 bhikkhu wrote:
Why doesn't that happen in AOR? Albums that were made as such often produce hits. Look at Pink Floyd and Yes.
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Doesn't happen often HT because AOR bands create album based music, of course they got some hits once in a while, but that's not the main interest of an AOR band (No hits or at the most one but a very even album).
Fleetwood Mac was an originally cult band (With Peter Green) but they recruited two hit machines in the couple formed by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who simplified the music and made it more accessible but thanks God without loosing quality, only changing genre.
Fleetwood Mac recorded in POP format after Stevie and Lindsay joined and reached her peak with Rumors:
- Short lenght tracks, ideal for AM radio format (Largest 4:51, average 3:30 minutes)
- Mainly in similar format to ABAB.
- Three hit single material tracks: Dreams, Don't Stop and You make Loving Fun
- Many suposedly fillers like The Chain, Songbird, Oh Daddy, Gold Dust Woman, Never Going Back Again, I Don't Want to Know.
But this album went beyond their expectations and was popular not only as hits but as an album, stranger things happen because FM was an amazing band.
One more thing, the boom of what we know as AOR (Boston, Journey, Toto, etc) started 3 or 4 years after Rumors was released and Fleetwood Mac despite they kept releasing albums, never changed their style a bit, with a couple of hit single material (Mostly the ones with Nicks in the vocal) and another group that would fill the album.
Iván
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