Strangest Styx Song Ever IMO

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Postby Everett » Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:10 pm

Karakota from the serpent album. Wonder where that came from???
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Re: Strangest Styx Song Ever IMO

Postby kissarmy » Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:55 pm

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
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Postby masque » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:28 am

i agree with both of those picks and the cool thing both from the same album.
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Postby classicstyxfan » Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:56 am

the burgeois ( sic ) Pig and Tenacious D tracks on Cyclorama are both right up there too....
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Re: Strangest Styx Song Ever IMO

Postby Toph » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:26 am

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....
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Postby KWH17 » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:51 am

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.
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Postby Blue Falcon » Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:21 am

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.
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Postby KWH17 » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:05 am

Another strange one [though I love it] is The Message. No lyrics, just sound, and it begs the question; what is the message?
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Postby Rockwriter » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:55 am

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.

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Postby bugsymalone » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:00 am

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.

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Postby froy » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:33 pm

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.


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That song is freaking awesome
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Postby Zan » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:17 pm

froy wrote:Your nuts



One of those instances when the use of a simple apostrophe would come in most handy.
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Postby pinkfloyd1973 » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:13 am

Zan wrote:
froy wrote:Your nuts



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



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Postby Toph » Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:52 am

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...
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Postby Everett » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:01 am

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. :)
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Postby Toph » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:58 am

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...
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Postby LtVanish » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:29 pm

High Time- is quite strange

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