Styx vs REO Speedwagon vs Journey: may the flame war commence!

[eeyore]

A good old fashioned 70s shlock rock cage match!

Pick your sides and keep it clean!

In this corner: Styx


In this corner: REO Speedwagon


In this corner: Journey

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. ...........

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[eeyore]

2. No rubberneckers allowed - pick a side fruitcake!

n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. REO Speedwagon!!!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[eeyore]

5. So...

You Can't Fight This Feeling Any Longer?

Or are you just Riding The Storm Out?

[benny05]

20. From Central Illinois

We have an REO Speedwagon Way! :-)

[eeyore]

25. Wait....

Styx was from Chicago...no Styx Street?

What gives? :shrug:

[eeyore]

26. Wait....

Styx was from Chicago...no Styx Street?

What gives? :shrug:

[benny05]

27. That's yours to help name

REO is revered in Central Illinois...

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I can't stand Styx or REO Speedwagon

so I guess it would have to be Journey.

[eeyore]

7. Are you with Journey....

Faithfully?

You know loving a music man ain't always what it's s'posed to be, right?

[Blue_In_AK]

15. :smile:

Actually, we went to a Journey concert here in Anchorage back sometime in the late '80s or early '90s, I don't remember exactly when, and they were great. They very kindly added an extra show, too, because the tickets to the first two had sold out so quickly. We starve for good concerts up here.

[eeyore]

16. Oooh, that's got to be tough to get good acts to come!

Not many tour busses riding up and down the Al-Can Highway are there?

Most Alaskans I know are very good at making their own fun!

:toast:

[Blue_In_AK]

18. The acts fly up here

so usually they have a really stripped down stage show. Just too expensive to bring everything up here.

[hickman1937]

6. Toss up btw Styx and Journey.

Steve Perry and Dennis DeYoung have two of the best voices in rock. REO only ever made two songs that I liked, and I love both. Roll With the Changes, and Time for Me to Fly.

[eeyore]

8. No waffling!

Pick a side!

[hickman1937]

17. Ok then, Styx, because Tommy Shaw is cute. n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Can't comment on Styx

since pretty much all I've heard from them was whatever was on radio.

REO Speedwagon — a pretty good garage band that got big by recording over-produced schlock.

Journey — were good. Damned good. Too bad they sold out.

[eeyore]

11. Dude!

They all sold out - that was their reason for existing.

You don't write songs like Babe, Keep on Lovin' You or Open Arms with any sense of musical pride. It's all about the teenage girls and the boys that love them!

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Nope

It's all about the label suits and producers who say, "You signed a contract. You do it our way, or you walk." And since there are, effectively, only four U.S. record labels anymore, you do what they tell you.

Alas, 'tis the nature of the biz. :grr:

[eeyore]

23. Tell me about it...

I'm a musician who just independently released my band's 4th full length record.

Nowadays, though, it's pretty much impossible to get any sort of contract at all. They only want to talk to you if you can make them instant money. The days of developing artists are long gone.

[madrchsod]

10. reo speedwagon

only because a friend of mine used to play drums for them. actually i loathe all of those bands. i can`t think of three bands that were that popular that sucked so bad

[eeyore]

12. Good reason...

Loyalty to friends is tough sometimes, but you have to stick it out. Nothing worse than having to go to see a friend play in a band that you hate - you're a good friend.

[buddysmellgood]

13. Speedwagon sucks. Journey and Styx is tough, but I'll go with Journey

because it's one of the first albums my zealot parents reluctantly let me buy. I must have listened to Wheel in the Sky a thousand times. What about Get the Knack?

[eeyore]

14. The Knack were fine...

But the Knack declined to take part in this match for fear of tarnishing their reputation.

Did your parents think that Wheel In The Sky was a Gawd song?

[buddysmellgood]

30. I don't think so. It was my mom really. She had a bible in one hand and a

bottle in the other. A very bad combination. (She's recovered now, thank God.) She could see the devil everywhere. I think I just wore them down. It didn't have any language or outright devil worship so she let it go. She didn't have the energy to filter everything so it relaxed after that. It sure sucked for a while though. I couldn't have a radio. All my friends would be talking about the popular songs and what else was on the album. I'd only be familiar with what I caught outside the house.

[Dukkha]

19. Highway run...Into the midnight sun

Wheels go 'round and 'round
You're on my mind
Restless hearts
Sleep alone tonight
Sendin' all my love
Along the wire

They say that the road
Ain't no place to start a family
Right down the line
It's been you and me
Lovin' a music man
Ain't all it's supposed to be
Oh girl, you stand by me
I'm forever yours

Faithfully

Circus life
Under the big top world
We all need the clowns
To make us smile
Through space and time
Always another show
Wondering where I am
Lost without you

And being apart ain't easy
On this love affair
Two strangers learn
To fall in love again
I get the joy
Of rediscovering you
Oh girl, you stand by me
I'm forever yours

Faithfully

woah oh oh oh
woah oh oh oh
woah oh oh oh
wooooooooah!
faithfully
I'm forever yours
Ever yours
Faithfully

[eeyore]

22. Maybe both the best and worst tour song ever...

And I can't see the video enough times. All of them looking forlornely out the windows of their tour bus as it drives from show to show. :rofl:

[Dukkha]

24. it's funny how they always act like it's SOOO hard!

oh, what a hard life we live! If there no end to this ennui?
:eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

28. Of the three - Journey puts on the best live show!

[hibbing]

29. not much of a debate

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo

Enough said

Peace

[WCGreen]

31. I remember REO kicked ass for a brief time and then went

pop....

[RetroLounge]

32. REO

Based on "Riding The Storm Out" alone.

Styx is not Chicago, they are South Side Chicago.

REO = Cubs.
Styx = White Sox.

Journey? Lame...

RL

[Bunny]

33. What? No love for Foreigner?

[Cocoa]

44. that completes the Big 4

[RevCheesehead]

34. That's a tough call....

Styx "Grand Illusion" was the theme of our Homecoming one year...
REO happens to be my initials...
and Journey... well, I like their "greatest hits", but not much else.

:shrug:

[sundog]

35. styx

most def

:hide:

[henslee]

36. What no Supertramp? This is the battle of the megasupersuckies, right?

[sundog]

37. but supertramp was actually pretty good

:hide:

[henslee]

38. Hey, no flames.... but you can take the long way home while I look at

your girlfriend, even though she's the only one you got. Sundog, these hits are a bit... sappy for me. Though not as classically sappy as Journey's SHE'S AN UPTOWN GIRL... LIVING IN A DOWNTOWN WAH-HORLD.... or WHEN THE LIGHTS.... GO OUT.... IN THE CITY... no doubt the ultimate hold up your bic lighter song.

[Maestro]

39. I agree!

Supertramp was actually quite good in the day and so was early REO. Journey was good for one album, the one with Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' on it.

[UrbScotty]

40. Speedwagon didn't write "Come Sail Away" nor Journey "Mr. Roboto" (nt)

[Cats Against Frist]

41. REO fer shure

Have you ever seen the REO/Journey/Styx jam on VH-1 Classic? They do "Roll With the Changes." It was one of the best things I've ever seen.

[Tikki]

42. Whenever I see REO Speedwagon I think about...

...Spring of 1978... I was standing in line to get show tickets to see this kinda new singer/song writer and his new band on his second trip to LA.

There was this huge line and I was midway back. The ticket lady came around the velvet rope and announced that REO Speedwagon
tickets were not going to be available until later in the week,

Everyone left the line...there were just a couple of us left there. :wow:

Then those of us still in line bought tickets to see Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Rockpile and Mink DeVille play at Hollywood High School's Gymnasium.


Tikki

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. Mink DeVille, "Italian Shoes"

Great song.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

45. I'm not voting.

I don't know enough about REO Speedwagon or Journey, but as for Styx....

I rather liked that group. I believe I have a couple of copies of Paradise Theatre, the album that is laser-etched on the back side.

http://lockgen.com/damnyankees/discography/stpt.html

I have it on vinyl, not the CD.

A few years ago, I was spinning the dial one night. The announcer on the radio said that he would be playing all of Styx's top ten hits. "Ha," I said to myself; "that won't take long." The songs went on and on and on. I had forgotten how many top ten hits Styx had.

Not a bad group at all.

[pcboss49]

46. Since I can't vote for Rush, I vote for REO

seen them twice in Indianapolis..

[Cocoa]

47. Journey is a poor-man's REO Speedwagon

and Styx is a store-brand Journey.

[LostinVA]

48. Earlier REO will beat both, both Journey for oberall win