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February 9, 2006

Yacht Rock Gets Medieval On Your Ass | Hall & Oates & Will & Grace

I'd watch any viral vid that parodies Skunk Baxter, but no one does it like Channel 101's Yacht Rock.

Hollywood Steve gambled with some inside humor and a historical setting in Episode 6. Points for experimenting, but it cost them 1st place at the screening.

Download here: Yacht Rock #6 (MP4)

And to those with video iPods, get off your lazy ass and replace the ubiquitous "Lazy Sunday" with Yacht Rock #2 (MP4).

PREVIOUSLY: What Are You Gonna Do Sara ... Smile?

[Sidenote: At my friend's Super Bowl party, half the crowd poured into a bedroom at halftime when someone rolled a joint, curiously blasting Hall & Oates on his PC. So I missed the Olding Stones. I heard Keef exposed a nipple or something?]

UPDATE: Hall & Oates sent themselves up on Will & Grace tonight. Highlights from Ben Gibbard's and Brandon Flowers' favorite band's cameo:

WILL: Are you Hall & Oates?
OATES: Yeah. Actually, it's Oates & Hall now.
HALL: Every 25 years we flip it. When I agreed to it, I didn't think we'd last this long.

OATES: Lemme ask you something. Did we sleep together in Dayton, Ohio in 1981?
KAREN: Maybe. Were you in that pile with Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jett?

KAREN: Hey Tall and Oates, I'm not paying you two to stand around. Guess I should've hired hired Men At Work. Maybe we should pick up some dirty plates???
HALL: I can't got for that. No can do.
OATES: Whoops! Now you gotta put a dollar in the Old Lyric Jar.
HALL: You and that jar. Sometimes I think we've never gonna have that pizza party.

Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That (DMC Remix)" (MP3 Link Expired)

Hall is currently battling Lyme Disease. Relevant links on Daryl's Lyme Disease resource page.

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24 Comments

worst yacht rock yet - not remotely funny, even as an inside joke.

Posted by: witz.org at 02/09/06 8:12 PM | Reply
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It took half the crowd to roll a joint? Are your friends all amputees?

Posted by: Rich at 02/09/06 8:59 PM | Reply
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HA! did anybody see the part in tonight's oc where they were playing dcfc on "the valley" and the little sister sayed something like "i'm never listening to them again!"

Posted by: sodapop at 02/09/06 10:00 PM | Reply
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No.

Posted by: Rob at 02/09/06 10:25 PM | Reply
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Umm.... medieval

Posted by: Editor at 02/09/06 11:19 PM | Reply
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Thanks Editor. Fixed.

Posted by: scott at 02/09/06 11:41 PM | Reply
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Am I the only person who doesnt find Yacht Rock all that funny?

Posted by: jerk at 02/09/06 11:56 PM | Reply
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anyone hear about the grammies? arcade fire loses to white stripes. sucky.

Posted by: pearl at 02/10/06 12:05 AM | Reply
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speaking of steely dan...

heh...


anyone ever hear Azita's album Enantiodromia?

man. that's the best steely dan record they never released. amazing.

ok.

Posted by: schlarb at 02/10/06 12:20 AM | Reply
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Will and Grace might be the worst show on TV right now. It seems like they don't even try to be funny.

Posted by: Jeff at 02/10/06 2:40 AM | Reply
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Yeah, but Yacht Rock still beat HiJacked by 50 votes.
http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=177

Posted by: Stephen at 02/10/06 3:30 AM | Reply
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Oh man. hall and oates is a guilty pleasure of mine. i grew up in Connecticut where they live now. i used to love seeing them in town... they would go out to lunch together and stuff. but man, will and grace? thats a new plateau in adult contemporary.

Posted by: holcrumb at 02/10/06 6:57 AM | Reply
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It's 2006.. do people still "battle" lyme disease?
It sounds like if people still "battled" chicken pox...

Posted by: lymeCT at 02/10/06 8:35 AM | Reply
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Yeah, didn't dig this yacht rock as much. There's still 5 other episodes that rock hard, though.

Posted by: mrbenning at 02/10/06 11:20 AM | Reply
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yeah.. that was wear

http://www.pondracket.com

Posted by: mike at 02/10/06 1:35 PM | Reply
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Hey, I like this remix.

Posted by: memememe at 02/10/06 2:03 PM | Reply
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Why no Pearl, none of us heard about the Grammies - except for those of us that left 125+ comments in the big Grammy post - right below this one. Is the "Page Down" key broken on your keyboard?

As Satchel Pooch says in "Get Fuzzy" - snip!

Posted by: I Get The Point at 02/10/06 3:17 PM | Reply
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Yeah, Pearl. "If you don't get why Meg White's great, crank up the Toto."

Posted by: David at 02/10/06 3:19 PM | Reply
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While I appreciated the new Yacht Rock, I didn't find it very funny. I wanted to like it, but it just didn't cut it. All the other Yacht Rock's are awesome though, and I swear by them. My friends and I used to call that type of music Tennis Shoe Rock, but never made an accompanying video that chronicled the back story of the name. So I guess we lose.

Posted by: JFunk at 02/10/06 6:32 PM | Reply
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I cannot begin to say how much I love this post, or anything related to Hall & Oates, "Yacht Rock," and Ben Gibbard. yesssss.

Posted by: Taylor at 02/11/06 1:33 PM | Reply
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"Will and Grace might be the worst show on TV right now. It seems like they don't even try to be funny."

HOMOPHOBE!!! But seriously, yeah, they actually did a table read and everybody was like, "Okay, I guess this is what we're goin' with."

Posted by: Jim Treacher at 02/11/06 3:00 PM | Reply
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episode 6 does suck, but thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of episodes 1-5 -- genius!!

Posted by: Eli B at 02/11/06 7:56 PM | Reply
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If you don't find episode VI funny, even as an inside joke, then you are not on the inside. Rest assured, we'll be back to our old shennanigins in Ep. VII.

Posted by: K. Goldstein at 02/12/06 5:46 AM | Reply
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Rest in peace Koko. You are missed.

Posted by: mrbenning at 02/13/06 10:01 AM | Reply
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