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first of all, to manage to become a yacht rock band, one must one sell-out totally to be able to afford to buy the yacht.... unless stealing the label owner's own ship.
let's just stay above the moral melee
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I find yacht rock to be a manufactured genre. It was never used at the time by any of the usually cited protagonists. Just the media trying to invent a new genre retrospectively…

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

Originally posted by Hosydi Hosydi wrote:

The Sweet's Level Headed comes to mind.



While I never would have thought of describing Level Headed as "Progressive Yacht Rock", I must admit I absolutely LOVE this album! I can "sort of" see why it might be labelled that way as they experiment with almost every genre possible to brilliant effect (or is it affect?). There's not one dull moment, it exquisitely captures its era, and it's by far the best thing the band ever did.

All that being said, I emphatically prefer the USA Capitol Records cover artwork and track sequencing that I (sort of) grew up with!

For me they made at least 4 better albums although this sees them move away from the hard rock style more typical of the band on Give Us A Wink and Desolation Boulevard. Love Is Like Oxygen is okay but that is literally the only thing that sticks out that I can remember.
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The album version of Love is Like Oxygen and the B-side of the Level Headed album qualify...in my opinion.
The Sweet ventured off the plantation on occasion.  "Sweet FA" reminds me of Black Sabbath.
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Originally posted by Jazzsucher Jazzsucher wrote:

Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Again I will posit the question: what is the equivalent of "yacht rock" in the prog world? What kind of music combines high production value and a sophisticated and jazzy approach to harmony with accessibility and some cheese in the realm of prog?
One could answer your question with another question: what is "prog world" anyway? You can add the adjective "progressive" to almost every music genre that emerged in the popular music of the second half of the 20th century in the Western world. Rock was not the first genre to earn that adjective. Namely, "progressive jazz" and "progressive pop" tags were invented prior to "progressive rock". 
Personally, I think that threads like this could be enjoyable and fun, despite the fact that there is not really an established genre called progressive yacht rock!
Fair enough. But I'm going to keep it loose in classifying the "prog world." And I'm going to go ahead and answer my own question anyway, even though this line of questioning is clearly not being followed by anyone on the thread. And that's fine. I'm just a fun guy, I'll keep myself entertained.

I say Supertramp is the prog equivalent to yacht rock, particularly with albums like Crisis?... through Famous Last Words. The production is sleak, there's an art rock focus on arrangements, and there's an element of jazziness, but it's very accessible music and occasionally somewhat cheesy (which isn't a bad thing, doesn't always have to be). To be clear, it is NOT Yacht Rock. But I think Supertramp is to prog as Christopher Cross is to mainstream/classic rock.


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