TS: Loverboy/ Turn Me Loose v. Styx/Too Much Time On My Hand

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Really memorable bass sound too, even if it's a synth.

On further review, it's not a synth, just heavily compressed. I'd completely forgotten how massive "Turn Me Loose" gets in the final two minutes - chord solo! wall of pitch-shifted Mike Renos! (at least I hope so, real female backup singers would be so... bourgeois) enormous, punishing kick drum!

The shadow of Foreigner 4 looms large, but "Turn Me Loose" crushes, and it's not as close as I thought.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Sundar to Thread.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Just listened to "Turn Me Loose" again. The solo is remarkably Gilmourish... I'd never noticed that before.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 13 April 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Loverboy came to my town of 9,000 people a couple days before my high school graduation. When they played "Turn Me Loose," I couldn't help but feel as though they were playing it just for ME.

― Aleeshie (Aleeshie), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

When I worked in a super-corporate mall record store as a punk/wave obsessed young'un, the store turntable was often spinning the Loverboy debut, which I grew to really like, if not love. I had no tolerance for Styx then, and have not gained any since.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Too Much Time, no question. Now if you'd listed some other Loverboy songs, that would have been tougher. And if you'd listed many other Styx hits with those other Loverboy songs, Loverboy no question.

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Sunday, 23 April 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow--I had no idea that the Loverboy bassist was declared dead/missing at sea six years ago.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

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