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A.O.R no screaming

Ah as a teenager growing up in the late 70's my best friend was an AOR/Pomp rock nut-I had to join in.
Just this week I bought the gold edition of the first Boston album and the remastered version of the first Foreigner album.
It's a music that is derided,is it that awful?- certainly Americans in the late 70's didn't know how to dress and Kevin whathisface in Reo Speedwagon had a really big nose, but what are your memories?
For my money there were some great musicians taking part,Neal Schon,Tom Scholtz et al,however it did get saturated pretty quickly and didn't develop as a genre but even in rainy Scotland some of us rocked,ah we were young.
To start the debate here is my AOR top 5........

1.Kansas-Point Of Know Return
2.Journey-Escape
3.Styx-Pieces Of Eight
4.Boston-Boston
5.Foreigner-Foreigner

Heaven or hell?
ben_campbell

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curbach
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Hell for sure, but not without it's guilty pleasures. I had all those albums as a kid, but the only one that has found it's way into my cd collection is "Pieces of Eight". I saw it cheap and couldn't help it. Haven't played it in years, though.

A few more dubious "classics":

April Wine-Nature of the Beast (I think? the one with "Sign of the Gypsy Queen")
Asia-Asia
Billy Squier-Emotions In Motion
Bad Company-Bad Company
Anything by Supertramp or The Little River Band
curbach
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No offense, Parrot. I've actually never heard a Supertramp album. I know them only by their radio hits of the era, and those certainly qualify as AOR schlock IMHO.

Hey, Nrchy, I'll second your endorsement of Rainbow, although I would hardly call them AOR while Dio was involved. The later albums are another story. Have you heard Ritchie's recent ventures into Renaissance folk music? Some its quite good (but I'm a bit biased--he's still my favorite guitar player. . .)
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