Yacht Rock "Deep Cuts" Channel now on Sirius/XM

[nickcarraway]

Isn’t the Yacht Rock station only on in summer?

[lee martell]

What? Only one man wearing Docker’s Castaway Boat Shoes?
Some call them Mocassins.

[SamAdams76]

Also, no socks should ever be worn with boat shoes. Major fashion faux pas.

[SamAdams76]

Yacht Rock Deep Cuts now playing “That’s All For Everyone” by Fleetwood Mac. Another hidden gem from the much under-appreciated “Tusk” album from 1979.

[SamAdams76]

I don’t have access to a yacht either but that’s mostly how I do it. Great summertime music for lazy hot afternoons.

[SamAdams76]

Isn’t the Yacht Rock station only on in summer?

That's how it started out on Sirius a few years back. They'd pull the station right after Labor Day weekend.

Now they have the station year round but I must say that when the weather gets cold and wintry, I'm just not in the proper mood for that format anymore.

I do most of my Yacht Rock listening during the hot, hazy, lazy days of summer.

[americas.best.days...]

Do you know if there is a similar station on Pandora?

I no longer have XM/sirrius.

[dfwgator]

The Little River Band had a lot of great deep cuts.

[SamAdams76]

This Pandora station seems to have the meat of it. Can't vouch for the playlist as I've never listened to it.

[SamAdams76]

Yes, I’ve been exploring the Little River Band catalog as of late. Top quality band and well worth exploring beyond just the radio hits.

[dfwgator]

Their live album “Backstage Pass” is fantastic, recorded with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

[americas.best.days...]

Thanks, I’ll check it out!

[Conan the Librarian]

We live on a small sailing Yacht and rarely listen to music. Sometimes it’s good to listen quietly to the sound of the sea and nothing else

[crusty old prospector]

Quite true. Silence can be the best medicine at times.

[Captainpaintball]

The people who coined the term "Yacht Rock" have a big problem with what Sirius XM is calling Yacht Rock. I don't like those guys, personally, but I actually agree with them. Songs about boats don't mean it's YR. Songs that are "smooth" don't necessarily mean YR. It's a sound, a group, a lineage, a production style, and a time period (mostly)

It was never really meant to be a extensive playlist.

And instead of "deep cuts" getting its own channel, put those songs in the god damned rotation, so you don't wear out the same songs over and over again!

[dfwgator]

The term they used then was “Soft Rock” that was a very popular format in the late 70s, but then they starting adding that Kenny G crap to it.

[Fiji Hill]

I would think that "yacht rock" would include songs such as these:

• The Ship of Love--The Nutmegs

• Island of Love--The Sheppards

• Cindy, Oh Cindy--Vince Martin & the Tarriers

• Sea Cruise--Frankie Ford

• Louie, Louie--Richard Berry & the Pharaohs

[Joe 6-pack]

"What band or artist would be the poster child for "Yacht Rock"

To paraphrase Potter Stewart, I can't define Yacht Rock but I know it when I hear it. If you could start your playlist with Bertie Higgins', "Key Largo," you're already in the neighborhood.

[dfwgator]

I sense that Donald Fagen really hates that term.

[dfwgator]

Yacht Dance - XTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOYlIsy18Y