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Old 06-24-2022, 08:53 PM   #17 (permalink)
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From what I read, it grew out of the practice of many of the FM radio stations in the USA for taking tracks from albums rather than just playing the singles, leading to its name, and acronym, which can mean both Album Oriented Rock
That's always how I understood it. I suspect the term "deep cuts" came from that era too.
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