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| | Beatles Reference Library - The Death of LPs |
 | | Culturally speaking, the ambitious rock album is where it was in the early 1960's of Top 40, the "Peppermint Twist" and the Singing Nun: Nowhere. | | | The Big Album, the album that is the realization of an artist's or band's vision, is not so much suffering for lack of a musical trend as it is suffering under the weight of larger trends in the music industry. | | | What Prince was saying was that this was an album, and his album, not yours. |
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http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/albums.html
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| | PopCult Magazine |
| | It was the Golden Age of Album Oriented Rock. | | | A new breed of rock bands came along influenced not by punk or funk or R.E.M., but by those has-been album rockers. | | | With its haughty musical pretensions, repetitive "conceptual" lyrics, silly posturing, and epic songs that you simply could not dance to, album rock was as good as dead. |
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http://www.popcultmag.com/obsessions/musicfeatures/albumrock/albumrock1.html
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| | Hard Rock |
| | The material is very album oriented rock in that the songs flow from track to track such as Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon that perfectly ties together the songs before and after it. | | | Hard rock is a style of music that has much of its roots in blues music and provided the foundation of heavy metal music. | | | The live versions are strong and this album is an inexpensive substitution for their early albums for casual fans or those on a budget. |
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http://www.thebestofwebsite.com/bands/Categories/Hard_Rock.htm
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| | Thursday |
| | While the overall rock category is still the fifth-most-popular radio format, its share of listening was relatively flat in the fall, with a 2 percent decline from a year earlier, to an 8.7 share. | | | About 57 percent of AOR listeners are in the same age group. | | | Once the go-to stations for music by '70s bands like Jethro Tull and Mott the Hoople, AOR stations today are increasingly defined by new bands whose members probably weren't even born in the '70s. |
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http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2003/mar03/mar24/4_thurs/news5thursday.html
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| | Hexapedia - Music radio |
| | A later development was "freeform" Rock, later commercially developed as AOR (Album-Oriented Rock), in which selections from an album would be played together, with an appropriate introduction. | | | Some well-known music-radio formats are Top 40, Freeform Rock and AOR (Album Oriented Rock). | | | AOR (Album Oriented Rock) developed as a commercial compromise between top-forties-style formulas and freeform rock. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/Music_radio
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| | Radio Station Format Guide |
| | Rock AC A station which plays rock music released largely during the past fifteen or twenty years, designed for the general rock listener who is not actively interested in following current releases. | | | AAA playlists are much broader than the limited playlists of hit radio, and therefore depend on album tracks as well as on music released or designated as singles. | | | AOR stations thrived between the late 60's and the 80's, during the heyday of FM Rock Radio. |
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http://www.nyradioguide.com/formats.htm
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| | The Rugged Elegance World Marketplace Music : CSN |
| | Like other albums from the seventees (this one is from 1977) the album is very easy to listen to. | | | This crisply remastered disc replaces my old vinyl album with all its snaps/crackles/pops. | | | Certainly the quality of the albums released by Crosby and Nash, and Stills since that tour produced little to dispel that notion. |
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http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/cgi-bin/amazon/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B000002J0N
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| | Album-Oriented Rock History Summary |
| | Radio stations that specialized in rock music recorded during the later 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were generally labeled Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) stations. | | | In the 1970s, rock album sales accounted for an increasing proportion of record company profits, but the AOR format remained somewhat experimental until technological improvements brought stereophonic capabilities to FM radio. | | | The perception that rock music was hopelessly contaminated by crass commercialism drove many fans and musicians to spurn FM rock. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/album-oriented-rock-sjpc-01
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| | ALBUM ORIENTED ROCK |
| | Taking the Top 40 format dominating AM radio, AOR consisted of tight, scaled-down song rotations, usually one or two selections preferred by the artists themselves (or the listening audience, if the street-level verdict was unanimous in nature) from the bestselling rock albums of the day. | | | It was geared to album, rather than 45 r.p.m. | | | AOR's appeal was also diminished by the decline of mainstream rock acts such as Bad Company and the Doobie Brothers. |
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http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_fwh/book/hybrid_children_of_rock/AOR2.htm
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| | simpleton |
| | August 26, 1969: Dad recorded the album Watertown. | | | In fact, if the album ultimately doesn't succeed, it's because a successful concept album needs to be part of a constellation of ancillary products and deadly earnest drama. | | | The mood of the album has an even more contemporary model—the sensitive guy style that began in the late sixties and reached its peak in 1975 with Morris Albert's legendary "Feelings." Sensitive guy songs made extensive use of the absent—and if possible, dead—wife as a dramatic theme. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Sheer Heart Attack: Music |
| | I have listened to this album, and I want to review it. | | | As with their debut album, the album is good and very consistent -- I can listen to it the entire way through without wanting to skip any tracks (although I do dislike "She Makes Me"). | | | Sheer Heart Attack is probably the band's first mature album, in which they married the Led Zeppelin-influenced crunch of their eponymous debut, and the sonic gimmickry and thematic ambition of its follow-up, Queen II. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000OAA
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| | AOR/Classic Rock |
| | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) or Classic Rock has its roots in the rebellions of the mid to late 1960s. | | | They were now buying albums 33 1/3rpm and listening to artists like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez and Judy Collins. | | | Classic Rock stations tend to play music of the '60s, '70s and '80s. |
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| | art rock -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The term is sometimes used synonymously with progressive rock, but the latter is best used to describe “intellectual” album-oriented rock by such British bands as Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Yes. | | | A blistering reaction to the 1970s rock and disco scene, punk music was raw, ugly, and noisy, an anarchistic mutiny against the popular music establishment. | | | Although a relatively short-lived phenomenon, pub rock was notable both for returning rock to the small clubs of its early years and as a breeding ground for many of the punk and new-wave artists of the late 1970s. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109664?tocId=9109664
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| | CD Baby: BEN CARDENAS: Primordial Soup |
| | Album-oriented rock with a progressive flare, both musically and lyrically. | | | However, it quickly becomes apparent that the songs have the most power when viewed as a part of the album as a whole. | | | He has composed and performed everything from film scores to orchestra pieces, and his debut solo album, "Primordial Soup", is a journey into the center of everything that is intelligent, melodic, and just plain heavy. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/bencardenas
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| | Rock Music |
| | Styx's high-pitched vocals and pseudo-classical keyboards found a niche in radio's “album-oriented rock” format in the 1970s and early 1980s. | | | Rock acts from Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones borrowed from these artists. | | | In 1962 the label signed the Four Seasons, its first white group, and it also released the Beatles' first U.S. album. |
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| | Pleasure MP3 Downloads - Pleasure Music Downloads - Pleasure Music Videos |
| | Pleasure recorded great albums, but for the most part, they didn't have the type of singles that drove program directors wild. | | | This album is available for download from our partnered music services. | | | Accept No Substitutes, Pleasure's second album, is a perfect example of a record that is excellent but, as a rule, didn't blow program directors away. |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/54667/summary.html
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| | Alt.Culture.Guide Interview: Kurdt Vanderhoof of Presto Ballet & Metal Church |
| | Besides using a mass amount of analog synths, the album was recorded using analog tape, no Pro-tools or any digital medium used, making the album a true-to-life rock record. | | | Albums by artists such as Russell Allen's Atomic Soul, the Ben Jackson Group, Seventh Key, just about anything on Italy's Frontiers record label, even long players such as Tesla and mainstream darlings Velvet Revolver are all helping to bring a heavier rock sound to the forefront. | | | With this new form of rock and metal coming to the forefront, there is hope for this type of music to enter the mainstream. |
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| | Pink Floyd and Company - Pink Floyd Articles and Reviews |
| | Released on March 24, 1973, it ushered in an era of album-oriented rock and transformed Pink Floyd from ranking English acid-rock conceptualists to a goliath of the international super-league. | | | Large chunks of the album still feature prominently in the live shows of both Pink Floyd and Roger Waters and it is clearly a body of work that has become part of the collective rock consciousness. | | | With it striking sound effects of chiming clocks and ringing cash tills, it is the sort of album that has traditionally appealed to the audiophile section of the rock market and has doubtless been a priority purchase for many proud investors in the new CD technology. |
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| | WBCN - |
| | WBCN is a Album Oriented Rock/Active rock station that mixes music that is popular in the modern rock, alternative rock and Classic rock genres. | | | Known as 'The Rock Of Boston', its two main Boston-area competitors are (Album Oriented Rock/Active rock) WAAF and (alternative music) WFNX. | | | Unlike most rock stations of the era, WBCN still allowed a degree of individual DJ control of the music. |
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| | Reviews |
| | This is one strong album of pure aor and melodic rock songs, it's really hard to pin point the best track as each one shines like a diamond. | | | The album has it all, lush huge sounding ballads that are guranteed to be | | | The albums production is huge huge huge, like those BIG albums of the |
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| | R.E.O./T.W.O. : Music |
| | REO´s second album is the a good early 70´s hard rock record. | | | These are only the best of an album full of granite-hard rock that could teach your Poisons and Warrants a thing or two about rocking. | | | This album, along with ´Live: You Get What You Play For!´, stand out as perfect examples of what REO really was: one of the greatest live bar bands to walk on stage, their rightful home. |
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| | Amazon.com: Lost in a Dream: Music: REO Speedwagon |
| | This album is overshadowed by the previous REO album, the much more powerful "Ridin the Storm Out." It is the second of three CD's with lead singer Mike Murphy (the third album, "This Time We Mean It" was never released on CD and is no longer available on vinyl or cassette). | | | Lost in a Dream is probably one of their weakest albums. | | | Lost in a Dream is the second album with vocalist Mike Murphy. |
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| | WPLJ |
| | It's from the early 1980s--the station's heyday as an album oriented rock outlet. | | | A BIT ABOUT WPLJ: From hard edged album oriented rock to top 40 to "Mojo radio" to its current sound as a Hot AC, WPLJ/WWPR has certainly been it all over the years. | | | "Rock 40" played rock music from top 40 groups like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Winger and Great White without jumping into radio unfriendly heavy metal music. |
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| | Alt.Culture.Guide Interview: Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree |
| | But with the technology developed at a huge rate over the past several years, rock music is going through the revolution that dance music sort of went through over ten years ago, with people being able to make extraordinary experimental albums at homes. | | | Noticeably, it was the first album we made for a major label, first album with a new drummer, first album with a very new aspect to our sound, which was kind of a heavier, metallic aspect to our sound. | | | Over the years, Wilson has appeared on Opeth's Damnation album, where his influence can be heard all over the record; the critically acclaimed OSI record, and he recently releasing an album with Aviv Geffen, performing as Blackfield. |
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| | The BM Rant » John |
| | The album eventually sold 3 million copies, one of which is in my CD player as I write this. | | | My dad played The Stranger and 52nd Street albums constantly when I was a child and those records taught me that good music is as much about stories and characters as it is about instruments and harmonies. | | | Maybe it’s backlash against the garage-rock revival of the early part of the decade, but dozens of bands spent last year dusting off their synthesizers and releasing rock songs with the sort of dumb lyrics and pristine production that recall the glossy sounds of the mid-80s. |
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| | WPLJ - Voyager, the free encyclopedia |
| | The station was different from Top 40 stations (such as co-owned WABC) in that they played more album tracks. | | | Beginning in 1969 it gained attention for its "progressive" freeform rock music format. | | | By 1977, WPLJ tended to emphasize hard rock artists such as Led Zeppelin (there was a nightly "Get the Led Out" segment), Black Sabbath, Rush, Kansas, Boston, and Queen, who happened to get less less airplay then on competing station WNEW-FM. |
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| | Radiowatch: KLOS-FM 95.5 |
| | If your favorite music was made in the 70s, and you missed the boat on punk, new wave and the '80s, you'll be in hog heaven. | | | KLOS has taken up the Classic Rock mantle for Los Angeles; sometimes it seems like they are rebroadcasting their programming from 1978-79, though they do play newer music as well. | | | If you didn't, you'll still find this mix of music from that era to be emminently listenable, and they don't seem to make jocks like Beau Rials and Jim Ladd any more, with those warm deep '70s AOR voices. |
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| | Music CDs by genre Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) The best music cds at 321-music.com |
| | Better known as the "White Album," this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. | | | The album's opening "I Will Not Be Broken" provides the sort of signature, stick-to-your-guns affirmation for Raitt that "My Way" did for Frank Sinatra and "I Won't Back Down" did for Tom Petty. | | | But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. |
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