Jefferson Starship - "Miracles"
may have in fact invented the genre
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
Jim Capaldi - "That's Love"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Marty Balin - "Hearts"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
I would think anything by Ambrosia or Firefall
"Philadelphia" but not "I'm on Fire."
Wait are we just describing sophistopop? In which case "Life in a Northern Town" and Spandau Ballet's "True" qualify
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Bryan Ferry’s The Name of the Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJ5VkOrz4w
Shares a lot of musical DNA with Live To Tell, then again it’s a Patrick Leonard co-write.
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
I'm actually not totally sure what we're describing. I first thought we were talking about songs that would have been on album-oriented rock radio stations in the early 80s with a driving beat but more atmospheric feel, combining guitars and synths (which would not include Spandau Ballet or Madonna) - but some of these seem like something p different from that.xps
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Eric Carmen “Hungry Eyes”
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Steve Miller “Abracadabra”
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Hall & Oates again, with "One On One"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Alan Parson Project again, with "Breakdown"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Sund4r, I think "moody" is pretty subjective - you know moody when you hear it. Not sure "a driving beat" is essential; rather something that is good to drive to. Josh in Chicago's first examples were
Foreigner, "Waiting for a Girl Like You"The Who, "Eminence Front"Eagles, "I Can't Tell You Why"Alan Parson's Project, "Eye in the Sky"
"Eminence Front" is a fucking JAM with huge drums. "Eye in the Sky" has some rock edge as well, especially in the chorus. The other two are understated in terms of "driving beat."
All do have atmospheric feel, and combine guitars and synths, so perhaps that's part of the recipe. Ultimately only the OP can say if we're hitting the mark.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
I think there is a lot of crossover with sophistipop. But I also think of stuff like, for example, Tina Turner's Mad Max song, which is not sophistipop.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think I was mainly thinking of "Eminence Front" and "Eye in the Sky".xp
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
those Hall & Oates songs are interesting examples as well I think. I don't think I would call them sophistipop, though they share some DNA.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
"I'm Not In Love" strikes me as the epitome of this thread description, which reminds me:
Godley & Creme - "Cry"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
And yeah, I am considering the presence of guitars with moody synths, nothing you would necessarily dance to, but not necessarily ballads either. Rock, but mushy. Blue eyed soul, but more robotic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
another good rule of thumb could indeed be that famous in the air tonight sequence from Miami vice. What other songs might fit that scene.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
I'm chuckling about the idea of replacing "In the Air Tonight" with "The Living Years."
Not so much for the Miami Vice scene but for the scene in Risky Business where they fuck on a train.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (the song)
― Davek (davek_00), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
lol Tangerine Dream's scores are a good rule of thumb too!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
hmm, maybe stuff like the momentary lapse of reason era of Pink Floyd fits too.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Mike & the Mechanics - Taken InMichael Franks - NightmovesMichael McDonald - I keep forgettin’Gerry Rafferty - right down the lineEmmett Kai - juicySopwith Camel - Fazon
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
There's a lot of moody verses combined with bombastic choruses and codas in this quasi-genre.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
right down the line is another good example, was that from the seventies?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Same LP as Baker Street, I think. 77?
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
That book "Rock and the Pop Narcotic"? I think we're looking for the Pop Narcotic here.
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
Al Stewart - "Time Passages", possibly "Year of the Cat"
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
"Song on the Radio" by Al Stewart too.
This compilation is what I keep returning to
https://www.allmusic.com/album/open-all-night-in-the-city-mw0000001216
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
It has the Freedy Johnston mentioned earlier plus "Under the Milky Way," which is surely on target
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
There are some good songs on that compilation, but not one artist (except maybe Smithereens) that I would call AOR. I guess my judgement on this is determined by my growing up in this era, and thinking about which radio stations would play which songs and artists.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Xpost right down the line is 1978. A couple of the others I posted might not be from the 70s tho
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
SENTIMENTAL LADY, a poll
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
another perhaps outlier that still might fit this mode is Bowie's ashes to ashes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Echo & The Bunnymen “The Killing Moon”Rod Stewart “Infatuation”
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
That's hilarious, I don't like rod Stewart but one of my earliest thoughts was of some of his '80s stuff too, like Love touch. but then I listen to it again and thought, nah.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
someone mentioned under the Milky Way before but the church song that better nails this aesthetic IMO is blood money - no coincidence that it also appeared in Miami Vice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L9ORyLQTKU
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
feel like nosing around the music mentioned in the dedicated Miami Vice wiki (!) could be a productive resource for this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dKUfX9xcw0
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Lovelock - Burning Feeling
Does this fit? Affectionate pastiche by Steve Moore from 2011. I admit to being amused by the very juvenile indeed double entendre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFhSnlR1Bo0
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnQbXApBqc
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Eden - Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7H0Lvo9mQ
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac - Over and Over
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
perhaps the chorus gets a bit strident but I feel I must post this Australian FM staple with it's deeply uncomfortable video clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1GLEh3wO4
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK7B1bGIRM
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Someone mentioned the Cars' "Drive," but maybe a better example is "Moving in Stereo," come to think of it.
Speaking of Aussies, something like "Send Me an Angel" kind of fits the bill at times. For sure everyone but the singer looks like they could have been on the set of Miami Vice, procuring drugs for everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6WIbx8ysE
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
good thread
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
^ xpost Great pick!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
^^^ loooool!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:52 (eleven months ago) link
Crumblin' down slow and easy
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Fy7NhD_co
Phil Manzanera - Listen Now
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:37 (ten months ago) link
not sure what song this Seahawks edit is ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHX-Hp2GbA
― brimstead, Sunday, 11 June 2023 01:57 (ten months ago) link
Sanford Townsend Band - Moolah Moo Mazuma (Sin City Wahh-oo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBIi5AEiN9A
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:09 (ten months ago) link
(not a response to brimstead)
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:10 (ten months ago) link
A dollop of Michael Franks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IytymyhQxLk
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:06 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_3Ffo0MHAThe Comsat Angels - I'm Falling
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:24 (ten months ago) link
Aax Donnell and Eric Malone - “Golden Cage”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFkXyEWXX
― brimstead, Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:04 (ten months ago) link
pantshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43Ia8Ettqc
*searches YouTube on "icehouse no promises extended mix" and looks for longest one*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgudWMZcSFw
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 July 2023 06:57 (eight months ago) link
Icehouse were never played on any AOR station in my neck of the woods (we have a classic rocker and a more metal leaning one) but they WERE played quite a bit on a AAA that was new here in 1984. They featured a mix of progressive rock, alternative rock, jazz and new-age music, an approach similar to stations such as WXRT in Chicago and KBCO in Denver. Other influences reach back even farther, to progressive FM rock stations from the 1960s and 1970s. (thanks, wiki.)
"Man of Colours" by Icehouse got played a lot, along with a couple others below; maybe more downtempo than mid, but certainly moody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtWjYRNL9uEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swUdXb94LB0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWypJvmO_g
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 July 2023 14:07 (eight months ago) link
Three Dog Night – Easy Evilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3IKMUQe1w
― c u (crüt), Monday, 2 October 2023 00:45 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Hm5mrHFsA
Listen to the build up on this one
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 October 2023 19:42 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQl62w71Ets
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:27 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpwuRlXbhk
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 20 October 2023 15:10 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmslaEudR3M
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 20 October 2023 15:22 (six months ago) link