Generic Bands - Genre Question

[Norwood]

I'm terribly anal about having keeping my music library meticulously maintained...specifically having standard genre for a single band.

Would you consider bands like The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, AC/DC, The Who, Springsteen, Frampton etc AOR or simply rock?

I tend to consider them AOR, yet bands start squeezing their way into that genre, like Rush etc...which, not AOR in the strictest sense, can still be considered a band more album orientated.  I would still consider them Progressive, however.

[bodiesinflight]

AOR isn't a genre really

[wolfking]

ZZ Top and ACDC I would consider as rock, ACDC possibly as hard rock.  The Who and the Stones I would say classic rock.  Frampton and Springsteen could be considered classic rock/pop.

I wouldn't consider any of those AOR.  Although some of Frampton possibly could be considered borderline AOR, but when I think AOR, I think; Journey, Bad English, Player, Chicago, Toto, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Starship, Survivor, Harem Scarem etc.

[wolfking]

AOR isn't a genre really

Since when.  I believe it is.

[orcus116]

Are we talking Arena Oriented Rock or Album Oriented Rock?

[73109]

Some are rock, some are hard rock. If you want to be a dick, you say some are classic rock and others are classic hard rock.

[bodiesinflight]

AOR isn't a genre really

Since when.  I believe it is.

It's not a style of music really, an AOR band could be ANY kind of rock band but with album oriented songs, a categorisation yes but not a genre imho

[glaurung]

AOR isn't a genre really

Since when.  I believe it is.

Some would argue that Album oriented rock and progressive rock are the same thing.

[wolfking]

AOR isn't a genre really

Since when.  I believe it is.

It's not a style of music really, an AOR band could be ANY kind of rock band but with album oriented songs, a categorisation yes but not a genre imho

That's a fair call, but I guess just as the years have gone by, we just have been used to bands like Journey and Toto being classified as AOR.  I agree it can be quite widespread, personally since I'm quite a big fan of the AOR type classified bands, I know what type of sounds are usually classed as AOR, if that makes sense.

[MetalManiac666]

"AOR" and "Classic" aren't real genres IMO.

[ShadowWalker]

I'm terribly anal about having keeping my music library meticulously maintained...specifically having standard genre for a single band.

Would you consider bands like The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, AC/DC, The Who, Springsteen, Frampton etc AOR or simply rock?

I tend to consider them AOR, yet bands start squeezing their way into that genre, like Rush etc...which, not AOR in the strictest sense, can still be considered a band more album orientated.  I would still consider them Progressive, however.

The real question is why do you need genre tags at all?

[KevShmev]

All of those artists are either "classic rock" or simply "rock," except for AC/DC being "hard rock."

[EstyMaJ]

All of those artists are either "classic rock" or simply "rock," except for AC/DC being "hard rock."

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[carl320]

Album Oriented Rock

Are we talking Arena Oriented Rock or Album Oriented Rock?

[ytserush]

I'm terribly anal about having keeping my music library meticulously maintained...specifically having standard genre for a single band.

Would you consider bands like The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, AC/DC, The Who, Springsteen, Frampton etc AOR or simply rock?

I tend to consider them AOR, yet bands start squeezing their way into that genre, like Rush etc...which, not AOR in the strictest sense, can still be considered a band more album orientated.  I would still consider them Progressive, however.

Welcome to my world.  I would consider them all Rock. I try not to divide music into too many generes (Well...I HAVE tried and it never ends well for me)

I have Rush, Yes, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the Rock section too. (Actually if I hadn't pulled Rush out into it's own section, it would go in Rock.) 

I've got '50s, '60s,  '70s, '80s and '90s sections for albums that might be guilty pleasures or might represent a particular period in my life that I might want to wax nostalgic about at some point. (I put a few Kiss albums in my '70s section for example)


I toyed with the idea of including ELP in a jazz/fusion section, but a lot of Emerson's solo albums aren't what I would consider to be fusion (I used to keep Emerson's CD's sprinkled in chronologically with his band's CDs but I took my wife's advice (she's very amused by the classification drama I subject myself too on a regular basis) and put Emerson's and Palmer's solo CD's after Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

I'll stop now because most of you already have that rope out....