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ChicagoSTYX wrote:The Daily Herald
Styx, "Big Bang Theory"
Styx jumps into the popular fray of covers worship with 14 intriguing remakes on this new CD -- which hits store shelves Tuesday. Generally speaking, the most successful cover tunes are the ones that not only pay homage to the original but also take it somewhere new.
Indeed, the ultimate compliment one can bestow on a cover is to actually prefer it over the original recording -- no small feat. "Big Bang Theory" is a success on both fronts. "I Am the Walrus" and "Locomotive Breath," by the Beatles and Jethro Tull respectively, never really did anything for me before, but I find myself wearing these inventive remakes out on the new disc. Other highlights include "I Don't Need No Doctor," "Summer in the City" and "Manic Depression." The song that really knocks my socks off though -- I must literally listen to it barefoot -- is "Wishing Well," a Free song that's made me a slave to its grind. Styx even tackles one of its own classics, offering a tasty blues version of "Blue Collar Man." Goo goo g'joob.
-- Doug Fox
ek88 wrote:To me its a total downgrade.
So you've actually listened to it in its entirety? Then, and only then, I MIGHT view your opinion with a bit of credibility.
yogi wrote:Froy,
Wake the hell up. EVERYONE is doing covers Ask Metallica, Guns,Rod.... the list keeps growing& growing & growing...............
Abitaman wrote:FROY- what is wrong with a band doing covers? Is it because it is Styx or a band?-ERIC
The local band Hi Infidelity does great covers they play at the local bars here week after week , Should we start talking about there covers ?
I careless what it sounds like
Please talk to me when they sell a cd that sells at least 500 thousand units
ek88 wrote:The local band Hi Infidelity does great covers they play at the local bars here week after week , Should we start talking about there covers ?
If they have a forum (or forums) somewhere, by all means.
They are a bunch of kids in the area and according to you there the same as STYX,I careless what it sounds like
If you truly care less, then what's the reasoning behind labeling it a downgrade?
Any band that does an entire cd of covers is down grading themselves
That 's the fact jack
They should have waited and come out with there own material.Please talk to me when they sell a cd that sells at least 500 thousand units
Why is it so important how much it sells?
Because a band with the same name STYX sold multi platinum for many years and now they can't even sell 100 K but they advertise themselves as if its the same damm band
Thats WHY.Did you not buy a Styx album or listen to them before they sold 500,000?
NODo you not own the Wooden Nickel albums that didn't go gold?
Yea I bought them after hearing GIDo you not own Brave New World?
No Its in the garbageDo you not own any of DDY's solo albums?
I own Shaw solo cds and none of them sold but thats not a band its a solo artist big difference
I was misled by many of your posts into thinking you were a diehard fan dating back to their roots.
I saw the STYX BTO show in 75 but I did not buy anything till GI .Apparently, you're just a bandwagon fan that jumped on after they started going multiplatinum
No I started loving them after hearing Come Sail Away and I will be dammed if I would ever listen to anyone as bad as Gowan ruin my memories of that song
Monker wrote:No I started loving them after hearing Come Sail Away and I will be dammed if I would ever listen to anyone as bad as Gowan ruin my memories of that song
Ya know, it's sad that people actualy believe that their memories can be changed by someone other then the person they want singing a song.
Oh, well.
ChicagoSTYX wrote:I have many good memories of seeing Styx both with Dennis and without him. All good!
Btw Froy, I was also at the Styx BTO show at the Chicago Stadium.
froy wrote:
Yea everyone is
U2
The Stones
Paul McCartney
Elton John
John Mellencamp
John Fogerty
Journey
Fleetwood Mac
Yea there all doing them
Fact is the only ones doing them are the washed up artists
Like Styx Guns Metallica and Rod Stewart
We'll just have to agree to disagree here.Any band that does an entire cd of covers is down grading themselves
they advertise themselves as if its the same damm band
For me personally, I'd say they're the same in that they still put on a quality live show (IMO) and their last studio album (Cyclo) was a step back in the direction of older Styx music that I enjoy. I think they are different in that they lost a tremendously gifted vocalist and songwriter in Dennis. (However, his songwriting went downhill after Paradise Theater, in my opinion).They are a bunch of kids in the area and according to you there the same as STYX,
What's your take on EOTC and Dennis' recent live album. Are they both crap for not going multi platinum? Just wondering.Because a band with the same name STYX sold multi platinum for many years
Well, that's probably a good thing. You seem to be a big Father O.S.A. fan. If not for the multi platinum albums, you may have never heard that song.Yea I bought them after hearing GI
I think they are different in that they lost a tremendously gifted vocalist and songwriter in Dennis. (However, his songwriting went downhill after Paradise Theater, in my opinion).
What's your take on EOTC and Dennis' recent live album. Are they both crap for not going multi platinum? Just wondering.Because a band with the same name STYX sold multi platinum for many years
[/quote]Well, that's probably a good thing. You seem to be a big Father O.S.A. fan. If not for the multi platinum albums, you may have never heard that song.Yea I bought them after hearing GI
froy wrote:My take on EDGE is it was not a STYX cd so not going platinum is fine
To let Burtnick in and to let him have so much control was crazy
I like Dennis's songs on EDGE but the rest I can live without,
As far as Dennis's new cd how can it go platinum its a live cd
I think only Framptons did that
ItsMyLife wrote:froy wrote:My take on EDGE is it was not a STYX cd so not going platinum is fine
To let Burtnick in and to let him have so much control was crazy
I like Dennis's songs on EDGE but the rest I can live without,
As far as Dennis's new cd how can it go platinum its a live cd
I think only Framptons did that
Wrong. There have been a zillion live albums to go platinum.
"Framptom Comes Alive" was just one of the first, if not the first, double live album to go multi-platinum.
Kiss "Alive!" soon followed and went multiplatinum also and broke them into the bigtime.
froy wrote:So there was 2 big deal
Bottom line live cds dont go platinum compared to studio cds
Then take a solo artist and try to find one
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