Rush the 80's music label?

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I am a bit confused with the Progarchives label for 80's Rush post-Moving Pictures albums(Signals, P/G, PoW, HYF). Progarchives labels these albums heavy prog exactly as their 70's output. But that label doesn't make any sense to me. I don't consider their post-MP work to be prog rock at all, and a lot less "heavy" when their music is a synth-driven and has nothing to do with the hard rock sound. I would label it as synth-rock and new wave-rock, AOR.
What do you think? 

Edited by TexasKing - November 01 2016 at 17:11

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TexasKing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 21 2016 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 577	Topic: Rush the 80's music label? Posted: November 01 2016 at 17:10
	I am a bit confused with the Progarchives label for 80's Rush post-Moving Pictures albums(Signals, P/G, PoW, HYF). Progarchives labels these albums heavy prog exactly as their 70's output. But that label doesn't make any sense to me. I don't consider their post-MP work to be prog rock at all, and a lot less "heavy" when their music is a synth-driven and has nothing to do with the hard rock sound. I would label it as synth-rock and new wave-rock, AOR. What do you think? Edited by TexasKing - November 01 2016 at 17:11

Atavachron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64350	Posted: November 01 2016 at 18:01
	Rather than categorizing individual albums, it is the bands are categorized here. Though less precise, it is also a cleaner and simpler way for a general listener to navigate the overgrown mess Prog can be. Rush is a little tricky in the same way Jethro Tull is; they have a long, varied, many-albumed career, but also tend to exhibit a base approach. In Rush's case, despite certain deviations, they do electric guitar based rock. Whereas Tull, though also guitar based rock, are known for the folk and sometimes Celtic music they incorporate. In the end it can be a judgement call.
	"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

Barbu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845	Posted: November 01 2016 at 19:27
	They returned to a heavier sound in 93 and each subsequent albums were heavier than the previous one so yeah, makes perfect sense.

Jeffro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 2036	Posted: November 03 2016 at 09:56
	I thought kinda the same thing as the OP but how to label a band that has gone through many different phases? Also, can we stop using the term "AOR"? it's a radio format, not a type of rock music. Any rock music that's on an album would be considered AOR. Silly label

Terrapin Station Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 23 2016 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 383	Posted: November 07 2016 at 08:28
	"AOR" is also an acronym for "Adult Oriented Rock"