Category: AOR Live Albums

AOR Live Albums

AOR stands for Adult Oriented Rock.

It is a type of music that developed in the late seventies with bands like Boston, Foreigner, Journey and Toto.

These groups in the early seventies would have either played progressive rock or hard rock but a more marketable middle area developed.

AOR can be criticised for being formulaic and false because it’s lost any base in the original forms of music like the blues, country and folk.

But at the same time it’s very catchy, tuneful and turns into a guilty secret.

It may not be cool to like AOR groups and the live albums these groups produce but for a period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, they were very hard to resist and the bands continue to get a lot of radio play..

These live albums will be controversial. The AOR sound is toughened up in concert and loses some of its pristine smoothness. Some fans aren’t going to like that while others are going to find that it makes the songs more real and likeable.

The AOR live albums include:

Asia Live in Buffalo 1982
Asia Live In Massachussettes 1983
Asia Live In Moscow 1990
Asia Fantasia Live In Tokyo 2007
Asia Spirit Of The Night 2009
Asia Resonance Live In Basel Switzerland 2010
Bon Jovi One Wild Night Live 1985-2001
Boston Feeling It In Cleveland 1976
City Boy – BBC In Concert 1975
Dennis DeYoung And The Music Of Styx Live In Los Angeles 2014
FM (UK) Live No Electricity Required
Foreigner – Classic Hits Live recorded between 1978 and 1988
Foreigner Extended Versions 2005
Foreigner Extended Versions II 2010
Foreigner Can’t Slow Down…When It’s Live! 2010
Heart Rock The House Live
Heart The Road Home 1994
Heart – Dreamboat Annie Live 2007
Journey – Captured 1980
Journey – Live In Houston 1981: The Escape Tour 1981
Journey Greatest Hits Live 1981 1983
Kansas Two For The Show 1978
Loverboy Setlist The Very Best of Loverboy Live 1982 to 1986
Loverboy Live Loud & Loose 1982 to 1986
Rainbow Denver 1979
REO Speedwagon Live: You Get What You Play For
REO Speedwagon Setlist: The Very Best of Reo Speedwagon Live
Reo Speedwagon Live At Moondance Jam 2010
Saga In Transit 1982
Styx – Caught in the Act 1983
Toto Absolutely Live 1992
Toto Livefields 1999
Toto 25th Anniversary – Live In Amsterdam 2003
Toto Falling In Between Live 2007
Toto 35th Anniversary Tour Live In Poland 2013

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The Best Live Albums Of All Time

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