this is the updated yachats rock playlist, which initially contained 67 tracks compiled specfically for our 2022 labor day getaway to yachats, or. but i updated it by adding 80 tracks for our first trip to yachats in 2023. obviously, the title is a play on the term yacht rock.

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melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
wistful: having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing
about half of the songs below were released between 1972 and 1979, which is also the time period i grew to love music: some music my parents listened to, some i discovered on my own. all of these songs have a melancholic, wistful meaning to me, taking me back to simpler times. let it be known, though, that it is more the music and the vocal harmonies that stir these feelings rather than the lyrics!

stats:
tracks in playlist: 147
average track length: 4:32
total playlist length: 11 hours, 6 minutes, 47 seconds

playlist files, also available in this youtube playlist:

  1. 10cc - Dreadlock holiday (5:03)
  2. 10cc - I'm mandy fly me (5:22)
  3. Ace Spectrum - I don't want to play around (7:34)
  4. Airplay - Nothin' you can do about it (4:48)
  5. Al Stewart - Year of the cat (6:43)
  6. Ambrosia - Biggest part of me (5:26)
  7. Ambrosia - How much I feel (4:39)
  8. Ambrosia - You're the only woman (4:20)
  9. America - A horse with no name (4:09)
  10. America - Ventura Highway (3:31)
  11. America - You can do magic (3:47)
  12. Andrew Gold - Lonely boy (4:26)
  13. Andrew Gold - Thank you for being a friend (4:42)
  14. Average White Band - Stop the rain (4:38)
  15. B.J. Thomas - Raindrops keep falling on my head (2:56)
  16. Barry Manilow - Copacabana (at the Copa) (5:46)
  17. Bee Gees - I started a joke (3:10)
  18. Bob Dylan - Hurricane (8:33)
  19. Bob Dylan - Tangled up in blue (5:43)
  20. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (7:32)
  21. Bobby Caldwell - What you won't do for love (4:47)
  22. Bonnie Raitt - I can't make you love me (4:44)
  23. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (5:17)
  24. Boz Scaggs - What can I say (3:01)
  25. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The way it is (4:58)
  26. Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth (2:37)
  27. Carly Simon - That's the way I've always heard it should be (4:18)
  28. Carole King - It's too late (3:55)
  29. Carole King - So far away (3:57)
  30. Carpenters - Close to you (3:41)
  31. Carpenters - Rainy days and Mondays (3:35)
  32. Carpenters - We've only just begun (3:05)
  33. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 (4:53)
  34. Chicago - Beginnings (7:50)
  35. Chicago - Does anybody really know what time it is? (4:34)
  36. Christopher Cross - I really don't know anymore (3:53)
  37. Christopher Cross - Never be the same (4:46)
  38. Christopher Cross - Ride like the wind (4:35)
  39. Christopher Cross - Sailing (4:18)
  40. Christopher Cross - The light is on (4:11)
  41. Chuck Mangione - Feels so good (9:42)
  42. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Cathedral (5:18)
  43. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Just a song before I go (2:14)
  44. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our house (2:59)
  45. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock (3:54)
  46. Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the band (4:18)
  47. David Bowie - Space oddity (5:05)
  48. Don Henley - A month of Sundays (4:29)
  49. Don Henley - Sunset Grill (6:20)
  50. Don McLean - Vincent (4:01)
  51. Donald Fagan - I.G.Y. (what a beautiful world) (6:03)
  52. Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - Sylvia's mother (3:49)
  53. Eagles - Desperado (3:33)
  54. Eagles - Hotel California (6:32)
  55. Eagles - I can't tell you why (4:55)
  56. Eagles - New kid in town (5:04)
  57. ELO - Mr. Blue Sky (5:02)
  58. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (3:15)
  59. Elton John - Rocket man (I think it's going to be a long, long time) (4:45)
  60. Elton John - Tiny dancer (6:17)
  61. England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'd really love to see you tonight (2:39)
  62. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross (3:06)
  63. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (4:14)
  64. Fleetwood Mac - Gold dust woman (5:01)
  65. Fleetwood Mac - Sara (6:22)
  66. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (5:59)
  67. Gino Vannelli - People gotta move (3:22)
  68. Gino Vannelli - Poor happy Jimmy (tribute to Jim Croce) (3:52)
  69. Gino Vannelli - Powerful people (6:14)
  70. Glen Campbell - Wichita lineman (3:04)
  71. Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (6:53)
  72. Hall & Oates - I can't go for that (no can do) (4:14)
  73. Hall & Oates - Kiss on my list (4:23)
  74. Hall & Oates - Sara smile (3:08)
  75. Hall & Oates - She's gone (5:24)
  76. Jackson Browne - Doctor my eyes (3:20)
  77. Jackson Browne - Running on empty (4:58)
  78. James Ingram and Michael McDonald - Yah mo B there (4:39)
  79. James Taylor - Our town (4:04)
  80. James Taylor - Fire and rain (3:24)
  81. James Taylor - Sunshine sunshine (2:50)
  82. James Taylor & J.D. Souther - Her town too (4:32)
  83. Janis Ian - At seventeen (4:42)
  84. Jim Croce - I got a name (3:14)
  85. Jim Croce - Time in a bottle (2:27)
  86. Joan Baez - Diamonds and rust (4:46)
  87. John Denver - Calypso (3:39)
  88. Johnny Mandel - Suicide is painless (2:54)
  89. Joni Mitchell - A case of you (4:24)
  90. Joni Mitchell - Blue (3:05)
  91. Joni Mitchell - Little green (3:28)
  92. Joni Mitchell - Night in the city (2:30)
  93. Joni Mitchell - Woodstock (5:27)
  94. Kansas - Dust in the wind (3:19)
  95. Kenny Loggins - Return to Pooh Corner (4:17)
  96. Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina - Danny's song (4:15)
  97. Linda Ronstadt - Desperado (3:31)
  98. Linda Ronstadt - Long long time (4:22)
  99. Linda Ronstadt - You're no good (2:44)
  100. Little River Band - It's a long way there (8:44)
  101. Little River Band - Reminiscing (4:13)
  102. Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a fine girl) (3:08)
  103. MFSB - T.S.O.P. (3:44)
  104. MFSB - Mysteries of the world (5:31)
  105. Michael Jackson - Rock with you (3:40)
  106. Michael Martin Murphey - Wildfire (4:48)
  107. Michael McDonald - I keep forgettin' (3:40)
  108. Michael McDonald - Our love (4:14)
  109. Neil Diamond - I am, I said (3:35)
  110. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline (3:20)
  111. Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the rain (2:50)
  112. Neil Young - Old man (3:22)
  113. Orleans - Still the one (3:53)
  114. Paul McCartney & Wings - Silly love songs (5:54)
  115. Player - Baby come back (4:14)
  116. Procol Harum - Homburg (3:49)
  117. Robert Plant - Big log (5:11)
  118. Rupert Holmes - Escape (the Pina Colada song) (4:11)
  119. Rupert Holmes - Him (4:06)
  120. Santana - Incident at Neshabur (4:56)
  121. Santana - Soul sacrifice (6:36)
  122. Seals & Crofts - Summer breeze (3:25)
  123. Simon and Garfunkel - America (3:41)
  124. Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends theme (1:23)
  125. Simon and Garfunkel - Old friends (2:35)
  126. Starbuck - Moonlight feels right (3:35)
  127. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle (3:29)
  128. Steely Dan - Deacon blues (7:36)
  129. Steely Dan - Do it again (5:56)
  130. Steely Dan - Reelin' in the years (4:37)
  131. Steely Dan - Rikki don't lose That number (4:33)
  132. Stephen Bishop - On and on (3:02)
  133. Steve Miller Band - Fly like an eagle (4:42)
  134. Supertramp - A soapbox opera (4:51)
  135. Supertramp - Crime of the century (5:31)
  136. Supertramp - Fool's overture (10:51)
  137. Supertramp - Rudy (7:17)
  138. Terry Callier - I'd rather be with you (6:39)
  139. The Doobie Brothers - Black water (4:15)
  140. The Doobie Brothers - South city midnight lady (5:29)
  141. The Doobie Brothers - What a fool believes (3:46)
  142. Todd Rundgren - Hello, it's me (3:40)
  143. Toto - 99 (5:15)
  144. Toto - I won't hold you back (4:56)
  145. Toto - It's a feeling (3:10)
  146. Toto - Takin' it back (3:45)
  147. Ultravox - Vienna (5:05)

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