Yacht Rock (1 Viewer)

[Al Czervik]

 

[Disco Stu]

This kind of music makes me so uncomfortable. Sort of reverse nostalgia or something. What's weird is I'm entertained by the reemergence of this genre. Ariel Pink's "Round and Round," for example.

I listened to that and a few of his other songs this morning, because of this thread.

 

[Jutz]

I call dibs on posting about Yacht Rock in the ffa, in the This is Funny thread...

I have a feeling Yacht Rock is probably not new around the ffa... but I just discovered them this weekend and found them to be hilarous. There are quite a few episodes. Here is episode 1. Language and some material NSFW.

Didn't get a single reply in there. There was a picture of a bear falling out of a tree a few posts after this one. It was tough to compete with.

 

[-jb-]

Whenever I Call You Friend - Kenny & Stevie

Human Nature - Mike

 

[-jb-]

Just got this in my inbox. Good timing. Might need to throw on the captain's hat and head on out with some Steely Dan queued up. Of course, it will probably be about 50 degrees on the bay...

 

[-jb-]

Step by Step - Eddie Rabbit

 

[Vike Me]

Thanks to all who gave suggestions. Mix is finished at 79 songs:

How Long 1974 Ace

Lost In Love 1980 Air Supply

Even The Nights Are Better 1982 Air Supply

Making Love Out Of Nothing At All 1983 Air Supply

Eye In The Sky 1982 The Alan Parsons Project

Prime Time 1983 The Alan Parsons Project

Biggest Part Of Me 1980 Ambrosia

How Much I Feel 1978 Ambrosia

Muskrat Love 1973 America

Lonely Boy 1976 Andrew Gold

Imaginary Lover 1978 Atlanta Rhythm Section

How Deep Is Your Love 1977 Bee Gees

Let Your Love Flow 1976 The Bellamy Brothers

Lowdown 1976 Boz Scaggs

Baby I'm-a Want You Bread

Love Will Keep Us Together 1976 Captain & Tennille

If You Leave Me Now 1976 Chicago

Baby, What A Big Surprise 1977 Chicago

Arthur's Theme 1981 Christopher Cross

Ride Like The Wind 1980 Christopher Cross

Sailing 1980 Christopher Cross

I Love You Climax Blues Band

Couldn't Get It Right 1976 Climax Blues Band

Heart Hotels Dan Fogelberg

Takin' It To The Streets 1976 The Doobie Brothers

What A Fool Believes 1979 The Doobie Brothers

Sharing The Night Together Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

Step By Step Eddie Rabbitt

Fooled Around and Fell In Love 1976 Elvin Bishop

I'd Really Love To See You Tonight 1976 England Dan and John Ford Coley

You Are the Woman 1976 Firefall

Hold Me 1982 Fleetwood Mac

You Make Loving Fun 1977 Fleetwood Mac

Baker Street 1978 Gerry Rafferty

Sara Smile 1976 Hall & Oates

She's Gone 1976 Hall & Oates

Rich Girl 1977 Hall & Oates

Kiss On My List 1980 Hall & Oates

One On One 1983 Hall & Oates

Mexico 1975 James Taylor

Thunder Island 1978 Jay Ferguson

This Is It 1979 Kenny Loggins

More Than I Can Say Leo Sayer

Reminiscing 1978 Little River Band

Lady 1978 Little River Band

Cool Change 1979 Little River Band

Watching The River Run Loggins & Messina

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) 1972 Looking Glass

Hearts 1981 Marty Balin

Human Nature 1982 Michael Jackson

Rock With You 1979 Michael Jackson

I Keep Forgetting 1982 Michael McDonald

Dance With Me 1975 Orleans

Watcha Gonna Do 1977 Pablo Cruise

Cool Night 1981 Paul Davis

Baby Come Back 1977 Player

Steal Away 1980 Robbie Dupree

Sad Eyes 1979 Robert John

Avalon 1982 Roxy Music

More Than This 1982 Roxy Music

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 1979 Rupert Holmes

Get Closer 1976 Seals & Crofts

Summer Breeze 1972 Seals and Crofts

F.M. 1978 Steely Dan

Deacon Blues 1978 Steely Dan

Hey Nineteen 1980 Steely Dan

Do It Again 1972 Steely Dan

Peg 1977 Steely Dan

Dirty Work 1972 Steely Dan

Help Me Angel 1982 Steve Winwood

Babe 1979 Styx

The Logical Song 1979 Supertramp

Africa 1982 Toto

Rosanna 1982 Toto

99 1980 Toto

Magnet And Steel 1978 Walter Egan

Im Not In Love 1975 10cc

The Things We Do For Love 1977 10cc

 

[JuniorNB]

Jim Photoglo- Fool In Love With You

Greg Guidry- Goin Down

A few forgotten songs from the early 80's that are very much in this Michael McDonald-genre:

 

[bushdocda]

Golly I didnt know all the songs I liked had an awesome sub genre nomenclature.

Walter Egan, CBB and Gerry Rafferty are my ####. If only you could incorporate ELO.

 

[-jb-]

Great list Vike. Not sure Brian Ferry qualifies, but I'll allow it. I considered Spandau, but consider both them and Roxy more on the new wave spectrum.

My list is 76 songs, but I don't have a good amount of yours. Trying to figure out what I have that you don't.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

Theres a local cover band here in atlanta that plays all over called the Yacht Rock Revue www.pleaserock.com you can probably just steal their playlist.

50 Ways to Leave a Lover – Paul Simon

Africa – Toto

All Night Long – Lionel Richie

Baby Come Back – Player

Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty

Billie Jean – Michael Jackson

Brandy – Looking Glass

Break My Stride – Matthew Wilder

Careless Whisper – Wham!

Caribbean Queen – Billy Ocean

Coming Up – Paul McCartney

Couldnʼt Get It Right – Climax Blues Band

Doctor My Eyes – Jackson Browne

Donʼt Go Breakinʼ My Heart – Elton John & Kiki

Dee

Donʼt You Forget About Me – Simple Minds

Easy Lover – Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes

Footloose – Kenny Loggins

Grease – Franki Valli

Hello – Lionel Richie

Hey 19 – Steely Dan

Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder

How Long – Ace

How Sweet It Is – James Taylor

Human Nature – Michael Jackson

I Can Dream About You – Dan Hartman

I Canʼt Go For That – Hall and Oates

Iʼd Really Love to See You Tonight – England Dan

and John Ford Coley

I Just Wanna Stop – Gino Vanelli

I Keep Forgettinʼ – Michael McDonald

I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince

I Want a New Drug – Huey Lewis and the News

I Wish – Stevie Wonder

Jive Talkinʼ – The Bee Gees

Kiss on My List – Hall & Oates

Kiss You All Over – Exile

Lady – The Commodores

Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs

Little Jeanie – Elton John

Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold

Lotta Love – Nicolette Larson

Love is Alive – Gary Wright

Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain and Tenille

Lovely Day – Bill Withers

Lowdown – Boz Scaggs

Magic – Olivia Newton John

Moonlight Feels Right – Starbuck

More Than a Woman – The Bee Gees

Nights on Broadway – Bee Gees

Peg – Steely Dan

Physical – Olivia Newton John

Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News

PYT – Michael Jackson

Reminiscing – Little River Band

Rich Girl – Hall and Oates

Ride Like the Wind – Christopher Cross

Rosanna – Toto

Sailing – Christopher Cross

Saturday in the Park – Chicago

Silly Love Songs – Paul McCartney

Sister Golden Hair - America

Somebodyʼs Baby – Jackson Brown

Steal Away – Robbie Dupree

Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel

Summer Breeze – Seals and Croft

Takinʼ It to the Streets – The Doobie Brothers

The Biggest Part of Me – Ambrosia

The Heart of Rock and Roll – Huey Lewis and the

News

The Love Boat Theme – Jack Jones

The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson

Too Hot – Kool and the Gang

Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler

Use Me – Bill Withers

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – Wham!

What a Fool Believes – The Doobie Brothers

Who Can It Be Now – Men at Work

You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall & Oates

Youʼre No Good – Linda Ronstadt

Youʼre So Vain – Carly Simon

SONG LIST

This song list is an approximation that is fluid

like the ocean upon which our yacht sails

 

[17seconds]

This kind of music makes me so uncomfortable. Sort of reverse nostalgia or something.

I know what you mean. For some reason this music gives me flashbacks to 8 years old sitting in my bedroom in the middle of the summer with no AC on, a headache, and nothing to do.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Not Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock has very distinct qualities:Songs referencing nautical or beach/island cultureSmooth lyricsSmooth instrumentalsOne of the most underrated comedy web series ever.

hitting the brown liquor early clifford? This song is about sailing in the southern hemisphere. The "southern cross" is a constellation that is one of th most visble constellations when sailing in thsouthern hemisphere/tropics.

Got out of town on a boatGoin' to Southern islands.Sailing a reachBefore a followin' sea.She was makin' for the tradesOn the outside,And the downhill runTo Papeete.Off the wind on this headingLie the Marquesas.We got eighty feet of the waterline.Nicely making way.In a noisy bar in AvalonI tried to call you.But on a midnight watch I realizedWhy twice you ran away.ChorusThink about how many timesI have fallenSpirits are using melarger voices callin'.What heaven brought you and meCannot be forgotten.I have been around the world,Lookin' for that woman/girl,Who knows love can endure.And you know it will.And you know it will.When you see the Southern CrossFor the first timeYou understand nowWhy you came this way'Cause the truth you might be runnin' fromIs so small.But it's as big as the promiseThe promise of a comin' day.So I'm sailing for tomorrowMy dreams are a dyin'.And my love is an anchor tied to youTied with a silver chain.I have my shipAnd all her flags are a flyin'She is all that I have leftAnd music is her name.ChorusThink about how many timesI have fallenSpirits are using melarger voices callin'.What heaven brought you and meCannot be forgotten.I have been around the world,Lookin' for that woma/girl,Who knows love can endure.And you know it will.And you know it will.So we cheated and we liedAnd we testedAnd we never failed to failIt was the easiest thing to do.You will survive being bested.Somebody fineWill come alongMake me forget about loving you.At the Southern Cross.

 

[-jb-]

Peg - Steely Dan

 

[Al Czervik]

Love is Alive – Gary Wright

Heard this song on the way home yesterday and thought of this thread. Great tune.

 

[Clifford]

Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Not Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock has very distinct qualities:Songs referencing nautical or beach/island cultureSmooth lyricsSmooth instrumentalsOne of the most underrated comedy web series ever.

hitting the brown liquor early clifford? This song is about sailing in the southern hemisphere. The "southern cross" is a constellation that is one of th most visble constellations when sailing in thsouthern hemisphere/tropics.Got out of town on a boatGoin' to Southern islands.Sailing a reachBefore a followin' sea.She was makin' for the tradesOn the outside,And the downhill runTo Papeete.Off the wind on this headingLie the Marquesas.We got eighty feet of the waterline.Nicely making way.In a noisy bar in AvalonI tried to call you.But on a midnight watch I realizedWhy twice you ran away.ChorusThink about how many timesI have fallenSpirits are using melarger voices callin'.What heaven brought you and meCannot be forgotten.I have been around the world,Lookin' for that woman/girl,Who knows love can endure.And you know it will.And you know it will.When you see the Southern CrossFor the first timeYou understand nowWhy you came this way'Cause the truth you might be runnin' fromIs so small.But it's as big as the promiseThe promise of a comin' day.So I'm sailing for tomorrowMy dreams are a dyin'.And my love is an anchor tied to youTied with a silver chain.I have my shipAnd all her flags are a flyin'She is all that I have leftAnd music is her name.ChorusThink about how many timesI have fallenSpirits are using melarger voices callin'.What heaven brought you and meCannot be forgotten.I have been around the world,Lookin' for that woma/girl,Who knows love can endure.And you know it will.And you know it will.So we cheated and we liedAnd we testedAnd we never failed to failIt was the easiest thing to do.You will survive being bested.Somebody fineWill come alongMake me forget about loving you.At the Southern Cross.

Does not have the distinctive smooth sound. Very folky. You're right about the lyrics, but I sure as hell don't consider John the Fisherman by Primus to be Yacht Rock.

 

[Vike Me]

Theres a local cover band here in atlanta that plays all over called the Yacht Rock Revue www.pleaserock.com you can probably just steal their playlist.

SONG LIST

This song list is an approximation that is fluid

like the ocean upon which our yacht sails

Thanks for this, friend!

 

[Vike Me]

Theres a local cover band here in atlanta that plays all over called the Yacht Rock Revue www.pleaserock.com you can probably just steal their playlist.

SONG LIST

This song list is an approximation that is fluid

like the ocean upon which our yacht sails

Thanks for this, friend!

Saw them a couple weeks ago in Nashville. They were good and it was a fun time. Walter Egan was with them for about 4 songs including his hit "Magnet and Steel".

Smooth times.

 

[The General]

Love myself some Gerry Rafferty and whatever that song is about liking Piña Coladas. Good stuff.

 

[rockaction]

Theres a local cover band here in atlanta that plays all over called the Yacht Rock Revue www.pleaserock.com you can probably just steal their playlist.

SONG LIST

This song list is an approximation that is fluid

like the ocean upon which our yacht sails

Thanks for this, friend!

Saw them a couple weeks ago in Nashville. They were good and it was a fun time. Walter Egan was with them for about 4 songs including his hit "Magnet and Steel".

Smooth times.

Oooh, that's a good one.

On a side note, I'll never forget the time some guy walked into the bar during the Auburn/Oregon Nat'l Championship Game and proceeded to play some Steely Dan to set the mood. That was odd.

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Finally someone mentions a good song.

Yacht rock seems to be synonymous with Boring

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

I want to contribute but this one might rock too hard for the yacht:

Spooky- Atlanta Rhythm Section

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

I'm still trying to get a feel for this whole yacht rock thing. I still don't think I like the genre much.

However, based on the recos in this thread, how did this song not get included?

Dark Star- CSN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ijH2EWI5g

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

What nobody wants to talk Yacht Rock anymore?

Has Dust in the Wind been mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

I keep wanting to improve this genre.

 

[TobiasFunke]

What nobody wants to talk Yacht Rock anymore?

Has Dust in the Wind been mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

I keep wanting to improve this genre.

Have you checked out CVS Bangers?