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Old 06-24-2012, 04:02 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I am also a big AOR fan. All the big names : Journey, TOTO, Boston, Foreigner, mid-eighties Heart, Saga, Mark Free, Bad English, Survivor, Mr. Big, Boulevard, Giant, David Pack...
But also some lesser known bands :
Blackjack (with a young Michael Bolton) :


Stingray (from South Africa, very Queen-inspired) :


JATO :


Caryl Mack :


Nexx (from Spain) :


Life On Mars (very Heart-inspired) :


Queen Of Spades (german duo, feat. the great Curt Cress on drums)


Rachel Rachel (an all female band) :


Bootcamp :


Alien :


Robby Valentine (from the Netherlands, inspired by Queen, in a similar way as his fellow countryman Valensia) :


Martee Lebow :


Randy Jackson's China Rain (known for his contribution to the band Zebra) :


Murderer's Row :


Lombard (from Poland, they are big in Poland) :


Grzegorz Skawinski (frontman of polish pop band Kombi, one of the most popular bands in Poland) :


Alyson Avenue (band fronted by the current Nightwish singer) :
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Old 06-24-2012, 04:14 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Strangeways – Native Sons (1987)
The intro to "empty streets" is very similar to Marillion's intro to 'sugar mice' :

Strangeways - "empty streets"


Marillion - "sugar mice"
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Old 06-24-2012, 05:01 PM   #33 (permalink)
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You know, it most certainly is!
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Old 06-24-2012, 08:46 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I think it's the other way around though, as Native Sons predates Sugar Mice by atleast a year. :P
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Old 06-25-2012, 03:10 AM   #35 (permalink)
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I'm actually surprised that Strangeways are so highly rated on here, I always saw them as very average as far as the 1980s AOR scene went.
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Old 06-26-2012, 01:55 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Never a huge fan of Virginia Wolf always sounded too much like Whitesnake for me but this is a good song, actually they were much better than Whitesnake. Vocalist Chris Ousey's voice was far better suited to AOR than David Coverdale's.


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Old 12-28-2012, 04:47 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Any chance that you'll update this thread?
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He's doing his top 12 albums of this year in the albums reviews thread, so I'd say he'd be concentrating on that for now...
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He's doing his top 12 albums of this year in the albums reviews thread, so I'd say he'd be concentrating on that for now...
Ah and there's you who writes 12 album reviews a day! Let's hope he can adopt your work ethic.
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Old 12-29-2012, 02:39 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Yeah, I'll update this thread eventually. I'm still pretty happy with my current AOR rankings, but there's plenty of 80's gems I haven't reviewed yet. :P
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