Bingo!Originally Posted by Scott Bails
Bingo!
nowadays
brother firetribe
dare
fair warning
wet
hardline
You mean, like with swear words in the lyrics?
They are for me! :-)
Seriously? Album-oriented rock? These are all singles bands. Well, until they went all prog.
Yeah or classic rock which I think is somewhat synonymous with aor. I guess my definition is different or maybe incorrect.
Most of the bands people are listing I would classify as arena rock. I suppose the two are very similar then.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Journey
Boston
Toto
Foreigner
REO Speedwagon
Styx and Kansas did have greater elements of progressive rock in the sound than the above bands did at their commercial peak. Indeed Kansas were full-blown prog on occasions.
Corrected above... Basically Cinema is Yes from Drama until the Close Your Ears album except for the two KTA albums[Cinema (any version with Rabin, Horn , Downes or Sherwood)]
Sounds like someone has a problem calling anything after Drama YES.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
You are mixing things up, for sure.
AOR (Album Oriented Rock) is a format adopted and recognized by the U.S. broadcasting industry.
Arena Rock is a term adopted by people who are not in the broadcast radio industry. Radio does not recognize the term arena rock.
AOR or Arena Rock doesn't matter cause today it is all classified at Classic Rock as is everything up through Grunge. They have classified the shit out of music just to squeeze it into a radio format. Keep in mind Oldies now incorporates the 70s and some 80s music. All are radio terminologies and radio is dead and has been since 2002.
I worked in AOR radio for about a year and it covered a wide variety of stuff, but when I think of pure AOR I would probably go with:
Journey (Perry and later era)
Foreigner
Toto
Boston
Loverboy
Yup, exactly.
Mmm……I don’t know. As previously mentioned I worked in AOR radio for about a year and other than The Eagles, none of those other more country rock oriented bands were on our playlist.
Eagles
Journey
Boston
Foreigner
AC/DC
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Album Oriented Rock, where multiple tracks got radio play. The term also has a late 70s,1980s period in my mind where the record labels were creating marketing plans around multiple singles before the album even got issued. Before that these artists would release an album, maybe two, per year; once these business strategies started, the albums slowed to one every 2,3, 5 years.
Steve Miller Band
ELO
Eagles
Bob Seger Silver Bullet Band
Def Leppard
I remember tomorrow
REO
Journey
Foreigner
Boston
Styx
Hate em all
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Wow! Five bands I've never heard of in one list.
1. R.E.O. Speedwagon
2. Toto
3. Survivor
4. Styx
5. .38 Special
Along with Kansas, whom I don't regard as aor, these probably took up 75% of my listening between the ages of 16 & 24.
Bubbling under (Still fab but not quite top rank):
Honeymoon Suite
Journey
Boston
Night Ranger
Henry Paul Band
Slightly off-topic but with a (very) few exceptions, modern aor bands leave me cold. The conveyor belt stuff coming out of Scandinavia like Work of Art, W.E.T. & State of Salazar sound like bad pastiches of the bands listed above. Maybe I'm just getting old!
not looking at the answers above:
REO | TOTO | JOURNEY | FOREIGNER | BOSTON
Top 5:
1)Toto.
2) Journey.
3)Survivor.
4)Foreigner.
5) aor.
Also love any albums featuring Tommy Denander or Eric Martinsen.Class.
A real shame that prog fans here do not appreciate Cinema's efforts and do not rate them as highly as other big acts like Styx or Toto! Maybe the upcoming tour will raise the band's stakes in the game...
Last edited by Jay.Dee; 02-27-2015 at 11:22 AM.
brother firetribe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2O1Z_LWJu8
dare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REeKHnhBuB4
fair warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvkcIFFUgQ
wet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COq2RouJ2tQ
hardline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pFJR-2qqE
Upon further review, Foreigner definitely belongs on my list. I'd probably move Def Lepp to #6, and then would include Night Ranger at #7.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Thanks for those links Act! Very decent of you to take the time to do that.
Ummm... based on playlists of radio stations that call themselves AOR:
AC/DC
Bon Jovi
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Rolling Stones
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Edit: Having read the earlier posts there is obviously a clash of cultures here. AOR in this country refers to "Adult Oriented Rock". I've never heard anyone herre refer to "Album oriented Rock".
you are welcome Peter
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