Instrumentally, they’re categorized by an incessant use of the electric piano (an electro-mechanical keyboard that produces a watery sound) and melodic bass, which gave the songs an added funk.
These songs were mostly by middle-aged men who weren’t particularly good-looking, and they primarily featured lyrics about breakups or odd characters. Soft rock, or yacht rock as some like to call it, was a popular genre in the ‘70s and ‘80s that mixed the ballad songwriting style of Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond with traditional, albeit pared-down, rock and soul instrumentals.
Let’s give it another look and list the 25 best songs in the genre. Soft Rock was one of the most dominant music genres in the 1970s, but by the ’80s, it wasn’t taken very seriously.
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