Month: October 2023

I can’t say it any clearer than this: Strangeways’ ‘Walk In The Fire’ is immense AOR of the finest sort.

Neal Schon released this rather cool CD ‘Late Nite’ during 1989, a CD which has a treasured spot in my…

‘Bondi Road’ was another substantial success for Dragon in the Antipodes, and you can tell from the title and much…

For FM’s sophomore effort, the instant appeal of ‘Indiscreet’ would be replaced for a harder edged version of AOR on…

I’m sure White Heart rank among the best CCM rock bands of all time. But I seriously question that the…

Sure, Mother’s Finest have deviated on occasion, but not so that their legacy has been compromised. One of those deviations…

1989 was a huge year for AOR, and many of the great recordings of that year are mentioned here. One…

Let’s face it, Motley Crüe’s 1987’s Girls Girls Girls’ was a musical disaster, but ‘Dr. Feelgood’ was much better, produced…

This Strangeways album is so good, it is perhaps one of the best ever AOR releases to spring forth from…

If you were anywhere near a radio from 1987 – 1989, you no doubt heard of Def Leppard and most…

Or ‘Wyatt Earp’ as they used to say, Another AOR demi-god well worthy of a GDM hall of famer is…

By this stage of Triumph’s career, the band had arrived at the crossroads of dysfunctionality. Though ‘Surveillance’ is my favourite…

Looking at it years after the fact, this Loverboy album seems to be designed more for the AOR fan than…

Originating from the backwops of Alberta Canada, comes the AOR and West Coast demi-god Tim Feehan.

The mid 80’s and early 90’s was a fertile period for Canadian Paul Janz, who released several albums between 1985…

A couple of years on, and ‘Into The Fire’ could arguably be Bryan Adams’ most overlooked album of his vast…

Canadian Ian Thomas is well covered on this site, his career going way back into time. With this album ‘Levity’,…

Southern AOR kings 38 Special had helped define the genre for nearly a decade, and they had a string of…

Undoubtedly, this album is Europe’s most AOR oriented effort. Whereas earlier albums focused on guitar based metal, the big production…

The late 80’s hard rock scene was populated with as many mediocre acts as talented ones, Winger by a wide…