Talk:Middle of the road (music)

why not a link or reference to the pop group from the 70s called "Middle of the Road" .

"Ultimately this is a style of music which is indeed broad and can appeal to everyone." I understand the sentiment, but this sort of music makes me gag: I trust a few others feel the same way. I'm not sure how to restate that remark though. Measure for Measure 20:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Tried cleaning up the "Contemporary Usage" section, quickly realized the whole thing could be scrapped or at least replaced with a couple sentences. Too lazy to do so myself, beyond the one sentence.

I deleted the reference the middle of the road drum store which is irrelevant to the article and most likely advertising. 129.67.178.236 (talk) 17:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

There is a huge contradiction between the introduction which implies MOR is all things to all people, and the contemporary usage section which is entirely critical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 08:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Did smooth jazz even exist in the 60's and 70's? I would rather think it did not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:240:D400:6880:C4DD:EE2D:928D:83AD (talk) 20:20, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Smooth jazz? You mean pop music in my opinion and not jazz at all? Pop music passed off as being jazz rather than actual jazz music instead, which is my biased position on that, but no less biased than anyone that thinks so-called smooth jazz is either "smooth" or "jazz", rather than the pop music that it all seems to me to be. It is MOR pop to me, rather than jazz and it doesn't seem to do very smoothly to my ears, but then again I seem to like abrasive music that isn't abrasive to me and my smooth would be harsh, whereas smooth normally appals me. Aspaa (talk) 23:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

This music "is strongly melodic" appears to be presented as if it is a fact. It is, however, an opinion and is it to be treated as fact merely because lots more people would agree with it? Is my minority opinion to the opposite so lacking any worth that it is completely excluded, carrying no due weight and therefore allowing what is not an impartial statement to be made? To me, a lot of this music isn't melodic - instead I find it boring. I check the meaning of the word "melodic" and am referred to there being a "melody". I am told a "melody" means "a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying;...". However, it is *not* satisfying to me, I find the sequence of notes boring. That isn't satisfying, therefore not within the meaning based on my subjective tastes and perception as to how it comes across to me. My perception is distorted because I have autism. It appears I do not hear subtle tones of voice within people's voices that indicate their emotion. However, I do not know how allistic people at large experience this; whether it is something contained in sound that is present for them or is some other perception I don't have. This may partially explain my apparent tastes, except that I've found a group of autistic people that all liked the same pop music as much of everyone else so does not appear to be exclusively an autism thing.

I appear to be someone that likes the underground and lots of which I wrongly thought was pop music due to it being on the Top 40 chart but it now seems charted lower down or didn't stay there very long and therefore wasn't really popular, instead lots more people were buying MOR that they find melodic. I like trance music (as opposed to pop music that some people think is trance), which can be said to be melodic as there is such a concept as "melodic trance" although I suspect lots of people may find it to be noisy rather than melody. To me, that has a tune. The MOR pop that sells huge amounts is often experienced as being boring by me and to be rather tuneless. I don't seem to be mainstream tastes in hindsight. Artists whose albums I like may peak in the album chart but it appears fall drastically down the chart after the first week and they don't stay there on the chart for several more weeks unlike the pop music, usually higher up the chart in the first place, does and is nowhere near the eight years several albums from Ed Sheeran have been on the UK chart. I like one of Ed Sheeran's - a perfect album that flopped at number 90, but none of his successful albums at all. I am obviously totally, or a very large amount, upside down compared to mainstream tastes generally in which they perceive this as being strongly melodic when, to me, it totally lacks any melody as not a satisfying sequence of music notes. I like complex music it seems, that many people will not find melodic and probably won't identify tunes in it as they aren't hearing music in depth the way I seem automatically to do and be in foreground to me not in the background at all, always noticed and worse if I don't like a song. aspaa 23:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)