Yacht Rock...the very best of.

[Wrong Element]

I personally think this is one of the songs that helped define the signatures of yacht rock (even though it's about a horse):

Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s

Ah yes, a song written by someone who apparently thought a "killing frost" kills animals instead of plants.

I've never been clear on the distinction between yacht rock and what we in the '70s just referred to as soft rock.

 

[thør]

I could cheat and post a whole Spotify playlist someone made, but the excluded Bread, so they can piss right off.

This is my go to on Pandora at the shop.

Bread?

I remember the late winter/spring of 1972.

Baby I'm-a Want You was spinning on the turntable in my GF's bedroom.

She was tall, blonde, and had really big tits. Every boy's dream.

 

[RoryN]

Bread?

I remember the late winter/spring of 1972.

Baby I'm-a Want You was spinning on the turntable in my GF's bedroom.

So, something like this?
https://youtu.be/HIy2_t-pO2Q

 

[Wrong Element]

Bread is good....nice list Rory, especially that Sentimental Lady.

"Sentimental Lady" was a song Welch repurposed from his Fleetwood Mac days. The solo single was a little less eccentric sounding.

The Alan Parsons Project- Eye in the Sky

My freshman roommates were obsessed with the Alan Parsons Project and Steely Dan. (One of them also loved Dan Fogelberg; the less said about that quiche-eater, the better.)

But they definitely weren't yacht rock. I always got the feeling Parsons wanted to be a prog act along the lines of ELP or Yes, but those weren't the inclinations of his partner Eric Woolfson, so they ended up as prog-lite.

The instrumental lead-in to "Eye in the Sky," called "Sirius," is by far the most well-known thing Parsons ever did, even if hardly anyone knows it by that name:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feoHV5JUbuo

Chicago, all of it.

https://youtu.be/PLiMy4NaSKc

Chicago were hippies who bought the yacht sometime between "Dialogue" and "Saturday in the Park" on Chicago V.

 

[thør]

So, something like this?
https://youtu.be/HIy2_t-pO2Q

You caught her parents in the other room.

 

[BotanyBoy]

"Sentimental Lady" was a song Welch repurposed from his Fleetwood Mac days. The solo single was a little less eccentric sounding.

Cool. I never got into Fleetwood Mac...I think my mom ruined them for me.

My freshman roommates were obsessed with the Alan Parsons Project and Steely Dan. (One of them also loved Dan Fogelberg; the less said about that quiche-eater, the better.)

But they definitely weren't yacht rock. I always got the feeling Parsons wanted to be a prog act along the lines of ELP or Yes, but those weren't the inclinations of his partner Eric Woolfson, so they ended up as prog-lite.

No definitely not, I just think these particular tracks fit the genre.

Just like some Kenny Loggins? IMO totally fits the "yacht rock" sound.....others definitely not.

The instrumental lead-in to "Eye in the Sky," called "Sirius," is by far the most well-known thing Parsons ever did, even if hardly anyone knows it by that name:

Oh I know....when I first listened to the album a couple months back I thought some sports event was going to come crashing through my door into my living room.

 

[DMBFFF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock

And Horse With No Name while we are on horses, and any and all America.

https://youtu.be/zSAJ0l4OBHM

You know Aglaopheme, the ocean is a desert with it's life underground and a perfect disguise above.



The Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAnGe40-o9Q
3:13
1,115,407 views

SUGARLOAF green-eyed lady 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOD0Gyf6Lfs
6:50
115,135 views

Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx8L7a3MuE
3:08
11,660,690 views

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWVn0GF48Q
4:15
2,251,085 views

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ryp0Vl1Hxo
6:01
27,455 views

Duran Duran - Rio (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTizYn3-QN0
5:04
76,686 views
(the video)

and for those of you sick of the aforementioned song,

Goldfinger - Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dIpGMe7YWA
2:59
106,095 views

Friggin in the Riggin w/ Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-vP2aC3Yo
3:18
231,792 views

 

[trysail]

"Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)"

-Enya​

Let me sail, let me sail
Let the Orinoco flow
Let me reach, let me beach
On the shores of Tripoli
Let me sail, let me sail
Let me crash upon your shore
Let me reach, let me beach
Far beyond the Yellow Sea
De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De, De

Sail away,sail away, sail away [x4]

From Bissau to Palau - in the shade of Avalon
From Fiji to Tiree and the Isles of Ebony
From Peru to Cebu hear the power of Babylon
From Bali to Cali - far beneath the Coral Sea...
​

​

 

[HisArpy]

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Southern Cross

 

[BotanyBoy]

Carly Simon - It Keeps you Runnin'

 

[BotanyBoy]

Paul Davis- Cool Night

 

[BotanyBoy]

Nicolette Larson & Michael McDonald - Let me go love




I'm alright....don't nobody worry bout' me.



Summer Breeze

 

[BotanyBoy]

 

[DMBFFF]

Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TagEkmwoD4
3:23
99,749 views






Not quite "yacht rock."


Type O Negative - Summer Breeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5We9Pos0Y
4:54
4,457 views

 

[DMBFFF]

... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_on_the_Radio

Song on the Radio | Al Stewart | Lyrics ☾☀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAEEdIH3muA
6:25

...

Are these yacht rock or just sound like it?

... Michelle McAdorey, Crash Vegas: On and On (Lodestar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDzy5RWF9w
4:12
...

The Wilderness of Manitoba - Echoes (Official Video)
4:04

The video was directed by Canadian John Albanis and shot over 2 days in Death Valley in California. It's a highly cinematic, surrealistic road trip through the Mojave Desert. It was produced with a small grant from muchfact.ca

(though I heard the song long before I saw the video.)