Death to false yacht rock!

I feel like having a martini.. Or maybe doing some shopping.

 

If I owned a yacht and cruised around listening to Motorhead, Black Sabbath and maybe some 80s punk like X or Wire etc. -then I would be oblivious to what actual yacht rock is I suppose.
This thread would be thoroughly disorienting.

 

OK, I don't think anything by tr00 kvlt yacht rocker Ian Thomas has been posted yet, so here's him and his band performing an abridged version of "Pilot" on the cred-boosting SCTV, back in 1981...



Come on, feel the SMOOTHNESS!

 

There's yacht videos, and then there's the granddaddy of all yacht videos!

 

That's just Ron Burgandy classy! A band decades ahead of its time, obviously.

Finally, I have an answer to this question: What would happen if members of Traffic, Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers formed a supergroup and took Valium?

 

That's what I was thinking.

 

I think he meant excellent as in "excellent exemplar of the yacht rock cliche in all its excessive ridiculousness" or something similar.

 

Is this "actual yacht rock"?

 

Finally, Yacht rock exposed for what it really is..

 

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/737174

 

It's unfortunate how this thread drifted so far off axis, from the calling out of "false yacht rock" to irony-free examples of yacht rock itself. How many threads devoted to Actual Yacht Rock do we need? I think if we kept it to FYR -- bands who just want us to believe they're going full yacht rock -- this thread could still serve a constructive purpose.

 

I love yacht rock.

 

I have this up on YouTube right now. Digging it so far.

 

Awesome!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sail-away-the-oral-history-of-yacht-rock-20150626?page=5

 

I'm already pretty relaxed today, but this is over-mellowing my mellow.....I need a white wine spritzer and canapés, and I need them...well, whenever, there's absolutely no rush......

 

The link to episode two edits out "you caught me basting some lamb shanks".

 

The worst offender here has to be David Gilmour. Not only was he an in-demand session guitarist during the 80's yacht rock golden era (true yacht rock being a session man's game); he recruited yacht rock grandaddies Crosby and Nash for his album, defiantly titled "On An Island" (guess how he arrived there!?). As a final insult to YR purists, he has for the last 30 years insisted on recording on a houseboat, and his first major project in that studio begins with the sound of oars in water. Gilmour was clearly wise to the Yacht Rock agenda early on, and has been subverting it from within ever since, like an art rock mole.

 

I've never thought of Gilmour as a yacht rocker until this. But there are tell tale signs of his eventual ascension in the genre in "Comfortably Numb", lyrically, musically, and mood wise. I think I've decided there is no doubt that song inspired Christopher Cross' "Sailing". And as @Former Scientist so well-captured the YR aesthetic above, it is clear that the goal of this music is to achieve a comfortable numbness.

 

I still have that album from the Yachts..some good punk tunes on that one.

 

Who's that group from the eighties, they did a song called, Captain Of The Ship....this one should fall into this category.

 

I just received Too Slow To Disco 2 and Marc Jordan's Mannequin and Blue Desert in the mail today. Yep, it's gonna be a smoooooooooooth weekend!

 

You thinking of "Captain of Her Heart"? That was Double (pronounced "Doo-blay"). And if that's what you're referring to, you should hear this:

 

Death to False Yacht Rock Threads...

 

Ah, but that's just it, you see. He's a false Yacht Rocker, assuming some of their smoothness and chill, associating with some of their causes (such as boat ownership and saxophone solos*), but also mocking the lifestyle and general aestethic of Yacht Rock with his unhip "writing songs with the missus" schtick and general Britishness.

* see also: Duran Duran

 

hahah, that's the song... ((total crap from the past)) I hate to admit this but I listened to the whole thing. There was actually some versions of the song I liked.