The Hits (REO Speedwagon album)
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| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | May 31, 1988 (US) April 30, 2002 (Remastered) | |||
| Recorded | January 1976–April 1988 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 52:55 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
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| Singles from The Hits | ||||
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| Robert Christgau | C |
The Hits is a compilation album from REO Speedwagon. It contains hits such as "Can't Fight This Feeling" and "Keep on Loving You", as well as new tracks "Here with Me" and "I Don't Want to Lose You". "Here with Me" cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. and the top ten on the Adult Contemporary chart; however, it would be the last single to feature drummer Alan Gratzer and guitarist Gary Richrath, as they each left the band within the year following this album's release. The album has sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. which led it to go 4× Platinum.
A conspicuous absentee from the album is "Keep the Fire Burnin'", which reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. The collection is one of several released by the band's label. The album was remastered and reissued in 2002. The album was also re-released in 2020 on black and white vinyl.
Cash Box called "Here with Me" a "power ballad that lifts you up where you belong, a majestic and sweeping effort that has romanticism, leavened with pop sensibility." Cash Box called "I Don't Want to Lose You" a "hard-driving, corporate-sounding rocker."