Hollywood Steve Huey
Music nerd, Chicago Cubs/Bears fan, Yacht Rock webseries host, ex-VH1 talking head, ex-Allmusic, podcast co-host (Beyond Yacht Rock, Yacht or Nyacht, Billion Dollar Record Club). Still working on the yacht rock book. Please enjoy my niche special interests
- In addition to this obviously bugged plane, they should also gift him a big beautiful wooden horse, which they should leave outside the gates of Mar-a-Lago, such a big beautiful wooden horse that it would be stupid to not bring the free horse inside the gates at night
- Only two????? Sir, give credit where credit is due. "Yacht Rock" was the creation of at least three to possibly five jerk-offs, depending on the rigor of your definition. Accurate information is readily available on Wikipedia
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View full threadEh even in that environmenet, I bet they'd still be very unfriendly to Jazz
- This is true of every major antagonist in the Yacht Rock webseries (Hall & Oates, the Eagles, Jimmy Buffett) - they were chosen from the wider world of soft rock for NOT sounding like yacht rock
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- We portrayed them as frat douches. IRL their 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion tour was the biggest single reason why concert ticket prices for legacy acts went through the roof
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- They make great music! It's just not yacht rock, aside from like a couple of songs. They don't have the jazz influence of the SoCal scene bc they are from the mean streets of Philly
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- Fancy Ray! After this local Minneapolis celebrity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Ray
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- It seems to fit the general air with which he carries himself
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- Neither of you are making this up!
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- thank you kindly!!!
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- No idea, I've never been super interested in Song Interpreter-era Barry
- This week on Beyond Yacht Rock 2000, I present Part 1 of what will be a three-part rundown of '80s "college" rock, this time looking at alternative rock bands who managed to score Top 40 crossover hits in the pre-Nirvana years of 1987-1991. I'm calling this branch Undergrad Thesis Rock
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- Yeah I mean they started out alternative-coded, but looking back, it's hard for me to still conceive of something like The Joshua Tree as a true alt-rock album
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- Ooh shit I hope we don't overlap too much! I got 2 parts still to go!
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- I feel like that era of British dance might be its own thing, but I haven't figured out an angle yet. I wanted this to be more about the core artists of alt-rock
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- Thank you kindly!
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- I need a job, I'll be da pope
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- First full year I listened to American Top 40! Perfect timing
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- I had to leave certain new-wave-coded bands to get it down to a Top Ten...
- Thank you for your support!!
- You're welcome, America
- For this to help entertainment-industry workers like me, he'd have to penalize American studios for offshoring their production and post-production operations, which is actually what's happening, instead of translating it into anti-foreigner xenophobia, which is the only thing he'd try in practice
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- I also have no idea, I mostly just deal(t) with shitty reality shows that have already been shot and the footage brought back here
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- eh probably, I can still hear the Dan in there, even if the drumming rocks way harder
- 50 years ago, centrists called themselves "Rockefeller Republicans" and belonged to the other party
- well bc you're on the same "team," obviously
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- yeah pretty much!
- Super encouraging for those of us possibly needing to go back to school for something, since the bottom seems to have fallen out of the entertainment industry here in LA. Can't wait to be forced into usurious interest rates from unregulated private lenders, lololololol
- How easy would it be to equate that guy with Mr. Garrison from South Park constantly asking "NOW can we get rid of all the Mexicaaaaans"
- Him and a lot of other rich business dicks
- Our mostly annual Beyond Yacht Rock rundown of this year's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame nominees came out last week, in an exciting new countdown format!
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- Fantastic, thank you very much!
- I think this is a big part of why ICE is just grabbing random guys with tattoos. It's not bc they can't tell who's who, it's for the photo ops on conservative social media with all the scary-looking tattooed guys in crowded jail cells behind them. They're making these decisions like a casting agency
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- First installment is gonna be the MOST mainstream of the era, haha
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- "The thing that worked a few decades ago in a completely different world is The Thing That Works, it is The ONLY Thing That Can Ever Work, and we must restore its objectively proven, context-free workingness"
- Being criticized by a leftist makes people feel like they're Bad Guys, but winning over a former opponent to their "team" validates them as the Good Guys
- My dad is 79 and still teaching and is putting off retirement even longer for this exact reason (his hard-won union insurance covers his Crohn's treatments, so this is potentially an existential issue)
- THAT'S THE COURAGE TO LOVE SOMEBODAYYYYYY
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- contrary to popular belief, the Pina Colada Song never counts as yacht rock
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- I have no recollection of this lolol
- Weird how they keep saying they can barely afford to make any TV shows or movies and then this keeps happening. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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- Officially certified as yacht at www.yachtornyacht.com - also when it hit #1 on the adult contemporary chart in a full-length version in 1987, it was kind of the last gasp of the yacht era. Rivaled only by Joey Scarbury's "Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)"
- Talked to an old boss last week who said "I'd love to work with you again, I know 20 people who'd hire you immediately, but none of them are working right now either"
- The only time I actually voted for a Green Party presidential candidate was in 2012 and it was 100% because of this
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- Oh interesting, I've not read that yet!
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- The only explanation I ever saw that really seemed to drill down into the core of it was somebody replying "...it's just better" with no further details. They clearly did not understand why either. That seems to me like the essence of the whole thing
- I think it was a combo of anxieties about "selling out" (which today seem like a quaint luxury) and a sort of testosterone purge from the more underground part of the scene. Like, the "wrong people" started showing up at grunge concerts in the '90s as "alternative" became the term for the mainstream
- To me, what became coded as "indie" was an avoidance of overt masculinity and sexuality, at least in the sound, so that it didn't draw in potentially problematic elements (i.e. the "jock bullies" who got into grunge). Of course some indie musicians were still toxic-manipulator types themselves
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- Awwwwww thank you very much!
