1991: The Year AOR Ate Itself
A yearlong investigation into some of the albums released by the genre's biggest artists in the year before grunge took over. Which ones still rock? Which ones helped burn it all down? Let's look back.
1991: The Year AOR Ate Itself
Bad English - Backlash
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Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw
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Season 1
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Episode 8
What do you get when you put the broken pieces of Journey and the Babys together and use them to make a brand new supergroup? Bad English, of course — and although the band's first album was a huge hit, that was absolutely not the case for their 1991 followup, Backlash. How did it go so wrong, so fast? Jay Kumar joins Matt and Jeff for a look at this jinxed sophomore effort — and how it fits into the year AOR ate itself.