Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. AOR evolved from progressive rock radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

QUADE – The Anthology [FnA Records remaster] (2024), MP3+FLAC


Founded in the mid-Eighties by singer / songwriter Gene Quade, five-piece QUADE made the same trek through the indie U.S. underground as have many of their counterparts. However, Quade took it a step or two even further with songs in movies, a track for a Broadway play in Paris, writing music for TV program “Photon”, a video played on MTV (as an indie band), and numerous accolades through local music organizations, cable TV, and college and nationwide radio.

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Posted on July 22, 2025 by admin

RACHEL RACHEL (feat. Dann Huff) – You Oughta Know By Now (1993), MP3+FLAC

1993
As requested, here’s “You Oughta Know By Now“, the second album from American all-female band RACHEL RACHEL, some kind of a CCM answer to Heart / Vixen. With White Heart’s Billy Smiley again producing Rachel Rachel maybe it’s not too surprising that the band have so many AOR similarities to their all male counterparts too – add to that also White Heart / Giant top class guitarist Dann Huff and you have more edge than on previous Rachel Rachel album.

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NELSON – Lightning Strikes Twice [Japanese Edition +1 bonus] (2010), MP3+FLAC


On September 29, 1991, NELSON reached the height of the U.S. single chart with their evergreen hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love And Affection”, from their multi-platinum debut album “After the Rain”. This single made history when it landed America’s iconic Nelson family (bandleader Ozzie Nelson, rock legend Rick Nelson, and twins Matthew and Gunnar) into the Guinness Book of World Records as the ONLY family in entertainment with three successive generations of #1 hitmakers.

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