This maniac reckons Hall & Oates and The Doobie Brothers are 'soft rock'.

[Sir C]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/27/michael-mcdonald-doobie-brothers-hall-oates-toto-soft-rock-got-cool

How do you get to be an adult without your ears learning to recognise soul music?

[redgunamo]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/27/michael-mcdonald-doobie-brothers-hall-oates-toto-soft-rock-got-cool

How do you get to be an adult without your ears learning to recognise soul music?

It's cultural appropriation gone mad, innit. You crackers aren't allowed to do soul music.

[Sir C]

It's cultural appropriation gone mad, innit. You crackers aren't allowed to do soul music.

I would imagine that this is especially triggering for you, r. Do you have a safe space to which you can retreat and deal with your feelz? :-(

[barrybueno]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/27/michael-mcdonald-doobie-brothers-hall-oates-toto-soft-rock-got-cool

How do you get to be an adult without your ears learning to recognise soul music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZS1XHdIs0 :hehe:

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

It's cultural appropriation gone mad, innit. You crackers aren't allowed to do soul music.

in touch with your legal people but, I must warn you, this won't be cheap to resolve.

[redgunamo]

I would imagine that this is especially triggering for you, r. Do you have a safe space to which you can retreat and deal with your feelz? :-(

It's too late; my feelings have been marginalised :-(

[Burney]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/27/michael-mcdonald-doobie-brothers-hall-oates-toto-soft-rock-got-cool

How do you get to be an adult without your ears learning to recognise soul music?

I was under the impression it was known as 'Yacht Rock' anyway.

[redgunamo]

I was under the impression it was known as 'Yacht Rock' anyway.

I'd never come across that phrase before.

[Burney]

I'd never come across that phrase before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock

[World's End Stella]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/27/michael-mcdonald-doobie-brothers-hall-oates-toto-soft-rock-got-cool

How do you get to be an adult without your ears learning to recognise soul music?

I thought that by definition soul music could only be played by brothers?

Or am I blatantly racist? :-(

[Sir C]

I was under the impression it was known as 'Yacht Rock' anyway.

I wish people would stop just making things up, b. 'Yacht rock', for all love.

[Sir C]

I thought that by definition soul music could only be played by brothers?

Or am I blatantly racist? :-(

Yes, the Doobie Brothers and the Hall & Oates brothers :shrug:

[redgunamo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock

Yes, I'm familiar with the music and most of those artists; it's basically a list of "Miami Vice" guest stars, after all. I'd just never heard it called "yacht rock".

[Burney]

Yes, the Doobie Brothers and the Hall & Oates brothers :shrug:

Hall & Oates :hehe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh5f-_I1df4