I can almost smell the left-over bait and the flock of seagulls trailing the boat and squawking.
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.
As they say.
Just like nobody today can create a piece of church music that can compare to a Bach cantata, nobody today (or before 1975) can create a true Yacht Rock song.
It's just the way it is.
Wild Mountain Honey is Yacht Rock? Yikes. It’s scary, a lot of music I like is Yacht Rock
Since when? I thought it just popped up on 14 on Memorial Day.
I can almost smell the left-over bait and the flock of seagulls trailing the boat and squawking.
Yes, but they were on another on-air station before that.
Are you saying "I Ran" is Yacht Rock?
No, not the band! The actual birds!
I found Wild Mountain Honey—and the entire Fly Like an Eagle album—to be great “pot rock” back in my teen years.
There is a wonderful YouTube video of Fagan at a mixing board cutting in and out different instruments and backup musicians’ different renditions of their parts.
It’s about 40 minutes but worth every minute. If I can find it, I’ll post the link. But worth searching for.
The term probably was coined much later--just as term "Doo Wop" was coined long after its heyday in the 1950's. Judging from the examples presented on this thread, what is called yacht rock today was at the time called soft rock.
Just like nobody today can create a piece of church music that can compare to a Bach cantata, nobody today (or before 1975) can create a true Yacht Rock song.
There are a number of sounds that nobody today can fully replicate, one of them being the Motown sound of the sixties--for one thing, the analog technology used at the time no longer exists.
It’s the same with Prog rock, a lot of bands call themselves prog, but you could never recreate the classic Prog of the 70s, of bands like Yes and Genesis.
Somebody did not get the memo!
Looks like the crew of the SS Hipster.
Yacht rock seems like an oxymoron to me
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You ground your Yacht on a rock?
Sam, I hate you. Now I gotta find the channel on my receiver and delete it. Yacht ‘rock’ causes low T and impotence in lab mice. Those five look like Rhode Island’s answer to The Village People.
Excellent. Thanks for the info.👍
Oh I knew what it would before even clicking on it.
And yes, I agree with Pat Metheny.
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