AOR (adult-oriented rock, melodic rock) is a genuinely hi-tech/sophisticated and melodic music genre but nobody cares, or they conflate it with the other AOR (album-oriented radio, arena rock) or yacht rock, so they assume it's shit.It doesn't even have its own wikipedia page and if you tried to make one it'll get removed; even though countless playlists on youtube and sufficient written sources exist to warrant writing one; because some self-proclaimed 'music critic' moderator will kvetch at you and delete it.Why has it been memoryholed so badly? Is this genre not relevant to half of 80s rock output?
>>131493831>It doesn't even have its own wikipedia pageBecause Wikipedia basically categorizes it under the broader "Adult Contemporary" labelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music
>>131493860There is basically almost nothing adult contemporary about melodic hard rock/harder-edged AOR albums so that makes no sense
>>131493831I learned it reading through magazines.
>>131493873>there is basically nothing adult contemporary about music for manchildrenwell yes but that's besides the point
>>131493881>Music for man childrenWe're talking about the scene that produced studio guitarists such as Steve Lukather and Dann Huff here who played on thousands of albums across many genres, and ones that are remembered to this day as monumental in music historyThats because they were were melodic/blues-influenced players, unlike Eddie Van Halen or anyone else who just spammed as many notes into a song as possible
>>131493900Again, music for man children
>>131493831AOR and yacht rock are the same thing
>>131493900>unlike Eddie Van Halen or anyone else who just spammed as many notes into a song as possibleoh stfu more than his solos eddie is remember as a great rhythm guitar player, not to mention his fucking riffs. If you listen to Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love and think that "hes spamming as many notes into a song" then you're deaf
>>131494029in the 70s definition, yes and it was more specifically called West Coast sound, but in the 1980s there was a completely different type of music (melodic rock) known by the same acronym. which confusingly also had a West Coast scene of its own, also referred to as "hi-tech AOR" - separate from West Coast sound in a yacht rock 70s context.
>>131494070i'm gonna need some examples of "melodic rock" artists
what about COR (Critic-Oriented Rock)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHEWhnWW_VQ
>>131494238Magnum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huUKdGxS4oQSteve Lukather: https://www.youtube.com/gpC8olWgoyoPhenomena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDo_8bjZO9MProphet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezXfonDhY4Trillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KTpfIGPUzQMark Spiro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURjLord8tAMichael Thompson Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJjIhHno_0etc
>>131494319All Manchild music
>>131494355arguably less manchild-adjacent than most of prog
>>131493831Got too confusing since AOR was used for stadium rock/70s buttrock like Foreigner and stuff. I've heard "west coast rock" as a term before but yacht rock kind of replaced it on the internet
I thought AOR stood for "Album-Oriented Rock" AKA Prog
They no longer make intellectual mainstream music for adults so the genre died.
>>131494575retards throw the acronym around for basically anything from hair metal to prog to yacht rock
>>131494604>AOR>intellectual
>>131494607Even some NWOBHM releases get labeled under AOR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilvDevgup5sWhole album os a tribute to his love for Steely Dan
>>131494780If you could read you'd have seen why that is: >>131494070Steely Dan is obviously not the same genre as melodic rock bands. Whatever you linked is some outdated thirdie spin on "AOR"
>>131494319would this count?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9L8IvIsdQ
what about YA rock
you know Wiki is just some nonsense that autists write and control for free? you know, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
