Memory lane for an old fart! This version is better then vinyl heard in high school many moons ago! After several decades, 'I'm STILL ok; thanks for posting.
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Well, this is a great song. But... if you expect to find this in Heaven, well, you're really really wrong. When music stops, at 3.50, if you play the song backward (try it if you don't believe me, you'll see by yourself) they sing "I'm your servant! We should stick by the serpent of the Alpha" (which is satan, in the Holy Bible and, after... Styx is the river of the hell). Don't let satan wins: NON PRAEVALEBUNT! Just, open your eyes to the truth, and ask yourself why they had to do this.
AH NOOOOOOOO not other religious moralist anti-rock like swaggart-baker-robert and other shepperds again ......
i try for fun listen this complete gr8 song in backward and i just hearing organ bacward sound
seriously dude:dont let satan win in your mental healht : think in your teens era and try to found good rock n roll band who love them and relax and take care
god blesss you , rock n roll , youtube and america
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Ah man... satan will never win above my mental healt because i'm devoted to God. By the way... Styx made other songs with prayers to satan (heavy metal poisoning is an example), but ok, i don't pretend i will be heard, it just happens when you tell the real truth. Anyway... i hope God bless rock and America too. I'm not american but i love that land. I don't know why people blame me (i know, but i can't do nothing, i just can pray for you all and i hope we'll meet again in Heaven).
backward satanic messages died with the vinyl album. Go get this on CD and nothing will happen to you. by the way STYX was a river in Hades in Greek Mythology. The same mythology that had Zeus standing on mount Olympus throwing lighting bolts down at people. so chill dude.
"Great story, I have too agree. I read on the sleeve that the organ part was recorded on a church organ!" Another great song off this album is "Sing for the day"
Thank God you posted this nudeanaglyphs! I saw Styx record the organ part of the song. My father is a retired Episcopal priest and in 1978 he was the Dean of St. James Cathedral in Chicago and the guys used the great organ there to record the organ part of the song. All of them were nice guys and were totally cool with us!!!!!!!!!
Great Styx's sound of the best album for the band ( 1978 - Pieces of Eight ). The tubular organ of the Chicago's Cathedral it's a big idea for record of this music.Sorry for my poor english.
Good question. I chose that song for two reasons: 1) There is a wide range of frequencies throughout the song. 2) I just happened to be listening to that Styx album (Pieces of Eight) while I was experimenting around with this. I thought, "Hey, this might work". And it did :-)
LOL. That's an album I lsitened to hundreds of times in the late 70's. But I probably haven't heard that song most likely since then. Again, great video and thanks for resurrecting an old, fun song.
This is great. i have been thinking of making music visualizations in PovRay. I'm still struggling with the "extract data from the wav file" stage. Nice Work.
Was thinking it would be cool if you could add some color to the cylinders, based for example, the rate of change from frame to frame, red for when there is a big change, blue for when there is little. Just a thought.
Thanks for the idea. Actually, with the amount of work (human and computer) it took to create this, I'm thinking about something very different visually for my next experiment.
I am quite experienced with generating video sequences that look "simple" but are incredibly time intensive! It takes someone who knows what is involved to produce such a simple video to truly appreciate what you did. Well done.
-I assume that you were able to extract some frequency information from the audio track and then use this to generate the cylinders, yes? Did you feed this information using FOPEN and READ commands in POVRay? I would like to know what utility you used to get the frequency data from the audio file. Thanks and very nice.
Good question. Actually, I cheated a bit. Rather than go through all the work of doing frequency analysis, I used a program called Cool Edit (now known as Adobe Audition) to do it for me. What I did was, I used their 10 channel graphic equalizer and turned town all the channels except for one and save that as a file....
...Then, I did the same with the other channels (I ignored the highest and lowest channel because there wasn't that much information there). That left me with 8 audio (raw WAV) files, one for each cylinder in the video. Then I wrote a C program to read the WAV files and write out 3300 POV-Ray scripts (10 frames per second). If you would like a copy of my C code, contact me at nudeanaglyphs AT yahoo DOT com.
they look like they sing it
HAWXLEADER 1 year ago
persistance of vision sofware nice i hope you have a weekLol
MrGlenntipton 1 year ago
nice but the ground is to shiny.
hhu890 1 year ago
They just dont make them like this any more, real musicians that can sing and play instruments!!! Cool video also!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!
vembermember 2 years ago
No they dont...incredible song.
blairzel 2 years ago 2
yeah they do.
spitball123 2 years ago
Memory lane for an old fart! This version is better then vinyl heard in high school many moons ago! After several decades, 'I'm STILL ok; thanks for posting.
momo9908 3 years ago
I love this video! It feels so retro 80's lol Old school!
hobbitmiester 3 years ago
Dont see Gowan doing anything like this
Dump that goof and lets get back to the REAL STYX
froy2 3 years ago
THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!! (video effects)
kessiee 3 years ago
masterpeice of rock
one of the finest concept US rock album of music all time history
lady and gentleman
I named 1978 PEICES OF EIGHTS by styx
patmix 3 years ago 7
First heard this song while riding one of those swinging pirate ship rides at Dorneypark, in PA, back in 1981
ToddonCapeCod 3 years ago 5
@ToddonCapeCod Yeah I grew in Canada and all the carnivals back in the day blasted styx during the rides, cool
wakaw07 1 year ago
My dad bought me this 8 track for my 14th b-day. Fell in love with every song on it. Great album!! Thanks!!
LedHed65 3 years ago 2
This song has set me free!!
AND
I'm fully expecting to hear this song in heaven when I arrive!!!
I got this out the other night at my lowest to help guide me and then tonight again at my highest to celebrate!
Thank you nudeanaglyphs for posting this; cool tracing experiment too.
soarheart 4 years ago 3
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Well, this is a great song. But... if you expect to find this in Heaven, well, you're really really wrong. When music stops, at 3.50, if you play the song backward (try it if you don't believe me, you'll see by yourself) they sing "I'm your servant! We should stick by the serpent of the Alpha" (which is satan, in the Holy Bible and, after... Styx is the river of the hell). Don't let satan wins: NON PRAEVALEBUNT! Just, open your eyes to the truth, and ask yourself why they had to do this.
ciolamorta 3 years ago
AH NOOOOOOOO not other religious moralist anti-rock like swaggart-baker-robert and other shepperds again ......
i try for fun listen this complete gr8 song in backward and i just hearing organ bacward sound
seriously dude:dont let satan win in your mental healht : think in your teens era and try to found good rock n roll band who love them and relax and take care
god blesss you , rock n roll , youtube and america
patmix 3 years ago
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Ah man... satan will never win above my mental healt because i'm devoted to God. By the way... Styx made other songs with prayers to satan (heavy metal poisoning is an example), but ok, i don't pretend i will be heard, it just happens when you tell the real truth. Anyway... i hope God bless rock and America too. I'm not american but i love that land. I don't know why people blame me (i know, but i can't do nothing, i just can pray for you all and i hope we'll meet again in Heaven).
ciolamorta 3 years ago
backward satanic messages died with the vinyl album. Go get this on CD and nothing will happen to you. by the way STYX was a river in Hades in Greek Mythology. The same mythology that had Zeus standing on mount Olympus throwing lighting bolts down at people. so chill dude.
DSmith99000 3 years ago 3
The same mythology that Christianity got its "eternal lake of fire hell and a guy with a ptichfork and horns" concept from.
As Dennis DeYoung said, "We have a hard enough time getting right forward."
JudahZeal 2 years ago
Dennis Deyoung played the organ piece in a large church in Chicago.
gymerap 4 years ago
Shouldn't suprise me! He's so incredibly talented!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brittfacee 3 years ago
oberheim???? lol...
gymerap 4 years ago
"Great story, I have too agree. I read on the sleeve that the organ part was recorded on a church organ!" Another great song off this album is "Sing for the day"
karmatoga 4 years ago
Thank God you posted this nudeanaglyphs! I saw Styx record the organ part of the song. My father is a retired Episcopal priest and in 1978 he was the Dean of St. James Cathedral in Chicago and the guys used the great organ there to record the organ part of the song. All of them were nice guys and were totally cool with us!!!!!!!!!
Romulan007 4 years ago 7
Very cool story... and, very cool song!
nudeanaglyphs 4 years ago
@Romulan007 You lucky child!
Styxchic1 1 year ago
Thanks for the video and posting this terrific STYX song.
revcin 4 years ago 2
Looooooooooooooooooooove it!!!!!!!!
styxgirl812 4 years ago
this number is goooood choice!!
thanx.
genkailover2007 4 years ago 2
The lyrics are the most special thing of the song. Think about it...
kuytjaah 4 years ago
Ha, ha! "Wa hoo!" Tommy Shaw is halarous! LOL!
styxgirl812 4 years ago
I like "Styx" better than "Yes".
sususlot 4 years ago
Duh.
nutttzz 4 years ago
Great Styx's sound of the best album for the band ( 1978 - Pieces of Eight ). The tubular organ of the Chicago's Cathedral it's a big idea for record of this music.Sorry for my poor english.
eversonabreu 4 years ago 2
Love it! I'm curious how you chose this old Styx song?
LVdamusic 4 years ago
Good question. I chose that song for two reasons: 1) There is a wide range of frequencies throughout the song. 2) I just happened to be listening to that Styx album (Pieces of Eight) while I was experimenting around with this. I thought, "Hey, this might work". And it did :-)
nudeanaglyphs 4 years ago
LOL. That's an album I lsitened to hundreds of times in the late 70's. But I probably haven't heard that song most likely since then. Again, great video and thanks for resurrecting an old, fun song.
LVdamusic 4 years ago
This is great. i have been thinking of making music visualizations in PovRay. I'm still struggling with the "extract data from the wav file" stage. Nice Work.
particleman5672 4 years ago
Was thinking it would be cool if you could add some color to the cylinders, based for example, the rate of change from frame to frame, red for when there is a big change, blue for when there is little. Just a thought.
TheTark 4 years ago
Thanks for the idea. Actually, with the amount of work (human and computer) it took to create this, I'm thinking about something very different visually for my next experiment.
nudeanaglyphs 4 years ago
I am quite experienced with generating video sequences that look "simple" but are incredibly time intensive! It takes someone who knows what is involved to produce such a simple video to truly appreciate what you did. Well done.
TheTark 4 years ago
-I assume that you were able to extract some frequency information from the audio track and then use this to generate the cylinders, yes? Did you feed this information using FOPEN and READ commands in POVRay? I would like to know what utility you used to get the frequency data from the audio file. Thanks and very nice.
TheTark 4 years ago
Good question. Actually, I cheated a bit. Rather than go through all the work of doing frequency analysis, I used a program called Cool Edit (now known as Adobe Audition) to do it for me. What I did was, I used their 10 channel graphic equalizer and turned town all the channels except for one and save that as a file....
nudeanaglyphs 4 years ago
...Then, I did the same with the other channels (I ignored the highest and lowest channel because there wasn't that much information there). That left me with 8 audio (raw WAV) files, one for each cylinder in the video. Then I wrote a C program to read the WAV files and write out 3300 POV-Ray scripts (10 frames per second). If you would like a copy of my C code, contact me at nudeanaglyphs AT yahoo DOT com.
nudeanaglyphs 4 years ago
bastaste bueno
absulitcr 4 years ago