Posted on 08/07/2022 10:15:12 AM PDT by SamAdams76
Many people are rabid fans of Yacht Rock but the one drawback was that the core playlist of the Yacht Rock genre was maybe 250-300 songs.
As great as those songs are, there are only so many times you can hear "Sailing" by Christopher Cross or "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers before aficionados of smooth, polished, studio-perfect soft rock end up flipping over to Margaritaville, The Bridge or that No Shoes station run by Kenny Chesney so as to introduce a little Jimmy Buffet, Roberta Flack, Gordon Lightfoot or Little River Band into their ears.
Let's face it, the standard Yacht Rock playlist needed a little broadening.
Well Sirius/XM heard your concerns loud and clear over the limited playlist of Yacht Rock and has introduced "Yacht Rock Deep Cuts", now available for streaming only on Channel 311.
Now there are literally thousands of semi-obscure smooth tracks to absorb as you ply your yacht through the deep blue waters of Narragansett Bay or the Long Island Sound. Or like me, sit on your back deck reading a book on a hot summer day while WISHING you had a yacht to cruise on.
For example, pretty much the entire catalog of Steely Dan (perhaps the greatest Yacht Rock artist of all time) can be found here. Just in the past 24 hours, I have already heard "Pearl Of The Quarter", "Night by Night", "Chain Lightning" and "Your Gold Teeth II" by Steely Dan. Not to mention the impeccable cover of "Show Biz Kids" by Rickie Lee Jones - who is sure to be one of the new superstars of Yacht Rock Deep Cuts.
Fleetwood Mac is another emerging superstar band on Yacht Rock Deep Cuts. The female voice was always lacking on the standard Yacht Rock station but now you have the smooth voices of Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie (Perfect) in abundance with tracks such as "Songbird", "Little Lies" and "Storms" (from the much under-appreciated "Tusk" album).
The new station delves much deeper into classic Yacht Rock acts such as Toto, in which you will now hear on a regular basis deeper tracks like "Chinatown", "Pamela", "99" and "Child's Anthem".
You will also hear smooth songs you never knew even existed by acts like Ambrosia, Pablo Cruise, Robbie Dupree, Boz Scaggs, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Seals & Croft. Just to name a few.
The potential playlist of this new station is said to be well over 10,000 tracks. Far more extensive than the rather predictable 250-300 songs that stay in heavy rotation on the primary channel. I would expect that several hundred new tracks get into the main channel as a result of this "Deep Tracks" initiative.
Thanks for this I’m giving it try right now. Who are those distinguished gentlemen?
Deep Cuts now playing "Wild Mountain Honey" by Steve Miller Band. Real smooooooth.
Try listening to Pop Rocks. It's the same 40-50 songs over and over again. Every year they'll cycle one or two songs out and one or two new songs in.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard the Village People on Yacht Rock!
What band or artist would be the poster child for "Yacht Rock"
I'll go ahead and start. First off, I really have no idea what the definition of Yacht Rock actually is, hence my asking the question. All I can say is I always had a vague idea that it was any song that reminded me of being out on a boat at sunset. As for the poster child, I'll suggest the Climax Blues Band song "I Love You". Although that's a song and not a band, so I'm not really answering my own question.
I had Pop Rocks in my favorites for a short while but yes, too repetitive so I removed it. Only so many times I could hear that Five For Fighting song.
I just discovered Yacht Rock a few weeks ago in my Amazon Prime music. It’s the perfect mix of music while working or swimming/sunning in the pool. They need to add it to DirecTV.
First dude is either Mario or Jim Croce!
Steely Dan is the poster child of Yacht Rock. Those guys would slave in the studio for years, bringing in various musicians, to get every track absolutely perfect. I'm not sure that Donald Fagen or Walter Becker ever saw sunlight. I picture them perpetually hunched behind a massive sound board, sliding dials up and down until they got things just perfect.
I’m burnt out on margaritaville. That parrot head crap gets old after a while.
I heard the Duchess Meghan liked yacht music, too…
What Yacht Rock needs is Deep Sixing.
Execrable crap...
It's the perfect music to sort of retreat from the harsh world around you and maybe get into a good book while surrounded by the sounds and sights of summer.
Not at all like their better known song "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)." This one is smooooooth.
I jump between Amazon Music and Spotify. I find the stations tend to play the same songs over and over (like a playlist). Everything is designed for commercials even though I am paying for it so symphonies are right out. I did download the Tune-In app for Roku to listen to KYA and other stations on the Vandersteens.
I love yacht rock; nice relaxing summer music.
Summer breeze, by Seals & Croft, Ventura Highway by America and some Jackson Browne.
I don’t have access to a yacht, but it’s nice to sit outside in my cooled down hot tub with a glass of seltzer and just chill!
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