Posted on 05/01/2021 6:49:30 AM PDT by SamAdams76
ATM's seem to have gotten very sophisticated since I first started using them back in the early 1980s. Back then, ATMs were a simple affair, you stuck in your card, punched in a four digit code, and out came a little bit of cash depending on the numbers you punched in. It seemed a magical thing at the time.
I would rarely take out more than $40. Back in those days, it was a lot of cash to have in your wallet at one time, at least for me. On rare occasions when I took out more, I would furtively glance around me, making sure that I was not likely to get robbed with all that cash on me. It seemed quite dangerous pulling all that money out of an ATM and I always feared that the machine would malfunction and not spit out the money and yet my account would get charged as though I did. That never did happen though. Nor did I ever get more cash than what asked for. The machines seemed pretty reliable in that respect. They never seemed to make a mistake in dispensing cash and never jammed up (why can't they make copy machines as reliable)?
And for years and years, I would never dare deposit money into an ATM. I just didn't trust them to take my money. What if I deposited cash and then the bank tried to say that they never received it? How would I be able to prove to them that yes, I did stick cash money into their stupid machine. I guess there must have been cameras but back in the 1980s, security cameras were still mostly primitive and probably wouldn't deliver a decent picture even if they were actually turned on. Does anybody remember those Patty Hearst bank robbery stills? Not the best quality though Patty did look sort of hot with that weapon slung over her shoulder.
So I just didn't trust ATMs back on those days to take my money (or even checks) as deposits. Like a chump, I'd have to go into the bank (during banking hours) and wait in line between those velvet ropes like you see in fancy movie theaters. I'd even fill out the deposit slip trying to use that cheap pen that was always chained to the tables. I always wondered about that. Why couldn't banks give away free pens to their customers. Pens with the bank's name stenciled on the outside? Free advertising!
Well now I don't worry so much about putting cash deposits into the ATM. Those machines do an excellent job of sucking in all that cash and finding a way to count it properly so that it can go right into your account. Though not without a big show of whirring noises that go on for as long as 90 seconds. I must say that I hold my breath every time as the machine does whatever it does with my cash while it's being sorted out. I wonder if the guy behind me withdrawing money will get some of the very same cash I just deposited? Or does deposited cash go into a separate bucket than the cash that is dispensed out? I just don't know the answer to that question but I aim to find out one of these days.
Well anyway, I like to listen to the Yacht Rock station on Sirius/XM from time to time (Station 311). Pretty much all the time, it is male singers. Bertie Higgins, Rupert Holmes, Michael McDonald (a lot of Michael McDonald by the way), Christopher Cross, a band that call themselves Poco, Little River Band and Steely Dan. All guys.
Well that it until I heard "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones on the station. Well that was a treat. I'm a big fan of the jazzy rhythms of Rickie Lee Jones and her 1979 debut album was just outstanding (it also yielded the Top 40 hit "Youngblood"). But I never considered her music to be part of Yacht Rock.
Anyway, it was almost like the Yacht Rock station read my mind because over the next few days, they inserted other songs sung by women into their playlist. I heard "Lotta Love" by Nicolette Larsen (written by Neil Young I believe) and then "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac (written and sung by Stevie Nicks). There were a few other female sung songs that I now cannot remember. But the females appear to be finally making some inroads with regard to Yacht Rock.
Speaking of Rickie Lee Jones, I've been rediscovering her music and she actually has a lot of good stuff out there. You just need to be in a mellow mood to really get into it. She's right up there with Emmylou Harris in my opinion with regard to consistently good albums over a long period of time. If I wasn't married already, I would consider marrying either one of them because I think they are mighty fine women. (Please don't post their politics here, I don't know where they stand and don't wish to know).
No, they moved it to channel 311. You can get it on your app but also on the dial in your car radio, you just have to twirl the dial a decent amount. Unless you have direct entry tuning.
Yeah, basically it’s “70s soft rock the lister doesn’t like and probably hasn’t really listened to”. And of course from day one the term has been used to dismiss Steely Dan which just ultra offends me cause Steely Dan is one of the most awesome bands ever. Even other artists that get in the category that I like can be dismissed. I enjoy Jimmy Buffett, especially when I’ve been drinking, but I’ll be honest, not musically challenging, or interesting, and never really added anything to the concept of music. Anybody wants to dismiss him as meh I’m OK with. I think I do too, just meh I happen to find fun. But nobody gets to dismiss Deacon Blues. Not on my watch.
Hopefully you don't consider that also a "lazy label."
Personally, I would have named the station "Cheeseburger in Paradise with Mushrooms and Swiss Cheese" though I can see how some would consider that a rather unwieldy name.
I had to Google Yacht Rock. I like some of that stuff as a changeup (not so much Rickie Lee Jones), but I’ll take Allman Bros. Trouble No More or Statesboro Blues or Robin Trower Lady Love, or Creedence Green River, if I’m just starting out on a drive.
Jimmy can call his music whatever he wants. And lets face it, that’s just marketing. That’s his famous song, and his brand. Restaurants, clothing, booze, cashing big fat checks in Margaritaville.
It’s an insult to call Steely Dan Yacht Rock.
“Babylon Sisters” is the perfect Yacht Rock Song. Well, maybe aside from “Sailing” or “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”.
Fun article, but the first half about ATM was completely unnecessary.
Yacht Rock = gay. That’s why.
Jazz Rock, yes. But there’s something insipid about the label Yacht Rock.
When I’m surfing thru stations on Sirius and it lands on Magaritaville station, I can’t change it fast enough.
I'm sort of getting into them now.
They are actually a pretty tight band, which pleasantly surprised me as I always considered them a bunch of druggies.
I’ve been a Dead fan since the mid ‘70’s. However, after Garcia’s death, I pretty much stopped following them. I still listen to the older stuff regularly.
“Glamour Profession” by Steely Dan and “The Goodbye Look” by Donald Fagen are both better yacht rock songs. Which is why Sirius XM never plays them.
Me too....and I own a yacht. Funny thing is, everyone in the marina plays music. And you NEVER...ever....hear this kind of stuff.
I was a regular listener to the Sirius GD station, but one of their regular hosts annoyed me and I mostly listen to Classic Vinyl or Classic Rewind now if I’m not listening to my downloaded playlists.
Because yachts are boys’ toys?
It could be better if they played more than the same 40 songs.
Your ATMs didn’t give you receipts for deposits as well as withdrawals? Or did you never dare to check?
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