"Take 537"

No more Yacht Rock?! Sad news via Channel 101:

Yacht Rock enjoyed success on levels and in ways previously unattained by 101 shows, its title becoming a household phrase at radio stations, a bin at your local record store and a category on iTunes. But beneath its pop cultural triumph was an artistic one that often went undescribed: Yacht Rock's stories were always clever and sometimes downright genius in their assembly, weaving trivia, common knowledge, exaggerations and fabrications into a rope strong enough to hold it at the #1 position for an unbelievable number of non-consecutive months, setting audience share records at Channel 101 that are unlikely to be broken any time soon and sweeping the 2005 Channy Awards. Ironically, Channel 101's most memorable show came to its end quietly and unremarkably, not unlike some of the careers it saluted with a smirk. Instead of choking on its vomit in a Paris bathtub or overdosing on a Hollywood sidewalk, Yacht Rock simply told us one last story about Steely Dan, then hoisted its sails and drifted away while a satisfied crowd waved goodbye from the docks, exactly one incredible year after its historical debut.

We'll miss you Hollywood Steve.

Steely Dan - "FM (Live On PBS Jan '00)" (MP3 Link Expired)

Posted at 1:06 AM in MP3
Tags: Steely Dan | Yacht Rock

10 Comments

chad...VADER

check out the new number one show Chad Vader that I helped shoot with Matt and Aaron as their AD/ETC. I am usually more transcendental, but humor can be cool too

http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=201

Posted by: Doug at 06/27/06 3:15 AM | Reply
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"Hi, I'm Hollywood Steve, and you've caught me taking a shit"

Uncanny. Just threw a Yachy Rock themed party on Saturday...

Posted by: cons james at 06/27/06 8:37 AM | Reply
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I'll miss Yacht Rock. Without question the best 101 show ever. Yonda and Sloan can suck an egg.

Posted by: Aidan Lucey at 06/27/06 9:00 AM | Reply
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I went to see a "Light Rock" cover band Friday nite. They were quite good, and they played for 3 hours with no real break (when they needed a loo, they'd play a smoooooooth groove until the missing member got back) -- God, they were smoooooooth.

Posted by: AstroPipe at 06/27/06 10:22 AM | Reply
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Hall & Oates are rolling over in their graves

Posted by: Chris at 06/27/06 10:34 AM | Reply
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Now I feel compelled to go to the Steely Dan/Michael McDonald concert, but I'm not sure I'll be able to handle the smoothness...

Posted by: Stephen at 06/27/06 4:15 PM | Reply
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WTF?!!! Hall & Oates are dead?!!!

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