Just a Stray Thought
Jul. 13th, 2005 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Why call it AOR now, if nobody makes As anymore and nobody Rs?
Or put another way...when was the last time somebody recorded a CD that would be welcome on a "classic rock" radio station? It looks like that particular genre is in its death throes. Sure, many AOR hero acts are still playing concerts and getting the crowds--but what I've heard of new rock (post-grunge) is so different from AOR that you can't just lump the two styles together, so to speak.
And if I have to explain my terminology to the young'uns in the cyber audience...
AOR: "Album-Oriented Rock", consisting of Heavy Metal, Art Rock and their precedents in British Blues of the middle 1960s. Unfortunately an ethnically biased genre, dominated by white male acts and inclusive only to token minority acts (examples: Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Heart).
I'm not an AOR fan per se, but AOR is part of my cultural background.
FP
Why call it AOR now, if nobody makes As anymore and nobody Rs?
Or put another way...when was the last time somebody recorded a CD that would be welcome on a "classic rock" radio station? It looks like that particular genre is in its death throes. Sure, many AOR hero acts are still playing concerts and getting the crowds--but what I've heard of new rock (post-grunge) is so different from AOR that you can't just lump the two styles together, so to speak.
And if I have to explain my terminology to the young'uns in the cyber audience...
AOR: "Album-Oriented Rock", consisting of Heavy Metal, Art Rock and their precedents in British Blues of the middle 1960s. Unfortunately an ethnically biased genre, dominated by white male acts and inclusive only to token minority acts (examples: Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Heart).
I'm not an AOR fan per se, but AOR is part of my cultural background.
FP
