Sunny 105 - Yacht Rock and Classic

Yacht rock gets dismissed constantly as insufficiently serious - the result of music snobbishness rather than honest aesthetic judgment. Sunny 105 doesn't care. The station programs tracks that actually defined listening for millions of people across the late 70s and 80s, from Hall and Oates to Steely Dan to contemporary artists who learned from that era's production sophistication. The term yacht rock itself misses the point. These songs are structurally complex, orchestrated with care, and built for people who wanted pop music with instrumental depth. The station gets that. Curation avoids t…