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Topic: Rush the 80's music label?

Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: Rush the 80's music label?
Date Posted: November 01 2016 at 17:10

I am a bit confused with the Progarchives label for 80's Rush post-Moving Pictures albums(Signals, P/G, PoW, HYF). Progarchives labels these albums heavy prog exactly as their 70's output. But that label doesn't make any sense to me. I don't consider their post-MP work to be prog rock at all, and a lot less "heavy" when their music is a synth-driven and has nothing to do with the hard rock sound.

I would label it as synth-rock and new wave-rock, AOR.

What do you think?

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 01 2016 at 18:01

Rather than categorizing individual albums, it is the bands are categorized here. Though less precise, it is also a cleaner and simpler way for a general listener to navigate the overgrown mess Prog can be. Rush is a little tricky in the same way Jethro Tull is; they have a long, varied, many-albumed career, but also tend to exhibit a base approach. In Rush's case, despite certain deviations, they do electric guitar based rock. Whereas Tull, though also guitar based rock, are known for the folk and sometimes Celtic music they incorporate.

In the end it can be a judgement call.

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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 01 2016 at 19:27

They returned to a heavier sound in 93 and each subsequent albums were heavier than the previous one so yeah, makes perfect sense.

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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: November 03 2016 at 09:56

I thought kinda the same thing as the OP but how to label a band that has gone through many different phases?

Also, can we stop using the term "AOR"? it's a radio format, not a type of rock music. Any rock music that's on an album would be considered AOR. Silly label

Posted By: Terrapin Station
Date Posted: November 07 2016 at 08:28

"AOR" is also an acronym for "Adult Oriented Rock"