Re-discovering your old music

[Captain_Kirk]

"You Get What You Play For" is a fine collection of music: 'Keep Pushin', 'Son of a Poor Man', '157 Riverside Avenue' and 'Music Man' stand out for me.

I've written this here previously, but 'Time For Me to Fly' was the turning point for REO. Fantastic tune, but it seems to me that Cronin heard the cash register open with that song, and then saw how easy it was to repeat the same formula with slight variations, which begat 'Take it on the Run' (albeit a Richrath song), 'Keep on Lovin You', 'Keep the Fire Burnin', 'Can't Fight this Feeling' et al.

 

[Buck]

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.

That's a great album.

 

[Football_Bat]

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.

That's a great album.

It aged extremely well. It was actually thought of as a commercial flop because it didn't match the sales of Licensed to Ill, but it was a groundbreaking record through the use of sampling. Tracks like "Egg Man," "Shadrach," and parts of "B-Boy Bouillabaise" are forking amazing still today.

 

[sgreenwell]

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.

That's a great album.

It aged extremely well. It was actually thought of as a commercial flop because it didn't match the sales of Licensed to Ill, but it was a groundbreaking record through the use of sampling. Tracks like "Egg Man," "Shadrach," and parts of "B-Boy Bouillabaise" are forking amazing still today.

Speaking of The Beastie Boys, "Ill Communication" is now 20 years old, and Grantland did a long piece on it: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ill-communication-at-20-an-everything-guide-to-the-beastie-boys-masterpiece/

 

[93Devil]

I strongly recommend getting a monthly service like Spotify if you are really into music. I listened to Paradise Theater by Styx on the way into work this morning, and, whoa...

Just type it in and you have the full album at your fingertips.

 

[Amy]

When I'm in a Janis Joplin mood I listen to Cheap Thrills - Janis with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

I recently decided to go with Pearl. I had forgotten all the great songs on that album.

 

[Buck]

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.

That's a great album.

It aged extremely well. It was actually thought of as a commercial flop because it didn't match the sales of Licensed to Ill, but it was a groundbreaking record through the use of sampling. Tracks like "Egg Man," "Shadrach," and parts of "B-Boy Bouillabaise" are forking amazing still today.

Came out right before I started my fourth year in college. I thought it was great, and so did I handful of people I knew. Mostly the other guys in my band at the time.
Everybody else hated it.

It was ahead of its time and didn't have the simple, mainstream appeal of their first album.

I think it holds up great. I think it's their best work.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I strongly recommend getting a monthly service like Spotify if you are really into music. I listened to Paradise Theater by Styx on the way into work this morning, and, whoa...

Just type it in and you have the full album at your fingertips.

Pretty much the same thing with Grooveshark. I subscribed to lose the ads, but you can listen to most anything you want for free.

 

[cjericho]

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.

That's a great album.

It aged extremely well. It was actually thought of as a commercial flop because it didn't match the sales of Licensed to Ill, but it was a groundbreaking record through the use of sampling. Tracks like "Egg Man," "Shadrach," and parts of "B-Boy Bouillabaise" are forking amazing still today.

Came out right before I started my fourth year in college. I thought it was great, and so did I handful of people I knew. Mostly the other guys in my band at the time.
Everybody else hated it.

It was ahead of its time and didn't have the simple, mainstream appeal of their first album.

I think it holds up great. I think it's their best work.

The Hey Ladies video is clashic.

 

[Colton]

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.

I tend to hear "Can't Fight This Feeling" probably once a week, or so, for some reason

 

[Quiet Man]

I listen to a lot of music from the 80s, as well as the 60s, 70s and 90s.
I hate most of that 80s radio rock - REO Speedwagon, Journey, Bon Jovi, Boston. I didn't own it then, and I don't own it now.

Exactly this.

 

[Bubbler]

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.

That's a great album.

It aged extremely well. It was actually thought of as a commercial flop because it didn't match the sales of Licensed to Ill, but it was a groundbreaking record through the use of sampling. Tracks like "Egg Man," "Shadrach," and parts of "B-Boy Bouillabaise" are forking amazing still today.

Came out right before I started my fourth year in college. I thought it was great, and so did I handful of people I knew. Mostly the other guys in my band at the time.
Everybody else hated it.

It was ahead of its time and didn't have the simple, mainstream appeal of their first album.

I think it holds up great. I think it's their best work.

I think it's the best rap album of all-time.