I found out what MOR means today

[Kiki]

And I have to say I was disappointed. It doesn't really help with anything regarding music and seems primarily a negative reaction to a bands success. Thinking back on all the times I have read it, I see it as largely inappropriate in most cases.

Or maybe I read the wrong description? Does anyone see it as a good thing? A natural progression perhaps?

[Norman Bates]

I didn't understand any of this message. Would you care to explain ? What's MOR ?

[Kiki]

I heard that MOR means Middle Of The Road.

[SquishypuffDave]

I've never seen the term 'MOR' come up before... Not that I can remember anyway. I'd assume 'middle of the road' just means unadventurous?

[Norman Bates]

[purple]

I've never heard anyone describe a band as MOR, but rather as straight up mediocre or shitty or not worth listening to etc. when I see MOR, I think mid ocean ridge, probably just jargon though

[RFNAPLES]

Some reasons not to use acronyms/abbreviations, e.g. MOR:

M Opioid Receptor
maculo-ocular reflex
Magneto Optical Recording
Magneto Optical Rotation
Mail Order Responder
Mail Order Rule
Main Operating Room
Maintenance Of Road
Maintenance Outage Rate
Major Outage Report
Male Oriented Rams
Management Occupancy Review
Management of Risk
Management Operating Ratio
Mandatory Occurrence Report (aviation)
Mandatory Occurrence Reporting
Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio
Manually Operated Rifle
Manufacturing Operation Recovery
Mapping of Rules
Marissa Oak Ridge
Market Opinion Research
Market Opportunity Rating
Marlins of Raleigh
Mars Orbital Rendezvous
Mask Option Register
Master of Operations Research (College degree)
Master Ordnance Repair
Master Oscillation Room
Masters of Reality (band)
Masters of Rise
Masters of Rock
Matched Odds Ratio
Mauritius Oil Refineries
maximal opsonin receptor
Maximum Outstanding Request
McGill Object Relations
mean outflow resistance
Means of Rescue
measured outflow resistance
Median Odds Ratio
Medical Officer Report
Medication Observation Records
Medication Order Records
Medium Orange Red
Members of Rainbow
Memorandum Of Record
Metal Oxide Resistors
Metal Oxygen Refinement
Meteorological Optical Range
Methamphetamine Offender Registration
Method of Reimbursement
Mgr Opioid Receptors
Micro Opioid Receptor
Mid Ocean Ridges
Mid Oceanic Ridges
Mid Oklahoma Repeator
middle operon regulator
Middle-Of-Road
Mid-Ocean Range
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Military Operational Requirement (NATO acronym)
Military Operations Research
Millennium Operating Regime
Minimum Operating Requirements
Mining Object Repository
Minister of Reality (band)
Ministry of Railways (China)
Ministry of Reconstruction
Ministry of Revenue
Minor Offense Reports
Minority Over Representation
Minutes of Reperfusion
Miscellaneous Obligation Record
Miscellaneous Output Register
Mission Operations Report
Mission Operations Review
Mission Operations Room
Missions Operations Room
Mobile Operating Rooms
Mobile Outbreak Response
Model of Record
Model Output Reports
Modelled Oral Reading
Modelo Objeto Relacional
Model-Order-Reduction
Modification Or Reconstruction
Modulus of Rupture
Moment of Resistance
Monsters of Rock
Monsters of Roll
Monthly Obligation Report
Monthly Obligations Report
Monthly Operating Report
Monthly Operating Reports
Monthly Operating Review
Monthly Operation Records
monthly operation report
Monthly Operation Reports
Monthly Operational Reports
Monthly Operational Reviews
Monthly Operations Report
Monthly Organizational Report
Montreal Ottawa Railway
Mortal Oscillatory Rate (Royal Rife)
Mortality Odds Ratio
Mother of Runes
Motor Operated Rheostat
Motorist Observation Reports
Mouse Olfactory Receptor
Mouvements Oculaires Rapides (French: Rapid Eye Movements)
mu opiate receptor
Mu Opioid Receptor
Mu opioid receptors
Mu Opoid Receptor
mucus occupying ratio
Multinational Opportunity Registration
Multiple Oral Rereading
multiple organ retrieval
multivariate ordinal risk
Multi-wavelength Optical Repeater
Murmansk Oblast Russia
Museum of Reconstructions
Music on Record
Musicians of Rollins
Myometrial Oxytocin Receptors

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[Charicature]

Wasn't M.O.R. a track on either Blur or 13 by Blur?
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[Kiki]

[Wombi]

yeah i remember damon singing "middle of the road" on "blur". and i'd probably agree with you outlaw in that i've seen either MOR or "middle-of-the-road" used a number of times in music discussions and always thought it to be a lazy critique.