How prog are Boston?

 

The experimentations with guitar effects is slightly prog, but other than that i don't see much. plain old rock n roll if you ask me.

Just a precision, AOR should not be a term that scares us too much, technically Progressive Rock is an AOR genre.

 

AOR means ALBUM ORIENTED ROCK or ALBUM ORIENTED RADIO, this definition was created when the FM radios started to play music without commercials in the late 60's and early 70's.

 

This stations could play full albums from bands  that based their music in the rellease of complete LPs as an integral work instead of hit singles in 45 RPM format as it was used in AM stations, thanks to this new format of Radio Broadcasting, Prog bands were able to have airplay in FM stations, because as anybody should know, Prog bands rarely released hit singles being that their vehicle of expression are full albums, and even more when Conceptual albums are so common.

 

After Prog had their first crisis at the end of the 70's, some bands specially froim USA kept releasing non Prog music but still based in albums that had a predominant pérsonality as a whole. This bands were more conservative but IMO are far more impotant for music than those one hit wonders that released a famous song and then vanished (For example Kyrie Eleison by Mister Mr).

 

Later the term was changed by some people to ADULT oriented Rock, but this term is inaccurate and doesn't adjust to reality as a matter of facts it's been abused and some good Neo Prog or USA Prog bands have been accused of being AOR in the same vein as Boston, Journey or thoise weak Glam Metal bands of the 80's.

 

This doesn't mean I believe Boston is Prog or even related,. but there's good and bad AOR as there are good and bad bands in almost every genre.

 

Just a precision.

 

Iván

 

Hey Ryche, don't mention Rap or Eminem because you will be accused of being narrow minded and probably will receive a lecture about the trascendental role of Eminem in development of modern culture, something that may be true or not, even when I don't know or care about.

 

But don't you dare to say you don't hate Boston, because you will be called an ignorant redneck who likes to eat pork burgers.

 

In my case I never cared for Boston either, all my friends bought their debut album and I never had a cassette copy of them because sounded bland for my taste, but still believe that there are some good melodies and songs in AOR bands and even like some STYX tracks.

 

That's how things work for some people, you are not allowed to make generalizations about the music they like, but they have the God given right to make generalizations about the music you don't hate.

 

Iván