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Here is a band I feel may be universally hated on this site but I like them...
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 2 November 2011 - 7:47pm.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Styx.
That is a top tune by anyone's standards surely?
If not, why not?
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Jeez, Uncle...
You are a *brave* man.
Calm yourselves ladies...
Forgot that John Oates (far right)
had joined them.
And the tub thumper from The Stereophonics' dad...
on the far left.
Good job David Beckham
wasn't around back then as he'd definitely have attempted at least two of those 'styles'.
Surely
He's actually had all of those styles?
Well, his wife certainly has.
.
If not, why not?
Cos its fucking Styx.
Thanks for the input
:-)
If not, why not?
Cos it's you who likes 'em.
*Mwwwwha ha ha ha ha face*
Don't worry Uncle...
Styx and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
I'm upping Styx
Ive had enough!
All this mockery...
really styx in his craw.
Why not?
Because unlike you I'm not hitting the crack pipe.
And what's worse
It'll be my earworm all week.
Styx & stones may break my bones...
...But whips & chains excite me
I've just added this thread to my favourites...
I have a feeling it's going to be a classic.*
* don't anyone mention fuckin' attics.
I done a lol
And the bill for cleaning expensive gin off my monitor is on its way to Crowther Towers as we speak...
Tanqueray?
Is that...
Styx's concept album about gin?
Funnily enough...
...yes, it was Tanqueray!
(hic)
My favourite gin as well
Good fucking grief...
This truly beggars belief.
Perhaps I should frame my love of Styx
I never ever thought I would write that!
Anyway..
Anything post 1981 is bollocks IMHO.
This is fast becoming my favourite ever thread...
"Anything post 1981 is bollocks IMHO" - I love it!
Styx post 1981. Nothing else
I really liked "Blue Collar Man".
And hated a lot of the other stuff off Pieces of Eight (Bohemia Rhapsody-lite "Renegade" included...).
I remember being the only one in our mob who had £4.00 to buy one of only 2 clear vinyl copies, everyone else having to settle for £3.80 black vinyl.
Mr Roboto
That is vile.
I've lost the will
to live
Soundtrack to the teen years
for my rural northern Cali upbringing. We had lots worse foisted on us. Rock on Uncle. Rock on Tommy Shaw. Just don't play fuckin' 'Lady'.
Styx - 'Lady'
I thought I asked
nice.
Power ballad ahoy
Come Sail Away - this became a family favourite at the Beany Arena after we saw the nighttime Shamu show at the Florida Sea World over eight years ago, incorporating this song into a marine ballet betwixt man & orca in a...(FFS get on with it - Ed.)
Yes, but this is the definitive version:
This is
post-1981, but I liked it at the time.
"Desert Moon" (1985).
It only gets better, 1982 brought us this from Asia.
Now that is even better than Styx!
Way back in the mists of time, in 1984...
Steve Howe came to my school to hear his son Dylan play in a band that some of my friends were in. I was extremely excited as I'd never met a real life rock star before and got him to sign my copy of Close to the Edge. He seemed really chuffed that a fifteen-year-old boy was into Yes in the 1980s. I asked him how things were going with Asia and was met with the unforgettable reply "Don't talk to me about those cunts."
How nice of him!
I saw Asia live for the first time at the High Voltage festival last year and they were as I would have hoped for in that they played the debut album note for note and added in a couple of other tunes.
In 1982 I was addicted to their debut album.
Buy a record by Styx?
...when that river in Hell freezes over.
Great thread so please
...don't let it end.
Come Sail Away on the next posts
Boat on the River
Quality
Saw Styx ealier this year
suporting Journey and Foreigner. They were good although I can honestly say this is one three band bill that I never expected to be selling out the M.E.N. arena.
FWIW I've always liked Renegade.
AOR Heaven
I saw the latest version of Foreigner at High Voltage last year and was surprised by how good they were.
Styx and Journey in 2011 I could probably do without and just re-live my memories and albums from 1981 - the greatest year for this type of music.
I was 11 back in '81
and hadn't been to any live shows so it's nice to see these groups now. Kind of makes up for my ears being so out of step with my peers back during the 80's. Still a surprise to see this stuff selling out arenas here in the UK though.
Re Foreigner, The 'new' singer is good and can work a crowd. Can't say I've felt any need to buy their last acoustic record though.
I find it really hard to recall any of their songs...
Nothing Styx.
Mind you,
Bryan Ferry did do a collaboration with them, didn't he?
Come On, Come On, Let's Styx Together.
Ian Dury always rated their driving beat, though.
Hit Me With Your Rhythm, Styx.
Led Zeppelin liked them so much they recorded a tribute...
For Styx.
Holy Shit!
that was bad Wheatman.
I speak as someone who still owns (and enjoys selected tunes from) 'Pieces of Eight' on vinyl.
I am this year's Kim Philby...
"WHOOO! YEEAAAH! LET'S ROCK! IT'S PARTY TIME!"
Sorry
But you've gone too far
Babe
with lyrics, nuff said
They wrote a song...
about that pig?
Bless...
That'll do,
Styx. That'll do.
Never mind Styx
I like Kansas!
**hums "Carry on wayward son"...**
Anyway
to answer the OP - I hate it, and all the other terrible youtubes provided through this thread, because it is the blandest middle-of-the-road sanitised "rock" imaginable. God forbid anyone playing on these tracks should sound as if the music has any emotional effect on them at all. The lyrics - even on the most bizarre themed songs - are regurgitated platitudes. Shopping list songs.
If even the band sound bored or as if they know they are "faking it" then it's no good. Here's someone who doesn't sound bored :
missed all the fun
Been to see Wilco. Yea Gods,Uncle !!! i swear you do this just to amuse Patrick and myself. I bet a tenner you love this an' all.
To paraphrase The candyman"it's good to have all the records you hate in one place"
"How would you even put a collection like this together ?"
She asks.
Yes, how could you ? How could you put a collection like..like...this
together ?It could be used as an instrument of torture.
Styx
I wish I was broadminded enough to enjoy this worthless, smarmy, creepy, and above all boring excuse for a band. Then I'd enjoy life a lot more and be a better person. As it is, I'm a poisonous well of bilious loathing for this wretched combo and would rather wind out their bowels on a Land Rover winch than listen to another note they played.
(Funny, though but. You have to give them that).
Stimpy has a couple of Landrovers
He might be able to help there
Top 10 bad 80's bands
Will start with Styx because they are what this post is about:-
Styx
Bachman Turner Overdrive
REO Speedwagon
Boston
Europe
Scorpions
Meatloaf
Vixen
Def Leppard
Iron Maiden
Replace Meatloaf
with Helen Reddy, and I think we can reach for the chisel.
Ahem...
Peter "Soft Focus" Cetera
Warrant
Michael "Nice Hair" Bolton
I'm suddenly queasy
with naustalgia.
In the '80s, yes.
But the '70s versions of several of these were better - according to me - because I will invoke the defence of Music + Time x Years Gone By = Nostalgia, great memories, etc.
You could probably make a couple of decent albums from Styx's 1970s efforts;
Ditto REO Speedwagon;
Oh, and Scorpions, too;
Iron Maiden's first is just good, straight-up rock (or NWOBHM, if you like);
BTO's Head On won't earn me any friends in the rock snobs club - but I like it;
Meat's Bat Out of Hell is just cracking pantomime rock: brilliant lyrics on a lot of those songs.
I'd never knowingly...
...heard Styx so just spend 15 minutes listening to this thread.
This is what happened.
1) Realised I had heard Styx
2) Cried a little bit
3) Went to have a shower to cleanse myself
4) Put C'est Chic on the record player.
Thanks: I had erased this lot from my memory
The summer of 1980 and I had just finished my A levels.
Over the past year I had worked in my spare time pushing trollies at Crazy Prices ( a Northern Ireland supermarket chain so downmarket it made your nearest lidl look like Harrods' Food Hall) to raise the cash to visit my cousin in Seattle.
On my first day there he had arranged to celebrate my arrival with a trip to the nearest enormodome to see his favourite band. Even in my jet lagged state I thought Styx were atrocious and struggled to be diplomatic post gig.
We went to see Heart later and after that agreed to avoid music as a topic of conversation.