When I was in high school it was the heyday of the pop guitar bands. Journey, Foreigner, Styx, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Loverboy, etc.Listen to them all. Foreigner, Styx, Boston as well as some of the others mentioned in this thread quite often.
Listening to Boston on a pair of Koss CM1030s when I was seventeen is what started me down the audiophile path.