AOR VS Disco

I like to hear at fm some old disco hits, as this one for example.

Svetonio wrote: AOR = Adult Oriented Rock. It's originally a genre which gave to the world so much of the great albums as Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus, Billly Joel's 52nd Street, Joni Mitchell's Hejira, Supertramp's Breakfast in America, Pete Townshend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart and so on. Naturally, I voted AOR.

Moogtron III wrote: Svetonio wrote: AOR = Adult Oriented Rock. It's originally a genre which gave to the world so much of the great albums as Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus, Billly Joel's 52nd Street, Joni Mitchell's Hejira, Supertramp's Breakfast in America, Pete Townshend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart and so on. Naturally, I voted AOR. Oh, I wouldn't have classified Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel and Supertramp as AOR. If they count as AOR (and they probably do), then the balance tips to AOR again for me. It's a question of definition, I suppose.

Dean wrote: Moogtron III wrote: Svetonio wrote: AOR = Adult Oriented Rock. It's originally a genre which gave to the world so much of the great albums as Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus, Billly Joel's 52nd Street, Joni Mitchell's Hejira, Supertramp's Breakfast in America, Pete Townshend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart and so on. Naturally, I voted AOR. Oh, I wouldn't have classified Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel and Supertramp as AOR. If they count as AOR (and they probably do), then the balance tips to AOR again for me. It's a question of definition, I suppose. As always Svetonio's understanding of genres leaves a hell of a lot to be desired and is woefully stretching the format to fit his personal preferences. AOR is typified by Asia, Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Survivor and Toto. You can add bands like Styx and April Wine to that list and at a push Jefferson Starship, but certainly NOT Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell (really? ffs), Supertramp or Joe Cocker. It's a question of making-it-up-as-you-go-along, I suppose.

Edited by Svetonio - June 29 2014 at 17:42

Svetonio wrote:   lol I wrote about the albums who are Adult Oriented Rock, not about the artists.

I don't hate on Asia, Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Survivor and Toto. The only Toto I have in my collection is the Dune soundtrack, for the rest of these, nothing.  I took and interest in Joni when Pat and Jaco dropped in...

verslibre wrote: I don't recall any sort of "flash-rock" label applied to Asia. They're AOR through and through, or MOR.

'Flash Rock' as the term now means almost nothing, but in The illustrated New Musical Express Encyclopedia of Rock (Salamander Books Limited, 1977), the authors Nick Logan and Bob Woffinden mentioned flash rock even in the Yes chapter, and they wrote that Rick Wakeman "push the band more deep into something what become knowing as flash rock or techno rock territory." Also, in the same chapter, while describing the genre, the authors have called ELP "leading representatives of flash rock" as "technically stunning but inflated and pretentious school of rock". I have Croatian version of the book, but the terms are cited in English.




Edited by Svetonio - June 29 2014 at 23:35

Nope. That's MOR not AOR.