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My top songs of 2025 according to Spotify, #5: REO Speedwagon, “Roll with the Changes,” 1978

These midwestern boys from Champaign, Illinois started as a blues rock band in the early 1970s, but only made it big in the late 1970s. This song was arguably the turning point for them (in terms of fame and fortune), although they soon adopted a more saccharine pop sound I did not care for. But this song combines the best of their early blues rock orientation with their sense of melody:

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