Yacht Rock

could have been this ..

http://direct.asda.com/Yacht-Rock---CD/003742082,default,pd.html

would poll

Or perhaps it was this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHg-m-2ahCc

my wife made me watch that a few weeks ago

"Yacht Soul"?

sounds great

http://i.imgur.com/d5YC2Cw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WhGNo3D.jpg

Hey Loggins, this is Michael McDonald. Do you want to come over? James Ingram and I are wasted and writing smooth music.

i thought the heart of the difference between soft rock and yacht rock was that the former was a melancholic and wistful or even maudlin clinging on to the hippie dream that said a peaceful world could exist here and now or sometime soon (setting off to look for america, me and you and a dog named boo loving and living off the land, making love in a chevy van, the open road and possibilities) and the latter was a hedonistic escape in response to the unease and ennui following the death of that dream making the here and now something uninhabitable (running off to a tropical island or out to the open sea or into the dark of night, stealing away to somewhere else).

Good post. I think sorting out the various strands of post-hippie dreams in 70s smooth music of all shades would be really interesting. Not sure how much the first is maudlin, vs. just continuing, perhaps with a looming sense of (tragic) impossibility, or a revision of priorities: yes to peace for you and me and us, but peace for everybody may not yet be. And then with yacht-rock the sense is really more escape for me and mine. Escape on the sea rather than in a new society, or escape into the lushness of the sound itself. But this would have to be really complicated by, what did people listen to this music for (late night drives? making out? unwinding after a long day at the factory?) that may not relate directly to the artists, or their images as broadcast, or their images as parodied in Yacht Rock.

Whatever garbled story I'm telling there, I think "Please Come To Boston" is some kind of equally incoherent hinge: she's not down for living in his scrubby bohemian apartment and selling paintings on the street, or overlooking silent valleys in Colorado... but each other, they need each other anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGVibKwxl78

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sail-away-the-oral-history-of-yacht-rock-20150626

The Yacht Rock guys have a podcast: "Beyond Yacht Rock"

http://www.feralaudio.com/show/beyond-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