# Which one's your favourite? REO / Styx / Journey / Foreigner **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ones-your-favourite-reo-styx-journey-foreigner/588682 "2011-07-11T22:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ones-your-favourite-reo-styx-journey-foreigner/588682/61 "2011-07-18T19:22:45Z")
All four were pretty bad, but I went with Journey – good guitarist, good vocalist, and some decent songwriting. (Styx was more interesting, but Dennis De Young’s contributions were lame and pretentious.) Why on Earth have two posters proposed adding Rush to this list? This thread is _not_ about talent-laden progressive rock bands which created an impressive and varied (if not always successful) oeuvre over multiple decades! (I guess the one thing in common is that Rush happened to make it into the Top 40 world right around the same time that the OP’s bands did – but, then, so did Madonna, Prince, and many other acts…) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ones-your-favourite-reo-styx-journey-foreigner/588682/62 "2011-07-18T22:15:03Z")
When the ultimate anti-establishment subversive, Rodney Dangerfield, decided to stick it to the stuffed shirts at the country club by blasting a boom box across the grounds from the 7th hole fairway, what did he choose? Journey; condemnant quod non intellegunt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-ones-your-favourite-reo-styx-journey-foreigner/588682.md?page=3)