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Hollywood Steve Huey
@hollywoodsteve.bsky.social
Music nerd, Chicago Cubs/Bears fan, Yacht Rock webseries host, ex-VH1 talking head, ex-Allmusic, podcast co-host (Beyond Yacht Rock, Yacht or Nyacht, Billion Dollar Record Club). Still working on the yacht rock book. Please enjoy my niche special interests
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THREAD OF RELEVANT YACHT ROCK PLAYLISTS TO PIN TO MY PROFILE
First off, here is a long, roughly chronological history of yacht rock I put together to trace how the genre evolved over time. Not so much Officially Certified, but always relevant to the sound in some way
open.spotify.com/playlist/3ut...
YACHT ROCK: A PURIST'S HISTORY
Playlist · hollywoodsteve · 678 items · 5.3K saves
open.spotify.com
"And she's GOT such a long way to GOOOOOOO"
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sports is an escapist wish-fulfillment fantasy world where people who suck at their jobs get fired, people who are good at them get paid extremely well, and there exists an extensive infrastructure to identify, develop, and mentor talent
So you're saying (*opens notebook*) when you're in charge of an organization that repeatedly fails, eventually (*scribbles furiously*) you get fired and replaced? What the
BREAKING: The Giants are firing head coach Brian Daboll after Sunday’s loss to the Bears, per sources.

Daboll, who won Coach of the Year in 2022, finishes his New York tenure with a 20-40-1 record in 3+ seasons.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is a MAJOR point in favor of Joe Burrow
I always post this but it’s always complementary. To my knowledge Joe Burrow is one of the very few millionaire professional athletes who isn’t a piece of shit but he does love the movie Pootie Tang so well here we are.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A socialist LA would be the greatest city in human history
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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We need to bring physical media back in a big way. It’s great we can get what we want on digital, sure, but how am I going to organize my Blu-ray’s by genre and then alphabetically without hard copies?
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Hey! Death metal is relevant! Get a primer from @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social to be in the know.

www.vice.com/en/article/m...
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Never thought I'd live to see a SECOND socialist Muslim elected to public office!!!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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hey uhh just to be clear they’re just trying to cull the population cutting SNAP, shutting down the govt, killing healthcare - the end goal is a silent genocide of the poorest least enfranchised Americans so there’s more left for them - that’s it, that’s the whole plan
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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going out in Los Angeles be like:
Why does it cost $100 to go outside
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Why the fuck do these people think so many of us MOVED TO BIG CITIES IN THE FIRST PLACE
it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before
The educated liberal big city US folks outraged at Trump's renovation of Lincoln bathroom really need to scroll some Facebook of their less established relatives and friends to see what kind of aesthetic resonates with Trump's target audience.
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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If anyone’s interested in saving the US Entertainment Industry, here’s what we need:
- Anti-Trust Enforcement
- Bring Back Fin-Syn
- Trust Creative Execs Over Algorithms
- Ban David Zaslav
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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translating this in indie terms: each baseball team has 10 johnny marrs and 16 morrisseys but you root for the smiths as a whole
to everyone considering adopting baseball, welcome, it’s a great sport, you’re going to have a wonderful time

an important PSA: do not look up the politics of any baseball player, because they are - with rare exceptions - horrendous
fuck it I might actually get into baseball
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Also just in time for Halloween, my next captained episode of BEYOND YACHT ROCK 2000 delves into a genre we all know exists: HOBBIT METAL
open.spotify.com/episode/1whu...
133. Hobbit Metal
open.spotify.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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My first piece for Discogs is up just in time for Halloween! THE ALBUMS THAT INVENTED DEATH METAL
The Albums That Invented Death Metal
Explore the origins of death metal with these essential albums, featuring genre-defining classics from Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and more.
www.discogs.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Counterpoint: 80-90% of these songs do, in fact, rule ("Waiting for a Star to Fall" in particular is a BANGER)
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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heard a Steely Dan song on those big movie theater speakers
What’s the highlight of your week so far?
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.

Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.

Try standing for something. See how it feels.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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It's so funny that "blue eyed soul" is a genre. "It sounds different when a white person sings it!" (And it does! It totally does)
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The people have spoken!!
Hey @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social were you the author of this piece on discogs?

www.discogs.com/digs/music/e...

I'm pretty much speechless because I can't disagree on like anything. Except I would have gone with "Scream Bloody Gore" but even then you mentioned it.

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The Albums That Invented Death Metal
Explore the origins of death metal with these essential albums, featuring genre-defining classics from Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and more.
www.discogs.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My first piece for Discogs is up just in time for Halloween! THE ALBUMS THAT INVENTED DEATH METAL
The Albums That Invented Death Metal
Explore the origins of death metal with these essential albums, featuring genre-defining classics from Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and more.
www.discogs.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM