Battle of the 80's AOR 'prog' albums
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Topic: Battle of the 80's AOR 'prog' albums
Posted By: richardh
Subject: Battle of the 80's AOR 'prog' albums
Date Posted: May 01 2024 at 22:12
Yep it's the poll everyone has been waiting for  . Get voting!
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 00:55
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Yes 90125 Kansas - Power Asia - Asia
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 06:06
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Oof! Yes Asia GTR ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 06:13
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Not on the list but is a great album overall.
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 06:41
| ^The video is not available to me. What album is it? |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 06:44
| YES - 90125 |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 07:04
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3 - To the Power of Three Desde La Vida is a great Emerson composition, worthy of the early ELP catalogue. And his solo in On My Way Home is a favorite of mine.
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Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 07:12
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I'll vote Yes ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 07:14
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Me too, though I like all these albums (maybe the Kansas one a bit less...), including Chance by MMEB as suggested by Gnik... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 08:04
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90125. I've been usurped by a mayonnaise noun again. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 08:37
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As I mentioned in another thread, my fave would be Freedom at Point Zero, although I know that was 1979. Otherwise, could I have Toto: Turn Back? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 10:47
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90125, the best pop album of the 80s. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 11:23
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Asia's S/T. I enjoy all of them, though I am least familiar with the Kansas album. I've heard Power a handful of times, but I can't say that I am familiar with any of the songs by the song titles. ------------- 
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 11:41
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Asia by default , not my favorite sub genre of rock music ------------- "Mellotron is to progrock what watercolor is to painting. Diaphanous and mesmerizing" |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 12:14
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Power ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 12:51
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Yes > Asia > GTR > Three > Kansas. I freely admit to owning (and enjoying) all these albums!
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 14:16
Better than Kate Bush's Hounds of Love and The Dreaming, for instance? Of course it's subjective, but perhaps seeing such high praise I should give it a fresh listen. Last and only time I heard it in full was in the 80s. I got very drunk, skunked and sick that night. I don't know any of these albums well enough to vote. EDIT: I listened to a couple The Smiths albums today which I also would call great, highly-regarded 80s pop. Will give a listen to 90125 very soon. "Greatest and favourite 80s pop albums" would be a topic I would be into (well, the fave part, not really the greatest). I like and remember Owner of a Lonely Heart but sampling the rest, it doesn't fare better in the 2020s for me as it did when I was a teenager. Best in this case is but an individual construct and fancy.
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octopus-4 wrote:Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 02 2024 at 18:25
| If Saga's Silent Knight counts, I prefer it to all these. 90125 is best of those listed but I really only like about half of its material - some of this is very very good though. (Similarly Chance.) |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 09 2024 at 18:02
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I find Asia's debut to be fresh and energetic. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 09 2024 at 18:18
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^ How dare you. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 02:49
| The Steve Morse era of Kansas is underrated/underappreciated. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 06:26
So What ?  ------------- "Mellotron is to progrock what watercolor is to painting. Diaphanous and mesmerizing" |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 06:54
Just saying it deserves more love IMO.
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 19:51
| ^I think they must have been talking about Miles Davis. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 20:16
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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. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: May 10 2024 at 21:55
| 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? |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 11 2024 at 03:54
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). |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 12 2024 at 18:09
| 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. |