R.E.O.

REO Speedwagon

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 1991)
• Original Release Date: June 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000256P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #199,591 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Big Head Todd and the Monsters owe a great debt, December 3, 1999

By	Patrick F Clifford (Columbust, OH) - See all my reviews

As on REO fan for something like 25 years, I would rate this album with their best. "Hi InFidelity" broke them to the masses, but this one marked Kevin Cronin's return to the fold and (in my mind) established them as one of the best west coast influenced jam bands of the 70's. Mighty big words, but listen to "Lightning" and "Our Time is Gonna Come". The only thing (in my mind) that kept them from going on and on was the restrictive time constraints of the LP format. Gary Richrath really goes to town on all of those major scale solos at the end of each of these songs, and the deceptively simple song structures ("Breakaway" and "Keep Pushin'") ring as true as anything the Eagles were doing. I just picked up the live Big Head Todd and the Monsters cd without ever hearing anything other than their radio hits and was struck by the similarity of much of their material to this mid-period REO stuff. The influences are definately there: the big guitar solos, the (seemingly) simple song structures, the emotional punch of the melody.... REO Speedwagon obviously did influence many bands playing today and "REO" is probably the best example of what made that band so great and, uh, meaningful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kevin returns!, September 4, 2004

By	Gitters (Allendale, IL United States) - See all my reviews

In 1976 Mike Murphy was booted out, and Kevin Cronin rejoined Reo Speedwagon. R.E.O. or C.O.W. as some like to call it, is one of Reo's most solid early efforts. The tape opens with one of Reo's best rockers Keep Pushin'and it pretty much keeps rockin through until the end. Buy the time this album had came out the members of Reo where becoming very good songwriters. This is a great album for all REO fans.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Signs of things to come, December 1, 2005

By	Bach the Rock "Tough Geek" (Long Island) - See all my reviews

Released in 1976, and with the return of Kevin, you can hear the brilliance that was to follow. Every song is solid. It is a shame that the sound quality is so poor, and as others have said, even flatter then the vinyl version (I wish mine was in better condition). Had the sound quality been that of say Hotel California, it would have gotten much more airplay. For some reason Gary's instrumental Flying Turkey Trot seems to have better sound then the rest. So who stepped into the engineering room when that was done? So then it looses a star just because of the sound quality.