NEW CD! "Cyclorama" by Styx, release date: Feb.18,2003

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Cyclorama is an unexpectedly appealing comeback. Sure, there's still
no shortage of excessively filigreed keyboard and guitar passages,
anthemic choruses that make Queen sound laid back, and at least one
song (the nearly seven-minute "These Are the Times") that threatens
to summon the spirit of Stonehenge-era Spinal Tap. Yet, somehow, all
that is forgiven once Styx sneaks up on you with the killer hooks of
the Tenacious D-assisted "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye," a power-pop gem
with the verve of classic Cheap Trick. It's these and other small
pleasures--Brian Wilson's sumptuous vocal arrangement on a reprise
of "Fooling Yourself (Palm of Your Hands)," Billy Bob Thornton's
guttural yowling on "Bourgeois Pig," and of course an appearance by
John Waite (without whom no classic-rock party is complete)--that
weaken your resistance to even the maudlin sentiments of "Yes I Can"
(which, sorry to say, has nothing to do with the Sammy Davis Jr.
autobiography whose title it shares). Will Cyclorama inspire a
revisionist respect for the band at its commercial peak? Probably
not. But it does prove that Styx have more than enough musical
vitality to transcend their peers on the casino and county fair
circuit.


Track Listings
1. Do Things My Way
2. Waiting For Our Time
3. Fields of the Brave
4. Bourgeois Pig
5. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye
6. These Are the Times
7. Yes I Can
8. More Love for the Money
9. Together
10. Fooling Yourself (Palm of Your Hands)
11. Captain America
12. Killing the Thing That You Love
13. One With Everything
14. Genki Des Ka


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