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Battle of the 80's AOR 'prog' albums
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The Steve Morse era of Kansas is underrated/underappreciated. 
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So What ?
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

So What ?

Just saying it deserves more love IMO. Smile
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^I think they must have been talking about Miles Davis.
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Was gonna vote GTR just to be a dick, but frankly 90125 is, along with Discipline and a small handful of others, a superb pop/prog record.
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How is AOR being defined? I always understood it to be "album-oriented rock" - meaning, albums that didn't have any singles or short songs for that matter. Think Led Zeppelin IV and Dark Side of the Moon. If that's the case, then how are those albums by Yes and Asia considered AOR, when they enjoyed considerable pop success and had very big hits on their singles on the Billboard charts?
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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

How is AOR being defined? I always understood it to be "album-oriented rock" - meaning, albums that didn't have any singles or short songs for that matter. Think Led Zeppelin IV and Dark Side of the Moon. If that's the case, then how are those albums by Yes and Asia considered AOR, when they enjoyed considerable pop success and had very big hits on their singles on the Billboard charts?


I always thought of AOR as adult-oriented rock. The "soft" AOR refers to yacht-rock from the late 70's and early 80's like The Doobie Brothers or Hall & Oates. The "hard" AOR would be stuff like Toto, Journey, Boston, etc.

Generally, I think of AOR as very clean, 80's-sounding and melodic rock (whether soft or hard).
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It was used to mean American Orientated Rock as well. Generally it was as much a put down as the term Prog rock. AOR is safe. Boston, Journey and Toto absolutely represent it.
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