Loverboy - Loverboy Classics: Their Greatest Hits
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Artist: LoverboyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-10-11
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Turn Me Loose
- Working For The Weekend
- Take Me To The Top
- The Kid Is Hot Tonite
- This Could Be The Night
- Jump
- Lovin' Every Minute Of It
- Notorious
- Almost Paradise
- Lucky Ones
- Destination Heartbreak
- Hot Girls In Love
- When It's Over
- It's Your Life
- Gangs In The Street
- Heaven In Your Eyes
Free Music Notes for Loverboy Classics: Their Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: The Kid is still hot tonight
Hit: 4 Stars
Canadian band Loverboy released their debut to little or no notice in 1980. After almost slipping into oblivion, the new-wavey keyboards and funky bassline of "Turn Me Loose" caught on with a few rock radio programmers, then rippled out to become a national smash. The follow-up, the propulsive "The Kid Is Hot Tonight," followed suit.
These set the stage for Loverboy's career. Synthesizers that sounded very much of the 80's, Mike Reno's distinctive voice and guitarist Paul Dean's hot licks proved to be a potent combination, making Loverboy akin to many of the era's album rockers. (Think Foreigner, Journey, REO Speedwagon or Bon Jovi.) The second album, Get Lucky, contained one of the best known Friday Afternoon radio staples in "Working For The Weekend" (great three stroke cowbell there!). "Get Lucky" was so loaded with hits that it comprises the bulk of this CD.
The follow up was Keep It Up, which seemed to indicate that the band was kind of in on the critics hate us/fans love us joke...after all, once you "get lucky," you're going to have to "keep it up." It managed again to lay down hits with "Hot Girls in Love." But when the band tried to toughen up the sound on Lovin' Every Minute of It, things didn't click quite as hard. The chain-gang call-and-response of the title track was interesting, but the temptation to take on power-ballads (the top-ten "This Could Be The Night") tilt the balance away from the band's solid party rock. Wildside tried hard to get the mojo back, with the Bon Jovi cowritten single "Notorious" the best thing there (and includes the immortal couplet "Little girl don't you hesitate/Cause you're using live bait").
Dean and Reno got the solo artist bug and broke up the band afterwards, although a reunited Loverboy still records and tours. This is a solid document of a band that knew exactly what they were doing and were more than happy to deliver with a wink and a smile. The hilarious liner notes by bassist Scott Smith (who tragically drowned in a 2000 boating accident) note that the soundtrack ballads "Heaven in Your Eyes (from Top Gun)" and "Almost Paradise (from Footloose)" are included so they could "sell more of this collection." Slick, funny and multi-platinum...what more could you ask for from a hitmaking 80's hair band?
Loverboy Classics: Their Greatest Hits Poster
Usurping the Big Ones hits package, the self-depreciating, proud, and humorous liner notes by bassist Scott Smith boost this definitive compilation. Time won't have wiped the kneejerk sneer from the mouths of critics--dismissed long ago as "eunuchs in a whorehouse" by manager Lou Blair--but a new generation of listeners will approve. --Jeff BatemanPop Music CDs
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