Soft rock

Soft rock

Orígens estilístics	Pop rock, Folk rock, Folk,Psychedelic Rock
Orígens culturals	Late 1960s
Instruments típics	Guitarra elèctrica i Guitarra acústica - Baix elèctric - Veu - Bateria - Sintetitzador - Saxòfon - entre d'altres instruments
Popularitat al Mainstream	Molt alta als Estats Units, Europa i el Japó durant el final dels anys setanta i primera meitat dels vuitanta. Moderada, posteriorment.
Origen	Estats Units d'Amèrica i Europa
Creació	dècada del 1960
Part de	pop-rock
Altres temes
Rock neoprogressiu

El soft rock ('rock suau') és un estil musical, que es distingeix d'altres tipus de rock per l'ús de distorsions poc saturades en les guitarres, melodies fàcilment assimilables i lletres poc controvertides. Altres denominacions, com AOR (adult oriented rock: ‘rock orientat a adults'), es refereixen bàsicament al mateix fenomen.

A manera d'indicació, i com a exemples de temes i/o artistes considerats usualment dintre el soft rock, tot i que provenen d'estils molt diferents, s'inclou la següent llista:

• 10cc I’m not in love, The Things We do for Love.
• ABBA: Fernando, The winner takes it all, Eagle.
• Ace: How Long,1975
• Association: Never My Love, Windy.
• Barry Manilow: Mandy, I write the songs, Looks like we made it, The old songs.
• The Beatles: Penny Lane, Hellow Goodbye
• The Beach Boys: God Only Knows, Surf's Up
• Bee Gees: To Love Somebody, I Started a Joke(1960s)
• Bonnie Tyler: It’s a heartache, Total eclipse of the heart.
• Bruce Hornsby: The way it is, Mandolin Rain.
• Carly Simon: You’re so vain, Nobody does it better.
• Carole King: It’s too late, So Far Away.
• Chicago: Just You and Me, Saturday in the Park,If you leave me now, Hard to say I’m sorry.
• Christopher Cross: Artur's Theme,1981
• The Cyrkle: Red Rubber Ball
• Dave Clark Five: Because, 1964
• Don McLean: American pie, Vincent, Crying, Castle in the Air
• Edison Lighthouse: Love Grows.
• Elton John: Daniel, Your song, Tiny dancer, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
• Flying Machine: Smile a Little Smaile for me
• Fleetwood Mac: Dreams, You Make Loving Fun, 1977
• Foreigner: Waiting for a girl like you.
• Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street,1978
• Albert Hammond: It Never Rains in Southern California,1973
• Harpers Bizarre: The 59th Bridge Song(Feelin' Groovy)
• Harry Chapin: Cat’s in the Cradle,1974
• Kim Carnes: More Love,1980
• Leo Sayer:"More than I can say, When I need you.
• Mike & the Mechanics: Sirent Running, Living years.
• Neil Diamond: Song sung blue, Sweet Caroline, Cracklin Rosie.
• Gilbert O'Sullivan: Alone Again,1972
• Paul Simon: Kodachrome, Slip slidin' away, American Tune, Mama and Child Reunion.
• Phil Collins: Against all odds (Take a look at me now), One more night.
• Savage Garden: Truly madly deeply.
• Sheena Easton: For your eyes only, We’ve got tonight.
• Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the middle with you, 1973
• The Carpenters: We’ve only just begun, Close to you.
• The Eagles: Desperado, I can't tell you why.
• The Naked Brothers Band: If that’s not love, Proof of my love,(USA)
• Tommy James & the Shondells: Climson and Clover.
• Todd Rundgren: Hello, it’s me, I Saw the Right.
• Wings: My Love,With a Little Luck.
• Paul Williams: We’ve only just begun.
• The Zombies: Time of the Season, Tell Her No.
• Auryn,(Espanya)