Posted on 06/26/2019 5:41:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Well there's a first time for everything and you are in for a treat!
Just played a song called "Nobody's Business" by a band called Maxus. Never heard this song before but it's smooth and fits the Yacht Rock genre pretty well.
Now "Black Cow" by Steely Dan is playing. Steely Dan is one of the top Yacht Rock bands.
Saw her at Armadillo World Headquarters right after this song came out. She showed up two hours late, sang about five songs and left. Good voice, but she torpedoed her own career.
This is one of those songs I’ve heard in the radio hundreds of times since I was a kid and, other than the phrase “Midnight at the Oasis”, I’d be stumped to get a single line right.
Pretty much everything sung by Sade is yacht rock.
I always figured Muldaur was Middle Eastern so that's why I've connected it all.....
isn't it terrible that the once proud Middle Eastern community in this country, mostly Christian at the time, have become one that should be feared and not trusted....
I read that Jimmy Page praised the guitar work of Amos Garret on the song. Not too shabby.
Hearing that takes me back to a good time and place. [sigh]
If we are going to have yacht rock as a musical genre, row boat rap cannot be far behind
I’ll take Symphonic Metal (or any Metal) or Oi!/Punk Rock/Hard Rock any day. No offense. I love many types of music, but not so much that one.
You need a repetitive, heavy beat to row the oars to.
Like On the Pontoon. Rock may have the metal, and rap may have the staccato but no genre has the humor of country.
I love Yacht Rock. For me, I call it “First Drink Late in the Afternoon Rock”.
How about junk punk?
There was a series of comedy videos in the early 2000s called Yacht Rock. It was kind of like a parody of rap wars, but with soft rock. For instance, in the first episode, two artists are about to fight one another (I don’t remember who) until Christopher Cross starts playing Sailing. The mellow smoothness brings everyone together and stops the fight. It’s all silly and intentionally poorly acted and with no regard to actual history, but it garnered a cult following and inspired Sirius XM to do an annual summer channel a few years ago. It is now year-round on channel 311, but mist radios don’t go that high. For the rest, you have to wait for summer.
One of my sisters owned that album. Some good songs on it, though I liked “Walkin’ One & Only” better than “Midnight at the Oasis”.
Not sure this qualifies as Yacht Rock but it is nice to hear again after all these years.
When this first came on the radio, I thought it was Culture Club.
Ah yes, Midnight at the Oasis...send your camel to bed...
YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bjzuSO27fA
I loved this song the minute it came out. An old beau in the music biz told me I loved it because I looked and sounded like Maria Muldaur...wonder how she looks today. I’m holding up pretty well, hope she is too.
Heaven’s holdin’ a half-moon
Shinin’ just for us
Let’s slip off to a sand dune
Real soon and kick up a little dust
LYRICS: http://www.songlyrics.com/maria-muldaur/midnight-at-the-oasis-lyrics/
You know, that show where Dwayne and Dee (or whoever) went to the concert with that fatso kid named ReRun putting a tape recorder in his belly and then the Doobie Brothers proceeded to give him a lecture on how he should not record concerts.
This was at least a couple decades before the internet.
Lame. Lame. Lame.
Loved that song!
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