original artwork: an outerglow/Bangers & Trash/@coal_slaw collaborationmedium: Macintosh Preview; desktop-background size available for download here
note: we recognize Tellier isn't yacht rock but he epitomizes Naught Yacht (naughtical?) Style amirite?
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin (Every Time You're Near) (256)
Toto - Rosanna (320)
Warren G - Regulate (192)
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (DJ Apt One Drum Edit) (320)*
Lately we've been getting the sinking feeling that we're old. If we 'go out' more than 2 nights in a week, we spend our Sunday/Monday feeling like this happened to us. Sad as that may be, there is a remedy almost more potent than a bloody-mary-advil cocktail (official drink of outerglow), and that remedy is smoothness. Yes, we're talking about yacht rock; the soothing sounds of the Doobies, Steely Dan, Michael M and their late 70s/early 80s contemporaries have gently rocked our hangovers away many an afternoon. Here to wash away your seasonal depression are some of our favorite yacht rock classics, including our favorite Michael McDonald track from '82, 'I Keep Forgettin,' and the West Coast's smoothest gangsta Warren G's '94 hit that samples it, 'Regulate.'
*Okay, there is some debate that Hall & Oates are not 'yacht rock,' but in fact just 'rock.' But for us, yacht is more a state of mind than a tightly-defined genre... if it feels smooth and yuppie, well fuck, it can be yacht. Plus this uber-percussive edit by DJ Apt One of Philadephyinz is chronic.
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