Dennis was the main principal writer at this point. JY could bang out an occasional winner and was a great collaborator for Dennis and Tommy was busy getting high. Plus Dennis was the de-facto producer, which is not a popular job sometimes. By the time of "Kilroy," MTV was big and these aging bands had to fight back. This was Styx's MTV moment. Maybe not the caliber of "Paradise Theater," but definitely their last big album. It's a shame we didn't see how they'd have followed "Kilroy" up.
Although a trifle overdone as regards the concept presentation, the subject matter is really good. You couldn't have Styx without the theatrics, could you? Music is what matters. Although sometimes a bit too ambitious (the American way, as they own up), it's always well executed and when it comes to rocking, well, these guys kick ass, never mind the Roboto costumes. Thank you Styx. By the way, 7 people need to be poisoned... with heavy metal (like lead, for example!)
@tjrtherocksponge Do you know if there were still drug abuse issues during the 1988-89 timeframe with guys like Tommy and JY? I know Nuge claims to not condone drug use but i've not read anything about how he'd fair working with those kind of guys. On one hand he might care, if he really cares about drug use; But on the other i suppose he might not if it wasn't affecting the way Tommy worked.
@tjrtherocksponge That's both interesting and sad to me. I guess it just comes with the territory. Probably not good to just assume, but i do generally assume many bands during the 70's-80's timeframe (Styx, Foreigner, The Cars, Journey, Chicago, Queen, ELO, AC/DC, KISS, ect) were in mild-to-heavy drug and alcohol abuse at the time, though most would deny it anyway. I'd say it's probably true Dennis wasn't abusing anything around his wife or kids. He seems to be an honest family man.
@Supertron5000 Depends on the members too, obviously. Like in the case of KISS, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss were abusing drugs heavily but Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley weren't. That's one reason why the post-makeup/costume reforming of the group in the early 80s didn't include Frehley or Criss.
@danning1 That's quite interesting. The KISS "unmasked" era lasted quite awhile; Especially in music years. Something like 1982/83-1992. I could be wrong; They could've got painted back up in-between i guess; But they were without paint in the "Forever" video from 1991. DeYoung seems to take his family and faith seriously. I can't imagine him doing drugs or drinking of any kind; Infront of his family atleast, which is all that really matters. Even the worst drunk/junkie can give that courtesy.
@MrBatatari Not just censorship; It's a tale about what happens when all the bad things about government and censorship are amplified; All the bad/restricting things about the world all wrapped up. I don't think it's their initial reference; But alot of things about Righteous and his cronies resemble Hitler and his Nazi party and their campaign to eradicate things they hate, while caging human beings like animals and worse.
I like to think Doc Righteous was, himself, a rock star once. It adds irony IMO that Righteous was once a musician similar to Kilroy, but over time he went mad for whatever reason; And rejected rock and the rocker lifestyle. When that wasn't enough he forced everyone to see it his way by... Taking over America, or the whole world somehow...
to answer your question Meangreen, the answer is no...Tommy & JY didn't like Kilroy and Tommy medicated himself during this tour and quit Styx after the tour was finished in 1984...........
It DOEN'T MATTER... WHO ENJOYED MAKING THE ALBUM!!!!!!!!!"Kilroy was here" was Styx most successful venture. Dennis DeYoung is brilliant and Tommy Shaw capitulated.
@Pbirv That was teh point...and if you didn't get the reference to the moral majority well, you weren't there or you thought Fallwell and his ilk were right.
@bradd71 On a stake? A nice pointy stake run through the taint and out through his neck in a manner that let's him live for DAYS on that stake? Yeah I can be party to that, hell I'll even make sure he gets water to make sure he lasts and lasts and lasts. Not that I have a strong dislike for inbred hate mongers.
DDY Sucked anyways after grand illusion, he was turning styx into a love band, and there a rock and roll band, so who cars about DDY, cause TS can sing just as good.
I always liked this album in spite of the cheesiness associated with it. My peers were a little younger that the core 70's Styx fans, so we were probably more forgiving. lol
Oh god, do I remember the protests against this album! Some stations refused to play it except for Mr. Roboto. Styx is still the only band to get booed out of the Houston Astrodome (for this tour).
Lets be frank, Dennis De Young is incredibly talented, yet to suit his desires towards theatrics, he hijacked a rock band in this direction and drove this band into the ground with this release...If he was jonesing for a more theatrical side, he could have done a side project or left the band altogether rather than force the rest of the band to begrudgingly follow. Sadly, Freddie Mercury almost Killed Queen with Hot Space, a piece of road kill, except the colaboration single Under Pressure....
"Kilroy was Here" was supposed to be a rock opera. It became more like another concept album. There seem to be one or two songs which got in the way of what we call a rock opera. Dr. Righteous seems to be having doubts of his mission in "Double Life." Kilroy Was Here had a few good songs in it. Heavy Metal Poisoning was one of the best songs. Yet if there wasn't for one or two songs, Styx would have their Rock Opera.
i realized something about styx (my favorite band in the world btw) they seemed to change their themes of music alot. In the album with mr roboto, it seems to have a generic japanese theme, and in the grand illusion it seemed to give me this feeling of being in like almost middle ages or something. does anyone else get the same idea or am i just wierd?
I love the introductory new world order reference at the beginning, it sets the stage up for the song perfectly. A world where heavy metal is prohibited? GOD help us! lol
@Bandaids4ever Not everyone hates it. It was a conceptual album, written in the style of a rock opera. Styx was a conceptual band with much of experimental. If some guys dislike it, they're the ones who love to post "I hate this..." posts. The rest of us enjoy anything we like without complaining about music we don't.
yeah, I saw this tour too, and it blew me a way- not what i was used to from them. loved it. But OMG it's SO cheesy. still, I dig it. I think this shit is what broke them uop tho, tommy and JY wanted to rock and dennis, bless him and his talent, wanted to do this shit and tear jerking ballads. They just wanted to rock.
I'm sure they all enjoyed the money they made from it. DDY took a risk and KWH WAS a major selling success despite the raggin it gets. The album was huge (2 mil copies plus) and is still there last big one. Reminds me of the crying the Pink Floyd guys did about Roger Waters. Someone has to be the soul of a band.
@meangreen69Nova It wasn't the album necessarily, although neither Tommy nor JY were thrilled about the concept. Their biggest problem was with the tour. They were playing small theatres at first, and that went over pretty well. But when they took it into an arena, it sucked, because the audiences who were there for hard-ass rock songs didn't want to see a stage-show rock opera. After that debacle, according to Tommy, "We all parted ways with one finger in the air."
@FMAluver14 I know, my question was in sarcasm. It's known that Dennis wanted to go a more theatrical route as opposed to the rock route Tommy and James wanted to go.
@RUMELSKIN I know, my question was in sarcasm. It's known that Dennis wanted to go a more theatrical route as opposed to the rock route Tommy and James wanted to go.
@RUMELSKIN They split for the first time in '84. They started making plans for a reunion in the late 80's but Tommy Shaw joined Damn Yankess in 1988 and didn't want to re-join at the time. So they got some new guy when they hit the studios in 1989. I always forget his name. I didn't like him as mucc as Shaw...
@RUMELSKIN Styx has been through ALOT of changes over the past 20+ years; But IMO original/classic lineup's the best. Not sure if Tommy shaw had sour grapes in the late 80's or if he was just too busy since Damn Yankees recorded their first album in 1989 and released in '90 about the same time Styx' recorded their followup to 'Kilroy Was Here'.
I dunno, Burtnik just felt kinda generic to me; He seemed more 'Hair Metal' whereas Styx never really was ever in that genre.
Yo, when me an my homeboys got this record we was pissed at first at this jam but after listened to it we was bumping this shit in our cars and jamming dis shit all night, james young off da hook in this video, he bad
incoherent. learn proper grammar, or get off the internet dumbass. this is not the place to talk like one-- that would be what chat rooms, Instant messaging, and text messaging are for.
In which part of my comment did I say anything racist? stupid media-whore. get over it. just because I tell you off for sounding like an unintelligent, juvenile person doesn't mean you can call me racist. stupid media hype. I wish we could go back to being like we were in the old days, when an insult was an insult, no matter what the race or religion of the target. all these cries of "RACIST!" and the like are getting on my nerves; they're being abused beyond their meaning.
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son of a mother fuckin bitch, get the hell off my back about me tellin you off for sayin whatevah the fuck you want. I don't fuckin care if you black or white or asian or shit, all I want is for you to quit being such a fucking jackass that you can't take criticism.
This was an excellent concept album, read up on it. This song is one act of the story and couldnt be sung by Deyoung(Kilroy) I used to listen to this song over and over as a kid. Great album.
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Ever hear a song that was so horrible that it almost made you laugh? This song fits that category. The video is even worse. And Why is singing like that? Is he kidding?
I saw the Kilroy tour at the Spectrum in Philadelphia back in the early 80's. Very entertaining show, but I didn't like the Broadway style. I heard that this song was JY's attempt to put some hard rock into the tour.
At 2:12 I didn't know a human being could open their mouth that wide. JY's my favorite!
Could be. He was 15 around that time, looks about right. And he was in in television before that, at the age of 13 in an Atari commercial. I'll bet you're right!
This is when I finally gave up on the original band. All the great things accomplished before were destroyed by this Kilroy garbage. Actually, the Paradise Theatre album was the same trash. I wasn't surprised when I heard they were breaking up soon after the Kilroy tour ended. This album and the songs on it are DeYoung's doing and I blame him and his ego for killing the Styx I once knew and loved.
OK, you tell me what they've put out since Paradise that was any good? I still listen to the 70's Styx, but when they started doing the Broadway shit, seems the whole group gave up on DeYoung and went their separate ways. Maybe I should have said "given up on Styx the way I knew them." How's that?
@Gregsynth People hate on it too much, i mean yeah its obscure compared to Styx's most stuff and even if it's cheesy and is totally 80's it's still good. :P
Come Sail Away was 1977 and Styx was still a great band. When DeYoung started making their shows into theatre with shit like Kilroy was when Shaw and J.Y. said enough. Grand Illusion was excellent! Agree?
If you listen to Paradise Theatre and Kilroy, you could tell Styx was losing that hard edge that made me like them in the first place. I shouldn't call Kilroy "shit" but Equinox, Crsytal Ball, and Grand Illusion are still kick ass! But Styx without DeYoung is just not Styx. I think most people have that opinion. Yours?
Styx without Dennis DeYoung I see is just like Genesis without Phil Collins. I know Phil wasn't an original member but helped make the band what it was. Lawrence Gowan replacing DDY was as bad as Ray Wilson replacing PC. However, Genesis broke up after no one accepted them without PC. Pink Floyd IMHO was David Gilmour and Rick Wright's music coupled with Roger Waters' lyrics. DDY didn't go Waters and fire people from Styx. In fact, he stopped Styx when TS went AWOL in 1984.
Actually it was not Roger Waters that fired everyone from Pink Floyd it was David Gilmour that fired Roger Waters. And in my opinion it was Waters that was the biggest genius in Floyd. Just like I think Dennis DeYoung was what made Styx.
Hate to correct you but Roger Waters barred Rick Wright from contributing music to Animals and then fired him during the making of The Wall. David Gilmour and Nick Mason were against Wright's ouster. Roger tried to end PF and stated in December, 1985 PINK FLOYD IS OVER! Then in 1986, PF issued a statement saying they'd go on without him. DDY didn't want to replace TS but reluctantly did when TS went with Ted Nugent. JY was the one who wanted DDY out of Styx,
The truth is DDY REFUSED to replace TS when he quit during the mixing of the Caught In the Act live album. The Panozzos and JY wanted to move forward sans TS but DDY said NO WAY as everyone saw TS and DDY as Styx's figure heads. Genesis died because the US refused to accept Ray Wilson as lead singer like they did in Europe after Phil Collins left on his own accord in '96. Pink Floyd's case, Roger Waters fired Rick Wright during mixing of The Wall. They did The Final Cut without Rick and FLOPPED!
even paradise theatre was a great album but they lost it with kilroy, thank God they rock out live cause they made the songs from paradise theatre less synthasised. it might not be the same with Gowan in the band but they all get along and he has more of a rock voice where deyoung had ore of a broadway voice
He's not nearly the singer that Shaw or DeYoung are, but NO ONE delivers a YEAAHHH quite like JY!
Zzyyxxyyxx 3 days ago
Well how hit him with a guitar!?
PartTimeZombeh 2 weeks ago
God, that's bad and corny.
apollozero 2 weeks ago
is that really Jack Black?
casketdance 1 month ago in playlist More videos from dinkabeni
pause it right on 4:04 and thats my science teacher haha he showed us today x)
jahibifoo 1 month ago
Dennis was the main principal writer at this point. JY could bang out an occasional winner and was a great collaborator for Dennis and Tommy was busy getting high. Plus Dennis was the de-facto producer, which is not a popular job sometimes. By the time of "Kilroy," MTV was big and these aging bands had to fight back. This was Styx's MTV moment. Maybe not the caliber of "Paradise Theater," but definitely their last big album. It's a shame we didn't see how they'd have followed "Kilroy" up.
bclark71 1 month ago
The PMRC theme song.
crowman1979 2 months ago
increible
MxStxRMxND 2 months ago
Although a trifle overdone as regards the concept presentation, the subject matter is really good. You couldn't have Styx without the theatrics, could you? Music is what matters. Although sometimes a bit too ambitious (the American way, as they own up), it's always well executed and when it comes to rocking, well, these guys kick ass, never mind the Roboto costumes. Thank you Styx. By the way, 7 people need to be poisoned... with heavy metal (like lead, for example!)
kalostous 2 months ago
@MrTrailhound I thumbed you up of course. Surprised nobody else did. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.
CypherInfinity2 3 months ago
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Bloody NWO/MMM hypocrite dr righteous needs to be "impeached" from his reign of terror here!!!!
CypherInfinity2 3 months ago
Rock It Tommy!!
MrOldskoolmetal 3 months ago
The folks who did not like this album have obviously never listened to this song at the appropriate volume. This shit rocks my world.
TheKhaibear 4 months ago 2
@tjrtherocksponge Do you know if there were still drug abuse issues during the 1988-89 timeframe with guys like Tommy and JY? I know Nuge claims to not condone drug use but i've not read anything about how he'd fair working with those kind of guys. On one hand he might care, if he really cares about drug use; But on the other i suppose he might not if it wasn't affecting the way Tommy worked.
Just wondering,
Thanks :)
Supertron5000 4 months ago
@tjrtherocksponge That's both interesting and sad to me. I guess it just comes with the territory. Probably not good to just assume, but i do generally assume many bands during the 70's-80's timeframe (Styx, Foreigner, The Cars, Journey, Chicago, Queen, ELO, AC/DC, KISS, ect) were in mild-to-heavy drug and alcohol abuse at the time, though most would deny it anyway. I'd say it's probably true Dennis wasn't abusing anything around his wife or kids. He seems to be an honest family man.
Supertron5000 4 months ago
@Supertron5000 Depends on the members too, obviously. Like in the case of KISS, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss were abusing drugs heavily but Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley weren't. That's one reason why the post-makeup/costume reforming of the group in the early 80s didn't include Frehley or Criss.
danning1 4 months ago
@danning1 That's quite interesting. The KISS "unmasked" era lasted quite awhile; Especially in music years. Something like 1982/83-1992. I could be wrong; They could've got painted back up in-between i guess; But they were without paint in the "Forever" video from 1991. DeYoung seems to take his family and faith seriously. I can't imagine him doing drugs or drinking of any kind; Infront of his family atleast, which is all that really matters. Even the worst drunk/junkie can give that courtesy.
Supertron5000 4 months ago
This is a rock opera about censership and a few people who see it as the evil it is and can be.
MrBatatari 4 months ago
@MrBatatari Not just censorship; It's a tale about what happens when all the bad things about government and censorship are amplified; All the bad/restricting things about the world all wrapped up. I don't think it's their initial reference; But alot of things about Righteous and his cronies resemble Hitler and his Nazi party and their campaign to eradicate things they hate, while caging human beings like animals and worse.
Righteous' way is clearly a type of fascism.
Supertron5000 4 months ago
I like to think Doc Righteous was, himself, a rock star once. It adds irony IMO that Righteous was once a musician similar to Kilroy, but over time he went mad for whatever reason; And rejected rock and the rocker lifestyle. When that wasn't enough he forced everyone to see it his way by... Taking over America, or the whole world somehow...
Supertron5000 5 months ago
they were one of the best bands there ever was
skeebee007 5 months ago
great song james youngs still buying here
Mr20gf 5 months ago
Hmmm... the future looks an awful lot like the 80's doesnt it???
locodriver107 5 months ago
oh and its no wonder JY didnt like the tour he played the bad guy.....
locodriver107 6 months ago
dont you just love it when JY makes tha hilarious face at the end xD :P
locodriver107 6 months ago
Hey, does anybody know, at 1'39": is that a 14 year old Jack Black? He does quite resemble him, and his age coincides.
TheHotgiovanni 6 months ago
@TheHotgiovanni My God, you're right!
MusicCndctr 5 months ago
@TheHotgiovanni It does look a bit like Jack Black.
meangreen69Nova 5 months ago
to answer your question Meangreen, the answer is no...Tommy & JY didn't like Kilroy and Tommy medicated himself during this tour and quit Styx after the tour was finished in 1984...........
kilroy107 6 months ago
Heil Righteous!!~ lol
taylorg9999 6 months ago
4:16..is that Falco?
SmittyHeWasNumber1 6 months ago
3:15 why is that girl playing a guitar?
SmittyHeWasNumber1 6 months ago 2
is that Rudolph Shenker preaching his pop rock surmon.
SmittyHeWasNumber1 6 months ago
A bunch of nice japanese vintage guitars were burnt to a crisp for this lame brand of rock called styx.
SmittyHeWasNumber1 6 months ago
I really enjoyed this album. I don't know waht all the fuss is about. It's a concept album that tells a fun story. Get over it!
KosephMivyotlh 6 months ago 8
I always pictured Dr. Righteous as wearing a Fascist-style uniform, with short hair and jack boots.
eric5906 7 months ago
It DOEN'T MATTER... WHO ENJOYED MAKING THE ALBUM!!!!!!!!!"Kilroy was here" was Styx most successful venture. Dennis DeYoung is brilliant and Tommy Shaw capitulated.
ShawnMcVey 9 months ago 3
JY is scary awesome. I love how unique his voice is, and how hard rock he is in general!
ashley3scene 9 months ago 3
are these guys millionaires still? or is it all gone?
okrabay 10 months ago
@okrabay They're still preforming. I've never seen them preform but I would kill if it meant I could.
DellPrecisionM60 10 months ago
single greatest album ever.
xOffWithYourHead 10 months ago
How can people NOT love this?!
DarkLord61636 10 months ago
Lame.
kirbyks 10 months ago
I've always liked this album and the concept behind it, which needs to be taken as a warning of what could happen.
Pbirv 11 months ago
long live Dr. Righteous~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bradd71 11 months ago 2
@bradd71 Might as well say "Heil Hitler".
Pbirv 11 months ago 3
@Pbirv That was teh point...and if you didn't get the reference to the moral majority well, you weren't there or you thought Fallwell and his ilk were right.
GrigoriZhukov 10 months ago
long live Dr. Righteous~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
bradd71 11 months ago
@bradd71 On a stake? A nice pointy stake run through the taint and out through his neck in a manner that let's him live for DAYS on that stake? Yeah I can be party to that, hell I'll even make sure he gets water to make sure he lasts and lasts and lasts. Not that I have a strong dislike for inbred hate mongers.
GrigoriZhukov 10 months ago
Hes right bout one thing, You get deaf.
sasukeluver345 11 months ago
DDY Sucked anyways after grand illusion, he was turning styx into a love band, and there a rock and roll band, so who cars about DDY, cause TS can sing just as good.
NoTyOuRaVeRaGeKeViN 11 months ago
First we'll spank your big behind, you go JY!! You rock!!!
VintageMaddiex3 1 year ago
I always liked this album in spite of the cheesiness associated with it. My peers were a little younger that the core 70's Styx fans, so we were probably more forgiving. lol
funkster007 1 year ago
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funkster007 1 year ago
Oh god, do I remember the protests against this album! Some stations refused to play it except for Mr. Roboto. Styx is still the only band to get booed out of the Houston Astrodome (for this tour).
valdrich319 1 year ago
Lets be frank, Dennis De Young is incredibly talented, yet to suit his desires towards theatrics, he hijacked a rock band in this direction and drove this band into the ground with this release...If he was jonesing for a more theatrical side, he could have done a side project or left the band altogether rather than force the rest of the band to begrudgingly follow. Sadly, Freddie Mercury almost Killed Queen with Hot Space, a piece of road kill, except the colaboration single Under Pressure....
flippyflyer 1 year ago 2
I'm almost sure Electric 6 were inspired by them!
ZRedPoppy 1 year ago
4 people need a dose of heavy metal poison
woolcladlad001 1 year ago 9
This album really needs to be made into a musical motion picture...
Wombat1965 1 year ago
"Kilroy was Here" was supposed to be a rock opera. It became more like another concept album. There seem to be one or two songs which got in the way of what we call a rock opera. Dr. Righteous seems to be having doubts of his mission in "Double Life." Kilroy Was Here had a few good songs in it. Heavy Metal Poisoning was one of the best songs. Yet if there wasn't for one or two songs, Styx would have their Rock Opera.
Rgreed2008 1 year ago
This album touches on why I can't take live styx albums, DDY's lounge act singing.
He could ruin stuff big time on stage.
FunnelHead12 1 year ago
i realized something about styx (my favorite band in the world btw) they seemed to change their themes of music alot. In the album with mr roboto, it seems to have a generic japanese theme, and in the grand illusion it seemed to give me this feeling of being in like almost middle ages or something. does anyone else get the same idea or am i just wierd?
elladanny12 1 year ago
@elladanny12
Agreed!
But "a lot" is two words - "alot" is not a word. Sorry; that's a compulsive thing with me. Your point is a good one.
BrxSmith 1 year ago
i bought this on wax when i was in 4th grade. paper route for the win.
and i still like the sex and drugs to this day.
jprophet420 1 year ago
I had the "movie" on vhs a long time ago but made the mistake of loaning it to someone and it got lost over time.
rothhar 1 year ago
People think this album is bad?
AngloAm 1 year ago
I love the introductory new world order reference at the beginning, it sets the stage up for the song perfectly. A world where heavy metal is prohibited? GOD help us! lol
OuttaEgypt 1 year ago
The best rock ever, I had the LP
johniers 1 year ago
I can't for the life of me understand why everyone hates this album. It was damn good.
Bandaids4ever 1 year ago 4
@Bandaids4ever Not everyone hates it. It was a conceptual album, written in the style of a rock opera. Styx was a conceptual band with much of experimental. If some guys dislike it, they're the ones who love to post "I hate this..." posts. The rest of us enjoy anything we like without complaining about music we don't.
juliushernandezg 1 year ago
I bet JY and Tommy look on this album affectionately now. It was and still is the business!
orses4corses 1 year ago
i lol'd
Xenu888 1 year ago
sex 'n' drugs!
sex 'n' drugs!
sex 'n' drugs!
sex 'n' drugs!
sex 'n' drugs!
Xenu888 1 year ago
the only problem with this album is that it was WAY ahead of it's time. It's a great album, and has great songs. 100 % rock for then and today.
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago 2
that guy looks like...Lando Calrissian?
Xenu888 1 year ago
Styx, Foreigner, and Kansas on tour together. To find out if their coming to a town near you
DetroitRick1 1 year ago
looks like him too
Sonicgamer91 1 year ago
he's like hitler, but he hates music instead of jews
Sonicgamer91 1 year ago
Just found out 2 days ago that Styx is on tour with Kansas and Foreigner.
DetroitRick1 1 year ago 2
@DetroitRick1
They are coming to the Southern Oregon Britt. Can't wait to see it.
ForgottenBasilisk 1 year ago
yeah, I saw this tour too, and it blew me a way- not what i was used to from them. loved it. But OMG it's SO cheesy. still, I dig it. I think this shit is what broke them uop tho, tommy and JY wanted to rock and dennis, bless him and his talent, wanted to do this shit and tear jerking ballads. They just wanted to rock.
thanos9760 1 year ago
This is so bad its good!
wakaw07 1 year ago
Styx made soo much good music and this is the shit they're remembered for. Thats fuckin depressing.
SpudAlmighty 1 year ago
Classic Song from a classic album.
Saw these guys perform this on the Mr Roboto tour!!!
Awesome!!!!!!
mikeUNC1 1 year ago
best part of the video 2:51-3:12
gwbwla 2 years ago
Definetly a video classic from styx, thanks for posting this.
loikmg 2 years ago
This video is so cheesy it's awesome.
BilkTheDestoryer 2 years ago
Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll FORE EVER!
FatMetalFan 2 years ago
The guy who plays DR.Ricos is creapy
yodavidio 2 years ago
@yodavidio I think that's JY Young.
L1701 1 year ago
This is one of the best concept albums ever.
Bandaids4ever 2 years ago
Pile of shit. Satan go fuck yourself in ur goat ass
TechArcturian 2 years ago
This song is probably what made Tommy Shaw leave Styx to help form Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent
CrazyDiamond5321 2 years ago
So I wonder, did any of the band members besides Dennis De Young actually enjoy making this record?
meangreen69Nova 2 years ago 14
@meangreen69Nova other then this song, probably not!
vanhenry71 2 years ago
I'm sure they all enjoyed the money they made from it. DDY took a risk and KWH WAS a major selling success despite the raggin it gets. The album was huge (2 mil copies plus) and is still there last big one. Reminds me of the crying the Pink Floyd guys did about Roger Waters. Someone has to be the soul of a band.
aitraining 2 years ago 2
Totally agree. I have so many good memories as a kid from that album. I even had a standup posterboard roboto in my bed room.
bmbell71 2 years ago
@meangreen69Nova It wasn't the album necessarily, although neither Tommy nor JY were thrilled about the concept. Their biggest problem was with the tour. They were playing small theatres at first, and that went over pretty well. But when they took it into an arena, it sucked, because the audiences who were there for hard-ass rock songs didn't want to see a stage-show rock opera. After that debacle, according to Tommy, "We all parted ways with one finger in the air."
gspendlove 1 year ago
Dennis Deyoung did! LOL
Gregsynth 1 year ago
@meangreen69Nova i doubt it. The band broke up shortly afterwards and the core lineup didn't get back together again until 1996 (12 years later).
danning1 1 year ago
@meangreen69Nova I doubt it, the lyrics are the only thing on this record that aren't BORING AS HELL
phgp27 1 year ago
@meangreen69Nova xD nope. They all pretty much hated it and hated De Young for it
FMAluver14 5 months ago
@FMAluver14 I know, my question was in sarcasm. It's known that Dennis wanted to go a more theatrical route as opposed to the rock route Tommy and James wanted to go.
meangreen69Nova 5 months ago
@meangreen69Nova Oh ok. I could not read saracasm lol haha
RUMELSKIN 5 months ago
@meangreen69Nova No That was the reason why they broke up in the late 80s and when they got back together in '90 Tommy did not want to re join.
RUMELSKIN 5 months ago
@RUMELSKIN I know, my question was in sarcasm. It's known that Dennis wanted to go a more theatrical route as opposed to the rock route Tommy and James wanted to go.
meangreen69Nova 5 months ago
@RUMELSKIN They split for the first time in '84. They started making plans for a reunion in the late 80's but Tommy Shaw joined Damn Yankess in 1988 and didn't want to re-join at the time. So they got some new guy when they hit the studios in 1989. I always forget his name. I didn't like him as mucc as Shaw...
Supertron5000 5 months ago
@Supertron5000 Glen Burtnik. He also came back in 2000 to fill in for Chuck on bass but officially left about 2002ish
RUMELSKIN 5 months ago
@RUMELSKIN Styx has been through ALOT of changes over the past 20+ years; But IMO original/classic lineup's the best. Not sure if Tommy shaw had sour grapes in the late 80's or if he was just too busy since Damn Yankees recorded their first album in 1989 and released in '90 about the same time Styx' recorded their followup to 'Kilroy Was Here'.
I dunno, Burtnik just felt kinda generic to me; He seemed more 'Hair Metal' whereas Styx never really was ever in that genre.
Supertron5000 5 months ago
First we'll spank your big behinds....LOL
meangreen69Nova 2 years ago
この男は、潅水されます。
VaderNES 2 years ago
Please!!! What is the backwards message from 2:42 to 2:50 ????
toressm 2 years ago
It is supposedly a latin phrase 'novus ordo seclorum' which is means a new order of the ages, supposedly from the declaration of independance.
deeprose4 2 years ago
THANK!!!
toressm 2 years ago
Your welcome
deeprose4 2 years ago
@deeprose4 look on back of a one dollar bill, that's where you'll find 'annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum'
TheTiglathpilesar 5 months ago
Satan hold the secrets
5cotonetes 1 year ago
Is that kid in the chair Jack Black?
rjpinwi 2 years ago
It sure looks like him, doesn't it? I never thought about it till I read your comment.
deeprose4 2 years ago
Jack Black was 12 or 13 at the time the video was made...It could be, but it does not say anything on IMDB.
dacoach1122 2 years ago
Yo, when me an my homeboys got this record we was pissed at first at this jam but after listened to it we was bumping this shit in our cars and jamming dis shit all night, james young off da hook in this video, he bad
cvhf650 2 years ago
incoherent. learn proper grammar, or get off the internet dumbass. this is not the place to talk like one-- that would be what chat rooms, Instant messaging, and text messaging are for.
RENOISME 2 years ago
fuck off you racist bitch
cvhf650 2 years ago
In which part of my comment did I say anything racist? stupid media-whore. get over it. just because I tell you off for sounding like an unintelligent, juvenile person doesn't mean you can call me racist. stupid media hype. I wish we could go back to being like we were in the old days, when an insult was an insult, no matter what the race or religion of the target. all these cries of "RACIST!" and the like are getting on my nerves; they're being abused beyond their meaning.
RENOISME 2 years ago
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YOU is racist. you think you so smart, you don't know jack. Kiss my ass
cvhf650 2 years ago
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fine. you wanna play that way?
son of a mother fuckin bitch, get the hell off my back about me tellin you off for sayin whatevah the fuck you want. I don't fuckin care if you black or white or asian or shit, all I want is for you to quit being such a fucking jackass that you can't take criticism.
RENOISME 2 years ago
how can he be racist when the dude is probably white..........black people dont talk like that.they way more educated
rwk1983 2 years ago
This is ass kicking music. Thank you Dennis DeYoung for your terrific opera.
cme1strightnow 2 years ago 3
that is jy the lead guitarist
TheSHEERHEARTATTACK 2 years ago
Great Styx
eaglewheels1995 2 years ago
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styx=worst band ever. embarrising
nukethewhales13 2 years ago
Hee hee hee, pause the video at 1:51 Dr. Righteous looks very pained.
3impersonators 2 years ago
I absolutely love the message this song delivers.
younggunz445 2 years ago
how do people think the young kid is Jack Black? He looks more like a younger Ashton Kutcher...
ikill4klondikebars 2 years ago
He does look like Ashton Kutcher a bit
younggunz445 2 years ago
LOL. JY is awesome.... So is Tommy.
DRSHRED77 2 years ago
Wow... I guess Dennis deYoung can't take al the blame/credit for this album sucking donkey balls....
Winonasalibi 2 years ago
By the way "the other guy" is James Young the godfather of Styx. I you look up KILROY WAS HERE, you'd probably understand this video more....
Snowblind1309 2 years ago
This was an excellent concept album, read up on it. This song is one act of the story and couldnt be sung by Deyoung(Kilroy) I used to listen to this song over and over as a kid. Great album.
ajbusk 2 years ago
Actually as a styx fan I'd have to disagree with you and say it was a pretty weak concept album! A couple of decent songs>>>>>thats it!
wakaw07 1 year ago
That's the other guitarist doing the lead vocals in this song.
penaloza7 2 years ago
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Ever hear a song that was so horrible that it almost made you laugh? This song fits that category. The video is even worse. And Why is singing like that? Is he kidding?
penaloza7 2 years ago
Who the hell is singing? That isn't Dennis DeYoung or Tommy Shaw. But you're right. This song and video are awful, it's funny.
daddymak9 2 years ago
It's Jy young thats singing daddymak
younggunz445 2 years ago
It is a parody that is why he is singing like that.
AliceMarr 2 years ago
1:58 I love the couple dancing in the background lol
aitraining 2 years ago
STYX... STYX... STYX... -N-YES
myjeek 2 years ago
I agree with you totally...
myjeek 2 years ago
tommy shaw is a bad muthafucka
madmos69 2 years ago
I saw the 'KILROY WAS HERE' at the fox theater in san diego and the music was totally killer,but the onstage theatrics was cooky.
dzbaumgarten 2 years ago
Love the karate stuff!!
leeroynaggins 2 years ago
"SEX AND DRUGS!"
pdrake074 2 years ago
Is it me or does Young lok mexican in this video? Great song, though.
sonicfanatic4949 2 years ago
I saw the Kilroy tour at the Spectrum in Philadelphia back in the early 80's. Very entertaining show, but I didn't like the Broadway style. I heard that this song was JY's attempt to put some hard rock into the tour.
At 2:12 I didn't know a human being could open their mouth that wide. JY's my favorite!
dhammell 2 years ago
Heavy Metal Poisioning can Cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.... ')
sweenykim 2 years ago
Question: the youth who gets the makeover bares a more than passing resemblence to a very young Jack Black. Am I right or wrong?
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Zespara 2 years ago
Could be. He was 15 around that time, looks about right. And he was in in television before that, at the age of 13 in an Atari commercial. I'll bet you're right!
delfstrom 2 years ago
Give me a break...
Gregsynth 2 years ago
This is when I finally gave up on the original band. All the great things accomplished before were destroyed by this Kilroy garbage. Actually, the Paradise Theatre album was the same trash. I wasn't surprised when I heard they were breaking up soon after the Kilroy tour ended. This album and the songs on it are DeYoung's doing and I blame him and his ego for killing the Styx I once knew and loved.
mweiford 2 years ago
Giving up on a band because they release in your opinion "a bad album" is just plain idiotic.
Gregsynth 2 years ago 9
OK, you tell me what they've put out since Paradise that was any good? I still listen to the 70's Styx, but when they started doing the Broadway shit, seems the whole group gave up on DeYoung and went their separate ways. Maybe I should have said "given up on Styx the way I knew them." How's that?
mweiford 2 years ago
Sorry I mis-read you comments.
I was under the impression you hated/stopped listening to the band in the Kilroy Era.
Gregsynth 2 years ago
Paradise Theatre is awesome.
I liked Kilroy Was Here (Though reviews vary)
I didn't hear anything beyond that.
Gregsynth 2 years ago
@Gregsynth I love this album.
Crokshire 1 year ago
Same here!
Gregsynth 1 year ago
@Gregsynth People hate on it too much, i mean yeah its obscure compared to Styx's most stuff and even if it's cheesy and is totally 80's it's still good. :P
Crokshire 1 year ago
Totally agree!
Gregsynth 1 year ago
So, what, "Come Sail Away" was bad? That was DeYoung as well.
ramzafft1 2 years ago
Come Sail Away was 1977 and Styx was still a great band. When DeYoung started making their shows into theatre with shit like Kilroy was when Shaw and J.Y. said enough. Grand Illusion was excellent! Agree?
mweiford 2 years ago
Oh, for sure. I wasn't quite certain what you were getting at.
I tend to just like Styx in general, so their later stuff still works for me, but to each his own.
ramzafft1 2 years ago
If you listen to Paradise Theatre and Kilroy, you could tell Styx was losing that hard edge that made me like them in the first place. I shouldn't call Kilroy "shit" but Equinox, Crsytal Ball, and Grand Illusion are still kick ass! But Styx without DeYoung is just not Styx. I think most people have that opinion. Yours?
mweiford 2 years ago 3
Styx without DeYoung isn't the same sound, sort of the way Pink Floyd was post-Waters, but it's still pretty good IMO.
ramzafft1 2 years ago
Styx without Dennis DeYoung I see is just like Genesis without Phil Collins. I know Phil wasn't an original member but helped make the band what it was. Lawrence Gowan replacing DDY was as bad as Ray Wilson replacing PC. However, Genesis broke up after no one accepted them without PC. Pink Floyd IMHO was David Gilmour and Rick Wright's music coupled with Roger Waters' lyrics. DDY didn't go Waters and fire people from Styx. In fact, he stopped Styx when TS went AWOL in 1984.
floydgenesisnut 2 years ago 3
Actually it was not Roger Waters that fired everyone from Pink Floyd it was David Gilmour that fired Roger Waters. And in my opinion it was Waters that was the biggest genius in Floyd. Just like I think Dennis DeYoung was what made Styx.
sugaray2112 2 years ago
Hate to correct you but Roger Waters barred Rick Wright from contributing music to Animals and then fired him during the making of The Wall. David Gilmour and Nick Mason were against Wright's ouster. Roger tried to end PF and stated in December, 1985 PINK FLOYD IS OVER! Then in 1986, PF issued a statement saying they'd go on without him. DDY didn't want to replace TS but reluctantly did when TS went with Ted Nugent. JY was the one who wanted DDY out of Styx,
floydgenesisnut 2 years ago 3
You're right floydgenesis I watched the biographies, It's kind of sad how two great bands had to crash and burn like that.
younggunz445 2 years ago 3
The truth is DDY REFUSED to replace TS when he quit during the mixing of the Caught In the Act live album. The Panozzos and JY wanted to move forward sans TS but DDY said NO WAY as everyone saw TS and DDY as Styx's figure heads. Genesis died because the US refused to accept Ray Wilson as lead singer like they did in Europe after Phil Collins left on his own accord in '96. Pink Floyd's case, Roger Waters fired Rick Wright during mixing of The Wall. They did The Final Cut without Rick and FLOPPED!
floydgenesisnut 2 years ago 12
even paradise theatre was a great album but they lost it with kilroy, thank God they rock out live cause they made the songs from paradise theatre less synthasised. it might not be the same with Gowan in the band but they all get along and he has more of a rock voice where deyoung had ore of a broadway voice
lillivplayer54 2 years ago
That tour was an utter failure. That was JY singing that song.
Wrinkles41577 3 years ago