Ouch!

[ek88]

As I was attempting to research the song Come Sail Away, per Onestill's post, I stumbled across the following Q&A with Jon Nolan (not sure who he is, appears to be a folk musician, judging from the website????). The question below caught my eye. I don't imagine he'll be posting here anytime soon, nor will I be seeking his latest release -- LOL!


4. Rate these bands best to worst: Journey, Styx, Foreigner, Kansas. Explain your reasoning.

FOREIGNER - Come on, tell me you don't like the guitar on the verses of "Hot Blooded." And while you're at it, come on, tell me do you do more than dance? Classic tailor-made air guitar fodder. This trumps the dumb ass non-ironic me-so-horny lyrics which you know, are a riot.

JOURNEY - Atari made a Journey video game in the 80's. I've played it even. It sucked as much as they do, I don't even remember what the point was - just like Journey.

KANSAS - Mullets and mustaches galore! These guys are probably guilty of plugging one ear with a finger while harmonizing too. This is a serious rock foul worthy of a ten point deduction. Granted I've never actually seen them do it, but let's be frank shall we? They totally do it.

STYX- Dennis DeYoung's "allergy" to stage lights trumps even his horrendous black and white striped Mork/mime shirt. Can that thing have a lower neckline and still be a "man's" shirt? Nice perm too dawg. Not even the rock out ending of "Come Sail Away" can save him, and let's not forget he uses the word "lad." I can go on and on.

QUEEN - I've taken it upon myself to add this one, mostly to get my bass player Tim all fired up. Queen? Total and complete musical poo. Seriously though, I hate Queen. They stink.

[sadie65]

I've seen this before. I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinions...

[ek88]

Yeah, Sadie, my first thought to this guy was: get back to me when you reach the same level of success as any of the bands you insulted.

[jrnyman28]

Queen is musical poo?
This guy is insane....clinically delusional.

[DeeJaySTYX]

It sounds to me that this guy's opinion about the bands he insulted was about fashion and not about music....

[bugsymalone]

It sounds to me that this guy's opinion about the bands he insulted was about fashion and not about music....

Deejay, this is something I have found over and over in critical pieces aimed at Styx or Dennis (and in this case, others as well). They seem to only attack them personally. It is never about the music -- just what they look like or what they are wearing. Sheesh!


Bugsy

[Zan]

Well, naturally, anyone who insults Styx is insane, we all know that.

I do have to wonder, however, how much of these comments were made in jest - Musical poo? Seems fabricated to me. I think the fashion criticsims were funny as hell! "Lad" was a good one too. The line in that movie "Beyond the Sea" was kinda true: People hear what they see. That's more true than most people know. Just "listen" to Britney Spears and Cher.