Introducing Beach Rock Radio - the 90s all over again
Over recent summers, we've all come to love, hate, hear or tolerate the irony-drenched sounds of "Yacht Rock". Michael McDonald, Toto, Kenny Loggins and all the rest. Baby Come Back by Player. Soft rock of the 1970s and 1980s. I've come to believe there's a related, more recent, different and better genre. Beach Rock Radio It's the sound you heard walking down the beach in the 1990s, coming from a series of boom boxes. It's the music that was playing in the beach snack bar. It's the kid brother or sister of the alternative music your older cousins brought back from college in the 1980s. Edgy, relaxed, pretending to be alternative with a healthy dose of pop mixed in. I've been talking about with friends the past few years and am ready to unveil the genre. Let’s consider some examples. Smooth, Santana with Rob Thomas: with Santana is a top-level example. Ubiquitously the sound of summer -- not yacht rock, and not alternative. Take a Bow , Mad...