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If someone wanted to take on such a format on a fulltime basis they would soon have to expand the definition of the genre.
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I just happened see the yacht rock "dockumentary" today on a flight home from Vancouver. One of the people interviewed makes a point of calling our Hall & Oates as *not* being yacht rock as they hail from Philadelphia and their sound reflects that, i.e. that it's not part of the Southern California sound.
The main feature of a Yacht Rock format is to give bored guys a reason to debate what is or isn't Yacht Rock
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boom does a whole day of Yacht Rock, every August on a random Saturday.
That random Saturday in August comes this weekend. If you were ever curious about what this genre of music sounds like, this is your chance to hear it. 
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boom does a whole day of Yacht Rock, every August on a random Saturday.
That random Saturday in August comes this weekend. If you were ever curious about what this genre of music sounds like, this is your chance to hear it.
This is reminding me of being in a Zellers in 1988. (complimentarily)
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boom does a whole day of Yacht Rock, every August on a random Saturday.
That random Saturday in August comes this weekend. If you were ever curious about what this genre of music sounds like, this is your chance to hear it.
I happened to have Boom on for a couple of hours this afternoon and because of the narrowness of the vibe, the ebb and flow (meh and go?) of the music can get pretty bland after a while. If there's not enough variation in the energy level it quickly becomes yaawn rock. At times Boom boated perilously close to the good ship CHFI. I know that last sentence makes no sense but then neither does yacht rock.
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I give Boom points for doing something like this. One of their announcers said this was the fourth year on the station. Interesting, but the songs and artists would get repetitive very quickly if any station programmed Yacht Rock all the time. I read that the only "station" with this format that has enjoyed any popularity has been on Sirius XM. Seems to be similar to the old EazyRock or an older and mellower Breeze station.
Broadcast stations adopting this apparently haven't had much success and not many have moved to the format. Anyway when I tuned in it was nice to hear a few songs that haven't been played for a while. Agree with betaylored too many of the songs are similar tempo and the energy level musically doesn't have enough highs and lows. Best part was at least Boom had live announcers when I listened and I am sure those that tuned in enjoyed the mellow and quieter sounds.
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It was fun to listen to some of it, but I have to agree with many here that you can only take so much of the same kind of music for so long. There is a repetitive rhythm to so-called "Yacht Rock" that gets tiresome fairly quickly. It clearly could not maintain itself over the long run.
That’s what made the old Top 40 format in the 60s and 70s so great. You ever knew what was coming next. One minute, the latest Beatles song, the next, came Dean Martin or Mama Cass. That could never happen today when so much is rigidly formatted. But it sure was exciting back in the day.
Yacht Rock’s lack of variety would sink the ship before it was day out of port. But a day of it was at least somewhat entertaining.
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So I tuned in just after 2pm, “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck was playing. So I tuned out just after 2pm as I was afraid “Afternoon Delight” would soon follow, two of my least favourite songs!
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