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Judging from the ppl who lived in that era. Styx. My prof in uni "Styx. Not that horrible 80's band. But the myth"

Tristan_Geoff

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I voted Kansas. But I was close to voting Foreigner or Styx. All three of the bands aforementioned made music without sufficiently distinctive melodies, in my opinion.

Buckeye Randy

What a list and a tough choice. I went with Boston but on another day it could be somebody else.

Styx has Tommy Shaw and he's great and he does a good job fronting Styx without Dennis DeYoung. Miss America is an awesome song in particular and the album Grand Illusion is not without merit. Make no mistake, Dennis DeYoung is repulsive.

Journey has Neil Schon who can be really good but I do hate most their songs. I spent a summer riding shotgun while my buddy let his 8-track of Infinity play half the summer; my lost summer.

Foreigner...they are competent and something reminds me of Mott The Hoople but it certainly isn't the lyrics except for, "Headknocker, I think he's going to blacken your eye". Brilliant!

Kansas was just at the right place right time as far as popularity and "Carry On My Wayward Son" really is a near perfect mix of prog and mainstream. Budgie should have been so lucky.

Boston wins because they were a new breed of dinosaur as the original dinosaurs were dying out. Sweeping organ and soaring guitars. It was Deep Purple Light. I vote 'Less Filling'.

mattrixs

I had a hard time picking.......

I picked Foreigner though......

Buckeye Randy

What's the worst part? Why are they your winner?

Drjohnrock

My vote went to Journey. Their first album, when they had the second guitarist, held some promise. But eventually they got Steve Perry to "sing" and their artistic worth plummeted while their bank accounts got bigger.

I saw Styx at an amusement park when "Lady" was their only hit. John Curulewski was still in the band. They were more of a hard rock band then, and better for it IMHO.

The only Kansas album I enjoy is their first one. For me, it was downhill from there.

Foreigner is an interesting case. I saw them on their first US tour. They weren't headlining. They looked, and largely sounded, bored by the music they were playing until the encore, a cover of 100 Proof Aged In Soul's "Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed." They really came alive, with most of the five musicians providing enthusiastic backing vocals for lead singer Lou Gramm. It wouldn't surprise me if they would rather have played that kind of music. But it probably wouldn't have sold. Too bad.