Just a little test, if someone asks you to name 5 AOR bands quickly, what are the 5 you shout out? I want to see how similar our AOR Big 5 lists are. I have my 5 & regardless of responses here my list wont change.
Just a little test, if someone asks you to name 5 AOR bands quickly, what are the 5 you shout out? I want to see how similar our AOR Big 5 lists are. I have my 5 & regardless of responses here my list wont change.
Journey
Boston
Styx
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
The Beatles
The Who
The Kinks
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
ouch DM! :-)
Those would probably be my picks for arena rock but not AOR (at least not necessarily).Originally Posted by Scott Bails
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
What is arena rock?
Say what?
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
It's a term that was used to describe a certain sound. I think after the enormous success of Boston it was used to describe bands who could fill arenas who were typically hard rock but with catchy melodies and choruses. Journey is another good example. These were among the first bands to have multi platinum selling albums. Styx for example was the first band to have four consecutive multi platinum albums.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Cinema (any version with Rabin or Sherwood)
Toto
Styx
Asia
Foreigner
Last edited by Jay.Dee; 02-26-2015 at 03:17 PM.
Ok, thanks, i wasnt familiar with the term,but isnt it very close to AOR then?
Yes, very similar. You could say all arena rock is AOR but not all AOR is arena rock.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
[Cinema (any version with Rabin or Sherwood)]
Sounds like someone has a problem calling anything after Drama YES.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Ok, i get ya, so e.g. Bread = AOR but not arena rock?
In no order-
REO
Journey
Boston
Foreigner
Cheap Trick
Well to me Bread would be more like soft rock but yeah I suppose they could be thrown in. That is if the band America can be tossed in too.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Well, in just 3 posts 4 of my 5 have been named already.
Yea, i definitely think of America as AOR.
Really? I'd put them in with that Country-Rock sound like the Eagles, Poco, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, etc.
Yea but I think quite a few of them are AOR as well, especially Poco, Loggins & Messina, late period Eagles.
the 80s
return
survivor
foreigner
bon jovi
europe
Okay then, heres my first 5:
Foreigner
Journey
Styx
Supertramp
Toto
Journey
Boston
Rush
Kansas
Foreigner
Seriously? Album-oriented rock? These are all singles bands. Well, until they went all prog.
My second 5, which are bands that I dont know as well as my first 5, would be:
Boston
10 CC
Fleetwood Mac (Buck/Nicks years)
REO Speedwagon
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Well, to be fair, over here the A in AOR has always been Adult not Album.
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