Greatest AOR albums ever
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Topic: Greatest AOR albums ever
Posted By: zoviet
Subject: Greatest AOR albums ever
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:40
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Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:42
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First one to root for The Alan Parsons Project!! That band always had a soft spot for me.. And Ammonia Avenue is one of their bestest songs ever EDIT: I just voted twice for Ammonia Avenue, you may wanna get that fixed  |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:44
| guys, you can bote for more than one album in this poll. go for it!! pls recommend if theres stuff i shld know about! |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:48
Well if you don't know any other Alan Parsons Project album, any prog fan will love Tales Of Mystery And Imagination. The vinyl, as the cd has a bad remix of the album. Also, I Robot is a masterpiece and Pyramid is a great album. |
zoviet wrote:Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:51
| Oh, and you could put Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra on this list. Lots of radio hits, LOTS of great songs (Standin' In The Rain, Big Wheels, Summer And Lightning, Believe Me Now, Steppin' Out, Mr. Blue Sky, and my favorite THE WHALE) |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 01:58
My vote goes to Boston - Boston 
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Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 02:05
| How about some Meat Loaf? It never felt so good, it never felt so right. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 02:38
| Asia's debut |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 02:40
 no love for Ammonia Avenue.. I'll give it another vote 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 08:43
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I don't know any of these. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 08:59
Same here, I've definitely heard songs from most of these bands, but no full albums. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 10:49
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Umm, where is Boston's debut? Best by far.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 11:04
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Would Leftoverture or Argus qualify as AOR? Not too keen on what really makes a band AOR. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 12:04
Probably not the whole Leftoverture album, but The Wall has some of the typical AOR qualities.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 14:34
That's what came to mind. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 28 2012 at 14:48
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TOTO IV is a landmark of AOR and one of the classyest albums of the 80s and have this wonderfull song on it -------------  
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Posted By: Say'en
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 16:19
| Don't forget "Try Anything Once" & "On Air" by Alan Parsons as well. Also if you can get your hands on a copy of "Freudiana" you should make the time to enjoy it. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 16:25
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STYX The Grand Illusion ------------- 
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Posted By: Say'en
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 16:28
| What does it mean if i have everyone of these disc in my collection??????? |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 16:29
| Heart Dreamboat Annie or Little Queen, but not any of the ones in the poll. Dire Straits? ELO? |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 17:42
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Journey Escape is great ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 29 2012 at 20:38
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This is what happens when you allow multiple votes. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: July 30 2012 at 03:44
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As stated by others Boston is a very obvious omission. ELO - A New World Record is also missing but because they are listed in PA as Crossover Prog. So does that mean they shouldn't be considered here? Also Alan Parsons Project are also Crosover prog here on PA and as this topic is posted under "other related music lounges" then APP should not be in this poll.
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 30 2012 at 05:22
| Journey's Escape |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 02 2012 at 14:53
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I call bullocks on this. Eye in the sky is more pop rock than AOR. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 02 2012 at 15:02
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I went with Foreigner 4. I am a big fan of all of these bands though and I am eagerly awaiting mailto:M@x" rel="nofollow - M@x to create AOR Archives. ------------- 
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: August 06 2012 at 00:22
errm? hehehe AOR IS pop rock!!! rock music for adults who normally like pop!!!!
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 18:16
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Foreigner 4 is briliant. I went with this album. Besides the usual suspects (Survivor, Journey, Heart, TOTO, Foreigner, Boston), there are a lot of interesting AOR artists/bands : Nexx (female-fornted band), Alyson Avenue (with current Nightwish vocalist), Danté Fox ('under suspicion", female-fronted), Rachel Rachel (all female band), Benny Mardones (ex-Hurricanes, with Jeff Porcaro on drums), David Pack (vocalist for Ambrosia, Jeff Porcaro on some tracks), Signal (Mark Free on vocals), Boulevard (short-lived AOR band), Alien, Life On Mars (female duo à la Heart), Stingray (blend of Queen and Boston), JATO, Grzegorz Skawinski (vocalist/guitarist for Kombi), Zebra (Randy Jackson on vocals), Robby Valentine (strongly influenced by Queen and Kate Bush, just as his fellow countryman Valensia), Queen of Spades (Curt Cress on drums), O'Ryan (Curt Cress on drums)... ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 18:49
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I would say Bad Company's debut album. It's so middle-of-the-road, it should have had a highway dividing line on the cover. It's so solid, it's like coal pressed into diamonds. I don't care for any of those you've listed. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 22:09
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What about Argent? One of my favourites. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: August 29 2012 at 15:49
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I don't like any of these
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 01:46
First of all, you won't be considered as the person with the best/coolest taste on this site Second of all, you couldn't, or shouldn't, care less since no doubt you have a good time listening to all those albums
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 04:03
wahahaha thats awesome you and me both Say'en!!! i love AOR its so brilliantly fun, big riffs big gated reverb drums awesome synth sounds, BEST!!!!
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 07:36
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Totos New album is great -------------
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 18:44
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Each of these albums has a great FM radio track or two, but I'd hate to have to sit thru the entire album. Would Chicago be considered AOR? If so, I'd take Chicago I thru VII over anything on that list. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 18:49
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 19:29
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who made this poll... should revoke your poll making privilages...leaving perhaps the 2 greatest AOR albums ever made OFF tsk tsk.... Leftoverture and Moving Pictures no way...Heart.. bad animals?  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 20:37
Yeah, this was my first thought. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: July 15 2015 at 21:51
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Didn't know AOR albums could be great. ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 01:29
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 02:48
Seriously, I only have heard APP - Eye In The Sky from this list  But I love Jefferson Starship, esp. Freedom At Point Zero, and Chicago 16. Maybe throw in some Journey, I have the DVD of the Greatest Hits, which features a number of tunes from Escape. Who's Crying Now is my fave from that. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 10:38
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Can't say any of those really impress me as great AOR albums.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 11:35
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Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 12:47
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Asia´s "Asia" and "Alpha" Journey´s "Infinity" and "Escape" Styx´s "The Grand Illusion" - what a fantastic title to an AOR album, isn´t it... and the dullest music of these all -
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Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 12:56
| Asia´s first (1982) and Journey´s "Infinity" (1978) are fantastic albums, the finest they both ever recorded and 2 of the best "AOR" albums IMHO. However, to call these just AOR is an insult to music. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 13:12
What the hell else would you call them. AOR isn't the plague for god's sake.. no more than calling an album 'prog' is. Hell...I'd take a Heart 'AOR' album over half the prog database here for quality, musicianship.. and ANN WILSON  Make it Dog and Butterfly and I'd up it to 3/4's the database  sing to me baby... and don't even get us started about Pat Benatar ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 13:27
I'm going to take the High Road in this discussion: -------------
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 22:58
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Night Ranger? High road? Someone's a little too high. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 19 2015 at 12:38
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I was going to ask early on what exactly is AOR....is it album oriented rock or adult oriented rock...both terms seem to apply to the phrase. At any rate none of the ones listed impress me that much. And are there are 'classic rock' albums that could apply....and why not? Found this by accident.....don't know if this guy has nailed it since I am not a big AOR fan...but for what it's worth.... he does mention many albums that qualify and gives his reasons. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: July 19 2015 at 13:27
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There are too many obvious omissions here, many of which have already been mentioned: Boston - s/t Heart - Dreamboat Annie Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll Eagles - Hotel California Dire Straits - Love Over Gold Kansas - Audio-Visions Prince - Purple Rain Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell Van Halen - half their discography Greg Kihn Band - RocKihnRoll Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Steve Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 20 2015 at 09:47
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Found this article about Strangeway's album Native Sons. The writer claims it to be the 2nd best AOR album behind Journey's Escape. http://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2015/04/23/strangeways-here-we-come-the-story-of-scotlands-greatest-american-rock-band/" rel="nofollow - http://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2015/04/23/strangeways-here-we-come-the-story-of-scotlands-greatest-american-rock-band/ -------------
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 20 2015 at 19:08
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Honestly, I always thought AOR was a marketing term that FM DJs picked up on for convenience of categorization. I always took it to mean that the album's focus wasn't on the singles but on the album as a whole, so any track from the album could be played....deeper cuts, more appeal. People used to actually enjoy FM back in the day - rock criticism was fun back then but people relied more on FM, I believe, to make their record store purchase decisions. With this in mind, bands like Yes, FLoyd and Genesis must have been considered AOR - they were all over the AOR FM station that I listened to in NYC right up until the time I gave up on FM (1985, to be exact). Than again, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie, and the Motown cats were also featured on AOR radio.....could Marvin and James Brown be considered AOR? It's all bollix, really. With FM as good as dead, maybe a shattering of these category labels is in order. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 21 2015 at 01:55
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I haven't listened to most of the albums so I won't vote. I like Eye In The Sky (Alan Parsons), Toto I, IV and The Seventh One. I like Foreigner's first and some stuff on Agent Provocateur. A friend of my gave me a Styx compilation and I must say... good stuff. But most albums in the polls I haven't heard yet. |
Posted By: Guy_Debord_68
Date Posted: July 21 2015 at 16:29
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AOR- Ouch.... Cut my leg off instead please... ------------- To every age its art. To every art its freedom. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 14 2017 at 08:13
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why are there multiple votes? there aren't even that many albums in the poll Toto - Hydra put of these Night Ranger are missing here, their 80s albums are very fine hard rock. also missing are Boston (their first 2 albums are great). REO Speedwagon Suvivor |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 14 2017 at 08:56
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The two winners are my picks. Foreigner 4 and Eye In The Sky. Foreigner is just a tad better though. BTW Rainbow Bent Out Of Shape is NOT an AOR album. It is hard rock all the way through (except one ambient instrumental) -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 14 2017 at 21:18
| FLEETWOOD MAC - Mystery To Me. An album full of great tunes and variety. Hypnotised is a BRILLIANT tune. |