Monday, June 17, 2013

Turn Me Loose - Loverboy

[link] Loverboy, like Journey, gets slammed as clichish, but they could play their instruments, Mike Reno could sing.  They are a great example of mainstream hard rock that integrates guitar and keyboards.  This was one of their hits and is a very simple song.  It still sounds great. 1981 was a great year for vanguard hard rock that crossed over into the pop charts (Foreigner, Journey, and quite a few others were also right there at this time). Songs like this were great anthems for teen high school angst, driving around, summer, ...

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