Are you still acting hard? Why not take it in the other direction? Here's the soundtrack to your own Pacific Fantasy. Suggested accoutrements include sunsets, sea breezes, a glass of chardonnay, intimate companionship, perhaps a jaint, a bowl of kiwis... (hot tubs & terri cloth, that sort of thing). Alternately, these sounds go very well with the unexpected sun*RISE* that occurs just after a night spent partying on a Yacht, when you may be feeling a bit delicate.
"YACHT-POP" is:1. melodic and smooth (the gentle vibe)2. highly produced (usually 'tween '75 & '80)3. often accompanied by wind, strings, or vibes4. more jazz / pop / r&b, than "rock"5. strong lyrical identification with themes such as: romantic love, freedom, nature.6. a "coastal" thing.
Enjoy this mix: download or stream(but please do so with sincerity)60 minute, 14 songs, stereo mp3
ps: I wish Hubert Laws or Deodato were included, but the Creed Taylor/CTI thing is already well represented. pps: the genre defining "Honolulu City Lights" comes in just after 30 minutes.
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I think I have a new favourite genre. yacht pop seems like a misnomer to me, however. the music sounds so much more urban than that. you would listen to this in a crowded city, not on a boat. Yacht rock, I can get behind, but I don't know if yacht pop is as fitting.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks for this mix, it's very nice.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
kiwifruit = http://www.biogro.co.nz/images/kiwifruit.jpg
so a bowl full of kiwi sounds like a silly idea
― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link
You're kidding yourself if you think Level 42 is yacht-pop. They're too edgy..... nervous..... 'angular'.....
― Mestema (davidcorp), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 8 December 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Although the only artist we can think of squarely in this category is Nick Drake. Any other suggestions of what to listen to while cruising through the canals and locks of the British waterways?
― Rombald (rombald), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link
(houseboat folk: i'd say the incredible string band. or the holy modal rounders?)
― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe they're both a bit too weird... I was thinking of folk with a jazzy element and/or smooth string-laden production. Perhaps Davy Graham? I could see playing Angi and Ballad of a Sad Young Man on my houseboat...
― Rombald (rombald), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Though in (Iffley Lock) reality (before they all got evicted) such people listen to Beverley Craven and Van Morrison.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Makrugaik (makrugaik), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Chicago - Colour My WorldGordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My MindJames Taylor - Fire and RainNitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. BojanglesBrewer and Shipley - One Toke Over the LineElton John - DanielJackson Browne - Doctor My EyesJim Croce - Time In a BottleSeals & Crofts - Summer BreezeTodd Rundgren - Hello It's MeAlbert Hammond - It Never Rains in Southern CaliforniaCarly Simon - You're So VainChicago - Just You 'N' MeJim Croce - I'll Have to Say I Love YouChicago - (I've Been) Searchin' So LongChicago - Call on MeChicago - Wishing You Were HereGordon Lightfoot - SundownTerry Jacks - Seasons in the SunAl Stewart - Year of the CatOzark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie BlueSammy Johns - Chevy VanBoz Scaggs - Low DownDr. Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful WomanGary Wright - Dream WeaverSeals and Crofts - Get CloserStarland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight10cc - The Things We Do For LoveChuck Mangione - Feels So GoodPaul Davis - I Go CrazyAl Stewart - Time PassagesGerry Rafferty - Baker StreetGerry Rafferty - Right Down the LineKenny Loggins - Whenever I Call You FriendLittle River Band - ReminiscingPlayer - Baby Come BackCliff Richard - We Don't Talk AnymoreHerb Alpert - RiseQuincy Jones & James Ingram - One Hundred WaysRobbie Dupree - Steal AwayRupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)Al Jarreau - We're in This Love TogetherPaul Davis - Cool NightAl Jarreau - Mornin'
S'like Time-Life's doctor's office collection. Hell, that Carley Simon track opens with a line about a yacht.
― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's the old playlist:Lady Love - Jon LucienHelp Me - Joni MitchellYou Make Me Dance - Grover Washington Jr.Angela (theme from Taxi) - Bob JamesHello Like Before - Bill WithersHalf Forgotten Daydreams - John CameronBaby (1971) - Os MutantesHonolulu City Lights - Keola & Kapono BeamerMystic Voyage - Roy AyersMystic Brew - Ronnie FosterPretty Bird - TereaHaunted House - Lee OskarHow Deep Is Your Love - Bee GeesAre You Going With Me? - Pat Methany Group
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― turtledoveDIES! (turtledoveDIES!), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The three of these are so utterly, totally, OTM I'm amazed none of them have shown up in the Yacht Rock shows to date, not even as incidental or transitional music. Not so sure on Albert Hammond though - I think he kind of loses the smooth on the chorus. It's a great song, but from a sailor's point of view it's too much rock, not enough yacht.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― def zep (calstars), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― novamax (novamax), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Jackie Blue is the only song that should be removed from my list.
― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Particularly memorable was Pretty Bird, which I rather admired for its determination to get every last possible lyric from the 'bird in a cage' metaphor. I also dug the fantastically un-spooky Haunted House. "You remind me of a haunted house I once was in" - is that some kind of Peter Venkman pick-up line?
I drew the lina at How Deep Is Your Love, however!
― Rombald (rombald), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― eyesteel (eyesteel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I admit I haven't heard the entirety of "Jackie Blue" in a long time. All I can picture in my ears is the "ooh-hooo, Jackie Blue..." stuff which is smooth as can be. Now that I think about it though, there might be some wailin' guitar stuff going on - sort of a Moody Blues/BOC thing? Yeah, I guess it's out. But "It Never Rains"...just has too much of a stomp and a shout-along-chorusness to it. It also sounds much more like a 60s piece of work to me.
Their nexus was Mojo Goldberg's boathouse at the marina in Hilton Head.
This concept is going to need some more articulation. I'm not entirely sure I imagine Southern Yacht Rock as a genre rallying around a Jewish music mogul on the coast - although I don't mean to assign anti-semitism to any specific bands. Hilton Head may be the wrong angle too - I picture these bands forming at marinas on Rural Electrification lakes further inland - Lake Lanier, maybe? Pontoon boats, Bud Lite, and country-fried sensibilities, but still a humble, sweet joy for the peace that can only be found out on the water. Oh, the fiberglass can do miracles...
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― ed slanders (edslanders), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Houseboat Rock maybe could be the name...rock to bass fish to
The specter of Buffett loomsover the whole genre. Thematically, he's got the goods, but too much of his music is too raucous. The man was very seldom smooth. "Come Monday" is pretty much in the sweet spot, though.
Maybe he could be the Loggins-like turncoat/agent of temptation.
― novamax (novamax), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link