Quote:
Originally Posted by RMR
What's your definition of AOR?
Album oriented rock?
Arena oriented rock?
Adult oriented rock?
I've heard all three, do you consider it one of those or something different altogether. The AOR bands that come to mind for me are Boston, early Journey, Styx, and Foreigner. I'm I wrong on this?
|
AOR normally refers to album orientated rock, but I admit that doesn't really tell you too much about what type of music it would be. When I refer to AOR I'm referring to the bands that you've suggested, early Journey is far less AOR than later Journey though. Instead of using AOR, maybe I should be using soft rock as that's a more accurate label, but when most people see AOR they do think of west coast inspired soft rock, so the two labels do go hand in hand.
Basically what I love, are soft rock bands such as Journey, Toto and Survivor etc that can also go heavy effortlessly when needed.