Elf???

[sadie65]

I have read a lot of reviews (and yes I know reviews do not translate to gospel), but I found this one of GH-Part 2 rather amusing...

http://www.almac.co.uk/almac/bbs/atw/116.htm

The end of time and other stuff


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eye WEEKLY August 1, 1996
Toronto's arts newspaper .....free every Thursday
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ON DISC ON DISC

THE END OF TIME AND OTHER STUFF

A mid-summer roundup of mostly inexplicable reissues

STYX/Greatest Hits Part 2/ A&M/PolyGram . Commemorating Tommy Shaw's
liberation from the constraints of Damn Yankees, this set succeeds in
explaining how Styx came to confine themselves to bleating concept
albums in the early '80s. Those records, Paradise Theatre and Kilroy
Was Here, now seem like last-ditch efforts to harness the brilliance
that tended to get obscured by commercially quenching "Babe" or
"Lady"-like lubriciousness.

This is the quintessential compendium of second-string singles
("Mademoiselle," "Sing For The Day," the deranged "Borrowed Time,"
which starts with the spine-tingling cackle "Don't look now -- here
come the '80s!") and even niftier buried treasures. Dennis DeYoung's
effervescent elf vocals are at their most baroque on "First Time,"
while "Superstars" is Styx at their most incendiary. A limp 1991 also-
ran, "Love At First Sight" is also included -- a reminder of how
wayward the band became sans Shaw.

Now, the circle is reconfigured for the can't-miss finger-snapper "It
Takes Love" -- DeYoung delivering his most spirited vocal since his
sole solo hit "Desert Moon." Meanwhile, Shaw takes his "Girls With
Guns" gregariousness into the eighth dimension with "Little Suzie," a
heady romp across the era since this lineup was last intact. It's
certain to satisfy the cravings of all those who never thought the
word "infomercial" would ever weave its way into a Styx song.

-- MARC WEISBLOTT


Sadie

[bugsymalone]

All's I'm sayin' here is --- I want to meet this "elf" 'cause he sure can sing!



Bugsy