MR

Karakota from the serpent album. Wonder where that came from???

Thenightbull wrote:Karakota from the serpent album. Wonder where that came from???

Styx's strangest song goes to "Don't Sit Down On the Plexiglass Toilet".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-nGVqNciE

i agree with both of those picks and the cool thing both from the same album.

the burgeois ( sic ) Pig and Tenacious D tracks on Cyclorama are both right up there too....

Thenightbull wrote:Karakota from the serpent album. Wonder where that came from???

You mean you think a song about ejaculation is a bit strange? Nah....

krakatoa isn't really a song, so much as a poem that is read.

Plexiglas Toilet is definitely the strangest as it:
1] Makes no sense when juxtaposed with the rest of the album
2] Doesn't make sense at all

Burgeois Pig at least has a message that is expostulated on in Kiss Your Ass Goodbye. And the Tenacious D track, if I'm remembering was just a skit/behind the scenes extra of the Kiss Your Ass Goodbye recording.

Lords Of The Ring has to be the weirdest/stupidest Styx song ever. It sounds like Spinal Tap wrote it. Styx may have been prog in some ways, but when they try to do stuff like the great British prog bands, it doesn't sound right. I can almost imagine a bunch of hobbits running onto the stage when this song is played, and one of them kicking JY in the shins before running off again.

Another strange one [though I love it] is The Message. No lyrics, just sound, and it begs the question; what is the message?

Blue Falcon wrote:Lords Of The Ring has to be the weirdest/stupidest Styx song ever. It sounds like Spinal Tap wrote it. Styx may have been prog in some ways, but when they try to do stuff like the great British prog bands, it doesn't sound right. I can almost imagine a bunch of hobbits running onto the stage when this song is played, and one of them kicking JY in the shins before running off again.

Funny, that's a song I really love. I enjoy the cinematic unfolding of all of the themes and counter-themes (although I must admit the notion of Hobbits running out is pretty funny). As always, to each his own.

I hope all is well.

Sterling

Rockwriter wrote:

Blue Falcon wrote:Lords Of The Ring has to be the weirdest/stupidest Styx song ever. It sounds like Spinal Tap wrote it. Styx may have been prog in some ways, but when they try to do stuff like the great British prog bands, it doesn't sound right. I can almost imagine a bunch of hobbits running onto the stage when this song is played, and one of them kicking JY in the shins before running off again.

Funny, that's a song I really love. I enjoy the cinematic unfolding of all of the themes and counter-themes (although I must admit the notion of Hobbits running out is pretty funny). As always, to each his own.

I hope all is well.

Sterling

Agreeing with Sterling here. I really love both Lords of the Ring and the Message intro. Of course, POE is my second favorite Styx album after Equinox, so I like everything on it anyway.

And context, context, context! Tolkien's books were really, really popular when this song was written.

As to strangest Styx song, I go with the Plexiglas Toilet voters.

Bugsy

Blue Falcon wrote:Lords Of The Ring has to be the weirdest/stupidest Styx song ever. It sounds like Spinal Tap wrote it. Styx may have been prog in some ways, but when they try to do stuff like the great British prog bands, it doesn't sound right. I can almost imagine a bunch of hobbits running onto the stage when this song is played, and one of them kicking JY in the shins before running off again.

Your nuts
That song is freaking awesome

froy wrote:Your nuts

One of those instances when the use of a simple apostrophe would come in most handy.

Mr. Roboto

Zan wrote:

froy wrote:Your nuts

One of those instances when the use of a simple apostrophe would come in most handy.

OMG i'm loving that Chuck Norris/Kanye pic




Robin

KWH17 wrote:Another strange one [though I love it] is The Message. No lyrics, just sound, and it begs the question; what is the message?

Maybe that we should all worship the Lords of the Ring...

Toph wrote:

KWH17 wrote:Another strange one [though I love it] is The Message. No lyrics, just sound, and it begs the question; what is the message?

Maybe that we should all worship the Lords of the Ring...

So that's when the ~backward satanic messages" started.

Thenightbull wrote:

Toph wrote:

KWH17 wrote:Another strange one [though I love it] is The Message. No lyrics, just sound, and it begs the question; what is the message?

Maybe that we should all worship the Lords of the Ring...

So that's when the ~backward satanic messages" started.

Oh it started way before then...like when they chose the name itself...Then for your first album you are pictured in the middle of hell....then you come out with an album called "The Serpent is Rising"? And on that album is an evil reading called Krakatoa?

If I were a baptist preacher I could put forth some serious evidence on Styx worshipping the occult...Obviously they don't, but don't think that they didn't understand that there was some "coolness" associated with that way back when...

High Time- is quite strange

She Cares- quite strange because do I even need to explain?