AOR - or album-oriented rock bands - became a niche beginning in the late 1960s. The 1970s were really the heyday of the subgenre, however. Production values had gone up and allowed for slicker ...

Essentially, it's a component of soft rock, adult contemporary, and Album-oriented rock (AOR) all rolled into one. Popular in the late 1970s and into the '80s, there are some notable tunes of the ...