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Top 10 yacht rock albums. It was to become his best-selling album and rightly so. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul smooth jazz RB and disco common stylistic traits include high-quality production clean vocals and a focus on light. David Bowies 25th and final studio album released two days before his death Blackstar feels like a knowing final nod to the world a parting gift for fans and Bowie at some of his inventive best.

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. Here is a stab at the Top 100 Songs of Yacht Rock not. Blackstar is all spiky art.

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. New Wave Yacht Rock. 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.

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. Rising artists like HER Tierra Whack and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail. 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. During the late Seventies and early Eighties the radio was dominated by silver-tongued white-dude crooners with names like Rupert and Gerry emoting over balmy RB beats swaying saxes and dishwasher-clean arrangements. 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.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee either as member on a band altogether andor individually References. 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. Artists most commonly thought of in the Yacht Rock era include Michael McDonald Ambrosia 10cc Toto Kenny Loggins Boz Scaggs and Christopher Cross.