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 Post subject: Styx - Come Sail Away
PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:14 pm 
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A lot of people hate this song, right?


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:17 pm 
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It's not their worst by far


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:21 pm 
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I know nothing about Styx.

The only songs I know by them are this one and 'Mr. Roboto'.

I have no idea what they represent (if they represent anything) or what they symbolize. I have no context for this or them.

But I love this song. So I have no idea why so many people hate it so much. It's one of my favorite scenes in The Virgin Suicides.


So explain the hate. Is it entirely just the song itself? It seems like a pretty straight pop song. I don't really hear anything worth despising.


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 Post subject: Re: Styx - Come Sail Away
PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:24 pm 
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alongwaltz Wrote:
A lot of people hate this Styx, for sure


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:36 pm 
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Styx was my first concert...1982 (?)

There, I said it.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:37 pm 
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I loved them growing up. James JY Young lived a few blocks from me and my dad's friend was his business manager. So I got to meet him a couple times.

Anyways, I loved the music and Paradise Theatre way back then. Which spawned "too much time on my hands" and "best of times"-two of their other hits.

I still like Come Sail Away. I know it's cool to hate it but it reminds me of my childhood too much.

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I'd like Dennis DeYoung to pull a Delp.


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Someone should warn Rads to stay away from this topic.

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Most overplayed band on the cock-rock radio station that everyone listened to in my town.
Maybe they have some redeeming qualities
but after eight years of listening to that falsetto shit,
Styx can suck my dix.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:35 am 
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I got no problem with it.

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Worst song ever.

THEY WERE ALIENS!!!!!

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I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise
They climbed into their star ship and headed for the skies!!!!!


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I got no problem with it.


Like so many other 70's bands, Styx got worse into the 80's until there was a breakdown between the wuss leader and the rock core.

"Come Sail Away" is a DeYoung track that isn't fully a wuss ballad and shows he COULD have stopped himself from turning into the softpop pansy we loathe from radio ballads.

But "Fooling Yourself" and "Man In The Wilderness"are much better tracks on that rekkid.

Styx were always mannered and pretentious and I never felt they had any real emotional investment in the epic alienation songs they penned. Though I certainly listened to my share of them during junior high and early high school.


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"Fooling Yourself" and "Man In The Wilderness"are much better tracks on that rekkid.

Styx were always mannered and pretentious and I never felt they had any real emotional investment in the epic alienation songs they penned. Though I certainly listened to my share of them during junior high and early high school.


I fully agree with all of this.

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Always hated Styx...especially when people start rambling on about how their "old" stuff is good. That goes doubly for Journey as well.

OK...Mr. Roboto is funny as hell.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:21 am 
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I love this song, which was used to great effect in "The Virgin Suicides" Also, I don't know if any of y'all were ever fans of the band Sinkhole, but they did an amazing and fucking hilarious cover of this song regularly to close out shows.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:38 am 
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fuse Wrote:
I'd like Dennis DeYoung to pull a Delp.


Yeah, "DO Let It End."

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I still like Come Sail Away. I know it's cool to hate it but it reminds me of my childhood too much.

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I used to like it only because my brother said it was a really good song which was only because it was popular.

He also got me into Rush because they were awesome. I don't know what I ever saw in them.


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Rush...I don't know what I ever saw in them.


A really awesome drummer, maybe?


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Suite Madame Blue was my favorite song when I was 13.

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Renegade was my favorite song when I was 13.

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