Comments on: Death by Power Ballad: REO Speedwagon, “I Needed to Fall”

By: Death by Power Ballad: Foreigner, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" | Popdose

Death by Power Ballad: Foreigner, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" | Popdose — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:32:22 +0000

[...] your encouragement and withstand your good-natured insults about my baldness and love of REO Speedwagon. To you, I raise this glass of Buzzy Mary (V-8, vodka, and Frank’s hot sauce, on the rocks. [...]

By: CHART ATTACK!: 8/28/82 | Popdose

CHART ATTACK!: 8/28/82 | Popdose — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:31:58 +0000

[...] people really do love the Speedwagon; check out Rob Smith’s excellent Death By Power Ballad post on one of their more recent [...]

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:43:45 +0000

I still have ALL my REO albums that Gary contributed to. And I am thankful for REO getting me through some
depressing teenage years of high school but I'm a Rathhead,and I can't support KC. I'm still pissed at him for causing Gary so much grief.
LOVE THAT RICHRATH!!!

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:43:45 +0000

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:43:45 +0000

By: connie

connie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:25:47 +0000

I still prefer Gary Richrath!!!!!

By: brandy

brandy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:45:14 +0000

Actually, Doughty only plays on one song of the new CD..

By: EightE1

EightE1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:12:45 +0000

I lived in East Brunswick at the time, so Monmouth might've been a bit of a drive. Also, I was 11 …

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:40:33 +0000

And what's with this Woodbridge Mall junk? What, you couldn't hang with us unclean Jersey Shore Monmouth Mall types?

By: EightE1

EightE1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:45:21 +0000

Yeah, the “Essential” REO is basically the “Decade of Rock and Roll '70-'80″ repackaged, with the addendum of the hits from Hi Infidelity onward (different takes on some of the live stuff, though — I prefer the “Decade of RnR” version of “Ridin' the Storm Out” to the one on the “Essential”).

It's like those Time-Life albums — how much would YOU pay to have all these hits on one collection? How about two collections? Three? Six?

Rob
EightE1