When I was in high school (class of 80!) my favorite classes were auto shop and electronics. One day in 1978 I worked on a guy's Jeep and took a peek inside his 8-track tape box. The guy had about 6 REO tapes and I thought "who are these guys?". I was a big Styx, Kansas, Kiss and Van Halen fan but never heard of them before. A few months later I helped a friend install a new Pioneer Supertuner 8-Track deck with Jensen tri-axel speakers, and we tested it out using his new tape - you guess it - their classic "Tuna" album! It sounded so great that I bought my own copy that night. It's been my favorite REO album ever since.

REO has always been a classic bar band "made good" at heart. At the time they were relentlessly touring across the mid-southwest while building up a following of die-hard fans. REO finally went platinum with thier 1977 Live album (sadly chopped up on CD - the Vinyl LP is still the definitive version), which set the stage for "Tuna", and 2 years later leading to a nationwide breakthrough with "Hi Infidelity".

The great things about this album - excellent songwriting from Cronin and Richrath, a wide variety of styles with tight musicianship, going from all-out rockers, sweet ballads, and midtempo pop-rock. After being unfocused for so many years, REO finally got it's act together on one album to become a great Album Rock band. REO was never ment to be a "Critic's Darling" - they were a band for teenagers and working class young adults who wanted to party and Rock!

Compared to the reverbed-to-death "Hi Infidelity" and "Good Trouble" LP's - the production of "Tuna" still sounds clean and well recorded. The new CD is a huge improvement in sound quality over the old CD that was released in the 80's. Toss the old one in the trash, or give it away and get this CD instead.

Listening to REO reminds me of great times in the Seventies when you could buy beer and cigarettes as a teenager, listen to music played by real musicians that wasn't sampled and pieced together on computers, and gettin' laid without the fear of HIV!

REO Speedwagon.... To me, their studio albums were never as good as the live performance. However, when this album came out they finally figured out how to capture the intensity. This is truly a great recording.

Every REO fan should have this in the collection.

Bought this album on LP from a second-hand record store on a whim. The only REO I knew beforehand was 'Roll With The Changes', 'Time For Me To Fly', and 'Ridin The Storm Out', and this album turned me into a huge REO fan. Other than the original Boston LP, there has been no other album on which I have loved every song as much as I have loved the songs on You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish.

this is one of my all time favorite albums. I've been a professional keyboard/piano player in rock bands for over 20 years. Let's face it, there just aren't as many "keyboard gods" out there as there are guitar players. Anyway, in 1979 this album (and specifically Neil Doughty's piano playing) inspired me, a 13 year old kid, to play piano in a rock band and I've been doing it ever since. I love this album!

Trying to get everything I had in the late seventies through the mid eighties that I used listen to as I cruised around in my 72 AMX and this one is a must. This is a classic for that time period and a must have which goes along very well with Ted Nugent- Ted Nugent, Kansas, Styx, early Journey (Wheel in the Sky), Bon Scott's ACDC, Head East, Sweet, ELO, Pat Travers, Fog Hat, Boston, BOC, and a couple most of you never heard of that are real classics Greame Edge Band's Kick off your Muddy Boots and Moon Martin. All are simply outstanding. Getting back to REO, Gary Richrath had his own sound on the guitar which I would say is the true signature of the bad. Not enough has been said about Neil Droughty and his ability to play the piano and everyone knows what Kevin was good for. That three-some were the nucleus of REO like Dennis Deyoung, Tommy Shaw, and James Young for Styx and Roger Boyd, Mike Summerfield and John Schlitt for Head East all really great bands. If you are looking for bands of the late seventies and early eighties these are some of the best. Let keep putting these and more onto CDs, bring them all back.