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Certain Songs #1848: REO Speedwagon – “Roll With The Changes”

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Album: You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish
Year: 1978

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Having once again solidified their lineup with the success of You Get What You Play For, REO Speedwagon then put out 1978’s “wackily” titled You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish, which became a double-platinum best-seller, mostly on the radio saturation of the album’s two singles, the dread “Time For Me to Fly” and the awesome “Roll With The Changes.”

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Certain Songs #1847: REO Speedwagon – “Ridin’ The Storm Out (Live)”

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Album: You Get What You Play For
Year: 1977

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This is just how it worked in the 1970s: you were a meat-and-potatoes rock and roll band who loved to do Chuck Berry covers and maybe a little boogie. You had a pretty decent lead guitar player, a singer who wasn’t too slick but still slick enough, and after you put out a bunch of yearly studio albums that only sold well in the part of the country you were based, you released a live album which somehow got nation-wide airplay and because a bunch of teenagers loved the song or songs they heard on the radio they bought that live album, and that was your breakthrough.

I didn’t make the rules — how could I, as I was one of those teenagers — but that’s just how it was.

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