Yacht Rock

oh cool

I am working my way through these and enjoying them.

I made my own gigantic yacht mix on Spotify, it's my personal take on the genre, I put some jazz and r&b on it for a real 70's yacht party feel.

My grandma worked at a yacht club on Lake Michigan, and one thing no one points out as an influence is cocaine. On the Great Lakes, it was and is marijuana, though. Kept that in mind while making my mixes.

I'm loving this comp right now. One or two duds, but the ratio of great to meh is very high for a comp of this sort. The liner notes talk a lot about the Doobie Brothers, who I've always been indifferent to, but now I'm thinking I need to reevaluate the Doobies (whose only songs I know are the classic rock radio hits). The liners also talk a lot about people like James Taylor, but I'm hearing just as much Steely Dan, Bob Welch, John Lennon and Hall & Oates in here, and a lot less sensitive white guy with a Martin that I feared / was led to believe. Shit's funky!

this is good stuff

That looks hella fun.

Been jamming Universal Cave's Soft Rock For Hard Times Vol. 1 mix lately, solid jam after solid jam

the universal cave series led me to these two compilations called "americana: rock your soul", which is a weird name but man this is some primo soft rock shit. soft rock lovers should make a beeline for it.

Yes, Yes, Yes...No, No, No

Numero Group have also created a Yacht Rock playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/numerogroup/playlist/1SOw4LySLMLAFTcXx4qTLW

man i wish there was a way to see a spotify playlist without creating an account. i don't want to listen to it, just see what's on it!

The BYR guys are policing the borders of yacht rock pretty hardcore these days - no smooth jazz/jazz fusion, nothing proggy or sophisto-pop sounding, nothing too disco or AM gold. They focus a lot on a stable of session musicians - Jay Gradon, David Foster, Paulinho da Costa, Michael Boddicker, Victor Feldman - which paints an interesting picture but also disencourages finding interesting things in the same vein/spirit coming from elswhere.

that's a shame. the second UK record has some pretty swell yachty vibes at times (like on "rendezvous 6:02"). genre purism does nobody any favours.

'policing the borders of yacht rock' XD

Yeah, I mean it's half-joking (as I guess was their coinage of the term in the first place), but kinda limiting.

That being said, they do spread out sometimes:
Yacht Soul - http://www.yachtrock.com/podcast/2016/10/20/yacht-soul
Southern yacht - http://www.feralaudio.com/60-southern-yacht/

If you want a picture of what they've deemed Yacht, you can look at their Yachtski Scale, where anything scoring 50 or above is deemed as "Yacht":
http://www.yachtrock.com/yacht-or-nyacht-jay-gradient/

Nah it's cool, I see what they're getting at. Honing in on specific sessioneers makes it way more interesting and meaningful. You can still listen to sophistipop etc, they're not taking that music away from you. Make your own damn reality

https://i.imgur.com/XCz4ufL.jpg

once you get that taste...it's like you're a pilot...you're in trouble...you gotta fly..you gotta keep flying...

and you can tell your little friends in TOTO

I'm glad I've never used this term in any context.

^cake hunt

Just found the 2 part episode from the show Documentary Now! called "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" and loved it.

Could not find any place to discus this show/episode and really kinda think it is a sequel/tip of the hat to Yacht Rock and things like the Eagles documentary.

I thought it was really good. It all looked great and the Blue Jean Committee music is quite well done.

soft is not smooth, and the blue jean committee is more like bread or seals and crofts than Toto or Loggins

You have Loggins, Hall and McDonald with parts in the BJC, which I thought was a fun coincidence. Daryl Hall gets one of the best lines in the movie.

I've seen a listing for a cover band locally that does yacht rock called Yachtly Crew.

little feat is yacht rock i am not accepting questions at this time

yachts (on the bayou) rock

I wonder which song in particular Mark is thinking of

little feet is not yacht rock get a grip

"dixie chicken" could segue nicely into "the pina colada song"

pina colada song is not yacht rock

The NY-based yacht rock band A.M. Gold just played my little Jersey town square last night.

The rather front-loaded set list:

Takin' It to the Streets
Ride Like the Wind
Reelin' in the Years
Brandy
Baby Come Back
What a Fool Believes
Steal Away
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Peg
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Baker Street
Maneater
Who Can It Be Now
Rosanna
Careless Whisper
Footloose
Little Red Corvette
Private Eyes
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
All Night Long
The Power of Love
You Make My Dreams

OK, which song was more out of place, "Little Red Corvette" or "Wake Me Up"?

"What a Fool Believes" into "Steal Away" make it obvious just how much "Steal" is a pale rewrite of "Fool."

Local amateur musicians playing live through shitty PA systems aping professional musicians in million dollar studios is one of the hardest things for me to listen to. Ymmv

captain beefheart: yacht rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfX5Ymxf4Rg

I rewatched all of Yacht Rock a couple months back. Justin Roiland's voice really jumps out now, after Rick and Morty. This is one of my favorite bits I completely forgot about: https://youtu.be/jGwJPqgA3N4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p079rws8?fbclid=IwAR0yN5ALfYSp0hLnSKQeZHQInSwvfMLbEQGWjiun-RnD8mdMK4hYXMZHLr4

No info on when it's gonna air tho

That looks sexy

Starts this Friday on BBC4

once you get that taste...it's like you're a pilot...you're in trouble...you gotta fly..you gotta keep flying...

There are plenty of gigantic Yacht Rock playlists out there, but mine is - I believe - the first one curated to present a (roughly) chronological history of the genre. Please enjoy YACHT ROCK: A PURIST'S HISTORY and let it soothe your troubled soulhttps://t.co/tZOWyTamHB

— Hollywood Steve (@hollywoodsteveh) April 3, 2020

these guys have a discord now and JD will be spinning an hour of yacht at 10 PM EST

pablo cruise hits mini poll: "love will find a way," "whatcha gonna do" or "find your place in the sun." I'm going with whatcha gonna do.

that Hollywood Steve playlist is great, I listen to it a lot

Many things, Richard. 1) I coined the term yacht rock. https://t.co/lDhhay3TQ8

— JD Ryznar (@JDRyznar) August 3, 2020

These guys have been touring the country (but mainly gigged heavily in Atlanta) since 2006.

https://www.yachtrockrevue.com

That JD Ryzar thread just posted specifically calls Yacht Rock Revue out as a "shitty cover band" that "dragged the term through the mud".

lol JD seems angry because...people aren't defining Yacht Rock the way he imagined. Yacht Rock Revue has been incredibly successful, which is probably another reason JD is mad. So really, he's mad that most people don't agree with him.

i'm wondering if the guy who coined the term "zolo" gets this mad about people he doesn't like being characterized as "zolo"

i can totally see it, some impassioned rant about how for god's sake "dog police" are not zolo and it is a total perversion of what the true spirit of zolo is supposed to stand for

or maybe he's just down for whatever, who knows

lol JD seems angry because...people aren't defining Yacht Rock the way he imagined. Yacht Rock Revue has been incredibly successful, which is probably another reason JD is mad. So really, he's mad that most people don't agree with him.

― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:56 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he created the term! then people took the term and expanded it to be meaningless (what yacht rock revue or the Sirius station term yacht rock is just any 70s or early 80s soft rock of any and all varieties, which is meaningless).

he also has had personal tragedy in his life (his wife died of cancer) and probably spends more time being defensive on twitter about a term he created than he might if things were going better for him in his life

On a happier note, Chris Molanphy's latest episode of Hit Parade is about yacht rock (and very much comes down on JD's side) -- subscription only but it's worth it, 35 bucks for the entire year of Slate's general collection of things.

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2020/07/yacht-rock-was-smooth-music-played-by-70s-80s-studio-pros

And inspired by that, I wrote this:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-coping-40130176