![]() ![]() Unter den besten 200 Soft Rock Songs aller Zeiten befinden sich viele Lieder, die in den 70er und 80er Jahren entstanden sind. Die Gesangsharmonie im Zusammenspiel mit der Melodie macht dieses Musikgenre so einzigartig. Besonders im Mainstream war und ist Soft Rock noch immer sehr beliebt. Soft Rock ist im Gegensatz zur Rockmusik sanfter und bietet dem Zuhörer durch ruhige Töne und einfachen Rhythmen einen leichteren Zugang. By the 1980s, tastes had changed and radio formats reflected this change the genre evolved into what came to be known as " adult contemporary", a pop categorization that bore less overt rock influence than its forebearer.Soft Rock startete seinen Eroberungszug in den Charts Anfang der 1970er Jahre und dominierte nur wenig später viele Radiostationen auf der ganzen Welt. Even Led Zeppelin, considered by some to be standard bearers of hard rock, flirted with the genre at the time in songs like 1979's " All My Love". Their success was further solidified after they had the highest selling soft rock album ever, Rumours. ![]() British/American blues band Fleetwood Mac achieved its greatest success after adopting this genre. Around that same time, Chicago, which had previously been a jazz-rock band, switched to soft rock and reached their biggest commercial successes. ![]() By 1977, some radio stations, like New York's WTFM and WYNY, had switched to an all-soft-rock format. Soft rock became hugely popular later in that decade. Soft rock developed organically to suit the needs of those who did have rock listening experience as such, it can be considered a bona fide rock genre. What set 1970s soft rock apart from its 1960s counterpart, which for lack of a better word is usually just called "pop", is that in the 1960s pop existed for those who simply didn't like rock the 1960s' pop artists usually were vocalists who were stylistic throwbacks to the pre-rock era. Soft rock as a specifically to a style of rock that emerged in the early 1970s, both as a reaction against the increasingly heavy music ( hard rock and heavy metal etc.) that dominated rock at the time, and also as a reflection of the changing priorities of the Baby Boom in the early 1970s. ![]()
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