Regeneration Vol. 1?

[RumTumJM]

Not sure what this is, but it definitely is some project that Styx is working on. This was a link on their Twitter account earlier today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bvR9TpUns

Could it be the re-record project?

[Everett]

Hopefully there will be at least a couple new tunes with this one, creepy commercial though

[brywool]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).
I know what a few of you think, but Cyclorama was such a great record. WHY wouldn't they follow it up with NEW music? Between Gowan and Shaw, you'd think they'd be able to do something good. Of course, Glenn isn't there and he's a major writer too.

I dunno. This band has had SO many live albums, and Shaw/Blades and Styx cover albums.... I can't stand it anymore. I LIKE those records, but I don't want that to be what Styx is all about.

[Toph]

Not sure what this is, but it definitely is some project that Styx is working on. This was a link on their Twitter account earlier today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bvR9TpUns

Could it be the re-record project?

Yet another way for the idiots to destroy whatever legacy is left from the Styx brand.

These guys are unbelievable and what record company in their right mind would want to produce this? Certainly a losing money proposition.

[Toph]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).

How many more versions of Blue Collar Man is the world dying to hear?

(Note - this is a song that didn't even hit the top 20 when it was released...in its heyday!!!)

[chickenbeef]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).

How many more versions of Blue Collar Man is the world dying to hear?

(Note - this is a song that didn't even hit the top 20 when it was released...in its heyday!!!)

don't follow charts you retard. charts are made up by the corporatins

[brywool]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).

How many more versions of Blue Collar Man is the world dying to hear?

(Note - this is a song that didn't even hit the top 20 when it was released...in its heyday!!!)

The re-do of BCM on the covers album... was terrible. The singers that were wailing all over it just sounded terrible to me... Way disappointed on this end.

[Bearded Clam]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

[brywool]

I'm thinking and hoping they'll reconsider and do an album of NEW music. Seriously- I can't buy more versions of the same songs. In fact, I won't this time. I've got all the live albums, why would I need to hear and buy them again? If we're talking remasters in 5.1, that's different, but I'd rather have those with the original band. Nothing against Gowan (WHO I LIKE). I want NEW music from Styx.

God, doesn't anybody else???

Just so we're straight here... I RARELY dog Styx. I love the band in both versions. But the creativity of the band is what I dig and re-recording their own songs just feels wrong to me. With Journey (to digress for a sec) they had to do that in order to get new music out and I believe they had more to prove because of AP. But Styx should not have to do this. It's been the same lineup for a good number of years now. They've played everywhere on the globe and so they have nothing more to prove- OTHER THAN they're still creative.
I don't feel I'm slamming them in any way here...

[Everett]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

[brywool]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

I'm not sure HOW this can look like a money maker to Styx. Honestly- anybody that wants to hear "Come Sail Away" will pick up Grand Illusion, Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, The box set thing (I didn't buy that either), or one of the other live albums it's on. HARD CORE STYX FANS (Definition: Those that've followed the band through all the changes and bought their albums religiously) would WANT to hear NEW tunes, wouldn't they? I mean, Froy and guys like him wouldn't, but I think that's the minority.

God, what if it's a "This Left Feels Right" kind of thing??? Oh, the HORROR....
If it's just re-recording the songs, what's the point of that???
Maybe I'm just speculating too much...

[Toph]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

I'm not sure HOW this can look like a money maker to Styx. Honestly- anybody that wants to hear "Come Sail Away" will pick up Grand Illusion, Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, The box set thing (I didn't buy that either), or one of the other live albums it's on. HARD CORE STYX FANS (Definition: Those that've followed the band through all the changes and bought their albums religiously) would WANT to hear NEW tunes, wouldn't they? I mean, Froy and guys like him wouldn't, but I think that's the minority.

God, what if it's a "This Left Feels Right" kind of thing??? Oh, the HORROR....
If it's just re-recording the songs, what's the point of that???
Maybe I'm just speculating too much...

Three plus reasons

1. They have absolutely no creative energy left whatsoever and need something in the marketplace
2. They want to continue their now decade long obsession with removing all influence of Dennis DeYoung from the band's history
2a. In conjunction with point #2, if they rerecord the songs and use those for promotion/advertising of other products, do they get to stop paying Dennis any share?
3. They think fans really are bathwater drinkers and will pay for any crap that they put out there just because it has the Styx logo on it.

[Toph]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).

How many more versions of Blue Collar Man is the world dying to hear?

(Note - this is a song that didn't even hit the top 20 when it was released...in its heyday!!!)

don't follow charts you retard. charts are made up by the corporatins

Andrew - this guy has more than outlived his welcome. He's a troll. Can you please intervene?

[chickenbeef]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

I'm not sure HOW this can look like a money maker to Styx. Honestly- anybody that wants to hear "Come Sail Away" will pick up Grand Illusion, Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, The box set thing (I didn't buy that either), or one of the other live albums it's on. HARD CORE STYX FANS (Definition: Those that've followed the band through all the changes and bought their albums religiously) would WANT to hear NEW tunes, wouldn't they? I mean, Froy and guys like him wouldn't, but I think that's the minority.

God, what if it's a "This Left Feels Right" kind of thing??? Oh, the HORROR....
If it's just re-recording the songs, what's the point of that???
Maybe I'm just speculating too much...

Three plus reasons

1. They have absolutely no creative energy left whatsoever and need something in the marketplace
2. They want to continue their now decade long obsession with removing all influence of Dennis DeYoung from the band's history
2a. In conjunction with point #2, if they rerecord the songs and use those for promotion/advertising of other products, do they get to stop paying Dennis any share?
3. They think fans really are bathwater drinkers and will pay for any crap that they put out there just because it has the Styx logo on it.

or they are now better players and singers and want to record their songs with a proper production

[Toph]

Let me guess the songs....

Blue Collar Man
Miss America
Renegade
Grand Illusion
Come Sail Away
Too Much Time On My Hands (only song post 1978)
Foolin Yourself
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
That new song - Difference In The World
Lady (maybe)

[Toph]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

I'm not sure HOW this can look like a money maker to Styx. Honestly- anybody that wants to hear "Come Sail Away" will pick up Grand Illusion, Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, The box set thing (I didn't buy that either), or one of the other live albums it's on. HARD CORE STYX FANS (Definition: Those that've followed the band through all the changes and bought their albums religiously) would WANT to hear NEW tunes, wouldn't they? I mean, Froy and guys like him wouldn't, but I think that's the minority.

God, what if it's a "This Left Feels Right" kind of thing??? Oh, the HORROR....
If it's just re-recording the songs, what's the point of that???
Maybe I'm just speculating too much...

Three plus reasons

1. They have absolutely no creative energy left whatsoever and need something in the marketplace
2. They want to continue their now decade long obsession with removing all influence of Dennis DeYoung from the band's history
2a. In conjunction with point #2, if they rerecord the songs and use those for promotion/advertising of other products, do they get to stop paying Dennis any share?
3. They think fans really are bathwater drinkers and will pay for any crap that they put out there just because it has the Styx logo on it.

or they are now better players and singers and want to record their songs with a proper production

Done responding to you. You'll hopefully be gone soon enough.

[brywool]

Does anyone in the band ever browse this forum? If so:

What the Fuck are you guys thinking?!!???!

Simple $$$

I'm not sure HOW this can look like a money maker to Styx. Honestly- anybody that wants to hear "Come Sail Away" will pick up Grand Illusion, Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, The box set thing (I didn't buy that either), or one of the other live albums it's on. HARD CORE STYX FANS (Definition: Those that've followed the band through all the changes and bought their albums religiously) would WANT to hear NEW tunes, wouldn't they? I mean, Froy and guys like him wouldn't, but I think that's the minority.

God, what if it's a "This Left Feels Right" kind of thing??? Oh, the HORROR....
If it's just re-recording the songs, what's the point of that???
Maybe I'm just speculating too much...

Three plus reasons

1. They have absolutely no creative energy left whatsoever and need something in the marketplace
2. They want to continue their now decade long obsession with removing all influence of Dennis DeYoung from the band's history
2a. In conjunction with point #2, if they rerecord the songs and use those for promotion/advertising of other products, do they get to stop paying Dennis any share?
3. They think fans really are bathwater drinkers and will pay for any crap that they put out there just because it has the Styx logo on it.

I don't buy item 2 or 3, other than they'll be able to use the new tracks for promotion. That makes sense, since I don't think they can use the original Dennis tracks.
The 'creative energy' item is what I worry about the most. Tommy's a great song writer. Gowan's a great song writer. Maybe they're touring so much that they're too burned out to be able to get the creativity going?? I dunno. Geez, take some time off and write some new songs. I can't imagine being in a band like that and being condemned to playing the same songs night after night after night after night...
As much as a TS fan as I am, I'm starting to worry that something's up with the guy. He didn't write new stuff with Jack and he hasn't written much new Styx stuff for a long time. That points to writer's block.
I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into it and it's strictly about $$$.

[chickenbeef]

I'm thinking and hoping they'll reconsider and do an album of NEW music. Seriously- I can't buy more versions of the same songs. In fact, I won't this time. I've got all the live albums, why would I need to hear and buy them again? If we're talking remasters in 5.1, that's different, but I'd rather have those with the original band. Nothing against Gowan (WHO I LIKE). I want NEW music from Styx.

God, doesn't anybody else???

Just so we're straight here... I RARELY dog Styx. I love the band in both versions. But the creativity of the band is what I dig and re-recording their own songs just feels wrong to me. With Journey (to digress for a sec) they had to do that in order to get new music out and I believe they had more to prove because of AP. But Styx should not have to do this. It's been the same lineup for a good number of years now. They've played everywhere on the globe and so they have nothing more to prove- OTHER THAN they're still creative.
I don't feel I'm slamming them in any way here...

they just released a new song. did you forget about it already??? did you notice that it said Volume 1???? what they'll do is re-record a a series (volumes) spanning their whole career and also towards the end of the series they will have cds of all new stuff.

[Ash]

Dennis gets paid if they use his songs. Period. If they re-record his songs, Dennis gets royalties.

So let them re-record Dennis' songs... he'll get the money for them.

At this point, they should call it "Regurgitation, volume none"

[brywool]

I'm thinking and hoping they'll reconsider and do an album of NEW music. Seriously- I can't buy more versions of the same songs. In fact, I won't this time. I've got all the live albums, why would I need to hear and buy them again? If we're talking remasters in 5.1, that's different, but I'd rather have those with the original band. Nothing against Gowan (WHO I LIKE). I want NEW music from Styx.

God, doesn't anybody else???

Just so we're straight here... I RARELY dog Styx. I love the band in both versions. But the creativity of the band is what I dig and re-recording their own songs just feels wrong to me. With Journey (to digress for a sec) they had to do that in order to get new music out and I believe they had more to prove because of AP. But Styx should not have to do this. It's been the same lineup for a good number of years now. They've played everywhere on the globe and so they have nothing more to prove- OTHER THAN they're still creative.
I don't feel I'm slamming them in any way here...

they just released a new song. did you forget about it already??? did you notice that it said Volume 1???? what they'll do is re-record a a series (volumes) spanning their whole career and also towards the end of the series they will have cds of all new stuff.

oooh, yeah, that makes it much more easy to swalllow..... NOT.
Also, if you looked at the video, it was "You've heard the songs before, but not like this". I'm not interested in hearing the songs another way unless it's 5.1, but those'd be remasters/remixes, not a new album.

[DerriD]

So recording new music for established artists is too expensive to justify doing it? That seems to be the established reasoning for not releasing songs direct to digital.

Yet, here we go rehashing the same songs...again...

All this talent and the best they can do is rerecord/rearrange the hits?

There are 2 reasons for this new 'collection' that I can think of.

1. They really have no creative juice left. Really? JY, Tommy AND Larry are all done? doubt it.

2. The record company will not back a record that doesn't have enough recognizable material on it to allow some new songs on it. If that's the case, just record an entire new album as disc 2.

Wal-Mart has done great with that. Kiss-Sonic Boom Journey-Revelation Foreigner-Can't Slow Down. All of these albums had rerecorded hits, an all new album and a DVD. Works for the fans, works for the artist.

[Everett]

I stick with what i have stated this may be new recordings but that maybe a part of a box set so they may have this along with a disc of new material ala journey.

[Babyblue]

Not sure what this is, but it definitely is some project that Styx is working on. This was a link on their Twitter account earlier today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bvR9TpUns

Could it be the re-record project?

What the hey i felt like in was in the TV "LOST" I do love that show i will miss it.Rats! I really do hope for new music. I do have theBig Bang Theory and love it.Also have the CD & DVD of CYO love it That is when i frist saw Gowan & fliped out over him.What a wild man he is.

[bugsymalone]

So recording new music for established artists is too expensive to justify doing it? That seems to be the established reasoning for not releasing songs direct to digital.

Yet, here we go rehashing the same songs...again...

All this talent and the best they can do is rerecord/rearrange the hits?

There are 2 reasons for this new 'collection' that I can think of.

1. They really have no creative juice left. Really? JY, Tommy AND Larry are all done? doubt it.

2. The record company will not back a record that doesn't have enough recognizable material on it to allow some new songs on it. If that's the case, just record an entire new album as disc 2.

Wal-Mart has done great with that. Kiss-Sonic Boom Journey-Revelation Foreigner-Can't Slow Down. All of these albums had rerecorded hits, an all new album and a DVD. Works for the fans, works for the artist.

This is probably as close to the truth of the matter until we actually know it.

Thinking there may be re-recordings of classic songs sung originally by DDY makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Agreeing with Ash's assessment above.


Bugsy

[Bearded Clam]

I stick with what i have stated this may be new recordings but that maybe a part of a box set so they may have this along with a disc of new material ala journey.

So you are Chickenbeef then

[Everett]

I stick with what i have stated this may be new recordings but that maybe a part of a box set so they may have this along with a disc of new material ala journey.

So you are Chickenbeef then

I'm also froy/toph/yogi

[froy]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).
I know what a few of you think, but Cyclorama was such a great record. WHY wouldn't they follow it up with NEW music? Between Gowan and Shaw, you'd think they'd be able to do something good. Of course, Glenn isn't there and he's a major writer too.

I dunno. This band has had SO many live albums, and Shaw/Blades and Styx cover albums.... I can't stand it anymore. I LIKE those records, but I don't want that to be what Styx is all about.

Bry Now you know why Im here , STYX has been ruined and now if they pull this shit off I will really be pissed
Blame the dumb ass manager for this one,

[Babyblue]

I stick with what i have stated this may be new recordings but that maybe a part of a box set so they may have this along with a disc of new material ala journey.

So you are Chickenbeef then

I'm also froy/toph/yogi

He is also Babyblue as well.

[Babyblue]

PLEASE DEAR GOD DON'T LET THIS BE RE-RECORDED HITS...

WTF?????


Note to bands- STOP RE-RECORDING YOUR OWN TUNES. STOP MAKING COVER ALBUMS. MAKE NEW MUSIC.

Is anyone else sick of this trend????

If it's re-records and no new music, I will be done with Styx. (Never thought I'd say that).
I know what a few of you think, but Cyclorama was such a great record. WHY wouldn't they follow it up with NEW music? Between Gowan and Shaw, you'd think they'd be able to do something good. Of course, Glenn isn't there and he's a major writer too.

I dunno. This band has had SO many live albums, and Shaw/Blades and Styx cover albums.... I can't stand it anymore. I LIKE those records, but I don't want that to be what Styx is all about.

Bry Now you know why Im here , STYX has been ruined and now if they pull this shit off I will really be pissed
Blame the dumb ass manager for this one,

I will be praying like crazy Froy.I would love to see mud on your face. Oh if & when it works will you say you like Gowan????????????????

[froy]

Not sure what this is, but it definitely is some project that Styx is working on. This was a link on their Twitter account earlier today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bvR9TpUns

Could it be the re-record project?

What ever it is I am sure it's going to fail. They are done as far as creating anything new. They would rather have a kiss ass like Gowan in the band
instead of having the leader and real talent Dennis back to try and get it rolling again. Im done with these copy cat bands like STYX JRNY Supertramp Foreigner Boston and REO who are all warshed up and are just collecting pay checks , Sorry fellas Im not buying any of it. Im just glad I saw so many of the real shows a back in the day.