Like all great things, Yacht Rock, too, must come to an end. And I guess it did by getting canceled with a somewhat sub-par episode 10 a couple weeks ago. Oh well. I had learned more than I ever wanted to about really horrible music, and I don’t know how much more my head could have taken. But just to reconstruct the history, here is a linear sequencing of the show (ignoring the horrible Jethro Tull-focused episode 6).
Goodbye, Koko:
Yacht Rock 8
Steely Dan - Any World (That I’m Welcome To) (1975)
Loggins & Mussina - Watching the River Run (1973)
Hall & Oates - Gino (The Manager) (1975)
Doobie Brothers - Taking It To The Streets (1976)
Yacht Rock 10
Steely Dan - Everything You Did (1976)
The Eagles - Hotel California (1976)
Steely Dan - FM (1978)
Yacht Rock 9
Doobie Brothers - Echoes of Love (1977)
Van Halen - I’m The One (1978)
Yacht Rock 1
Kenny Loggins - Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’ (1978)
Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes (1978)
Yacht Rock 2
Hall & Oates - Portable Radio (1979)
Kenny Loggins - This Is It (1979)
Christopher Cross - Sailing (1980)
Yackt Rock 3
Steely Dan - Time Out of Mind (1980)
Kenny Loggins - Keep the Fire (1979)
Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright (1980)
Yacht Rock 4
Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom (1986)
Kenny Loggins - Don’t Fight It (1982)
Toto - Rosanna (1982)
Yacht Rock 5
Michael McDonald - Believe In It (1982)
Kenny Loggins - I Gotta Try (1982)
Michael Jackson - Human Nature (1982)
Yacht Rock 7
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) (1982)
Warren G - Regulate (1994)
I have built the fortress of smoothitude and it can never be penetrated by your post-rock-garage-electro-clash-shoe gazer-poo music. Hahahahha! (deranged forboding laugh)
Relax, hotshot. My artists fuel their vessel with their blood. And their broken dreams!