Hard Rock Sleaze Glam AOR HEAVY
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.
Genre: Pop, AOR
Country of performer (group): USA
Publication year: 1979
Tracklist:
01 Leave Me (The Way You Found Me) 3:42
02 Too Late To Love You 3:36
03 Need To Be Right 4:53
04 If You Think I Can 3:48
05 Lonely Girl 3:51
06 We’re In It Together 3:34
07 The Way We Love 4:39
08 Lady Liberty 3:22
09 Can’t Get Over You 2:57
10 Runaway Dream 4:15
Genre: Hard Rock/ AOR
Year: 2023
Country: USA
1. Had Enough
2. Gone Gone Gone
3. Nothing Left But Goodbye
4. What Could’ve Been
5. When The Lights Go Down
6. Raise ‘Em Up
7. 9 Lives (My Immortal Life)
8. Dirty Little Secrets
9. Beautiful Disguise
10. I’m Not The One
Genre: Pop Rock/Melodic Rock
Year: 2023
Country: USA
01 – Someday
02 – Just in Time
03 – Run Away With You
04 – Pictures of You Smiling on the Wall
05 – Even as It Fades
06 – This Ghost Town Could All Be Yours
07 – Anything to Get to Sleep
08 – With You Nowhere
09 – Bucky Baxter on the Steel
10 – Trying
11 – Any Other Memory
12 – The Only Way to See You Now
Country: Wales / UK
Genre: Blues Rock, Melodic Rock, Americana
Year: 2023
Tracklist:
1. George (3:17)
2. Not in Real Life (3:07)
3. It All Comes Round (2:57)
4. MAY (3:46)
5. All You Need Is Greed (3:08)
6. Tick Tock (3:17)
7. Beyond the Illusion (3:57)
8. Hard Learned Lesson (2:57)
9. Dirty Water (2:57)
10. Re-Set (3:06)
Genre: Pop
Duration: 01:09:13
Release year: 2023
Set 1 (Ed solo supporting Ed Sheeran)
The A Team
Shivers (Restarted. Loop messed up.)
Castle on the Hill
Bloodstream
Thinking Out Loud
Perfect
Shape of You
Bad Habits
Set 2 – Subtract (Live Debut)
Boat
Salt Water
Eyes Closed (Ed fell to tears whilst… more )
Life Goes On
Dusty
End of Youth
Curtains (Ed introduced Curtains too… more )
Colourblind
Borderline
Spark
Vega
Sycamore
No Strings
The Hills of Aberfeldy
Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: Australia
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): MelodicRock Classics
Country of the performer (group): US
Disc 1 – Highlights:
01. Still A Dream Away (Demo Version)
02. Branded
03. Bad Time For Goodbye (Alt Mix)
04. Crossroads Motel (91-93 Demo)
05. Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
06. After The Tears Have Gone
07. American Dreamer (Rock Version)
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock / AOR
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of the performer (group): UK
Tracklist:
1. Look For The Rose (Part 2) (6:30)
2 Brave New Lie (4:38)
3. The Tidal Wave (4:23)
4. Parabellum (06:40)
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes (7:04)
6. The Fire And The Rain (5:30)
7. New Found Hope (05:43)
8. The Only Way Out (05:14)
9. When The Darkness Comes (5:54)
10. The Greatest Show On Earth (5:33)
11. New Found Hope (Acoustic Version) (3:54)
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disc (release) country: EU
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Frontiers Music
Country of performer (band): Finnland / England
Tracklist:
1. Everything Must Burn (4:20)
2. Play & Pretend (3:49)
3. I’m Such A Liar (4:00)
4. Part Maroon, Part Indigo (3:58)
5. Time (04:17)
6. Starchild (04:20)
7. Seven Worlds (3:57)
8. In For The Long Haul (4:09)
9. Livin’ On The Run (4:14)
10. Never Lost My Faith (4:06)
11. Roseate (04:13
HEAVENS EDGE did a very strong comeback this week with a new album in decades. After their terrific debut, the band recorded the pre-production material for the second, but as happened with many melodic hard rock bands at the time, they were dropped by the record label.
These unreleased second album tracks were released at the end of the Nineties under the title “Some Other Place / Some Other Time“. The CD includes one song from the first album sessions, the awesome ‘Rock Steady’ (I scratch my head why they left this track out!) plus new songs showcasing a more mature approach.
While we miss the bombastic polished production of the first album, these are pretty well recorded demos and the hooks, the layered choruses, the riffs a
Year: 2011
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Country: Sweden
01. Gods Gift To Women
02. You Say You Never Cry
03 Help Me
04. Next Train Back
05. You Can’t Hide
06. Dream On
07. It’s All Over
08.Danger
09. That night
10 Hold On To Love
11. I Am Waiting
12. I’m Never Coming Back
13. Wonderland
14. Without Your Love
15Thousand Miles Away
16. Shadows From The Past
17 Red Lips
18. Good Day To Die
Peter Broman
Conny Lind
Country: USA
Genre: Melodic Rock | AOR
Publication year: 1989-2023
1989 – How Long – 00.49.19
1989 – How Long (Remastered 2007) – 01.01.10
2012 – Future Past – 00.51.01
2019 – Love & Beyond – 01.00.59
2020 – High Times – Live In Italy – 01.05.14
2023 – The Love Goes On – 00.59.35
Country: Finland
Released: 1998
Style: Heavy Metal
1 Wall of Pain 1:57
2 Disinfected Death 3:39
3 Sunshine Zero 3:24
4 Deus Ex Machina 3:05
5 The Wages Of Sin 5:47
6 Mors 4:48
7 Soul 1:02
8 Amputation 3:12
9 Edge Of Fear 5:13
10 Something Wicked This Way Comes 6:41
11 Time After Time 2:29
12 Warmaker 5:21
Genre: Pop Rock / Melodic Rock
Year: 2023
Country: Canada
01 – Drive the Line
02 – Ease in for a Ride
03 – A Photograph
04 – Bed Day
05 – Is a Dream
06 – Coming Alive
07 – Still I Know I Feel
08 – Making Sense of It All
09 – Spanish Heir
10 – Laughing
Genre: Melodic Rock
Year: 2023
Country:
01 – Naïveté
02 – Misled By The System
03 – Torn At The Timing Of It All
04 – River Of Deceit
05 – Lost You For Good
06 – Last Cup Of Sorrow
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Country of the performer (band): United Kingdom
Publication year: 1994-2020
1994 Night Crimes (320 kbps) [48:36]
2020 The First Crimes (1988-1991) (320 kbps) [01:14:09]
Contry: Sweden / USA
Genre: AOR
Year: 2023
1. Carrie
2. Fly Away Now
3. The Last Unbroken Heart
4. Carry On
5. Time Never Stops (Theme Song for Swiss Timing)
6. Pamela (Live)