When rock music also makes the audience lying flat, what era will it be?

As we all know, there are many categories in rock music, but in general, most of them have two characteristics of rock: that is "irritability" and "resistance to the spirit".

However, there is a kind of "lying rock and roll" that has started in the 1970s since the United States in the 1960s.

Of course, "lying flat rock" is just a personal summary of the author. Its scientific name is Yacht Rock.

In 2005, the mini -series "Yach Rock" produced by several rock fans was launched on the Internet. They invented the word "yacht rock". Each episode introduced a classic track and exaggerated the song with real performances. For the creative process, you can imagine it similar to the spoof version of "National Treasure".

However, after the episode was broadcast, it immediately caused a huge response. To this day, the first episode has seen more than one million views on the oil pipe.

Netizens who comment on the video, there are many fans who travel rock, or Americans who grow up during that period, they have said in a message:

"I like this,

That is one of the best music eras ever! "

"I used to like all these bands."

So, what kind of music does yacht rock cause such a huge resonance?

01

What is a yacht rock?

Yacht rock is not a rock music that can only listen to on the yacht, but more refers to an atmosphere.

What kind of atmosphere? When you press the playback key and music comes from your ears, you can immediately think of vacations, sunlight, beaches, and sea. At that time, many people actually listened to such music while driving.

Below is based on the holy song in the yacht rock. I believe many people have played the GTA series. In the GTA5 with California as the background, the game's car radio has a song "What A Fool Believes" sung by The DOOBIE BROTHERS.

How about it, does it feel that taste.

And it is true that the birthplace and base of yacht rock, the California region that sung by Tao Yan's "Orange Sunshine on the head", can be traced back to the Beach Boys of the Beach of the Beach in the 1960s.

The Beach Boys

When the rock world has turned to an restless psychedelic route, The Beach Boys has a different approach to open a Baroque rock road. Their music is soft, beautiful, with beaches and islands. The production is extremely exquisite. These characteristics were later. Rock inherited.

In the early 1970s, Laurel in Los Angeles (Laurel Canyon) became the center of the new anti -mainstream culture, and many musicians moved into this area to form a bond of music cooperation.

Among them, the musicians led by CaroleKing, CrosBystillsnash, most of them have already become famous, rich and idle. Under the pleasant climate of California, the lives of musicians are fasted, and they are naturally created very softly. music.

At that time, Carole King, CrosBystillsnash's album cover

There is a strong atmosphere of home

This wave of music was later called Soft Rock.

Soft rock is the core of singers, with simple and beautiful melody, and fine production, which is quickly popular in the record market, including The Carpenter and Eagle Bands that are quite familiar with Chinese people.

据统计，从From 1970 to 1974, a total of 122 championships were produced in the announcement list, of which 75 were classified as soft rock.

If the style before 1975 is called soft rock, they are more affected by folk and rural styles, while yacht rock is more urban, and more affected by black music (RB, Soul, Jazz).

Taking the Eagle Band as an example, the following is their 1972 work "Take It Easy" and the 1975 work "One of these Nights", which is obviously heard that the latter is more urban and more soulful.

Yacht rock has a major feature, that is, the musicians of this genre often cooperate with each other, so they form a common voice.

In 1977, Stely Dan released their sixth album "AJA". This album is a classic work in the history of yacht rock. "AJA"

Stely Dan is a rock band based on jazz -based. It consists of two core members Walter Becker and Donald Fegan in 1972. Their music works are famous for their superb technology and fine production, but they are not obscure in the melody. Instead, they are particularly pleasing. Each of their albums is similar to a cooperative plan, and a large number of musicians are involved.

List of some producers in "AJA"

If you open the list of "AJA" album, you will find that there are many recording room musicians who have been famous in the music circle in the music circle, such as recorded more than 1,000 songs, and Aretha Franklin and so on. The big -term breeze player Charles Rainey, and Richard Marotta for John Lennon, Jackson 5 and other drums.

There are also some musicians classified as yacht rock, and they also participated in this album. Later, they brought the sound of this album (using many of the same musicians), and Stely Dan's meticulous production attitude, and brought them to their own albums.

"AJA" finally won the best albums of the following year Grammy. The famous song "PEG" in the album is the harmony of Michael McDonald. Among them, the guitar Solo, who is named by Le Shi, is played by the guitarist Jay Graydon. They are all important people in yacht rock.

Especially Michael McDonald.

In 1976, the California band the DOOBIE Brothers replaced the lead singer. The new lead singer was Michael McDonald. The logo of McDonald was his unique, gentle and affectionate black voice. Previously, the Doobie Brothers was just a folk ballad, rural rock style band, and McDonald joined. , Immediately brought the elements of urban and spiritual music to the band.

In 1978, "What A FOOL BELIEVES" co -authored by McDonald and another yacht rock gangster Kenny Loggins was included in the sixth album "Minute by Minute" of The DOOBIE BROTHERS. Welcome, not only reached the ranking of the rankings, but also won the best song award of Grammy. "Minute by Minute"

"What A Fool Beliefs" has become a famous song of yacht rock pyramids with extremely ear melody and MCDONALD silky voices.

In 1979, in order to thank Kenny Loggins for his help, McDonald once again wrote a "This is IT" with him, which was included in the personal album of Loggins. Loggins won Grammy's best popular male singer with this song.

Grammy in 1981 was the pinnacle of the yacht rock.

Creative singer Christopher Cross's album of the same name, facing a lot of opponents (Pinke Freud, Frank Sinatra), won four awards for annual records, best records, annual single, and best newcomers, breaking the grid Lymi's record.

"Christopher Cross"

In this album, Don Henley participating in Michael McDonald and Eagle Band participated in the audience, and a number of recording studios who have participated in the Stely Dan "AJA" album joined the play. Among them, the song "Sailing" was considered by many people to think It is one of the masterpieces of yacht rock.

Intro, the guitar RIFF slowly came to the full song. Chicken, the inside of the heart, dissatisfaction, boring, and anger, as if they were swept away.

Seeing this, many people may not help but ask: Why did such rock music popular at the time? Also, does the yacht rock look no rebellion. Can it still be called the words "rock music"?

02

Yacht rock is also a kind of rock

First of all, it is undeniable that yacht rock is a type of music that meets Volkswagen consumers. Its popularity has a lot to do with the American music radio station.

During a long period of time, the radio station is the most important way of spreading popular music. Here is a little popular science to the history of the development of music in the United States. In the early 1960s and 1960s, the United States was popular in the United States. The poor radio station, at that time, the popular playback mode of the radio was called TOP40, that is, the 40 most popular singles in the country.

By the mid -1960s, the rise of anti -mainstream movements in the United States, rock music was the most vivid banner. At that time, the young people were eager to listen to the rock album, and FM (FM radio) in various places as radiating cities but good sound quality became a place for youth DJ experiments. They played a long and obscure avant -garde rock music. There is no considering income, but therefore has been in a lot of young listeners. Urban radio stations have gradually replaced a conservative AM radio station, becoming the main means for Americans to get music.

However, in the early 1970s, as the number of people buying radio gradually increased, the radio stations that still played experimental rock were becoming more and more difficult to survive. Therefore, many radio stations began to control DJ's playback tracks. song.

In 1973, the broadcast mode of such radio stations was officially named "Album Orient Rock" (album -oriented rock), referred to as AOR. In the first year proposed by the AOR model, the United States set a car sales record with 1.14 million car radios.

The main profit model of AOR Radio is advertising revenue. Therefore, many radio executives have positioned the audience from the middle class between 25 and 54 in order to increase their income. These people have the best consumption capacity. According to their judgment, the family's families The housewife controls the family's 75-90% of the income, so the radio should approach their preferences as much as possible.

The yacht rock with a romantic atmosphere, beautiful melody, and not aggressive thought has undoubtedly become the fragrance of the executive's eyes. As soon as the advertising revenue of the radio increased, more yacht rock was added to the radio song list. 1974 car radio advertisement

So, what exactly does such a commercial yacht rock resist? Can it be regarded as rock?

In short, yacht rock resistance is the resistance itself.

This is a bit lipstick. We can choose a few yacht rock songs to see what they are singing.

For example, "What A Fool Beliefs", the song sings a pair of couples who have broken up to meet again. The man has always been in love with the woman. He thinks that this relationship is still saved, but the woman does not like him at all, and there are only all kinds of meeting again to meet again. Moisturizing and ridicule.

The content of "Sailing", which has obtained Grammy's annual singles, is even more powerful. Without a story, no objects, they are similar to lyrics such as "let sailing and wind bring me to the distance".

Most of the yacht rock songs have similar characteristics: in the cheerful rhythm and the atmosphere of the heart horse killing chickens, there is a faint sorrow.

The reason is that the era of yacht rock is an era of extremely low American society. According to the summary of writer Tom Wolfe: "The 1970s was an era of 'I'." One of the important reasons is that after the vigorous social movement in the 1960s, the idealists discovered that the United States did not become better and worse.

1969, Woodstock Music Festival

California musicians who have experienced the Hippie era also noticed these changes. In the 1970s, American society was not as joyful as the surface of yacht rock, but a society that was dragged into the quagmire by the Vietnamese war, water gate incident, and oil crisis.

The first two pieces should be familiar with. The Vietnam War killed about 3 million civilians and 60,000 US soldiers. The water gate incident caused Nixon to become the first president in the history of American history to resign due to impeachment during his term. After the US economy, it affects the clothing and food of ordinary people.

And this allows most young people to actively speak for the society from the past to the concern of their own hearts. According to a Gallop Public Survey in 1977: Nearly 10 million Americans have tried to experience meditation, yoga, and oriental religion who believe in oriental religion. Wait.

Most of them have invested in the mainstream life that they opposed: marriage, children, and supporting their families, forming an indifferent and defeat attitude towards society, and music has also become a purely pleasure tool.

It is in this situation that the yacht rock musician stood on the opposite side of burst and rebellious rock music: that is, creating far away from reality, licking wounds, and seeking inner joy.

Just as the yacht rock song "She 'S Gone" sung by the Halloates band in 1976:

Everybody

Everyone is comforting themselves

Everybody's tring to tell me what is right for me, Yeah

Everyone tries to tell me what is correct for me, yes

My Daddy Tried to BORE ME with a Sermon

My dad wants to bother me with evangelism

But is plain to see that they can't comfort me

But it is obvious that they cannot comfort me

How to comfort yourself? The song gave the answer in the next paragraph:

I need a drink and a quick decision

Drink a drink first, and then make a decision.

03

Yacht rock revival,

Does it mean lying flat again?

In 1982, it was the last golden period of yacht rock. The representative band was TOTO, and they were also the guest musicians of the Stely Dan album.

TOTO

In this year, they released the fourth album "TOTO IV". The two famous songs "Rosanna" and "AFrica" ​​in the album were on the second place and top of the bulletin list rankings, which became the classic in the history of yacht rock and roll. Essence

, a magnificent synthesizer Solo in "Rosanna" is also the sound of the history of the 1980s. The sound here refers to both the synthesizer and the voices of the prosperity of the United States.

In the 1980s, the United States experienced a decade of comprehensive prosperity of economy and culture

In the same year, TOTO participated in the production of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album, and their "Human Nature" was also considered one of the famous songs of yacht rock.

The following year Grammy, Toto IV won a total of six major prizes including the best records of the year." Thriller "is the best-selling music album in history.

"TOTO IV"

However, since then, yacht rock has continued to go downhill. One of the key reasons is that the use of single synthesizers and drum machines in music has become more and more frequent, making this extremely important music type of music and production skills becoming more and more homogeneous It also lost its soul.

Furthermore, the rise of MTV TVs has made the importance of artist image much more important than music. In addition, the rise of the new wave rock and Hip-Hop music has also completely reduced yacht rock to the edge until the sound of disappearance.

But how the emotions change in the times will one day reunite with the past. The sophisticated music production of yacht rock means that it looks like the most exquisite artwork, and there will never be people who appreciate it.

Japan's City Pop is undoubtedly influenced by yacht rock. The two also pursue hedonism, and both have strong black music elements. Today, City Pop has become a global retro trend.

Yamashita's "Big Wave" album, dedicated to recording California

In recent years, yacht rock has risen again.

The first is the web drama "Yach Rock" mentioned at the beginning of the article, which has caused a large -scale nostalgic phenomenon in the United States. At the same time, the music industry began to create yacht rock, including cooperation with the past musicians to brush a wave of feelings.

For example, black musician and bassist Thundercat, in his 2017 "Drunk" album, cooperated with the two iconic characters of yacht rock -Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins.

Secondly, you can find all kinds of yacht rock -themed radio and song lists on the Internet. For example, Sirius XM, a 24 -hour uninterrupted network.

https://www.siusxm.com/Channels/yacht- Rock-radio

And the theme song list on Spotify.

So, does the revival of yacht rock mean that people today want to lie flat again?

Maybe I don't really want to lie flat, but the heart of lying flat at any time.

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