Reo Speedwagon- Keep on Loving You

take everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c

Best power ballad ever.
That soaring chorus is pure bliss.

The Backwards Man

It's not even the best REO Speedwagon song ever.

Time For Me To Fly, Roll With The Changes, Take It On The Run, all vastly superior.

Grayson

bollox. This is

I might have even said Don't stop believing until Glee ruined it.

Oh no, not one of the kitsch threads about Journey, REO Speedwagon or Toto.

Not the worst bands mind you, but overplayed and overrated.

Still, not as bad as people bursting in Spandau Ballet's "Gold". That was the height of gassness during the Celtic Tiger.

Ted111

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's not even the best REO Speedwagon song ever.

Time For Me To Fly, Roll With The Changes, Take It On The Run, all vastly superior.

And 'can't fight this feeling'.
Very cheesy. Would never admit to liking it....doh!

Grayson

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh no, not one of the kitsch threads about Journey, REO Speedwagon or Toto.

Not the worst bands mind you, but overplayed and overrated.

Still, not as bad as people bursting in Spandau Ballet's "Gold". That was the height of gassness during the Celtic Tiger.

Vienna was so much better

maudgonner

It's not Monday night

Harry Palmr

Funny thing about AOR shi'te is that now I'm ancient and Trump is in power they sound much better than they did in the 80s when I was young and Reagan was Prez. That said ultimately it's the musical equivalent of cheese in a spray can, okay in a one off guilty pleasure fashion but impossible to sustain oneself on.

Olishi4

I'm only learning how to drive so I can play this Queen power ballad type song in my car...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaEM4JYFPfw

The lyrics are funny, dramatic and melody is really catchy!

Sgt Pepper 64

take everything wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c

Best power ballad ever.
That soaring chorus is pure bliss.

yay loved that. had the album on cassette tape!
luckily, never got to see the video, they need a good haircut the lot of them!

Sgt Pepper 64

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh no, not one of the kitsch threads about Journey, REO Speedwagon or Toto.

Not the worst bands mind you, but overplayed and overrated.

Still, not as bad as people bursting in Spandau Ballet's "Gold". That was the height of gassness during the Celtic Tiger.

simply red..... dreadful chav fodder which every wannbee cool soul boy had on in their pimped up ford escort hoping to get a grope of their big haired, big shoulder padded blonde chewing gum girlfriend...probably called sharon
jon bon not jovi.....found out their one song was quite catchy and then lived off it for the next 20 years...actually wasn't all that good to start with...just no
Robbie Williams...music to drive off a cliff to

Sgt Pepper 64

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

simply red..... dreadful chav fodder which every wannbee cool soul boy had on in their pimped up ford escort hoping to get a grope of their big haired, big shoulder padded blonde chewing gum girlfriend...probably called sharon

At the outset they had a few good songs like "Do the Right Thing".

But Stars was just awful, sold by the gazillion and they just kept pumping out that bland crap.

Ulysses Gaze

andekwarhola

MOJO letters page, lads.

Grandeeod

This is a power ballad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILtZi1kcj0

Summer wind

5 of the best.

1: Heart : Alone
2: Whitesnake : Is This Love
3: Patti Smith : Because The Night
4: John Waite : Missing You
5: Starship : Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now

Duff

TBH.

COH

17 replies and not one mention of Roxette? This thread is f*cked

Ferrari3600

Frankie's the Power of Love extended version FTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjvFho9cQs4

Grandeeod

COH wrote: »

17 replies and not one mention of Roxette? This thread is f*cked

The were ****e!

Grandeeod

Summer wind wrote: »

5 of the best.

1: Heart : Alone
2: Whitesnake : Is This Love
3: Patti Smith : Because The Night
4: John Waite : Missing You
5: Starship : Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now

Missing You...a feckin classic. Lets have it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e157Ner90

maudgonner

Ferrari3600 wrote: »

Frankie's the Power of Love extended version FTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjvFho9cQs4

That's not even the best power ballad named The Power of Love, never mind the best power ballad ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zHQ6kFuQ0

Penny Tration

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's not even the best REO Speedwagon song ever.

Time For Me To Fly, Roll With The Changes, Take It On The Run, all vastly superior.

Take it on the Run is one of my favourite songs.


Have to go listen to it on repeat now :pac:

PTH2009

a few of my favourites

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNDENi3vHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

Outlaw Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-PmgoI28g

Grandeeod

Who is old enough to remember this underrated power ballad?

Ah **** it. Bastard youtube isn't cooperative.

We Built This City is hardly a power ballad?

Grandeeod

Deleted User wrote: »

We Built This City is hardly a power ballad?

You're right. Its not.

mzungu

Olishi4 wrote: »

I'm only learning how to drive so I can play this Queen power ballad type song in my car...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaEM4JYFPfw

The lyrics are funny, dramatic and melody is really catchy!

On the subject of great driving tunes. There is no better song to drive along to with the windows down and the volume up, than this soft rock classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOn6enPC7U

Jimbob1977

Alice Cooper - Poison

Boston - More than a Feeling

ELO - Don't Get Me Down

Chicago - If You Leave Me Now or... Hard to Say I'm Sorry

Aongus Von Bismarck

I've always had a thing for the romantic lyrics and peeled back beat of Vienna by Ultravox. I was less than a year old when it was released, so I'm sure I heard it on the radio at some stage during my early formative period.

Me_Grapes

Purple rain.





No YouTube video.

mzungu

Me_Grapes wrote: »

Purple rain.





No YouTube video.

Ah who needs the studio? The live version is all you need:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-B2YB2KkoE

Sam Kade

The last resort

Dr Crayfish

Big REO Speedwagon fan. Some great songs posted already, they really just don't make songs like them any more. Even if you did, would it even get any play these days? This is probably my favourite though from that era. You're welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMQwRL0EzW0

This is a gem too, still gives me goosebumps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM

bodhrandude

Grandeeod wrote: »

This is a power ballad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILtZi1kcj0

More like Sh1tesnake compared to the band they once were in the early eighties and Deep Purple MK3 before them.

Truckermal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXrFM_rm0PQ

I love everything from Reo not to mention Roxette I love smokie too!

The Eagles.

I hate the fcking Eagles

Wellyd

Oh god Smokie! I personally preferred rock away your teardrops!

On that note I would like to take this time to thank my father for rearing us on power ballads and rebel songs!

The Rape of Lucretia

take everything wrote: »

Best power ballad ever.
That soaring chorus is pure bliss.

What octane was the emotion in that one ?

Ulysses Gaze

The Backwards Man

Penny Tration wrote: »

Take it on the Run is one of my favourite songs.


Have to go listen to it on repeat now :pac:

I don't believe it

Not for a minute

Goya

Deleted User wrote: »

We Built This City is hardly a power ballad?

It's a power anthem rather than power ballad. An important distinction.

Take Pat Benatar: We Belong - power ballad, but Love Is A Battlefield... power anthem.

The Backwards Man

Flimpson wrote: »

It's a power anthem rather than power ballad. An important distinction.

Take Pat Benatar: We Belong - power ballad, but Love Is A Battlefield... power anthem.

There's no such thing as power ballads really, there's good tunes and shite songs

PTH2009

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQcdX8rV7Y

Here's a rare one. It was a song for Norway In the 2005 or 2006 Eurovision

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Grayson wrote: »

Vienna was so much better

Means nothing to me.

Grayson

Hugh Mungus wrote: »

Means nothing to me.

OH VIENNA

Goya

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There's no such thing as power ballads really, there's good tunes and shite songs

Well I wasn't being serious.

But yeah there is such a thing as power ballads all right - a jokey name, but in reference to a particular type of song.

PTH2009

Africa and Rosanna from Toto great songs

https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY

https://youtu.be/qmOLtTGvsbM

Going Forward

Back in the days when people could actually write good music instead of pressing buttons that just might generate a half menorable 3 note melody.

Music has been shown to have become more monotonous and less "musical" over the years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/9430338/Modern-music-really-does-sound-the-same.html

http://wmbriggs.com/post/4405/

And the audience has gotten dumber, with less of an attention span and lower expectations.

I feel so lucky to have grown up in the 70s 80s and 90s!!

Today, a young chap by the name of James Arthur is honing his craft singing about holding his girlfriend's hair back while she vomits.

FFS.

nullzero

REO Speedwagon are crap, that song is too, nearly as bad as Foreigner and their output.