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Is Fleetwood Mac considered Yacht Rock??
Posted on 7/12/23 at 12:44 am
Posted on 7/12/23 at 12:44 am
I admit, I do love some yacht rock on occasion, but lately the Sirius 14 channel has been playing Fleetwood Mac songs. I dunno, but that’s just not right, in my opinion. The Chain? Yacht Rock???? No.
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Posted on 7/12/23 at 6:54 am to WinnaSez
Yes, it is the ultimate Yacht Rock Band
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:00 am to ELVIS U
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Yes, it is the ultimate Yacht Rock Band
Eh, I don't think so. I think of them as a group that while not a quintessential Yacht Rock group, can be included in the wider Yacht Rock pantheon.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:10 am to WinnaSez
Yes
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:13 am to WinnaSez
Yes, for sure.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:14 am to WinnaSez
No
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:18 am to WinnaSez
I don't really know what Yacht Rock is aside from Jimmy Buffet, but there is a darkness in a fair amount of FM that I suspect shouldn't be a fit. Otherwise it's just another name for "Classic Rock" and doesn't distinguish anything.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:24 am to pheroy
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I don't really know what Yacht Rock is aside from Jimmy Buffet, but there is a darkness in a fair amount of FM that I suspect shouldn't be a fit. Otherwise it's just another name for "Classic Rock" and doesn't distinguish anything.
Jimmy isn't Yacht Rock.
Yacht Rock is a subgenre of Classic Rock, but it is a moniker that most definitely does distinguish things.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:40 am to Mo Jeaux
LOL, I was even more correct in saying I don't really know what YR is then. Per the Wikipedia entry, FM would violate these qualities with much of their work (and explains why I'm blissfully ignorant of the sub-genre):
"keep it smooth, even when it grooves, with more emphasis on the melody than on the beat"
"keep the emotions light, even when the sentiment turns sad (as is so often the case in the world of the sensitive yacht-rocksman)"
"always keep it catchy, no matter how modest or deeply buried in the tracklist the tune happens to be.
"keep it smooth, even when it grooves, with more emphasis on the melody than on the beat"
"keep the emotions light, even when the sentiment turns sad (as is so often the case in the world of the sensitive yacht-rocksman)"
"always keep it catchy, no matter how modest or deeply buried in the tracklist the tune happens to be.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:47 am to Mo Jeaux
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Jimmy isn't Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock is a subgenre of Classic Rock, but it is a moniker that most definitely does distinguish things.
You have not been much help in distinguishing things.
I’m not exactly sure what yacht rock is but I kind of associate it with hall and Oates and Kenny logins type stuff. Post disco rock that wasn’t hair metal or punk. I guess like soft rock
Fleet wood Mac I think could fit this description but probably not Rumors era stuff.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:59 am to OceanMan
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You have not been much help in distinguishing things.
That's because it's an art, not a science.
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I’m not exactly sure what yacht rock is but I kind of associate it with hall and Oates and Kenny logins type stuff. Post disco rock that wasn’t hair metal or punk. I guess like soft rock
Yes. When trying to describe it, I will often say that it's "Adult Contemporary" from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 8:00 am to pheroy
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"keep it smooth, even when it grooves, with more emphasis on the melody than on the beat"
"keep the emotions light, even when the sentiment turns sad (as is so often the case in the world of the sensitive yacht-rocksman)"
"always keep it catchy, no matter how modest or deeply buried in the tracklist the tune happens to be.
I like those descriptions. 
Posted on 7/12/23 at 11:07 am to WinnaSez
This is the only Mac song that I have in my custom Amazon Yacht Rock playlist. It fits with my others.
Hypnotized
Hypnotized
Posted on 7/12/23 at 4:22 pm to WinnaSez
I mean they are a rock and roll band, but yacht rock is just soft rock and i would say their stuff is softer than other rock bands.
I need to say the later flootwood mac, yeah with peter green they rocked out a bit more and had a bluesier vibe
I need to say the later flootwood mac, yeah with peter green they rocked out a bit more and had a bluesier vibe
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 7/13/23 at 12:22 am to rebelrouser
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No. The Tusk album alone destroys the contention. Also, Fleetwood Mac existed long before Lindsey and Stevie showed up
Thank you.
Today, channel 14 played The Eagles. That’s just wrong.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 10:46 pm to WinnaSez
Yacht Rock is easy smooth listening arrangements with melodic vocals. Chill music from the 70s and early to mid 80s. Fleetwood Mac had a couple of songs that fell into that category. As did Ambrosia, Player, Air Supply, Boz Scaggs, Exile, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Climax Blues Band, Donnie Iris, Dr. Hook, Elvin Bishop, Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Nilsson, The Hollies, Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, Little River Band, Men at Work, Hall & Oates, Paul Davis, Seals & Croft , Toto ….to name a few.
I don’t know of any band that would be labeled exclusively Yacht Rock style. It is the song arrangement and vocal style of the particular song that makes it a YR song. All of the above groups produced some of what has become labeled as YR arrangements over the last 20 years. Some more than others. Almost every song on Christopher Cross self titled album is YR style while Toto’s best known songs Africa and Rosanna might be their only ones that we think of as YR.
I don’t know of any band that would be labeled exclusively Yacht Rock style. It is the song arrangement and vocal style of the particular song that makes it a YR song. All of the above groups produced some of what has become labeled as YR arrangements over the last 20 years. Some more than others. Almost every song on Christopher Cross self titled album is YR style while Toto’s best known songs Africa and Rosanna might be their only ones that we think of as YR.
This post was edited on 7/15/23 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:01 am to Dirk Dawgler
Christopher Cross is the CEO of yacht rock
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:26 am to pheroy
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LOL, I was even more correct in saying I don't really know what YR is then.
Bro you’re all mixed up. What you do is discretely look up Yacht Rock, grab a couple of high points, then bust out like the hottest expert on the scene.
I’m not making fun of anyone, ftr.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 9:17 am to davyjones
I would never consider them YR, in the context that I know it...
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