What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[litfan10]

Private Eyes - Hall & Oats

8-track just clicked to a new song

Bad Moon Rising - CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

8-track?!?!?!?
Well let's just dust off the reel to reel shall we.

For some reason I was in a very mellow phase when I had my eight track player. We're talking Dan Fogelburg, Barry Manilow and ABBA.
Those were the days.

 

[litfan10]

Common Ground

Big Big Train

 

[ElectricBlue]

Private Eyes - Hall & Oats

8-track just clicked to a new song

Bad Moon Rising - CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

That's dedication to a cause, still using the 8 track. How streeeetched are those tapes?

 

[RichardWark]

Baroque - in a classical mood tonight

 

[MetaBob]

Kokomo - The Beach Boys

No.

Private Eyes - Hall & Oates

Dammit, now that song is in my head! I don't even remember what had previously been there, except ...

Bad Moon Rising - CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Yes!

Now I remember:

Simple Dreams - Linda Ronstadt

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Brick House - Commodores

click

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

 

[Handley_Page]

Eagles - Seven Bridges Road

 

[Zeb_Carter]

La Bel Age - Pat Benatar

 

[Blind_Justice]

Got the new issue of "Deaf Forever" in the mail today. Gonna check out some of the new releases, among them the new Iron Maiden record. Also in the news: Styx released a new album, as did Neal Morse.

 

[litfan10]

Got the new issue of "Deaf Forever" in the mail today. Gonna check out some of the new releases, among them the new Iron Maiden record. Also in the news: Styx released a new album, as did Neal Morse.

hey B_J! Hope you and your lady love are doing okay.

Neal Morse comes out end of month and looks great - I am very excited.

I love Styx - have all their albums up to Kilroy, saw them in concert on the Paradise Theater tour. Their last album Mission was about the best thing they've done post DeYoung until this new one. It is quite good.

Incidentally, DeYoung also just released his last album which is really, really good.

I enjoyed the new Iron Maiden but they are getting very samey for me.

I am looking forward to the new Rob Zombie, what I've heard I like a lot.

Be safe, be well. Thinking about you my friend!

 

[Haulover]

Common Ground

Big Big Train

I'll end up getting this. They've never really "clicked" for me, but I'll keep trying

Got the new issue of "Deaf Forever" in the mail today. Gonna check out some of the new releases, among them the new Iron Maiden record. Also in the news: Styx released a new album, as did Neal Morse.

hey B_J! Hope you and your lady love are doing okay.

Neal Morse comes out end of month and looks great - I am very excited.

I love Styx - have all their albums up to Kilroy, saw them in concert on the Paradise Theater tour. Their last album Mission was about the best thing they've done post DeYoung until this new one. It is quite good.

Incidentally, DeYoung also just released his last album which is really, really good.

I enjoyed the new Iron Maiden but they are getting very samey for me.

I am looking forward to the new Rob Zombie, what I've heard I like a lot.

Be safe, be well. Thinking about you my friend!

I'm beginning to think that all of Neal Morse's albums all sound the same. But I'll give the new one a try.

A new Iron Maiden sounds interesting!!

I've never been excited by Styx. How does the the DeYoung solo differ from Styx's usual output?

 

[litfan10]

I'm beginning to think that all of Neal Morse's albums all sound the same. But I'll give the new one a try.

Neal Morse definitely has a fixed style;however, that being said this album is different. For the first time the band came together in Morse's studio in Tennessee and Morse had nothing prepared. He always comes in with demos, full songs and snippets enough for five or six albums. Not this time. For the music keyboardist Bill Haubner and bassist Randy George provided the lion's share of the composition. To acknowledge this the band changed its name from the Neal Morse Band to NMB. They wanted a total name change but their label (Inside Out) had a hissy so they settled on NMB. The album is a double with the first being Innocence and filled with shorter songs while the second being Danger and made up of two long epics.

I've never been excited by Styx. How does the the DeYoung solo differ from Styx's usual output?

DeYoung is a bit more complex and ballady. Styx post DeYoung is firmly led by Tommy Shaw and much more of a rock band (think Night Ranger.). The new album is the closest they have come to the old pop/prog sound of the DeYoung Styx.

DeYoung's final album as he has publicly retired ( "I'm seventy - I'm old and lazy - I'm done, this is too much work." ) is very much old style Styx, to the point he uses parts of the old songs or references lyrics in his new compositions and it sounds great. He even has Tony Morello play guitar on a song. He clearly wanted to go out with a bang and did it.

Of course this is all my opinion.

 

[jaF0]

Styx struck as just another band with the singer screaming like a little girl.

 

[litfan10]

Flown - Dim Gray

new prog trio out of Oslo, Norway. Reminds me in a very good way of a very produced Pineapple Thief.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Styx struck as just another band with the singer screaming like a little girl.

I've recently listened through most of Styx's back catalogue and screaming was not on the menu. Mixed up your classic rock somewhere? Even at their worst ("Kilroy was here"), the biggest crime Styx committed was being oily and/or cheesy. Not as bad as Journey at their schlockiest though...

 

[jaF0]

No screaming in Grand Illusion?

 

[litfan10]

No screaming in Grand Illusion?

The big thing that comes to my mind is at the beginning of "Borrowed Time" off the Cornerstone album is DeYoung yelling "Don't look now but here comes the eighties."

Styx had three lead vocalists: DeYoung and Shaw who could hit the higher register and James Young who had a deeper, growly voice as on "Miss America" from Grand Illusion.

DeYoung's replacement Larry Gowan has a slightly higher register than DeYoung. After Neil Peart died Gowan did a solo part during concerts playing and singing Rush's Limelight doing a passable Geddy Lee.

 

[litfan10]

Room 101

Karmamoi

newish album inspired by George Orwell's 1984.

 

[litfan10]

I've recently listened through most of Styx's back catalogue and screaming was not on the menu. Mixed up your classic rock somewhere? Even at their worst ("Kilroy was here"), the biggest crime Styx committed was being oily and/or cheesy. Not as bad as Journey at their schlockiest though...

I find Styx is fun to binge the catalogue as they have very distinct periods - the Wooden Nickel (their first label) years is straight on prog which segued to more Rock/prog like Grand Illusion next a more poppy sound culminating in Kilroy then I don't know what they were trying to do when Shaw kept quitting then rejoining while DeYoung went solo followed by DeYoung getting fired and Styx became a Tommy Shaw rock band. Crash of the Crown tries to be a return to old Styx from the Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Cornerstone years.

 

[jaF0]

I don't pay too much attention to names, I just feel too many of them sound like the guy in Europe.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

No screaming in Grand Illusion?

Styx screaming? Not on any of my 8tracks they aren't...

Blue Collar Man
Lady
Lorelei
Too Much Time on my Hands
Come Sail Away
The Best of Times
Renegade
Fooling Yourself

All lovely rock songs.

 

[litfan10]

I don't pay too much attention to names, I just feel too many of them sound like the guy in Europe.

Great....now I have "the Final Countdown" going on my head.....

For me Europe falls in the niche of European Harder Pop Rock like Scorpions and Michael Schenker and such with Europe definitely the weakest of the pack. In America this was Whitesnake to me.

Styx was a tougher band to label as DeYoung pushed them towards a more Kansas vibe and Shaw pushed towards a more Night Ranger, Damn Yankees vibe.

 

[litfan10]

Man, thinking about it the mid seventies were magic:

Styx - Grand Illusion

Kansas - Leftoverature and Point of Know Return

Queen - Night at the Opera

Mccartney - Band on the Run

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here and The Wall in the Horizon

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

ELO - Out of the Blue

Boston - Boston

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

All of these came out in a four year period with the majority in 1977. That was a great time to be alive listening to music

 

[litfan10]

Styx screaming? Not on any of my 8tracks they aren't...

Blue Collar Man
Lady
Lorelei
Too Much Time on my Hands
Come Sail Away
The Best of Times
Renegade
Fooling Yourself

All lovely rock songs.

No question - Styx had an amazing catalog. Why aren't they in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

 

[jaF0]

Man, thinking about it the mid seventies were magic:

Styx - Grand Illusion

Kansas - Leftoverature and Point of Know Return



Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here and The Wall in the Horizon

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

ELO - Out of the Blue

Boston - Boston

I have all of those on LP.