Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Revering4Blue
One major difference from the airplay standpoint between the two bands, at least to me: I can list several Cheap Trick AOR hits from the past that rarely, if ever, gain airplay today.
Yeah I don't know why Need Your Love or Gonna Raise Hell aren't staples. Yet I've got to hear Rush noodle through Tom Sawyer a million times. What gives?
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Originally Posted by
Rojo
Yeah I don't know why Need Your Love or Gonna Raise Hell aren't staples. Yet I've got to hear Rush noodle through Tom Sawyer a million times. What gives?
It's on the radio, I love the music on the radio
It's what they're playin', when the radio's on
And you and me get crazy
It's on the radio, I love the music on the radio
It's what they're playin', when the radio's on
And you and me get crazy
Hey Mister on the radio, please play my favorite song
The one where she didn't go away
Hey Mister on the radio, you're really my best friend
Please play my favorite song for me
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
I don't begrudge hipsters AC/DC. They subject me to far more odious things. ZZ Top and Aerosmith > AC/DC or Cheap Trick.
Original Alice Cooper Band > all of em.
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Originally Posted by
Falls City Beer
Original Alice Cooper Band > all of em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gha79UZVRk0
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
Honestly, I don't know much about Alice Cooper. Never knew anyone who was into him. Maybe not a West Coast thing?
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Falls City Beer
I don't begrudge hipsters AC/DC. They subject me to far more odious things.
Like super boring Alex Chilton?
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Rojo
Like super boring Alex Chilton?
Chris Bell was better
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Rojo
Honestly, I don't know much about Alice Cooper. Never knew anyone who was into him. Maybe not a West Coast thing?
He was the king of Detroit in the early 70s
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Rojo
Yeah I don't know why Need Your Love or Gonna Raise Hell aren't staples. Yet I've got to hear Rush noodle through Tom Sawyer a million times. What gives?
I agree 100 per cent....and I LOVE Rush.
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Originally Posted by
westofyou
It's on the radio, I love the music on the radio
It's what they're playin', when the radio's on
And you and me get crazy
It's on the radio, I love the music on the radio
It's what they're playin', when the radio's on
And you and me get crazy
Hey Mister on the radio, please play my favorite song
The one where she didn't go away
Hey Mister on the radio, you're really my best friend
Please play my favorite song for me
Good stuff from Heaven Tonight. AOR classics "California Man" and "Stiff Competition" are also memorable. Yet, all we hear on radio today from that album --when push comes to shove, my favorite studio CT album -- is "Surrender".
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Rojo
Like super boring Alex Chilton?
I love Big Star. I can't say I've gotten into Alex Chilton's solo stuff.
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Rojo
Honestly, I don't know much about Alice Cooper. Never knew anyone who was into him. Maybe not a West Coast thing?
He's much more diverse than you think - everything from straight-ahead, cajones-out rock to ballads. In case you missed the link, Redszone's own Dave Collins streams many lost Rock Classics, including Alice Cooper, here.
http://www.dcrockradio.com/playing.h...04785758700647
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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Falls City Beer
I love Big Star. I can't say I've gotten into Alex Chilton's solo stuff.
He has a few good ones, but Bell is the one whose voice haunts me
Re: Album Oriented Rock (AOR)--A dying radio format.
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RichRed
Who else remembers the band Jellyfish out of San Francisco? They released two excellent albums in the '90s, "Bellybutton" and "Spilt Milk", then went their separate ways. We had a station here called 93.7 The Coast that used to play all kinds of great stuff, and that's where I first heard these guys.
And speaking of Cheap Trick, Roger Manning, Jr. and Jason Falkner of Jellyfish are credited on CT's 2009 album, "The Latest," and Manning has played with them on tour.
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Nicely done, Rich!