Re-discovering your old music

[EStreetJoe]

I would be willing to hear "In Your Letter" again. Since it's been decades.

 

[93Devil]

I don't ever want to hear REO Speedwagon again.

But Boz Skaggs is still cool.

REO Speedwagon has some great songs.
My first concert was REO Speedwagon (on the Good Trouble tour - 1982) with Survivor (Eye of the Tiger tour) as the opening act.

Just wondering: Why is it all the DJ-free, corporate, programmed broadcast stations play the hell out of "Take it on the Run" but you never hear "Keep on Loving You"? Wasn't the latter a bigger hit?

It's odd how some songs become heavy-rotation on 1980s format stations, and other big hits are forgotten. Somewhere, a Clear Channel computer has a secret formula.

Or maybe it's the old BCS college football supercomputer, reprogrammed for corporate radio ...

At the time Keep on Loving You hit No.1 pop singles (No. 9 Mainstream Rock) while Take It On the Run only made it to No. 5 on the singles chart (No. 6 Mainstream Rock). But now, 33 years later, clashic rock and oldies radio plays the hell out of Take It On the Run, gives Keep On Loving You very little play, and ignores the better hits from the album -- Tough Guys (No. 25 Mainstream Rock Chart), In Your Letter (No. 20 pop singles) and Out of Season (No. 59 Mainstream Rock), The other hit from the album was Don't Let Him Go (24 pop, 11 rock).

REO is one of the few pop-rock 80s bands to still have the same lead singer now as it did back then.

Well, they never really had a long successful run to tear them apart.

And Roll With the Changes has one of the great keyboard solos and song bridges, but...



Holy forking balls of fire does the above video suck in so many fantastic ways.

He sucks the mike when he sings...
The director used two cameras for way too long...
Why the eyes?
Crossed arms from the 4:00 mark on...
Such bad hair...

That might be the worst video I have ever seen. If it's not, it's in the conversation.

 

[93Devil]

I don't ever want to hear REO Speedwagon again.

But Boz Skaggs is still cool.

The 1970s were the greatest decade for music. I just wish I could find this version with better sound quality.

 

[Huggy]

I don't ever want to hear REO Speedwagon again.

But Boz Skaggs is still cool.

The 1970s were the greatest decade for music. I just wish I could find this version with better sound quality.

Boz's "Loan Me A Dime" is easily one of the high points in his career and is some of the greatest ship Duane Allman ever did and that's saying something. I came across a great YouTube vid of Boz playing it at the Beacon Theatre with the Allman Brothers with Derek Trucks playing the Duane licks.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Mixtape - Tift Merritt


You, how did you get so wise?
I take the advice I find in your eyes.
Me, I've been waiting outside
Most of my life,
Oh like a rare b-side.

I'm just making you mixtapes with homemade covers.
Analog to show we're lovers,
And here under the jacket folds inside,
I've taped my heart for you to find.

To find the perfect way,
Which album to say,
I la la love you.
With this plastic cashette,
It's not finished yet,
It's gonna tell you slowly.

I'm just making you mixtapes with homemade covers.
Strings and drawings show we're lovers,
When you're driving around in the summertime,
To hear again, just press rewind.

Rewind, the world comes to an end,
Turns over again,
Another 1000 times.
But me, I'll be the same.
No, I never change,
Oh, like a rare B-side.

I'll be making you mixtapes with homemade covers.
Analog to show we're lovers,
So much rock and roll love in a plastic case,
Play it loudly, see my face.
I'm just making you mixtapes with homemade covers,
Mazzy Star, Donovan's Colors,
Just an audio love letter painted blue,
I spent all day making for you.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Mixtape - Butch Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNXvl0O-Hxo&feature=kp

You say hello, inside I'm screaming I love you
You say goodnight, in my mind
I'm sleeping next to you
You drive away from my car crash of a heart
And I don't know

But you gave me the best mixtape I have
And even all the bad songs ain't so bad
I just wish there was so much more than that
About me and you

You talk to him, and it burns me like the sun
You talk to her, and you say that you feel like he's the one
I talk to me, but you can't hear the pain I feel
You don't know

Cause you gave me the best mixtape I have
And even all the bad songs ain't so bad
I only wish there was more than that
About me and you

[Bridge]
Oh, don't turn around and say bye again
Yeah it crushes my head when you call me your friend
and I'm not the same person
From back in the day
In the back of the clash
That you thought was gay
No I can't find the words cause I lost them the minute
They fell out of my mouth and it's love and I'm in it,
So give me your lips
And just let me kiss 'em
And let's get messed up and listen to possibly...

The best mixtape I have
And even all the bad songs ain't so bad
I just wish there was more than that
About me and you

 

[Riptide]

"Year of the Cat" was in that same 1975-79 peak for Stewart. "Song on the Radio" topped out at No. 29 U.S., 10 on the AC charts, and I liked it better than either of the two top-10 hits.

I've always liked "On the Border" the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdTKbalmNY

 

[albert77]

In my humble, old-fart's opinion, the only decent song REO ever did was Golden Country, and Al Stewart's best song was Nostradamus.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Listening to Valerie Carter again; what a great voice. Townes Van Zandt too; "Flying Shoes."

 

[the fop]

Remember, there was a lot of push-and-pull between Kevin Cronin, who wanted REO to be a ballads-heavy hit band, and Kevin Richrath, who wanted a lot of hot guitar licks and a "harder" sound. The result is out there. Even when Cronin would get his way, Richrath would grab the bridge and make it his own, sort of like, "Here's my part, and you darn well better use it."

And they'll always have one of the great album titles ever.

I saw them in a fair setting two years ago, and they sounded really good.

At the risk of (a) knowing this and ( b) admitting it, I think (without googling) it was Gary, not Kevin, Richrath.

Saw them headline an old Bay Area Day on the Green in '81. If memory serves, it was .38 Special, Gamma, UFO, Kansas, REO. It was minutes after MTV started, so everyone knew 38 Special from their two videos that were on every hour.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Yeah, got into the Kevin thing with Cronin. I know it's Gary. But good catch.

 

[Football_Bat]

I've been ripping a ship-ton of CDs into iTunes, some of which I bought in Europe more than 20 years ago. I think Gracenote has me on speed-dial.

I also have a few cashettes that I'd like to rip. I used to have a really high-end Pioneer cashette deck that sounded fantastic, so I held on to the cashette format far longer than most, but that finally bit the dust several years ago. So I need another high-end cashette deck and the means to digitize them.

I pulled out an old Beastie Boys tape (Paul's Boutique) after MCA's death, and I didn't detect any deterioration with its quality. I only have one working cashette player left and it's in my oldest truck.