| Author | Message |
SplitPersonality
776 posts |
#378292 2008-05-20 08:19 GMT |
|
With hits like 'Come Sail Away', 'Renegade', 'Too Much Time On My Hands', 'Blue Collar Man', 'Fooling Yourself', 'Best of Times', 'Mr. Roboto', 'Babe' and 'Lady', they have a catalog that few bands can match.
|
|
Jake
784 posts |
#378293 2008-05-20 08:23 GMT |
|
mostly because they suck.
steve s is right...back then we did make fun of them. |
|
SpikeyDesert
805 posts |
#378294 2008-05-20 08:23 GMT |
|
& those are just the hits. They did PLENTY of great lesser-known songs that get little to no airplay.
Suite Madame Blue, Grove of Eglantine, Put Me On, Best Thing, etc etc...Their early work is VERY Yes-influenced. I suppose they don't get much credit b/c they generally aren't seen as groundbreakers. They were enormous for a couple of years in the late 70s & then it was downhill from there... |
|
WhoLeOw
794 posts |
#378295 2008-05-20 08:32 GMT |
|
The only thing i ever liked by them was Renegade.
|
|
DeadlyAmphibian
749 posts |
#378296 2008-05-20 08:43 GMT |
|
I couldn't agree with you more. I think maybe they were over shadowed by Queen.
|
|
Minnie
823 posts |
#378297 2008-05-20 08:47 GMT |
|
The reason for this is that they were a wimpy glam-rock band. Back then, we made fun of them. Did you ever see the episode of 'That 70s Show' when Eric bought a bunch of tickets to a Styx concert and no one would go with him?
Now, I suppose that there are a lot of Styx fans who would disagree with me and heaven knows, they sold millions of records. But that doesn't validate them as a great rock act. I often use a phrase that says, "Millions of flys eat dung, but that doesn't make it taste good!" |
|
LadderToHeaven
817 posts |
#378298 2008-05-20 09:04 GMT |
|
I recall them getting a lot of credit in the 70's and 80's. That Kilroy album was just stupid though, and that's what many associate with them. Tommy Shaw, very good guitarist. Paradise Theater was a classic album.
|
|
Gilbert
834 posts |
#378299 2008-05-20 09:15 GMT |
|
Yeah, I know. I am gonna go see them on august the 2nd this year!!!
|
|
Eclipse
791 posts |
#378300 2008-05-20 09:17 GMT |
|
I think they get shortchanged because their ballads are just plain bad and because Dennis deYoung evolved into a Vegas Act.
Babe could have been written by a 10 year old. On the other hand, The Grand Illusion is one of the top 10 albums by an American artist and Paradise Theater was quite strong and they rock in concert, even today. |
|
Limey
749 posts |
#378301 2008-05-20 09:41 GMT |
|
Well...you named part of the reason......
for every great song Styx did (like Renegade) they did at least 2 crappy songs like Mr. Roboto. Its the same reason that some people knock Yes...despite all the good 70s stuff... the 80s stuff they put out was Pop tripe. |
|
Gilbert
834 posts |
#378302 2008-05-20 11:12 GMT |
|
The reason why Styx doesn't get the credit you feel they deserve is that they started out with a unique niche in music and then devolved into just another band. When they first came out with albums like equinox and grand illusion for example, they had a sound that no other band had. Little by little, that creativity stopped, (basically the Babe/Lady factor) and they just became Journey Midwest. Add to that the fact that the band mutinied on Dennis DeYoung, (and for good reason btw, as he was turning into Barry Manilow), and could never be consistant with their direction, and suddenly Styx went from being relevent to just another disfunctional band. Too bad too, because they really had something in the beginning.
|
|
