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.
Isn’t the Yacht Rock station only on in summer?
What? Only one man wearing Docker’s Castaway Boat Shoes?
Some call them Mocassins.
Also, no socks should ever be worn with boat shoes. Major fashion faux pas.
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.
I don’t have access to a yacht either but that’s mostly how I do it. Great summertime music for lazy hot afternoons.
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.
Do you know if there is a similar station on Pandora?
I no longer have XM/sirrius.
The Little River Band had a lot of great deep cuts.
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.
Their live album “Backstage Pass” is fantastic, recorded with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
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
Quite true. Silence can be the best medicine at times.
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!
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.
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.
I sense that Donald Fagen really hates that term.
Yacht Dance - XTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOYlIsy18Y
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