been getting alot of melancholy pleasure listening to Gene Clark's NO OTHER in recent weeks. Also interesting that this could THE seminal 'YACHT ROCK' album of 'smooth' , easy going but slightly sad and stoned epic rock, HOWEVER many smart-farties posit this record as one of the prime examples of 'cosmic American' rock, so what we find here is a bit of a paradox in genre tagging me thinks...
Regardless, 'cosmic American rock' is one of my truly favourite 'genres' or 'sounds' of pop music per-se, I guess it goes into the whole bucket of 'transcendent' rock, which is some sort appendage of all the above, but then the Stooges and the Velvets are also pegged as 'transcendent', even Detroit techno for that matter. I guess it all come under the bigger bucket of 'psychadelic music' which in a polite turn of phrase was reposited to 'bliss pop' or whatever, whatever whatever...
But yes, Yacht Rock, a danger term, that can equally apply to Hall N Oates and Tot as it can to those 'Ibiza Chill out' session dreckno records that 4WD driving yuppies listen to, still there are transcendental gems to be found - Clark's NO OTHER and Dennis Wilson soon to be reissued PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE (warning does have beer-shnot inducing harra on it) - and prolly some Doobie Brothers records I couldn't give two-hoots about at this point in time as well..
NOTE: the 'word' 'transcendent' is starting to filter in the big-word-for-fucking-bogen-consumer-idiots vocab of market these days. U2 have just released a 3D movie, and on jock-shmock-rock station here, the ads quote some magazine describing it as 'transcendent'..I'm gonna bet the farm the word starts to be used on Footy shows to describe player performances pretty soon...! )
Regardless, 'cosmic American rock' is one of my truly favourite 'genres' or 'sounds' of pop music per-se, I guess it goes into the whole bucket of 'transcendent' rock, which is some sort appendage of all the above, but then the Stooges and the Velvets are also pegged as 'transcendent', even Detroit techno for that matter. I guess it all come under the bigger bucket of 'psychadelic music' which in a polite turn of phrase was reposited to 'bliss pop' or whatever, whatever whatever...
But yes, Yacht Rock, a danger term, that can equally apply to Hall N Oates and Tot as it can to those 'Ibiza Chill out' session dreckno records that 4WD driving yuppies listen to, still there are transcendental gems to be found - Clark's NO OTHER and Dennis Wilson soon to be reissued PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE (warning does have beer-shnot inducing harra on it) - and prolly some Doobie Brothers records I couldn't give two-hoots about at this point in time as well..
NOTE: the 'word' 'transcendent' is starting to filter in the big-word-for-fucking-bogen-consumer-idiots vocab of market these days. U2 have just released a 3D movie, and on jock-shmock-rock station here, the ads quote some magazine describing it as 'transcendent'..I'm gonna bet the farm the word starts to be used on Footy shows to describe player performances pretty soon...! )