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.

Nik Kershaw – The MCA Years 2025 Box-Set 10 CD,MP3+FLAC


The first complete retrospective of Nik Kershaw’s early career and has been done in conjunction with Nik who has overseen the project. A 10CD box set featuring all of the MCA albums as well as four discs of B-Sides, Remixes and Extended Mixes, some of which have never appeared on CD before as well as a live show from Hammersmith released for the first time in its entirety.

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KATE Gulbrandsen – The Beauty And The Beat ’87 [Norske Albumklassikere 80-tallet] (2022), MP3+FLAC


As requested, as part of the ‘Norske Albumklassikere 80-tallet’ series from the excellent Norwegian reissue label Norske Albumklassikere – which seems to have access to almost every Norwegian release from the 70s and 80s – comes this remastered reissue of the long time out of print album ”The Beauty And The Beat”, by Norwegian female singer KATE.

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Q5 – When The Mirror Cracks [Japanese Edition] (1986), MP3+FLAC


After the recent very good album by the Rick Pierce Group produced by Floyd Rose many of you asked for both musicians’ former band Q5 and their Eighties debut album, the cult classic “Steel The Light” from 1984. But Q5 also recorded a second LP, 1986’s “When The Mirror Cracks“, not so well known as their debut but perhaps musically even better, more mature in songwriting & lyrics.

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