From The Second Disc and Music Tap:



CD 1: The Original Album
1.Don’t Let Him Go
2.Keep On Loving You
3.Follow My Heart
4.In Your Letter
5.Take It on the Run
6.Tough Guys
7.Out of Season
8.Shakin’ It Loose
9.Someone Tonight
10.I Wish You Were There

CD 2: The Crystal Demos
1.Someone Tonight
2.Tough Guys
3.In Your Letter
4.Follow My Heart
5.Take It on the Run
6.Don’t Let Him Go
7.Keep On Loving You
8.Shakin’ It Loose (Instrumental)
9.I Wish You Were There

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00505466O/?tag=imwan-20

Unless they did some significant embellishing to the final mixes, this could be a ripoff, as some of the finished versions on the released album were the demos.

Saw 'em on this tour. John Cougar opened, it was on his American Fool album. Great Show!

I would rather see a remaster of Live- You Get What You Play For. One of my favorite live albums of the 70s.

I'm not a fan so I don't know if this clears things up or not. Whoever wrote this loves ridiculous over the top adjectives that's for sure! And talk about awful cliches (as catchy as the flu? Ugh.).

One of the undisputed arena rock kings of the ‘70s and ‘80s, REO Speedwagon has sold more than forty million records and has charted thirteen Top 40 hits. They toured endlessly in the arenas of the U.S., building up a sizeable audience due to their amazing live show. And then, in 1980, they delivered Hi Infidelity, a record that not just summarized their strengths, but captured everything that was good about arena rock. There’s an urgency to the songs and the performances that gives it a real emotional core. This is great arena rock, filled with hooks as expansive as Three Rivers Stadium and as catchy as the flu. The record’s two biggest hits — the power ballad “Keep On Loving You” and the surging “Take It On the Run” — define their era, but what gives the album real staying power is that the rest of the record works equally well — most apparently on the album’s opener, “Don’t Let Him Go,” whose insistent beat sent it to the album rock charts, but also such great album tracks as “Follow My Heart,” the sun-kissed ‘60s homage “In Your Letter,” and “Tough Guys.” Hi Infidelity – 30th Anniversary Edition features the classic album in its entirety on Disc 1. Disc 2 consists of never-before-released studio demos of nine of these historic tracks. What’s really great about these songs is not just the sheen of professionalism that makes them addictive to listen to, but also the strain of pathos that runs through them. The album’s title isn’t just a clever pun, but a description of the tortured romantic relationships that populate the tracks.

I was always under the impression that the demos were the final release.

When the album was released, I remember reading an interview with Kevin Cronin in Hit Parader and he said something along the lines of that when they tried re-recording some of the songs in a proper studio, they lacked the energy and feel of the demos, so on some tracks, they used the demo versions.

Maybe these are the stripped basic tracks, but not fully "produced" (w/o full-instrumentation & other effects). I don't know if that's anything to get excited about.

Jim

For eons I was the guy who people gave their LP collections to when they were switching to CD ("Better take 'em R____ or they're going to the landfill..."). Consequently I have not one, not two but THREE pristine LP copies of Hi Infidelity. I've always loathed REO.

So I take it you won't be getting the super deluxe version, then....?

REO Speedwagon HI Infidelity 30th Anniversary Edition Set for Release



05/25/2011
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Epic/Legacy have set a July 19th for the double-CD 30th Anniversary Edition of REO Speedwagon's chart topping album HI Infidelity.
The year 1981 marks the debut of the groundbreaking MTV Networks and, simultaneously, as MTV was hitting the airwaves, REO Speedwagon held the #1 album spot with their multi-platinum Hi Infidelity, making an impression that has also come to last decades. The highest-selling rock LP of 1981 is being commemorated with, with special, never-before-released demos and more. The set will be released at all physical and digital retail outlets

HI Infidelity: 30th Anniversary Edition will pair the original album with a second CD of previously unreleased 'Crystal Demos' of nine of the album's 10 songs. Additionally, the album packaging will include new liner notes by lead singer Kevin Cronin, as well as original lead guitarist Gary Richrath. Cronin's essay takes the reader on a trip behind the curtain to the roots of many of the songs: "I remember writing the verses to piano, after sleepwalking into my home studio around 4:00 a.m.... A long simmering response to the bullies of my youth came in the form of 'Tough Guys'... Bruce wrote and sang 'Someone Tonight,' which is one of the gems from the Crystal Demos... 'I wish You Were There' [was] a little gospel thing that I had written in the house where I grew up in suburban Chicago."

Hi Infidelity was a career-changing album for REO Speedwagon, achieving a staggering number of accolades, chart positions and sales, among them:

* Highest-selling rock LP of 1981

* Has sold close to 10 million copies in the US

* February 21, 1981; the album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and remained at #1 for 15 weeks straight; taking over John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy," which previously held the spot for eight weeks

* Remained on Billboard 200 album chart for 101 weeks, unprecedented for an American rock band at the time

* Album certified RIAA Gold and Platinum on February 2, 1981; since been 10x Platinum certified

* Single "Keep on Loving You," certified RIAA gold on March 4th, replaced Eddie Rabbitt's "I Love a Rainy Night" at #1 on Billboard Hot 100 on March 21, 1981

* March 21st, 1981, the first week of Billboard's then new "Top Tracks" chart (now known as the Mainstream Rock Chart) boasted four songs from Hi Infidelity: "Keep on Loving You" and "Take It On the Run," which both hit the top 10; and "Don't Let Him Go"(#11) and "Tough Guys" (#25); "Out of Season," joined those four a week later

* "Take It On the Run" was the 9th music video ever to be played on MTV

HI Infidelity: 30th Anniversary Edition by REO SPEEDWAGON (Epic/Legacy 88697 69579 2, originally issued November 1980, as Epic 36844)

Disc One – Selections: 1. Don't Let Him Go 2. Keep On Loving You 3. Follow My Heart 4. In Your Letter 5. Take It On The Run 6. Tough Guys 7. Out Of Season 8. Shakin' It Loose 9. Someone Tonight 10. I Wish You Were There.

Disc Two: The Crystal Demos – Selections: 1. Someone Tonight 2. Tough Guys 3. In Your Letter 4. Follow My Heart 5. Take It On The Run 6. Don't Let Him Go 7. Keep On Loving You 8. Shakin' It Loose (Instrumental) 9. I Wish You Were There. (All tracks previously unreleased.)

"The heavens, our emotions, the music business, and REO fans all over the world, were all perfectly aligned. There was a common sense of purpose, of longing and loss, within the band members' collective psyche, that erupted with a burst of creativity, and resulted in the music of Hi Infidelity."
– from the liner notes written by Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon
"Kevin and I go way back, having met right about the time I joined Styx. There was probably no one more keenly aware of their chart positions than we were for all those weeks back in 1981. Most exciting days indeed!" – Tommy Shaw of Styx