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STYX AND FOREIGNER SET TO RELEASE 'THE SOUNDTRACK OF SUMMER' TOUR COMPANION ALBUM:
April 23, 2014 – Responsible for some of Rock's most indelible summer anthems, legendary groups Foreigner and Styx will release The Soundtrack Of Summer on May 6 to coincide with their highly anticipated tour of the same name, which also features very special guest Don Felder, former guitarist of The Eagles. The album, which features 16 classics by both bands, will be available exclusively at Walmart. Pre-orders are available on Walmart's website.
The Soundtrack Of Summer package includes Foreigner hits “Cold As Ice,” “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is,” and Styx hits “The Grand Illusion,” “Blue Collar Man” and “Renegade” (see below for a complete track listing). The collection finishes with the spectacular highlight, a brand new interpretation of one of Classic Rock's most successful songs ever, “Hotel California.” Original songwriter Don Felder teamed up with Styx and Foreigner for this very special collaboration, as well as a stunning new version of Foreigner's massive hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which will only be available as a limited edition vinyl disc and on iTunes.
Fans can check out an exclusive stream of “Hotel California” on USA Today's website, which went live earlier today.

Here's the complete track listing of The Soundtrack Of Summer: 1. Feels Like The First Time 2. Cold As Ice 3. Hot Blooded 4. Double Vision 5. Urgent 6. Waiting For A Girl Like You 7. I Want To Know What Love Is 8. Juke Box Hero 9. The Grand Illusion 10. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) 11. Lorelei 12. Crystal Ball 13. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) 14. Miss America 15. Renegade 16. Too Much Time On My Hands 17. Hotel California.
Check out “The Soundtrack of Summer” tour at any of the following stops (with more to be added in the coming weeks). Don Felder hits the stage at 7:00pm at every stop. Foreigner and Styx will alternate closing slots.
WebLinks: www.soundtrackofsummer.com / www.styxworld.com / www.foreigneronline.com.

SOURCE: http://www.melodicrock.com/index1.php

Kilroy1983 wrote:STYX AND FOREIGNER SET TO RELEASE 'THE SOUNDTRACK OF SUMMER' TOUR COMPANION ALBUM:
April 23, 2014 – Responsible for some of Rock's most indelible summer anthems, legendary groups Foreigner and Styx will release The Soundtrack Of Summer on May 6 to coincide with their highly anticipated tour of the same name, which also features very special guest Don Felder, former guitarist of The Eagles. The album, which features 16 classics by both bands, will be available exclusively at Walmart. Pre-orders are available on Walmart's website.
The Soundtrack Of Summer package includes Foreigner hits “Cold As Ice,” “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is,” and Styx hits “The Grand Illusion,” “Blue Collar Man” and “Renegade” (see below for a complete track listing). The collection finishes with the spectacular highlight, a brand new interpretation of one of Classic Rock's most successful songs ever, “Hotel California.” Original songwriter Don Felder teamed up with Styx and Foreigner for this very special collaboration, as well as a stunning new version of Foreigner's massive hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which will only be available as a limited edition vinyl disc and on iTunes.
Fans can check out an exclusive stream of “Hotel California” on USA Today's website, which went live earlier today.

Here's the complete track listing of The Soundtrack Of Summer: 1. Feels Like The First Time 2. Cold As Ice 3. Hot Blooded 4. Double Vision 5. Urgent 6. Waiting For A Girl Like You 7. I Want To Know What Love Is 8. Juke Box Hero 9. The Grand Illusion 10. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) 11. Lorelei 12. Crystal Ball 13. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) 14. Miss America 15. Renegade 16. Too Much Time On My Hands 17. Hotel California.
Check out “The Soundtrack of Summer” tour at any of the following stops (with more to be added in the coming weeks). Don Felder hits the stage at 7:00pm at every stop. Foreigner and Styx will alternate closing slots.
WebLinks: http://www.soundtrackofsummer.com / http://www.styxworld.com / http://www.foreigneronline.com.

SOURCE: http://www.melodicrock.com/index1.php

And the rewriting of what is a Styx hit continues! Wonder if these are original recordings or those regenerations song?. Given just 2 DDY song, one of which is now sung by JY, betting its the latter. Pass.

total fan of both camps...
but...

COME ON! NEW MUSIC, PLEASE....

Styx is my favorite band of all time. I do also like the Eagles alot . But Hotel California is one of those songs that should not be touched or copied.

ztyxlynne wrote:Styx is my favorite band of all time. I do also like the Eagles alot . But Hotel California is one of those songs that should not be touched or copied.

What is odd is that its a Don Henley vocally led song. What's Don Felder have to do with it? Wait, I see he was a co-writer of the song. But still, if I was a hard core Eagles fan, that would piss me off. Felder is definitely the JY of that band since Henley and Frey were the two main vocalists. It would be like JY singing Come Sail Away....

I agree. This is all they can come up with?! Come on guys! Tommy is such a awesome song writer. He is wasting talents not writing new music. I don't even want to hear this song. Even DDY is talking a new album!

Toph wrote:

ztyxlynne wrote:Styx is my favorite band of all time. I do also like the Eagles alot . But Hotel California is one of those songs that should not be touched or copied.

What is odd is that its a Don Henley vocally led song. What's Don Felder have to do with it? Wait, I see he was a co-writer of the song. But still, if I was a hard core Eagles fan, that would piss me off. Felder is definitely the JY of that band since Henley and Frey were the two main vocalists. It would be like JY singing Come Sail Away....

In recent interviews Felder claims that he wrote the entire music for Hotel California and Henley wrote the lyrics since Henley did not like the lyrics that Felder wrote. Felder also claims that he has a demo tape to prove he wrote the music. The Eagles drama makes the drama that unfolded in Styx look like a love story. At least from what has been said in public.

ztyxlynne wrote:I agree. This is all they can come up with?! Come on guys! Tommy is such a awesome song writer. He is wasting talents not writing new music. I don't even want to hear this song. Even DDY is talking a new album!

I think people need to just give up the asking for a album of new material from Styx. It's obvious that it is not going to happen. That's not what they are about anymore.

Boomchild wrote:

Toph wrote:

ztyxlynne wrote:Styx is my favorite band of all time. I do also like the Eagles alot . But Hotel California is one of those songs that should not be touched or copied.

What is odd is that its a Don Henley vocally led song. What's Don Felder have to do with it? Wait, I see he was a co-writer of the song. But still, if I was a hard core Eagles fan, that would piss me off. Felder is definitely the JY of that band since Henley and Frey were the two main vocalists. It would be like JY singing Come Sail Away....

In recent interviews Felder claims that he wrote the entire music for Hotel California and Henley wrote the lyrics since Henley did not like the lyrics that Felder wrote. Felder also claims that he has a demo tape to prove he wrote the music. The Eagles drama makes the drama that unfolded in Styx look like a love story. At least from what has been said in public.

i was just getting ready to say the same thing.

Read Felder's book. It's awesome. In the book, yeah, he does talk about how he wrote HC. Also, I believe that he was wanting to sing it originally (I may have my Felder tunes/stories confused). After laying down the tracks, and I believe, Felder doing a rough vocal, the session ended. They went away for a few days and when they reconvened, Don Henley had recorded a lead vocal on it without telling Felder. I know that happened with one of his tracks (at least) and I think it was HC. Now, Felder really doesn't come across as bitter about that more than disappointed. He has glowing things to say about Henley as a singer (who wouldn't?).
It's a really good book and pretty much confirmed for me what a complete jerk Glen Frey is. Without Felder, The Eagles are music to get your teeth cleaned by. Seriously, their last album had absolutely NO fire to it. Even Walsh couldn't save it.

The Eagles last album, Long Road out of Eden was good album, not great. It did however seem like a couple solo album's put together to make a double album. Henley had his style, Fry was mostly love songs and ballads and throw a couple off the wall silly Walsh tracks. Oh and the one Timothy B Schmidt love song. And yes I have totally given up on a new Styx album. We can't even get one new song on a hits package. We get anther retread of a old song.

ztyxlynne wrote:The Eagles last album, Long Road out of Eden was good album, not great. It did however seem like a couple solo album's put together to make a double album. Henley had his style, Fry was mostly love songs and ballads and throw a couple off the wall silly Walsh tracks. Oh and the one Timothy B Schmidt love song. And yes I have totally given up on a new Styx album. We can't even get one new song on a hits package. We get anther retread of a old song.

For a while they said they were going to release singles and not albums, but what would have been the last single? "Just Be?" When did that come out?

Toph wrote:For a while they said they were going to release singles and not albums, but what would have been the last single? "Just Be?" When did that come out?

By now it should be clear to everyone that there is no interest in putting out new material. An artist, I think it was Joe Walsh said that if all you do is go out and play your old stuff and don't play new music, you eventually become a caricature of yourself.

brywool wrote:Read Felder's book. It's awesome. In the book, yeah, he does talk about how he wrote HC. Also, I believe that he was wanting to sing it originally (I may have my Felder tunes/stories confused). After laying down the tracks, and I believe, Felder doing a rough vocal, the session ended. They went away for a few days and when they reconvened, Don Henley had recorded a lead vocal on it without telling Felder. I know that happened with one of his tracks (at least) and I think it was HC. Now, Felder really doesn't come across as bitter about that more than disappointed. He has glowing things to say about Henley as a singer (who wouldn't?).
It's a really good book and pretty much confirmed for me what a complete jerk Glen Frey is. Without Felder, The Eagles are music to get your teeth cleaned by. Seriously, their last album had absolutely NO fire to it. Even Walsh couldn't save it.

After watching "The History of The Eagles" I thought Glen Fry can be a real ass. It's clear to me that it eventually all came down to money. Like when they had their reunion and Glen said that he and Don H. demanded more money then the rest because "they kept the band;s music alive" because of their solo careers. As far as Felder goes I think it was Irving Azoff that said Felder seemed to have an unrealistic or pristine view of band democracy.

Toph wrote:

ztyxlynne wrote:The Eagles last album, Long Road out of Eden was good album, not great. It did however seem like a couple solo album's put together to make a double album. Henley had his style, Fry was mostly love songs and ballads and throw a couple off the wall silly Walsh tracks. Oh and the one Timothy B Schmidt love song. And yes I have totally given up on a new Styx album. We can't even get one new song on a hits package. We get anther retread of a old song.

For a while they said they were going to release singles and not albums, but what would have been the last single? "Just Be?" When did that come out?

"Just Be", 2006
"Everything All the Time", 2006
"All I Want", 2006
"Ring the Bells", 2006
"Can't Stop Rockin"" (with REO), 2009
"Difference In the World", 2010

Boomchild wrote:

Toph wrote:For a while they said they were going to release singles and not albums, but what would have been the last single? "Just Be?" When did that come out?

By now it should be clear to everyone that there is no interest in putting out new material. An artist, I think it was Joe Walsh said that if all you do is go out and play your old stuff and don't play new music, you eventually become a caricature of yourself.

Yeah, easy to critique...harder to do
http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/joe-walsh-23d6b8b7.html

Or, he's just a hypocrite.

Walsh released a album last year I think entitled Analog Man. Produced by Jeff Lynne. Decent album.

brywool the song where felder wanted to sing it and had done a rough vocal but left for lunch and came back with a henley vocal on it was actually "victim of love".

Monker wrote:

Toph wrote:

ztyxlynne wrote:The Eagles last album, Long Road out of Eden was good album, not great. It did however seem like a couple solo album's put together to make a double album. Henley had his style, Fry was mostly love songs and ballads and throw a couple off the wall silly Walsh tracks. Oh and the one Timothy B Schmidt love song. And yes I have totally given up on a new Styx album. We can't even get one new song on a hits package. We get anther retread of a old song.

For a while they said they were going to release singles and not albums, but what would have been the last single? "Just Be?" When did that come out?

"Just Be", 2006
"Everything All the Time", 2006
"All I Want", 2006
"Ring the Bells", 2006
"Can't Stop Rockin"" (with REO), 2009
"Difference In the World", 2010

OK so, its been 4 years since a new song. And hard to say that the REO and the 2 Christmas songs really count. So, I count 3 original new songs in 8+ years, 2 of which are ballads.

Toph wrote:OK so, its been 4 years since a new song. And hard to say that the REO and the 2 Christmas songs really count. So, I count 3 original new songs in 8+ years, 2 of which are ballads.

I could swear that was the type of material that Styx "wasn't about" and TS and JY wanted to get away from doing. Hmm.... that's odd.

Boomchild wrote:

Toph wrote:OK so, its been 4 years since a new song. And hard to say that the REO and the 2 Christmas songs really count. So, I count 3 original new songs in 8+ years, 2 of which are ballads.

I could swear that was the type of material that Styx "wasn't about" and TS and JY wanted to get away from doing. Hmm.... that's odd.

And, you two just proved the point I've been stating since almost the beginning.

it doesn't matter what Styx does, you'll find something to complain about. So, there is no point in trying to please you, or listening to your critique...it's very much irrelevant.