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.
Mike Eldred – Uncommon Love – 1989, FLAC+MP3
Genre: AOR, Rock, Christian
Year of release: 1989
Publisher (label): Home Sweet Home / WORD
Country of artist (group): USA
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Slide – Down So Long 1989, MP3+FLAC
As requested, the one and only album from Glasgow rockers SLIDE, 1989’s “Down So Long“, in its not so easy to find CD pressing, never reissued. Signed by Phonogram / Mercury, SLIDE musical style in the late ’80s had a lot of potential, mixing rock&pop, melodic rock, and even a touch of AOR – not fluffy, but more earthy. As guests appear some well known British musicians, especially Scottish.
Paranoja – Paranoja (1991)
Tracklist:
01. In my Eyes
02. Turn After Midnight
03. Find the Truth
04. Johnny
05. Make my Day
06. The Key
07. Summer
08. We Walk
09. Let Me Taste
10. Cry For You
turbo thx buks!
Streetlight – Learn To Love Again 2025 – pre CD
Genre : Melodic Rock
Year : 2025
Country : Sweden
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BON JOVI – All Time Best 1984-2024 [Japan-only Super Deluxe Edition 3x SHM-CD] (2024)
To celebrate BON JOVI 40th anniversary, at the end of 2024 Universal Music Japan prepared “All Time Best”. Another Greatest Hits? Well, this one is a little different. First, it was only released in Japan… Two, the songs were hand picked by their Japanese fans. As a result, you do get the big hits, but there also some deep cuts you don’t normally see on a Bon Jovi greatest hits set.
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ALDO NOVA – Aldo Nova [Rock Candy remaster] + Extra , MP3+FLAC
The self-titled debut by Montreal-born ALDO NOVA was a blueprint for the radio friendly AOR / Melodic Rock style that would become tremendously popular throughout the ’80s defining the style & sound for the genre, but also for the hair metal movement to take the world by storm in years to come.
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Target – Captured [Rock Candy Remastered+6 bonus] 2016, MP3+FLAC
TARGET was the first band bringing the great Jimi Jamison to major attention releasing a pair of albums for A&M never officially appeared on CD before – now can enjoy both with the special remastered treatment by Rock Candy Records. Target second album “Captured” includes 6 bonus tracks in this reissue.
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Target – Target [Rock Candy Remastered + bonus] 2016, MP3+FLAC
TARGET, out of Memphis, Tennessee, was the first band to bring the great Jimi Jamison to a major label release (pre- Cobra). Target put out a pair of albums for A&M never officially released on CD. Thanks to Rock Candy Records, we are able to hear these great LP’s again, with their special remastered treatment. Target’s first album, the self-titled “Target”, includes two bonus tracks in this reissue.
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DeGarmo & Key – This Ain’t Hollywood / This Time Thru [Double Disc] [BENSON] – 1989, 1978/1980, FLAC +MP3
Genre: AOR, Rock, Christian
Country of disc (release): USA
Year of publication: 1989, 1978/1980
Publisher (label): ForeFront / BENSON Records [Double Disc]
Catalog number: LLD01051
Country of artist (group): USA
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