Throughout, Cronin's voice is surprisingly durable and melodic, going from grumbling about how he and a lover are in вЂњsuch different placesвЂќ and then belting out вЂњThat Ain't Love/I believe you've got the wrong emotionвЂќ over a gong, keyboards, and a shimmering, over the top guitar solo that exemplifies everything that was great about music in 1988. Not to be outdone, вЂњThat Ain't Love,вЂќ which was recorded after the prime of REO's mainstream success, shows the band taking a вЂњdarkerвЂќ turn in the theme of their songs. вЂњCan't Fight This FeelingвЂќ is probably one of the most cheesy songs ever written and performed, but stands up as being a classic 80's power ballad. While Hi-Infidelity makes up most of the high points of this album, there are a few other songs which stand out as being highlights on The Hits.

Simply put, it is fairly easy to see how these three songs were such big hits in the early 80's. Not to be overlooked, the Bo Diddley-like shuffle of вЂњDon't Let Him GoвЂќ is a fast paced rocker lined with insistent keyboards, and a guitar solo to boot. Hi-Infidelity had four top twenty hits, three of which are included on this album, including the pop standards вЂњKeep On Loving YouвЂќ and вЂњTake It On the Run,вЂќ both of which remain as some of REO's finest work, even though they may seem like simple ballads to most today. REO enjoyed massive success, especially thanks to their breakthrough album, Hi-Infidelity, which was #1 for fifteen non-consecutive weeks in 1980-1981. That's why The Hits, REO Speedwagon's best, and most concise greatest hits album is so important in the history of music. I'm sure Kevin Cronin was plastered all over girls' walls in 1981. Millions of people came out to their concerts to see a bunch of stereotypically white guys from suburban Illinois sing some over the top power ballads, and the band reveled in the success. Add that to the fact that lead singer Kevin Cronin's voice makes him sound exactly like he looks: a nerdy white guy dressed to the nines in a pink blazer two sizes too large for his body, sporting a gigantic 80's perm while belting out ballad after ballad and pounding away on a baby grand piano. When the band formed in the early 1970's, they decided to take their name from the name of a car (the 'Reo Speed Wagon') that was produced in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, and soon after was taken out of production and faded into obscurity. Some devoted a year or more of their lives to the 500 albums on the list, writing about everything they listened to, and they would even claim whether or not the album was, in their terms, вЂњawesome.вЂќ More often than not, the albums on the list that were not downright classics were not considered to be вЂњawesomeвЂќ by most, and probably just were included because the editors at Rolling Stone wanted the list to reflect their personal tastes rather than history itself.Д«ased off of these conclusions, I guess no one at Rolling Stone cared enough to put REO Speedwagon, a band who played a surprisingly large role in the popular music of the early 1980's, on the list. I've seen that many people have set out on completing this same project, and come up with the same conclusion that the list was flawed. Besides the overwhelming amount of imbalance towards вЂњclassic rock and rollersвЂќ of the 60's and 70's, there are many glaring absences and oddities about the list. After a few weeks, I came to the obvious realization that the list that I was abiding to was far from perfect. Recently, I decided to embark on a project that would seem impossible to many, baffling to others, and downright crazy to some: listen to all of Rolling Stone Magazine's вЂњ500 Greatest Albums.вЂќ The project soon consumed my life the prospect of having to listen to eleven Bob Dylan albums and eight Bruce Springsteen albums at some point in the near future soon haunted my dreams. Review Summary: Give the Speedwagon some love.

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