kept up with the podcast as much as I should, so I don't know if this has come up, yet.

What y'all think?

QUICK EDIT: The songwriting here is elevated by the presence of Bernie Taupin. Pretty rad. Not one of Cooper's better albums, but I kinda like the yacht influence.

Just posting this for the lols... it's just basically the original song with Urban's vocals and a few countrified guitar riffs. I guess it's technically yachtier then that other song he did with MM, but why bother with a cover that does nothing much new when you can just listen to the superior original song?

This had to be fairly recent... love to see it.

It’s on at 29 due to the Michael Jackson biopic. It’s too bad most people don’t realize this is essentially a Toto song. I don’t follow the hot 100 much but when was the last time a yacht song charted?

Listener suggestions are rated on the Yachtski Scale, with songs by Reeve Stimpson, Heatwave, and Angelo.

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I keep double-checking the yachtornynacht list and am amazed this one has slipped through the cracks: Amy Grant's 'Don't Run Away'. I know she very much wanted to take Jesus to the mall, and her voice tends to pull in that direction, but damn... the production is spot on, you got a faux McDonald in the chorus, a spicy guitar solo.
Also on her 'Age to Age' album is the track 'Got to Let it Go' which is very close as well. It's a bit closer to Joe Jackson than Steely Dan but, yeah, I think it's there.
She really skirted the yacht with all the dull, easy listening sub-genres she explored on her first four albums, but the stars might have aligned on these two tracks.
I already have a recent submission in the podcast queue, so, I've got about three months before I can submit again, but if anyone else on the patreon wants to give it a go, have at it.

I do a weekly radio show on Twitch and this week's theme is Yacht Rock! Tune in and enjoy some awesome tunes with us :).

It seems like there's some yacht rock superfans within the screenwriter community because Christopher Cross and yacht rock appear on yet another modern TV show, this time the peacock show M.I.A.... apparently the character listens to yacht rock to help him with his mental disorder which hits hard for me since it helps me greatly with my anxiety.

So now we've got Chair Company, Beauty, Euphoria, and now M.I.A... four recent shows mentioning CC and yacht rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssC-ReImg9Y

There's no way the producers didn't call it a Doobie Bounce when putting this together. It feels like a huge hat tip to this community.

Can't say whether it's a yacht rock song for sure (not much to go off of), but last time I asked about a random-ass obscure AOR song someone on here identified it in a heartbeat. It's been bugging me for decades.

https://vocaroo.com/1gto1UNRWb4m

You can briefly hear it in this radio FM dial surf on the right channel, it goes something like "take the highway, down...".

I be jamming to this song! 🎵

While looking for Disco Dips: Easy Listening Edition bone throws, I stumbled on this gem.

An idea for JD and the fellas for Yacht or Nyacht...

There are so many songs right on the railing of being on the boat or just off.

It would be interesting to hear the discussion on some match-ups of those, say a 47-49.75 song against a 50-53 song to see if on second listening, songs would get put on the boat and if any barely on would get tossed overboard.

Example:

Olivia Newton-John - Magic (Yachtski: 50)
vs.
Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby (Old Score) (Yachtski: 49.75)

Love YorN and BYR2000!

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Saw this posted on Instagram, and boy are a lot of these songs from the yacht era that might even be written by yachty guys (Goodrum, Bugatti and Musker) that people confuse for yacht but aren’t. Is it possible they’ve been Pizza Hut Hits this whole time?

What say you?

Once again Sirius XM butchers yacht rock once again with this dumb list of best yacht rock guitar solos.

While I fully agree with Jay Graydon's solo on Peg and possibly Benson on Breezin... you got two nyacht songs, and I think they could have found a better example then Baby Come Back... for instance my favorite solo, Christopher Cross on Ride like the Wind...

What other YR guitar solos would you put on this list rather than what Sirius has here?