Okay, I'm going to go on a limb here and say -

[BigMcLargehuge]

Too Much Time on My Hands, nay, the entire Paradise Theater album, by Styx is just about worst rock and roll single/album/experience ever.

:thumbsdown:

Can't believe I used to listen to this disco/softrock dreck over and over and over again as a wee lad and thought it was cool. And that goes double for Kilroy was Here (but that one sort of sucked right out of the gate so it's not as bad as Paradise Theater).

[underpants]

1. Mmmm I am going to have to stick with "Boston" on that one

Granted Paradise Lost was horrible but I have to give it to Boston for not only being not that new or interesting even at the time but its longevity of still not being new interesting or worthplaying anywhere but yet there it is to kill yet a few more minutes in our minds before our pod is unplugged.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. I actually like the first Boston record... even now

The production still impresses me, and it's what, 30 years later? There are some wicked duds on Boston though, but the good tracks overshadow them.

Assuming you have vinyl, it's better listening to the stylus running across the paper label of Paradise Theater for 20 minutes a side than to listen to the actual album itself.

[Deep13]

28. I have vinyl, BUT ...

it is the record club version without the laser etching on the B side. :(

[matcom]

3. ah but i still listen to Grand Illusion

for some reason it never grows old for me that one

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. Grand Illusion and Cornerstone are both decent albums

but Paradise Theater man... Jeez... Wuss Rock of the lowest order.

[matcom]

5. looking back on it MAYBE but..

at the time the concept was pretty cool (still think that today) although it never moved me like Grand Illusion or Cornerstone.

Kilroy was a travesty

[ReadTomPaine]

8. I'd have to agree with Matcom on this one.

Context is a big part of the music, esp if you were alive at the time.

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. I was alive at the time

I was 12 when it was released. It still sucks.

[Deep13]

31. I was 12 too.

I lived on the Oxford side of Rochdale then.

[asthmaticeog]

6. Tonight's the niiiiiiight we'll make hiiiiiiiiiiistory...

:puke:

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. Even Barry Manilow and Terry Jacks were looking to kick

Dennis DeYoung's ass for invading their turf with that one. (John Denver would have stood at the alley mouth to watch for the fuzz.)

[Deep13]

29. Terry Jacks?!

The legendary most disturbing singer ever? GOod bYE to YOU my TRustED FRIEnd ....

Hey, Dever kicked ass! He sang from the heart. Saw him once walking around Boston (the city, not the band.)

[Ron Mexico]

7. Perhaps you missed Van Halen's "Diver Down."

About 29 minutes, four or five covers. That was the worst screwing I ever took from a rock band and I never bought another album of theirs again.

[matcom]

9. LMAO!

Diver Down is up there with Kilroy :rofl:

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. All of Ham Halen sucks though

though it sucked more with each successive new singer.

[matcom]

13. Van Haled 1 kicked ASS

they should have stopped there

[StopTheMorans]

14. seems like there used to be more VH posts in the lounge, i wonder

where they've all gone :shrug:

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. they went the way of Michael Anthony's astounding bass work...

duum duum duum duum... repeat FOREVER.

[matcom]

17. heh. i remember when i saw them in concert

fucker had a Jack Daniels bass AND drank about a fifth of JD on stage. Eddie's 40 minute fucking 'solo' (he actually sat down on the stage) during Eruption had me wishing i was anywhere else :eyes:

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. I saw them live too in Worcester (WOOSTAH)

and same thing... except I fell asleep half way through the solo and woke up to "Goodnight Drive Safely!"

Of course this was Van Hagar... I saw DLR later the same year when he had Vai in his lineup at the Providence Civic Center and man did he rock!

[Deep13]

23. Hey, I'm from Worcester.

Actually, Leicester (LESS-tah) just to the west on Rt.9. I moved to the Mississippi of the North in 1991.

BTW: Calgon, blow me away!

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. I've only seen a few shows in Worcester

Ham Halen, Motley Crue and Warrant (girlfriend loved them) and Whitesnake.

Nice town.

[Deep13]

36. Jesus! You should have gotten combat pay for that!

[tigereye]

37. my dad is from Woostah

we used to go there to visit my grandparents in Auburn in the summer when I was a kid.

[Ron Mexico]

21. The fourth album was good, too, and I loved

the guitar work on "Women and Children First" ("Take Your Whiskey Home" was a kickass tune). I can't remember the name of the fourth album, but it's the one with "Unchained" on it.

All things considered, three of the first four albums were well worth owning. The second one blew goat.

[matcom]

22. Ah, forgot about Women and Children First

and you are correct. that album DID rock. my bad.

[Deep13]

30. Van Headache

Yep, most wince-provoking guitar ever.

[DS1]

16. IIIII'M SAILINNNG AWAY...

come on, finish it :D

[matcom]

18. wrong album

but thanks for playing :eyes:
















































:D

[DS1]

20. set an open course for the virgin sea

asshole

[Deep13]

24. I've got to be free...

[DS1]

25. free to face the life that’s ahead of me

[Deep13]

32. on board I'm the captain, so climb aboard...

Go ahead, Cartman, finish it!

[DS1]

34. it’s hard to believe such a ca-la-mi-ty

Iiiii’ve got too much :applause: :applause: time on my hands and it’s ticking away from me

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Actually Too Much TIme on My Hands and Crystal Ball are the only

two Styx songs I can even tolerate. I'll take Tommy Shaw's stuff over Dennis De Young's crap anyday...and the guitar lead in too much time is decent

[Deep13]

27. I respectfully dissent.

As so-called 'soft rock' goes, it is pretty well done. If you don't like disco-esque pop music, you won't like Paradise Theater. Kilroy, on the other hand, was a musical suppository right out of the gate. They should have saved the B side for their apology.

[no name no slogan]

33. I agree-- and I have that one on vinyl somewhere

the version with the "laser etching" hologram on side two of the LP. I've listened to it as an adult, and I still wonder what I could have ever seen in it. bleah.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Dude, if yer gonna dis STYX, you gotta start with Mr. Roboto

Paradise Theater is fucking GENIUS copared to that piece of shit.

Mr. Roboto is about the worst thing ever produced.

[last_texas_dem]

39. "Too Much Time on My Hands" is good

That's actually one of the songs I would consider playing to a Styx-hater to prove to them that not all Styx is bad. (My top choice would probably be "Queen of Spades" or mostly anything off of Pieces of Eight.) I will agree with most that Kilroy Was Here is nothing great, but I think Paradise Theatre is alright. "Nothing Ever Goes as Planned" was a good non-hit single, and "The Best of Times" is cheesy but powerful.