Recommend some Styx Please!
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Topic: Recommend some Styx Please!
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: Recommend some Styx Please!
Date Posted: February 01 2012 at 17:50
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Ok I read all the reviews for Styx albums and they are pouring out that their Cornerstone album is quote "
Simply catasrophic and Babe makes it sink even deeper than the Mariana Trench. Avoid it , it StynX. " Nice. I can understand the hate towards power ballads buy hey I like Babe - at least its catchy. But have they got any albums worth hearing? I have no Styx album but have babe on some dang compilation of Power Ballads. I have heard Mr Roboto on MTV and admired it from a distance. Great film clip and chant - "domo ari goto mr roboto" is all I remember of the song.... What are their proggiest albums? I have none but would get a prog album of Styx if it exists. help me here Proggers ------------- 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 01 2012 at 20:01
| The Grand Illusion |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 01 2012 at 20:21
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Cornerstone is sweet! Yeah, it has a few sappy ballads but so what, it also has some very good tracks. I know I'm in the minority being a Styx fan around here, but like Kansas they get too much abuse. Frankly, Styx-haters can kiss my rump. Scott, the first four Wooden Nickel albums are good but more hard rock affairs, their first guitarist was a bit different than Shaw. You can check those out later. These are the peak art-period albums, the litmus test to whether Styx is for you or not. I would check them out in this order: The Grand Illusion Pieces of Eight then...in any order Crystal Ball Paradise Theater Cornerstone Equinox Wooden Nickel compilation Keep in mind, Styx is not "prog" but rather great art-rock.....theatrical hard rock with occasionally proggy references. If you need it to be "real prog" in order to enjoy it, skip it. If you just like good music, check it out. Edit: The first four albums are a LOT of fun, especially "Serpent is Rising" which is considered their weirdest album. But try Grand Illusion before you venture back to the early ones. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 01 2012 at 21:22
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I couldn't help but think of the South Park episode where Cartman has this thing about if you start singing "I'm sailing away.." and he has to finish the whole song.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 03 2012 at 19:59
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I have a Styx recommendation.....give 'em a miss and put on the good ol' Grateful Dead.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 03 2012 at 20:10
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Sorry, that wasn't very nice....I kinda like Styx II and some of those old radio songs were pretty good.....Snowblind! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: February 03 2012 at 20:20
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EQUINOX is sensational. ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 06 2012 at 08:22
Thanks I will have a listen to Grand Illusion as soon as I can, good music from the small amount I have heard. -------------
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Finnforest wrote:Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 06 2012 at 19:38
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Hey I love Miss America! And had heard it before somewhere. Great album really - The Grand Illusion.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 07 2012 at 14:43
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I think Equinox is quite solid. And it has "Suite Madame Blue" which might be their best song. It's kind of the precursor to "Come Sail Away", same kind of thing. I think "The Serpent is Rising" has a strange song about a plexiglass toilet on it, but my recollection is hazy. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 07 2012 at 14:47
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 Indeed it does, with a sing-along that touched on butt wiping among other things. Needless to say that album is the one Dennis DeYoung wishes he could erase from history, but lots of fans enjoy it. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 15:09
FOUND IT!  "I can't believe it's Styx." -- you, after hearing this. It's part of the track called "As Bad as This". This clip just presents the toilet section. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 08 2012 at 15:36
^ Featuring this great lyric A boy of 5 stands close to the toilet Holds the lid up with one hand Won't let go the lid for fear that On his banana it will land Don't sit down on the Plexiglas toilet yeah This was the work of the rather eccentric first guitarist, replaced in 75 by Shaw. |
Posted By: CKnoxW
Date Posted: August 12 2013 at 15:48
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Ooh Styx is fantastic! I see Equinox as one of their greatest works, Conerstone being one of their weakest. I always found Paradise Theater to be a pretty strong concept album with some awesome pieces of music on it. My three favorites are probably: Equinox Pieces of Eight The Grand Illusion Anyway, they rock. Tommy Shaw was the death of them in my opinion. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: August 12 2013 at 16:00
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Equinox Pieces Of Eight They were at the top of their game on these two. ------------- |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 12 2013 at 16:51
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I came on board with Styx II cuz of their hit "Lady" in 1973-4, but the album remains, IMHO, their most proggy with Bach's "Little Fugue in G" leading into the seven-minute "Father O.S.A." Still my favorite album of theirs despite it's engineering/production being a step (or two) down from later albums. After that it's probably Grand Illusion though Equinox has the awesome one-two-punch of "Light Up" and "Lorelei" on Side One and Side Two has the classical instrumental "Prelude 12" leading into the proggy "Suite Madame Blue" and "Mademoiselle," "Jennifer," "Crystal Ball" and "Claire de lune/Ballerina" from Crystal Ball are pretty awesome, too. I think Grand Illusion lost a little of its possible due because it was competing for air and turntable time with Going for The One, I, Robot, Heart's Little Queen, Cat Scratch Fever, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steve Winwood, James Taylor, and, of course, the Star Wars soundtrack. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: CKnoxW
Date Posted: August 12 2013 at 18:42
Oh I Robot is a fantastic album! |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 12 2013 at 23:14
As a few have said Grand Illusion is probably the one to own but frankly after a few spins you'll file it away and forget about it.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 00:23
| 'The Serpent Is Rising' - can't get enough of that album - even has some 'tron in places !! |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 10:48
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For me, it would be: Grand Illusion Equinox Pieces Of Eight Paradise Theater Crystal Ball & Kilroy Was Here are decent, Cornerstone isn't all that great, and I don't care for any of the early stuff (yes, I've heard all of them/owned them on vinyl once upon a time)
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 02:20
| I like Styx. I don't love them but I do like them. The Grand Illusion is their only album I have though. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 09:52
| everything from 72-78 i call prog rock |
Posted By: pjt
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 17:33
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Now there's one album that nobody is likely to recommend, and that's Kilroy was Here. It's rather far from being a prog masterpiece, but I still love it. I thnk the 2.06 it got is rather harsh, to me it's closer to 3. I love Mr. Roboto for being a very good prog pop song, High Time is also a good song, and Heavy Metal Poisoning is just mad. Just Get Through This Night is the closest thing to prog, in a rather 80's pop with traces of prog style. All in all, with an open mind, it's rather nice to listen to it, especially after a real prog concept album's crushing weight. ------------- 4 8 15 16 23 42 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 00:22
 .......... A 'guilty pleasure' you may call it, although I think the horn arrangement in 'High Time' is dopey........... oh, I just remembered something - the last 30 secs or so of 'Cold War' reminds me of 'Planets' era Eloy.
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