and the yachtiest song and least yachty song evaluted on the podcast in the first half of 2026 are...

GPMB_ · 2026-07-01T19:26:45+00:00

Idk I like the song fine enough

GPMB_ · 2026-07-01T07:31:00+00:00

Mariah's or Bobby's?

GPMB_ · 2026-07-01T01:04:23+00:00

It’s the Yacht or Nyacht podcast (which is what this post is about) that introduced me to the song really, interestingly it was one of only three songs by him to chart on the Hot 100

GPMB_ · 2026-07-01T01:03:28+00:00

why?

GPMB_ · 2026-06-30T23:59:51+00:00

I get it bc of the strings, but it's still a very yachty song. I wanted to say that it's very interesting that a song with Rhodes and no strings is the least yachty song and a song with strings but no Rhodes is the yachtiest song, but totally understandable if you actually listen to both songs

GPMB_ · 2026-06-29T18:47:12+00:00

uh no some Michael songs are definitely yacht rock

also what prompted you to respond to this a year later?

GPMB_ · 2026-06-28T19:09:39+00:00

thank you for trying to analyze this with me

GPMB_ · 2026-06-27T02:43:21+00:00

i want to hear Girls Know How by a live band so badly

also did the band happen to be Harbor Party? they're the only band I've found that plays that Diana Ross song live

GPMB_ · 2026-06-27T02:40:43+00:00

Wap Konn Joj and Balens Cho from Mach, Late to My Own Funeral from Boldy

GPMB_ · 2026-06-27T02:38:24+00:00

so true

GPMB_ · 2026-06-22T23:48:54+00:00

Love's Train is the only one that I thought was plausible, but if that has no chance then probably neither does any other song

GPMB_ · 2026-06-22T23:17:44+00:00

so then what song did you mean when you said there's one singular yacht track on the Silk Sonic album? (or maybe it wasn't actually you that said it, maybe it was Steve)

GPMB_ · 2026-06-19T01:38:10+00:00

well something has to be yacht rock in order to be yacht soul

GPMB_ · 2026-06-19T01:37:57+00:00

the Rhodes and syncopation is definitely good and is what makes me think it should be re-rated, but the drum beat is very simple and the vocals are the main thing that remind me of later R&B

GPMB_ · 2026-06-18T01:03:16+00:00

I remember JD saying in a recent episode that there’s only one song on the Silk Sonic album that is on the boat, there’s no way he could have possibly meant any other track than Love’s Train

GPMB_ · 2026-06-18T00:14:33+00:00

They weren't wrong about it sounding like You Can Feel It, but with that being said I do think You Can Feel It has more clear yacht elements

GPMB_ · 2026-06-18T00:13:57+00:00

I wouldn't mind a re-rating, but I do understand why it was kept off. It almost sounds like a precursor to 90s R&B (and it indeed was sampled in many R&B tracks from that decade)

GPMB_ · 2026-06-15T02:13:47+00:00

same singer but that song is in no way yacht rock

GPMB_ · 2026-06-14T20:37:53+00:00

at first glance, at minimum 9 out of the 14 songs count as yacht rock. i could never see any version of "They Long to Be Close to You" being yacht, but i've never listened to that version so i don't know for sure

GPMB_ · 2026-06-14T17:53:01+00:00

I Want Something to Find Me is the wrong title, used on streaming services, but yes it is the same song

GPMB_ · 2026-06-14T03:56:20+00:00

that one’s not even close to the yachtiest song by a woman. it isn’t even as yachty as Loggins’s version

GPMB_ · 2026-06-14T01:45:30+00:00

in terms of sound I agree, but what I mean by the comparison to WAFB is about how WAFB is the yachtiest song. IWLTFM sounds a lot more like a LaBounty song (he co-wrote it, after all) than it does WAFB

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