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9. Like You Do (Live) 6:53 �0.89

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3. Don't Let Him Go 3:45 �0.89

4. Keep On Loving You 3:21 �0.69

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6. Take It On The Run 4:01 �0.69

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9. One Lonely Night 3:21 �0.89

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11. Can't Fight This Feeling 4:54 �0.89

12. That Ain't Love 4:01 �0.89

13. In My Dreams 4:30 �0.89

14. Variety Tonight 4:30 �0.89

15. Here With Me 5:04 �0.89

16. Love Is A Rock 5:35 �0.89

17. Building The Bridge 4:15 Album Only

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE ONE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!, 27 Jan 2005

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Olly (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Reo Speedwagon [Us Import] (Audio CD)

I bought it a week ago and it hasn't left the cd player.
A great collection of great songs from one of the greatest bands.
I don't remember being this excited about an album - certainly a compilation - for years.

"Roll with the changes", "Say you love me or say goodnight", "Only the strong survive", "Back on the road again", "Keep the Fire Burnin'", "Don't Let Him Go", "Take it on the run", "Love is a rock", "Son of a poor man", "That Ain't Love"... Just brilliant.

Great to see "Sophisticated lady", "Lost in a dream" and some post-Richrath/Gratzer stuff on there.
Nothing short of brilliant.

Everyone will have their favourites, and it's a shame the underrated "Sweet Time" never made the final selection, especially seeing the weaker "Here with me" and "In my dreams" are on there. But who cares - they can add it to the "Essential REO 2" album, because there's gotta be one.

OUTSTANDING.
NOW GET IT RELEASED IN THE UK AND INTO OUR RECORD STORES!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best of America's stadium rock groups, 21 Mar 2005

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REO Speedwagon have a large, loyal following in their homeland although, like other similar groups, they have only made a limited impact internationally. Still, they have some fans outside America and I'm one of them.

The pinnacle of their career came with the album Hi infidelity, an album full of rousing, up-tempo songs that topped the American album charts for several months and spawned several American hit singles - Don't let him go, Keep on loving you (a number one hit), Take it on the run and In your letter. In the UK, Keep on loving you made the top ten while Take it on the run made the top twenty.

Understandably, the group never came close to matching the phenomenal success of Hi infidelity again, but they had another American number one hit with Can't fight this feeling, which became their third and last UK hit, making the top twenty.

Elsewhere, there are many fine songs here. That ain't love, In my dreams and One lonely night are among the other highlights but I particularly like Time for me to fly, which Dolly Parton later covered in a bluegrass style for her album, White Limozeen - very different from the original, but both versions are brilliant in their different ways.

This compilation includes all the tracks available on the earlier compilation (The hits) except I don't want to lose you, which I can live without. This is the best hits package yet released of the group's music, although if you are new to their music, I recommend that you start with Hi infidelity. Great as their other music is, that album was something else again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good compilation, 13 Aug 2004

By Jeff Pearlman - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Essential Reo Speedwagon [Us Import] (Audio CD)

Some of the "Essentials" in Sony's series are merely bad rehashes of already existing hits discs (Eddie Money, Cyndi Lauper), but others use this opportunity to provide the most complete best-ofs ever done on an artist (Heart, Cheap Trick). This falls clearly in the latter category, with almost no filler and almost nothing crucial left out. Some may miss "I Do' Wanna Know" and "Sweet Time," but "Live Every Moment" and "The Key" were probably better choices from the albums those came from. Timing at over 75 minutes per disc, there was literally no room to fit anything else.

The booklet includes well-written liner notes from Kevin Cronin, along with time listings and chart info for each track.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good collection with only a couple of things missing, 21 July 2005

By T. LeBaron "Todd LeBaron" - Published on Amazon.com

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First of all, let me say I've been an REO fan ever since I saw them on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (and I know I'm dating myself, that was in 1974)...when I went to purchase the three albums they had out at that point I was a little confused to see that there was a different lead vocalist on each of them. Mike Murphy managed to stay with them for three LPs in a row before Kevin Cronin (the second singer) returned for good. My only complaint is that more of Murphy's stuff wasn't included (Give Me a Ride, Reelin' and a couple others were good rockin' tunes and deserve a listen) and my very favorite track from 1984's Wheels are Turnin' - I Do'wanna Know was in fact a top 30 hit for the band and really set the pace for that album...one listen and how can you not be smiling at the end of the song? Aside from that, not a bad collection at all. I do agree with the reviewer that said a 4-CD boxed set is in order. I bet the boys from Champaign have some stuff up their sleeve that'd knock us all out...

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of America's stadium rock groups, 21 Mar 2005

By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Essential Reo Speedwagon [Us Import] (Audio CD)

REO Speedwagon have a large, loyal following in their homeland although, like other similar groups, they have only made a limited impact internationally. Still, they have some fans outside America and I'm one of them.

The pinnacle of their career came with the album Hi infidelity, an album full of rousing, up-tempo songs that topped the American album charts for several months and spawned several American hit singles - Don't let him go, Keep on loving you (a number one hit), Take it on the run and In your letter. In the UK, Keep on loving you made the top ten while Take it on the run made the top twenty.

Understandably, the group never came close to matching the phenomenal success of Hi infidelity again, but they had another American number one hit with Can't fight this feeling, which became their third and last UK hit, making the top twenty.

Elsewhere, there are many fine songs here. That ain't love, In my dreams and One lonely night are among the other highlights but I particularly like Time for me to fly, which Dolly Parton later covered in a bluegrass style for her album, White Limozeen - very different from the original, but both versions are brilliant in their different ways.

This compilation includes all the tracks available on the earlier compilation (The hits) except I don't want to lose you, which I can live without. This is the best hits package yet released of the group's music, although if you are new to their music, I recommend that you start with Hi infidelity. Great as their other music is, that album was something else again.

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