Songoftheday 4/24/15 - Right now your world and mine are such different places through yours I wander lost and confused, and I feel like I'm speaking in a different language and the only words I haven't used...

"That Ain't Love" - REO Speedwagon
from the album Life As We Know It (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7

Today's Song of the Day comes from the Midwestern mainstream rock band REO Speedwagon, who we last saw with their 11th studio album Wheels Are Turnin' which spun out four top-40 pop hits in the U.S. including the #1 "Can't Fight This Feeling". After a three year break between discs, they released their Life As We Know It set, which pointed them in an even more adult-pop direction. Even the guitars are dominated by the piano for the first single, "That Ain't Love", written by lead singer Kevin Cronin, though he still delivers his witty lyrics with that undefinable accent of his while giving Howard Stern realness...

"That Ain't Love" made it into the American pop top-20 in April of 1987, while climbing to #5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. The track was also a minor hit in Canada peaking at #82.

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Here's audio of the band performing the song live on tour behind the album in 1987...

..and again at a more recent concert in 2005...

Up tomorrow: the Queen of Soul and a Faith-ful boy serve up a slice of pop heaven.