Over the weekend I came across a MentalFloss article about Yacht Rock.
This is always a fun topic for me, especially since we are now in the summer season. Yacht Rock is a pseudo-genre of music that’s basically 70s/80s smooth rock.
More about it here, but the TL;DR about this is we’re talking stuff like Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Toto, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins…you get the gist.
This is a total guilty pleasure of mine. Back in 2014 I created what I considered the definitive Yacht Rock playlist on Spotify.
Rhino Records was running a contest at that time for “best playlist” and I submitted mine and won! They sent me a bunch of CDs, records and Rhino Records swag. Way cool!
So here is the “award winning” playlist in all its glory!