25+ Yacht Rock Memes Grooving to What a Fool Believes

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Apr 30, 2025 10:00 PM EDT

Like many, I recently watched the documentary, Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, which tells the story of how some of my (and your) favorite music came to be known as "yacht rock." And the answer, as it is wont to do… may surprise you. Yacht rock is a descriptor that has been applied after the fact, come up with by a group of comedians in the early 2000s for a web series parodying this kind of music.

In a musical sense, it's music made by a swath of California bands from the 70s and 80s who all had jazz influence and prioritized funky melodies. In an aesthetic sense, it's music you could imagine sipping a beer to while you cruise around on a boat in the summertime. You know it when you hear it. It's Toto, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, and really anything touched by Michael McDonald. In short, it's good music.

If you're here, you know that. You know that this type of music has an astounding ability to make you feel awesome. The melodies groove you, the lyrics move you, and you can't stop spinning the records time after time, year after year. So we're here to celebrate that type of music in the best way we know how, through memes.
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All a person needs

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Try again sweetie

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I'm caught

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The Boz Scaggs Bus

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Donald Fagen Says No!

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