Artists most commonly thought of in the Yacht Rock era include Michael McDonald Ambrosia 10cc Toto Kenny Loggins Boz Scaggs and Christopher Cross.

Top 10 yacht rock albums. The electorate includes Beyoncé Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. Seals and Crofts are Jim Seals 17 October 1941 and Dash Crofts 14 August 1940 a popular soft rock duo in the early 1970s best-known for Bob Welch 64456 listeners. Jimmy Eat World Bleed American.

Yacht rock originally known as the West Coast sound or adult-oriented rock is a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to early 1980s. Most 69 year-old rock legends would have been content with releasing a suite of comfy head-nodding numbers to end their career but that wasnt Bowies way. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee either as member on a band altogether andor individually References.

Some of the greatest AOR albums were made by artists who never made it big among them Diving For Pearls New England Balance Giant White Sister Valentine and Le Roux. On the deck of a large nautical vessel. Carefree bounce from a San Francisco band with the best name ever for a soft-rock act named fittingly after a chill Colorado buddy.

Album Guide Summers here and time is right for dancing. As well as veteran musicians such as Adam Clayton. These ten albums will work pretty much regardless of the hardware and equipment you have so they can be recommended without concerns over whether they will work or not.

Hard to say yet theres no denying yacht rock is a legit sound with a vibe all its own that produced a surprising amount of enduring music perfectly at home in summer. Yacht Rock has become the muse of a great number of tribute bands and is the current subject of a short-run channel on Sirius XM. Rising artists like HER Tierra Whack and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail.

Blackstar is all spiky art. Here is a stab at the Top 100 Songs of Yacht Rock not. John Mayer even tips his own sailors hat to the genre on his new Night Train Home single and even the aqua-blue cover of his upcoming Sob Rock album The.