Damn, I forgot about this! http://www.radiomute.com/showpost.ph...14&postcount=6

I voted for Styx. Of the three they're the only ones I still actually enjoy listening to from time to time. Yes, Styx had some pretty sappy songs but they had some pretty good tunes as well.

Kansas was a good band. I had a couple of their albums but didn't really get into them much.

Boston's first album is just classic but everything else that came after was pretty much the same thing with different titles. BORING.

Boston for me... I never thought much of Styx... Kansas are good, but I don't like them a lot... That first Boston album was really powerful to me and my friends when we were in 7th grade and while it no longer is among my favorite albums (hasn't been for almost 30 years) I do like it and a few of their songs that came after it...


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3 of the lamest bands to come out of the 70s really. Although I cant help liking a couple of songs from all of those bands.

Ill go with styx because nothing beats Mr. Roboto.

I have a question: Was Journey around at this time, or did they come out a bit later. Because I usually associate them with these 3 bands. Journey is possibly the lamest band of all time though.

Journey, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner...we could have had a field day with this poll. Imagine how much more idiotic my one long post would have been

To answe the quesiton , they are more or less contemporaries. I have many memories of hearing all these bands right in a row while I waited for a Blondie song, or a Police song, and (yes I was a fan) Pat Benatar.

Hell, I'd take a Neil Geraldo guitar solo over the entire catalogs of all these bands.

Im glad I wasnt alive for that.

If they could all be removed from rock and roll history by magic then I would probably listen to FM Radio a little more than I do.

You know, I wonder if it just wasn't something everyone just had to endure. Some sort of ridiculous, self-inflicted onslaught of self-indulgent bullshit. All of it truly did spring from music pave with good intentions, to bastardize that old quote a bit. I was not yet a teenager, and so it was really like looking at someone else's misery, actually. I vaguely remember everything seeming to be covered in this hazy coating that was supposed to taste like caramel, but tasted like brussel sprouts instead. Sometimes I hear the big arena rock bands again and think to myself that the songs actually didn't have to suck quite as badly as they did, but for some reason the people just willed things to that end over a period of several years.

Kind of like what they seem to have let happen now...

Maybe im tired or something, but I dont think that essay you posted made very much sense.