Top 10 AOR Songs

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Stop talking about and therefore reminding me of all these horrible, horrible records! Does Neil Young count as AOR? If not, why not?

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Jane" - Jefferson Starship "Who's Crying Now" - Journey "Don't Look Back" - Boston "Renegade" - Styx "Tom Sawyer" - Rush "Head First" - The Babys "Jailbreak" - Thin Lizzy "Do You Feel Like We Do?" (live) - Peter Frampton "Bat Out of Hell" - Meat Loaf "Do Ya" - Electric Light Orchestra

― J, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I really, really love this thread.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Don't Look Back" and "Bat out of Hell" (the REAL Meatloaf epic) are all classic, in my book. "Jane" was the one that sounded like Aldo Nova, right? Ah, speaking of which..."FANTASY"!!

How about "Affair of the Heart" by Rick Springfield?

― Joe, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't forget: Chilliwhack - "Fly By Night" (Canada fucking owns this thread)
Queensryche - "Another Rainy Night"
Styx - "Suite Madame Blue"
Skid Row - "Youth Gone Wild"
Cinderella - "Nobody's Fool"
Heart - "Magic Man", "Dreamboat Annie", "Heartless"
Boston - "Peace Of Mind", "Hitch a Ride" ("Don't Look Back" is amazing.)
Bon Jovi - "Livin' On a Prayer"
Sherriff - "When I'm With You" Poison - "Talk Dirty To Me" (too punk?)
Brighton Rock - "Hanging High and Dry" (I wonder if I'd like some of these as much if I heard them now.)
(I thought about mentioning Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" but decided it contains too much musical worth. "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Dream On" were excluded on similar grounds.)

My friend and I were singing Winger's "Seventeen" a couple nights ago. As if they didn't get arrested. Was there even any controversy? I don't remember. I don't remember "Say Goodbye". "Magic Power" has a pretty classic melody in the verses. I think "Midsummer's Daydream" was a lot of people's introduction to playing harmonics on the guitar. Guitar teachers used to play it all the time. I remember years back when there was a CBC Radio series on Hendrix co-hosted by Rik Emmett. He revealed his longtime dream of being asked to play "O Canada" at a Blue Jays game and wowing the crowd with a Hendrix-does-"Star Spangled Banner"-style noise spree.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

1. Yes: Owner Of a Lonely Heart
2. John Farnham: Pressure Down
3. Asia: Heat Of The Moment
4. Foreigner: Say You Will
5. Boston: More Than a Feeling
6. GTR: When The Heart Rules The Mind
7. Mike + The Mechanics: Nobody's Perfect
8. Yes: Love Will Find a Way
9. Supertramp: The Logical Song
10. Toto: Africa

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Btw. "Song For America" isn't AOR. "Song For America" is prog.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who else is going to see Boston this summer?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

How about Aldo Nova's "Fantasy"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Birth Control Blues
My Mind is A Muffler
#7
Semen On The Mount
Samurai Fight Song
#1
Biggest Little Prick In The Union
Swimming With A Hard On
Herpes Simplex 1
#2

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCb74nZQsMw

2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyoTfRwtWw4

3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qQxpTogxxE

4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdXQwzi_XTw

5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6ukyw_cRY

6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjgngFpExQQ

7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_NulU8eXs

8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgENjvjM_Qk

9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4jkmYN_Kg

10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

I think Toto - Africa is the only song mentioned here that I like. I'm a bit ashamed to say it but fuck it if I don't get excited and sing along whenever I overhear it somewhere.

― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link

Adult Oriented Rock Vs Album Oriented Rock

― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link

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