Should AOR bands be listed PA's discography?

^I'm afraid that this is a case of the current vernacular superseding recording industry and the FM radio business terms for album based rock played on extended FM radio formats as it relates originally to the term Album Oriented Rock. This was done to track album play for the commercial interests of both parties.

Edited by SteveG - September 14 2017 at 10:56

^Old slang is still slang, and the term Adult Oriented Rock was used in Britain by everyone except radio stations, which gives it no validity what so ever, unfortunately.

Logan wrote: Incidentally, when I look up AOR definition on google the main result I get is "a type of popular music in which a hard rock background is combined with softer or more melodic elements."

All those bands definitely had albums that were on the fringe of progressive rock; not necessarily their most representative or well-known work though (although I'm sure nobody's under the impression the Journey is here because of Don't Stop Believing).

Personally, I think it's better to be a bit more inclusive when accepting bands to PA than to really be choosy about which bands are prog enough. They'll mostly be reviewed and rated from the perspective of prog rock fans, so I think it's useful to see reviews for those albums by like-minded people. I was going to make a comment about how the descriptions for 4-star and 5-star ratings specifically mention the album in relation to prog rock music/collections, although I just noticed the the prog-related category removes the word "prog".

I love JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Freedom at Point Zero and Nuclear Furniture.
Both are phenomenal albums - Rock, Pop, Heavy, New-Wave......and Prog !!
;man, I hate posting when 'half-cut'............

Edited by Tom Ozric - September 15 2017 at 05:59

^ and influenced by Prog which is important for Prog Related.

SteveG wrote: Cristi wrote: Logan wrote: Incidentally, when I look up AOR definition on google the main result I get is "a type of popular music in which a hard rock background is combined with softer or more melodic elements." exactly AOR? what is that? Boston? Foreigner? Journey?  that's what people think. Anyway, those who know little bit about music... Agreed. Those that know only a little about music and, more importantly, the accompanying music industry would certainly refer to AOR as Adult Oriented Rock. Those that had careers in the recorded music industry would not and stay with Album Oriented Rock as the proper term. It's that simple.   Or, after viewing these redundant erroneous posts, perhaps not.

Not being in the music industry, I'll take your word for it. Semantics discussions can be very dull, but to understand the context it is important to understand how someone is using a term (from context its usually quite clear). My point on this particular issue was that AOR can mean different things (which definition and term is more valid is something of a moot point when it comes to what I was trying to convey). Most importantly, it can refer to a style or a radio format. As a style it has entered the common vernacular, and I had thought from your initial post that that aligned with your thinking. I was trying, in part, to defend what I saw as congruent to your initial post, that bands like Journey, Styx and AOR can be categorized by style as AOR, and commonly bands such as Pink Floyd (some for instance see Dark Side of the Moon as AOR), Frank Zappa and Led Zeppelin do not commonly fit that conception. But I side-tracked the topic to whatever extent.

Apologies if I have written any erroneous, redundant posts here (not sure if I'm reading you right). You are the master of ceremonies or host when it comes to your topic (although once you start a topic it belongs to everyone), and perhaps I should have given you more space to respond to the various posts instead of willy-nilly throwing in my two cents and my nilly willy, or so you might think -- my feet are petite, but one shouldn't draw too many conclusions based on that. I made some effort to answer your initial question in my first post while touching on some other tangents

Edited by Logan - September 15 2017 at 14:12

On Prog Archives: no,
on Metal Music Archives: yes.

Only if they are prog.  heheheh

Acid Oriental Ragtime
I'd be willing to include more of that in a heartbeat. The only act that I can think of right this minute is Boredoms but then again I may have overextrapolated the term ragtime.

Hah thanks Greg. Enjoy your meeting with the Japanese answer to Samla Mamma Manna. Their answer to Faust is equally thrilling though but I don't know if you've ever checked out Omoide Hatoba? Madness incarnate.