@@OldMusicFan83 Hello OldMusic! What a lovely thing to say, my friend. Do me a favor, never stop telling her that. Thanks for the comment, It was greatly appreciated. All my best 🙏♥️
The name of the album was "Hi Infidelity". It was a play on "Hi Fidelity", "or Hi-Fi". And "infidelity" is one word. No, I'm not trying to be a Grammar Nazi. The difference is important here. The way you wrote it, "High in fidelity", would mean someone is high in their faithfulness. "Infidelity" means "unfaithfulness", or, cheating on your other half.
Gary Richrath is one of the most underrated guitarist ever. He left the band because of the problems he had between him and the lead singer Kevin Cronin. Biggest mistake they ever made was letting him go.
CE Beidler...I wish I could give your comment two thumbs up. It's obvious Gary had his demons (as we all do), but there's nothing inaccurate as it relates to your comment. RIP Gary.
Through a mutual friend I happened to meet and hang out with Gary back in the 70's. My memory of him is he was basically a dick, but a talented dick. R.I.P.
Actually when you think of R.E.O wedding songs, I'm sure most would agree it's "I can't fight this feeling!" But seriously you can play literally any song from the album "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" yes, that really is the name of the album!
LOL no they're not. A large amount of mentions for the "First power ballad" goes to Nazareth for their cover of "Love Hurts". Not ALWAYS, just saying....they get mentioned the most in lists of "the first power ballads". Also Aerosmtih's "Dream On". Both of which were before 1980.
@@philpennington826 those songs are much more rock ballads than power ballads. the 80s power ballads had a certain sound to them. from REO to bon jovi to KISS etc they all had the same dna. sweet ballads that usually had memorable guitar solos.
@@cabowabodude Power ballad also need power, though. That's kinda why they're called "power" ballads. "Home Sweet Home" is a power ballad. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is not.
Hey, y'all! Just stumbled onto your channel earlier today; can't stop watching, now! As a 60 year old man who listens to everything from Hank Williams to Robert Johnson to Alice in Chains to Lil Troy and Tupac, I feel like if we could ever just listen to one another's music, maybe we could understand one another a little better; learn to love one another a little more and hate a little less. Love what you're doing. That having been said, I have a suggestion. Not sure if you've done it yet, but I think you'd like Disturbed Sound of Silence. It's a Simon and Gatfunkel cover.
They have a playlist you should check out. I know they did S&G version of that song, but I am not sure if they have reacted to Disturbeds version. I have also requested it so hopefully they react to it soon.
64 here, and I agree. These kids have gone back to the Andrews Sisters! Yes, they're bridging the generations and getting rid of the gap! Also check out Andy and Alex and Jamel aka Jamal - two other reaction channels who take suggestions from those of us who know what "music" is SUPPOSED TO sound like! There are many other reaction channels out there - kinda fun to check out. But this couple, and the other 2 channels I mentioned feel kinda like "family" If you stick around!
59 here. I've been watching for a little while and I find as I think you might that this family is infectiously enjoyable and have the instinct to apprehend what's at the heart of songs. They're not afraid to mix up the genres. I started listening to crooners which I've never had before this channel, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit
REO was beloved in the Midwest during the 70's and 80's. For some reason they felt like a hometown band to me. Remember, this video was played in the early days of MTV. I wouldn't make too much of it. Artists were trying to figure out the new medium. This is a bit softer than earlier work, but a really great power ballad.
About 5 years ago, I took my kids to see R.E.O., Def Leppard, and Tesla. They knew every word to every song. So glad you’re loving the 70’s and 80’s. They are the best!
The lead singer said this song is a response about finding out that his wife had been cheating on him before they were married. Instead of leaving her, he decided he would keep on loving her. He said that a lot of people over the years have told him they use that song as their wedding song, but that's a bad idea. In the very first verse of the song: You played dead, but you never bled, Instead you laid still in the grass, all coiled up and hissin'. She was a snake in the grass. Then he goes on: And though I know all about those men, still I don't remember...
Such a great band! Other hits of theirs include Roll with the Changes, That Ain't Love, Take it on the Run, Don't Let Him Go, Time for Me to Fly, Back on the Road Again, and Ridin' the Storm Out.
REO Speedwagon signature song… “Riding the Storm Out” For another band, I encourage you to react to the Alan Parson’s Project, “I wouldn’t Want to be Like You”. Love this song.
For a couple of years we could not wait for REO SW to come to our town so we coud jam out to "Riding the Storm Out" and then they went the power ballad route with the lead singer( I think he wanted to be a Eric Carmen clone) winning out over Gary Richrath their talented underrated guitarist and it was never the same
Ridin' the Storm Out (the live version) is my all-time favorite REO song!!! My friend in college grew up in a very small farm town in western Illinois, and the high schools were so small that a bunch of them got together and had their prom at Western Illinois University. When REO Speedwagon was first starting out, they played his brother's PROM!
REO Speedwagon. This song, on their 9th album Hi Infidelity (1980) was released in late 1980, and was their first top 10 hit, reaching number 1. REO has been around, however, since 1971, when their 1st album was released. Been listening to them since the early 1970's. Great REO songs that pre-date Keep On Loving You are: Keep Pushin', 157 Riverside Avenue, Ridin' The Storm Out, Golden Country, Little Queenie, Like You Do, Roll With The Changes, Time For Me To Fly, Only The Strong Survive, & On The Road Again. My favorite REO Speedwagon album is their 1977 live album, Live: You Get What You Play For.
It’s a deep cut but “The Key” is one of my favourites. Other hits are: 1) I Wish You Were Here 2) Can’t Fight This Feeling 3) Here With Me 4) Take It On the Run 5) In My Dreams 6) I Don’t Want to Lose You 7) Time For Me To Fly
This is one of my favorite 80s song!!! I was in junior high when it was released and there are so many great memories with this song. This album HI INFIDELITY has several great songs including my other favorite of theirs, TAKE IT ON THE RUN. Another later mid 80s song of theirs is CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING...excellent music video. Great music, great ballads, great rock music. I ❤ Rock and Roll!!!! Thanks for reacting to REO Speedwagon.
Roll With The Changes by REO is still one of my favorite songs. Shout out to Gary Richrath and the Flying Turkey Trot. You guys should know REO in Colorado was the first concert MTV ever aired.
This is their best song, and actually the very first power ballad to use strong electric guitar power chords. It started a revolution! This was early 1981, and it FINALLY put them on the map. It hit #1, and so many rock bands followed in their footsteps. You just listened to the beginning of the 80's power ballad era with this song!!! 💯
REO Speedwagon along with Journey and Loverboy were huge when I was in junior high and like the first year of high school. The 80s were such a great time for rock music of all sorts. You had bands like this. The post punk, new wave bands were on every video channel and metal was making a resurgence despite music video channels not playing them. One of my favorite times of my life.
REO Speedwagon is an amazing group. I'm an 80's brat, born in the 70's but I love a lot of the old classic country music and rock and roll, including some hard rock and classic rock from the 70's. Some of the best music. I love watching you guys react to a variety of music and videos that span through the decades and genres. You should check out REO Speedwagon's can't fight this feeling....... I think you would love Carrie Underwood's 'Just a dream' for Female Friday. "Say Something" by A Great Big World" "Storm" by Lifehouse.. I love seeing you react to Patsy Cline too. She is amazing, her "Sweet Dreams" is one of the best songs she's done. Freddy Fender is classic Country with "Before the next tear drop falls" Please keep up with the smiles and reactions. I am loving it.
“You played dead but you never bled. Instead you laid still in the grass all coiled up and hissing”. Great lyrics. Love this song. I agree, the video is a little creepy 😂😂. Still, a fantastic song. Merry Christmas 🎄🌺✌️
I love REO Speedwagon... two of my favorite songs by them "Take it on the Run", and "Can't fight this feeling". I just love the way they sing together! Had never seen the video...song is better than the video.
You have to remember that A LOT of ‘80’s music videos were often directed by ‘commercial’ directors trying to make a name, and the video’s frequently are an artistic indulgence for the director. They seemingly have no context relating to the song. The song is the song… the video is the video. If you had never seen this video, and listened to the song, it would literally just be a sweet love song, slightly in the ‘power ballad’ category. Often overlooked with REO, is the harmonizing. Kevin. Cronin’s natural soprano, (that’s not falsetto) needs to be harmonized with a few voices in lower registers, they did that as well as anyone.
REO Soeedwagon songs are every memory from my H.S. years and my first concert in 1981 (Cost $9.00 plus a .25 cent convenience fee) ! They had several top 10 hits from the late 70's to mid 80's. Aahh, the good ole days 😎.
This is one of those songs that really takes me back. When this song came out in '81, I was in the 3rd grade, and this is one that I would here on the radio a lot while on the school bus.
PLEASE do "157 Riverside Avenue," "Roll With The Changes" and "Riding the Storm Out." Roll and Riding are more traditional straight-forward rock songs with a driving beat and great vocals. For 157 you'll want to get the live version. It's just NUTS, but a lot of fun. Guarantee you've never heard anything quite like it in your lives! Three GREAT SONGS! Back in the day REO was considered one of the best arena rock bands you could see live. They just put out everything they had into every song. You won't see anything like that today. And it's too bad.
I always found it interesting that the lead singer was originally looking to join a folk group but ended up pairing with a rock group and probably having greater success than he would have had with a folk group. His folk lyrics pairs so well with the faster pace of rock guitar. Love me some REO Speedwagon try “Take It On The Run”. Also the whole music video thing wasn’t really popular when this song came out. FYI Queen are considered the founding fathers of the music video with their creative video for their song “Bohemian Rhapsody”
YAY!!! REO was HUGE in the late 70s to early 80s. I loved the art work on their album covers, check out their "You can tune a piano but you cant tuna fish" album cover. I agree with the other great song suggestions, I would add a smaller hit of theirs that I like called IN YOUR LETTER
Classic 80s rock ballard.....love it!❤ I played this song over and over on my mixed tape 😊. Would looove you guys to check out Air Supply, absolute fantastic vocals that will have you swaying in no time.
Seen REO in Toledo Ohio back in the 80’s. The line up was Danny Joe Brown, Foghat and REO at an outdoor concert at Toledo speedway. Someone in the audience threw a milk jug of beer (no glass allowed) on stage while REO was playing. The whole band had to stop in the middle of a song to clean up the mess so they wouldn’t get electrocuted. Then the lead singer told the crowd that if they see someone else do that to “punch them in the mouth” for him. All in all it was a great concert.
REO & Journey have their own musical genre Rock N Roll mixed with some blues. Not only that the two bands have the best ballads in music history/ to this very day!!
Kevin Cronin actually wrote this song about his wife who he was in the middle of separating from at the time. The beginning of the video is just some bum director's lousy idea that means nothing and they probably regretted doing it immediately afterwards. I have strange feelings about this song for an unusual reason. When it came out, everybody who knew us thought it was me and my music partner and that we hadn't told anyone back home who used to come see us that we'd been signed to a record deal and released a single and that it was supposed to be a surprise. Lol! My partner sounded like the lead singer and I used to sing really high like in the chorus. I heard about this for years afterward whenever I'd hear from people from back home. Lol! But actually, like so many others, it just never happened for me.
The chorus is called the hook. Every song has one. It holds the song together and most important it’s the part that grabs the listener and the part that keeps playing in your head.
The 80's rocked one of my favorite groups when I was a teenager. Still love them today. Time for me to fly, take it on TV the run (yeah it's the video, videos ruled the 80's helped sell song's)
At the 2:00 minute mark is the best line of any love song ever. "Oh, you played dead But, you never bled Instead, you lay still in the grass, all coiled up and hissing." I would have my feelings hurt for life if someone said that to me...lol.
From what I heard, this was their 1st big radio hit even though they had been around for 10 years, or 10 albums, or something like that. and Amber you're right about the guitar solo, i was wondering how he gets that awesome tone, my guitar sure doesn't sound like that ! Great song, great band, may I suggest : I needed to fall - REO Speedwagon
My wife and I were fortunate to see this hit machine last year when they toured with STYX. It was a great show. Both bands sound just as good now as they did when the tunes originally came out.
@@maryellenazack4466 I see where you're coming from Mary Ellen. They had been around since the sixties and didn't score their first big breakout album until 1981 which made them a determined hardworking band and I can appreciate that work ethic. They were pretty damn good for what was going on in the eighties. A lot of one hit wonders and remember the bands that had videos with some clown playing the infamous keyboard guitars and the mullet hair with the long hair way past their shoulder's. I have nothing against long hair, I always had long hair (I'm 63 now and my hair is over ears) I've been enjoying Beatles 1965-66 look over the last year but when I saw these jerk offs I would have taken great pleasure in taking that piano guitar and smashing it over their heads and I've never once committed a violent act I'm my life, I'm all about peace and love but these guys always pissed me off. Speaking of hardworking bands The Beatles are the all time kings. They are the only band in history that never missed a performance and that's everything from concerts during the insanity of Beatlemania, 63-66. Never missed a tv appearance, interview, never missed any engagement and I don't know how they did it. Add to that the music they were putting out between 65-66 is amazing. Two albums in 65, "Help" and "Rubber Soul" and this was during a world tour and all of the craziness surrounding them. "Revolver" in 66 plus several #1 singles during this period. "Revolver" is regarded by many as the greatest album in history, not their Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band lp. There is always debate about this and I kinda lean towards "Revolver" I remember when I was a kid and The Beatles exploded after The Ed Sullivan show that they were an overnight success, BS ! John was 17 and Paul 15 when they met and hooked up. They brought Paul's school friend George Harrison 14 yrs old 5 months later and this was in 1957. Ringo didn't complete the lineup until 62. Music historians estimate that John, Paul and George had put in around 10,000 hrs together before they recorded their first album "Please Please Me" in February, 1963. That's the definition of hardworking ! Nothing pisses me off more then when I see these young people on U Tube say "Yeah, The Beatles were the first boy band. Are you F_ _king Kidding Me? The Beatles were already professional musicians when they first stepped into the EMI recording studios. I would suggest that these idiots look up the definition of a boy band which is when some slickster producer or agent holds auditions for young boys that can sing and dance. They usually put together 5 boys that don't know each other from Adam and Eve and put them on the road. Examples that come too mind are NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys which actually sounds not half bad compared too this garbage today. There are a number of boy bands now and they suck. Name me one really great band today, you can't, they don't exist anymore. Today is nothing more than a bunch of braggadocios rappers and a bunch of lame white solo male singers whose songs suck due to no catchy riffs or bridges in their songs. What is this, 1960 again with the liked of Fabian and Frankie Avalon? Please! Cardi B can take her mumble rap and shove it, she sucks, and these young people raking in multi millions of dollars for putting out garbage. Arianna Grande has amassed over 100 million dollars in seven years. Are you kidding me. I always thought she was ok until a couple of years ago when she decided that she had too drop F Bombs in a lot of her songs too express herself and brag about her incredible sex life. Come on man, I wonder if her mother ever says, "Ariana, what are you thinking about"? Does she realize that there are a whole lot of very young girls that look up too her and listen too this trash. If I was a parent of a young girl I would be appalled and it's almost impossible to police this stuff with the internet today. Come on Ariana, you can do better then this. The Beatles never once felt the need too cuss in a song and they're they're the biggest act in entertainment history to this day 51 years after they officially split up. Let It Be is recognized as their last LP released in 1970 but "Abbey Road" released in September, 1969 id their last record together. "Let It Be" was recorded in February 1969 but not released until 70.The Beatles once tried too slip a word in on their 1965 hit "Day Tripper" the line "She's a big teaser" was written and presented too their producer as"She's a prick teaser" George Martin said you know you can't say that. Today no one would think twice about it but in 65 that was huge no no.
@@maryellenazack4466 Sorry if I went on a rant and I forgot too say that I truly hope that you have a very Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year Mary. Ellen. 🎄🦌✌️☮️💕
I forgot one more note here. The Beatles were the all time kings when it came to slipping sexual and drug references past the very strict censors at the BBC back in the sixties. Lennon and McCartney were both brilliant people. Ok, I'm done here. Take care and stay safe during these crazy COVID times. 🎄🦌✌️☮️💕