Robert Plant – Big Loghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
oh it's already been mentioned!
Duncan Sheik - "Barely Breathing"?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
ok i think I finally have some good contributions:RainbowStone Coldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByGwgm_vRsRobert Plant Little by Littlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaL_3bdbbeQ
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
duncan shiek is not aor
Tom Petty – You Got Lucky
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
are we talking AOR as-in album-oriented rock or adult-oriented rock
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
Album oriented, early 80s maybe late 70s imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
big log totally nails it IMO
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
trying to think if Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel counts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IX4gWkFqvU
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
you got lucky is perfect, that synth
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
seen a few Cars suggestions (quite rightly IMO) but maybe this one closest to the zone for me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKIJVKzgoSc
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
yeah that's a good one
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
Feels like there should be a Police song that fits. Invisible Sun maybe?
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
The closest I can think of off the top of my head may be ... "Wrapped Around Your Finger?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Moody... Blues? Maybe Tuesday Afternoon for a start.
― screator, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
if a police song fits its “every breath you take”
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
not that I like it or anything
how about Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyONfX5bpyQ
― llurk, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
yeah that’s the stuff
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IX4gWkFqvU
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
It’s been so long since I listened to this one. Love it so much thank you for reminding me of its existence.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes”Billy Idol “Eyes Without A Face”Robert Plant “In The Mood”Roxy Music “More Than This”Level 42 “There’s Something About You”
― vmajestic, Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
Does "Lunatic Fringe" rock too hard?
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
Phil Collins - “One More Night”John Stewart feat. Stevie Nicks - “Gold”seconding The Cars - “Drive”Alanna Myles - “Black Velvet”REM - “Man on the Moon”
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
i'm basically adding a lot of this shit to my playlist , so thx
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
Paul young - come back and stay?
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:21 (three years ago) link
I mean that’s just straight up synth pop with aor vocals I guess
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:22 (three years ago) link
Bill labounty - nobody’s fool (seriously, this is an all time jam)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dEUKCMyIk
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
Ultravox - Vienna
― nate woolls, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
Love that "Nobody's Fool" -- hearing it for the first time now.
We can't forget Glenn!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TToLgW7zuc
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
This has made me accept that I don't know what is generally meant by "midtempo". My idea ws that it must of course be roughly the mid point between "slow" and "fast", but I was gauging that from a position of "fast" meaning jungle or thrash fast and I guess that's not quite right. LOL.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 3 December 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
yeah "You Belong To The City" is essential here, as I understand the cluster. For me it comes from the 2nd half of the 80s, boomers having grasped the technology & wanting to go back to blues rock rather than new wave.
Like I think of this Leonard Cohen performance of "Tower of Song" from 1989. The tempo is mid, even if it doesn't chug like the songs in the OP. Maybe the vibe I'm fixed on is less about driving & more about cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPRpHkkGKM
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
"Midnight Blue" by Lou Gramm is my favorite song in this genre
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
The tempo thing is tricky. I was counting out Phil's "Long Long Way to Go," and I guess you can count it as ballad slow, but you can also count it as faster eight notes, too. There's no drums in that one, but there is a pulse. "One More Night" seems more strictly a ballad, imo. "Midnight Blue" is incredible, but it's kind of like "Oh, Sherrie" (which I posted even though I'm not sure how or if it fits). It's a power ballad, but sort of an anthemic one, with a once again the release of an exultant chorus.
Context is key, too, which is partly why subjectivity plays a role. That "Tower of Song" does capture a certain something, though it might seem too ... ironic? in a Michael Mann/Miami Vice scenario. It's kind of know-it-when-you-hear-it nebulous.
"Nobody's Fool," I didn't know that one, either!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
Sting's harmony on "Long Long Way to Go" is one of his least remarked on and best appearances.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
It's great. He and Peter Gabriel are singing on "Take Me Home," iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
Btw, YMP, my doubts about Madonna and Spandau Ballet had to do with the "AOR" criterion, not "moody", which is obv subjective.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
It seems like we're going for a broad lite rock/pop feel, though.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Twilight - Golden Earring - maybe slightly too many BPM to be midtempo, but nails the moodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
― enochroot, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Madonna was pop not AOR, for sure, but for the purposes of this thread I'm including her as classic rock cannon in the (other) AOR/lite (but weirdly dark!) sense. It's really just the Patrick Leonard connection, though, he's a master of this vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
This was on Miami Vice and has the drug deal/relationship about to go catastrophically wrong feel, but is it too far afield from the comforting pocket of AOR? You make the call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0bk6Hbz0ZU
― Josefa, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
Hmm, good question. Speaking of Michael Mann, it kind of works like this does/did in "Manhunter:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4U0KBvzi7g
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
Russ Ballard's classic "Voices" too.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Funny how U2's "With Or Without You" fits into this category on paper, but there's nothing evoking criminal activity or adult relationships, so it doesn't fit.
"Live to Tell" works for this, for me, because I think of these songs as effectively moody supermarket/hotel-lobby music and not just strictly in a radio format.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
(wrt Michael Mann) almost too obvious to mention would be the stuff Wang Chung did for To Live and Die in L.A.
― Josefa, Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Mike & The Mechanics already mentioned upthread, but this one covers all the moody 80s tropes — menacing synth, vaguely political lyrics, batshit video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I thought of that one yesterday! think it fits
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
love that it was sampled on a Killer Mike song lol
I had actually considered "With or Without You" but felt it didn't fit for similar reasons, despite fitting perfectly on paper. Definitely moody but maybe not spooky enough? But this one works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Re5fiSY8Y
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link