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Post by kds on Feb 9, 2022 13:54:45 GMT
Here is a list of the Top 50 Yacht Rock songs, which features The Beach Boys. ultimateclassicrock.com/best-yacht-rock-songs/Now, I'd have thought maybe Good Timin' or maybe Lady Lynda would be selected as they were minor hits. Full Sail's probably too much of a deep track. But, Sail on Sailor was the pick. I never really thought of it as a "Yacht Rock" song, but the term Yacht Rock seems to sometimes to be all encompassing tag for almost any non hard rockin' song from the 1970s. For anyone who wishes to not pour through this list (which somehow emits Rupert Holmes's Escape) 32. "Sail On, Sailor," the Beach Boys (1973)
The Beach Boys were reworking a new album when Van Dyke Parks handed them this updated version of an unfinished Brian Wilson song. All that was left was to hand the mic over to Blondie Chaplin for his greatest-ever Beach Boys moment. They released "Sail On, Sailor" twice, however, and this yearning groover somehow barely cracked the Top 50. Chaplin was soon out of the band, too. It's a shame. "Sail On, Sailor" remains the best example of how the Beach Boys' elemental style might have kept growing. Instead, Chaplin went on to collaborate with the Band, Gene Clark of the Byrds and the Rolling Stones – while the Beach Boys settled into a lengthy tenure as a jukebox band. (DeRiso)
I can't really disagree with anything here.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 9, 2022 14:01:48 GMT
I just realized...I must be a fan of Yacht Rock. I like almost all of those songs. But, it's funny. I don't remember being as enamored with them when they were released. They sound better now. It must be a sentimental thing. They take me back. Driving around in my car listening to the radio.
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Post by kds on Feb 9, 2022 14:10:35 GMT
I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to any of this music in my early 20s, but I've really come around on it, and quite a few of these songs are on my summertime playlists.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 9, 2022 14:20:18 GMT
Huh, I also would not have called "Sail On Sailor" yacht rock. I always think of that subgenre as most polished and easy listening. Though I guess SOS is in the same ballpark, anyway. Or in the same marina?
I don't know about this: "Van Dyke Park handed them this updated version of an unfinished Brian Wilson song. All that was left was to hand the mic over to Blondie Chaplin..." That makes it sound like Van Dyke himself handled the creation of the track and Blondie was just a karaoke singer or something!
And Sheriff John Stone, I wonder if the change in your perspective is about age? I'd guess that's the case for me. When people (and probably especially guys) are younger, I think they're often looking for something a little rougher, a bit more rocking. We mellow out and those smooth productions suddenly sound pretty appealing.
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Post by kds on Feb 9, 2022 14:25:52 GMT
I can't speak for SJS, but I know for me, age has mellowed out my music tastes considerably. Although, I did get into The Moody Blues at 15.
I'm actually a little surprised no 70s era Buffett made the list. He's typically lumped in with "Trop Rock," but some of his 70s hits like Come Monday would fit into the box that UCR created here.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 9, 2022 14:36:56 GMT
Oh, it's absolutely about age. That's why I mentioned sentimentality. It takes me back. I associate those songs with other times, specific times in my life. And, I WAS more into rock at that time. While I listened to a lot of that Yacht Rock on the radio, I wouldn't be caught dead purchasing it. It was background music. Music on the radio that I just happened to be listening to. MY KIND OF MUSIC wasn't on the radio. And, take my word for it - you do mellow somewhat ("somewhat" is a personal thing; it's subjective; obviously it varies from person to person) - with age.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 9, 2022 14:39:08 GMT
I'm definitely long-since in that boat, too. For me, "pop" was a dirty word until I was 30, probably. Hell, I didn't want to hear about yacht rock, soft rock, etc., either. Now I absolutely gravitate toward that stuff more, though I still like some rock now and again.
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Post by lonelysummer on Feb 10, 2022 5:15:16 GMT
I never was a hard rocker. I always preferred melody, something I could sing, to the heavy sounds. I love the Kinks and the Who, but they were never heavy metal, never head banging stuff, and both bands could play softer sounds as well as "turn up the amp" stuff. Yacht rock? Some of it is quite good, and some of it is okay as background music. Some of the songs on that list I have heard so many thousands of times, I never need to hear them again. SOS doesn't sound like Yacht Rock to me. I would submit something like Full Sail (for obvious reasons) or Heaven for that grouping.
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Post by kds on Feb 10, 2022 13:41:55 GMT
I never was a hard rocker. I always preferred melody, something I could sing, to the heavy sounds. I love the Kinks and the Who, but they were never heavy metal, never head banging stuff, and both bands could play softer sounds as well as "turn up the amp" stuff. Yacht rock? Some of it is quite good, and some of it is okay as background music. Some of the songs on that list I have heard so many thousands of times, I never need to hear them again. SOS doesn't sound like Yacht Rock to me. I would submit something like Full Sail (for obvious reasons) or Heaven for that grouping. To be fair, there's plenty of melody to be found in heavy rock. Full Sail would be my choice for a BB Yacht Rock entry, but I guess it just wasn't popular enough to crack this list. Ultimate Classic Rock isn't exactly known for digging very deep when it comes to their lists.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 10, 2022 13:55:30 GMT
I never was a hard rocker. I always preferred melody, something I could sing, to the heavy sounds. I love the Kinks and the Who, but they were never heavy metal, never head banging stuff, and both bands could play softer sounds as well as "turn up the amp" stuff. Yacht rock? Some of it is quite good, and some of it is okay as background music. Some of the songs on that list I have heard so many thousands of times, I never need to hear them again. SOS doesn't sound like Yacht Rock to me. I would submit something like Full Sail (for obvious reasons) or Heaven for that grouping. To be fair, there's plenty of melody to be found in heavy rock. It's also really a continuum. I don't think Sheriff John Stone and I meant that younger guys are all into thrash metal and then mellow out to yacht rock, but just that the general trend is younger guys are into more aggressive music than what they settle into later. Whether that's a Megadeth-to-Pink Floyd trip, or a Kinks-to-James Taylor trip, or a Bon Jovi-to-later-Bon Jovi trip, it's just an average trend.
And absolutely, heavy rock and metal have a ton of melody. (Well, not the screaming or gutteral growling stuff, but that's pretty peripheral.) A lot of metal is heavily influenced by classical music, which is nothing if not melodic.
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Post by kds on Feb 10, 2022 13:58:44 GMT
To be fair, there's plenty of melody to be found in heavy rock. It's also really a continuum. I don't think Sheriff John Stone and I meant that younger guys are all into thrash metal and then mellow out to yacht rock, but just that the general trend is younger guys are into more aggressive music than what they settle into later. Whether that's a Megadeth-to-Pink Floyd trip, or a Kinks-to-James Taylor trip, or a Bon Jovi-to-later-Bon Jovi trip, it's just an average trend.
And absolutely, heavy rock and metal have a ton of melody. (Well, not the screaming or gutteral growling stuff, but that's pretty peripheral.) A lot of metal is heavily influenced by classical music, which is nothing if not melodic.
Yeah, that's stuff I could never get into, even in my younger, more angsty days.
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