Psychedelic music’s the same as all genres of music, in that most of it’s not up to much but the best bits are great. While I enjoyed a fair bit of Country & Western when I was a little kid, it was never cool so when I was worried about whether the things I was into were cool or not, I ditched all that and went, as I said, psychedelic. So maybe I’m just not into Yacht Rock – on balance, I think I’m probably not, really.Īpart from The Eagles that is, who are the Country Rock connoisseur’s kryptonite. Sylvia’s Mother is hardly any of those things, but even that’s more Yachty than Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town) which, if it was built to play on any kind of boat, would be a fibreglass dinghy with a dead possum under the bench of it. Yacht Rock’s supposed to have high production values, like Steely Dan or Fleetwood Mac, neither of whom I have much time for. One of them’s just an 80s FM pop ballad and two of them are, more or less, Country & Western. I was thinking about Guilty Pleasures and that made me think about Yacht Rock and then I realised that none of the songs I’ve written about really constitute Yacht Rock in the slightest. I put it together because I realised that I have quite a lot of MOR schlock on it and, you know, as much as putting all your songs on random is appealing, sometimes you want a theme. The records I’ve been writing about all appear on a playlist I’ve made on my phone that I’ve been listening to as I go on my daily walk.
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