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Mr. Roboto, the sole reason millions of people who grew up in the 80's can say "thank you" in Japanese.
what a masterpiece!
wow!
i have never ever heard this song or seen it until today!
my jaw is still on the floor! wow just wow!
this is my new favorite song!
how did i miss this mini-operatic piece of brilliance!?
Although opinion on this song has always been divided I think it’s clear that Dennis DeYoung’s vocals are stellar on it.
One of his best.
The song has aged far better than it debuted. It's not so "out there" now, as it was compared to their prior body of work. The "drama kids" aspect disturbed my rock 'n' roll fan sensibility.
I mean, it was a top 5 hit and immediately created a pretty indelible phrase of '80s pop culture. it debuted pretty well.
Another odd-but-cool-sounding, fun story-driven 80's classic is "One Night in Bangkok"
From "CHESS: The Musical"
"One Night In Bangkok", is at least in my book, tied with "Rock Me Amadeus" for The Most Distilled Essence of the 80's. Very little is more 80's than either of those two.
"I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine!"
@@oldmangimp2468 "But the Queens we use, would not excite you"
BTW; the album's name is Kilroy Was Here. Each of the band members plays a part. Dennis is Kilroy, Tommy is Jonathan Chance, James is Dr. Everett Righteous, Chuck Panozzo is Lt. Vanish, and John Panozzo is Col. Hyde. So when Dennis said at the end of the song; "I'm Kilroy", he's in character
This was another “concept” album but not nearly on the level of The Wall or Tommy. The basic story is Kilroy is an aging rock god who escaped from prison. It was very much a product of its time when the moral majority was sticking its nose into more entertainment, parental advisory stickers were becoming required on music, certain TV shows and networks were being inundated with write in campaigns. Dennis paired that with the rise of automation and came up with a future where basically all fun was banned and if you wouldn’t conform there were prisons guarded by unfeeling “robotos” to keep you in line. Tommy was supposed to play a resistance fighter while JY was the face of the nazi like moral majority leader. It wasn’t well received or well understood and to be fair it isn’t even close to,the level of something like The Wall. Taken separately there are good songs on it, Don’t Let It End and Haven’t We Been Here Before are both great. But even those of us who,thought it was fun at the time also thought it was odd and the choice to tour while acting out the album instead of doing a standard concert was not received well even by their biggest fans. Edit to add..all that said I did and still do like almost all the songs on this recording on their individual merit.
I loved it when it came out, I was also a gary Newman fan tho, so it appealed to me instantly. They had so many great songs and this is one of them
Wow. You have to think of this in the context of the time. Devisive to Styx fans, understood. But I saw two shows on this tour, and it was a concert experience unlike any other I had seen. And they mixed in ALL of their staple crowd-pleasing hits. Thank you, Daniel, the Boston, Styx, and Kansas rabbit hole lives.
Styx is a band that has always enthralled me. The way they blend their voices is just astounding. Paradise Theatre is just about my favorite album ever.
I actually loved this song when it came out, but I was also hearing it as someone with no knowledge of Styx's previous work, and therefore no preconceived notions on what I should expect from them.
This song grew on me over the years. It seemed way too weird when it first was released. Mostly because of the theme.. Like many concept albums, if you just get one song off the album with no context, your lost from the start. Also, it was a different direction for them probably brought out by the changing direction of music. Many bands were trying to change to keep up with the 80's "synth/pop" sound and while it worked for bands like Genesis that shortened songs and wrote catchy hooks.. Styx took the more theatrical direction and changed so much that it split their fans up (and their band) without bringing any new fans in. Now Styx without DeYoung is playing small venues on bills with other old retread bands doing songs from their older albums and DeYoung is playing solo at casinos. All that aside tho.. the song is really catchy after all this time. Some of DD's best singing and yeah it's become a novelty over the years that's fun to hear again. Arigato Daniel.
I’ve heard this song a few times before but I never actually listened to the lyrics. Wow, the lyrics hit home. Being a nurse who has worked during COVID-19, I can relate to the lyrics about being part machine, part human and hiding behind a mask. Especially during the pandemic, I have felt like a machine, or to better relate to this song, a robot, at times. I’ve had to work long hours, odd hours, and extra shifts, all while not complaining. I’ve had to internalize a lot of things. I feel like I’ve grown callused to a lot and sometimes have wondered if I still even have human emotions. Then when I’m not expecting it, something will happen and I’ll get a tear in my eye or a lump in my throat and will know that I’m still human. For such an “out there” song, it’s crazy how relatable the words actually are! Great reaction Daniel 😊 .
I love a concept album. They don't always hit the mark we want. And sometimes they surpass it. Who cares. At their hearts they are born out of ideas that try to create specific visions and worlds. Whether the flop or succeed, at least they tried to create something different and move in a new (for the band) direction. Once a band lets the fans of its previous work dictate what they must produce, they become less interesting. I'll take something creative and strange to my ears over a rehash of old hits.
Superb.
Saw them perform this live. The concert started off as a short movie highlighting the album's concept of robots taking over and music fans being brainwashed to turn against rock n roll.Lets just say back in 83 I was into them quite heavy! I enjoyed how each band member had a character to play. Call it corny. I loved lt!
My gf and I saw them play on this album tour in 1983 at the Greek in Berkeley. It was pretty much song for song straight off the album. After the intermission the crowd was demanding "Lady! Lady!" and they played a hurried, shortened version of it before continuing Kind of tepid applause at the end, and there was no encore. Kind of disappointing overall, but it was a decent performance, just not what I would have asked for.
@@josephcote6120 I guess they went all out for us because they were playing in front of their hometown crowd.
@@josephcote6120 you are a liar
sorry wrong reply
@@josephcote6120 you are lying
I was a junior in HS when this album came out. A lot of us were not understanding where the band was going anymore. "This sounds like Devo." and stuff like that. We all shelved our Styx LPs and turned our attention towards metal and Madonna and Van Halen, The Police, U2. The early 80s was a pivotal time for popular music. My last favorite Styx song would have to be "The Best of Times" from the prior album. That one meant a lot us. Slow dancing in the gym on a Friday night kinda meaning.
"Kilroy was here" was written on WW2 crates, I think he was an inspector in the military.
He was. Back during World War II, rivet inspectors wrote their initials next to the rivets they inspected on battleships so they could be counted in order for the inspectors to earn their per rivet wages. However, it was not uncommon for dishonest workers to erase other's initials. So one worker by the surname of Kilroy, in order to make sure no one took credit for his work, wrote in large bold letters on the still-unpainted wall "Kilroy was here".
@@imaginosdesdinova1130 One of the first Memes
The concert for this was incredible. Dennis DeYoung was theatrically driven and wound a story around the song. The story was Kilroy was imprisoned and escapes. It was about censorship and being imprisoned for not complying with. He actually did perform as Pontius Pilate in the Broadway touring show Jesus Christ Superstar. He has incredible range. You should check out the song Suite Madame Blue performed live.
Honestly, I feel the main reasons that this song confused so many listeners upon its release in the early 80's are that it was so different from the sounds the band was known for and it was a song whose themes were so far ahead of its time. I can scarcely think of another song that has aged so well from this era; if anything its message has become far more precient over time. The themes it touches upon have become our modern world whereas in the 80's they were still quite foreign. Add to that the fact that it was not created to be released as a single, but as the explanatory chapter of a larger story and this helps us to understand how the song may have confused audiences of the time. With the benefit of hindsight however, this may very well be one of the greatest songs ever written. I love the fact that they were willing to take such a huge risk; that is what true artists do...
This is one of my favorite songs of the great 80s
Thank you very much for your reaction. I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on it. I like this song for the most part it's catchy and the vocals are great.
The whole album is the black sheep of Styx's career and this song mostly gets the hate due to being the hit single and for being too "mainstream" for a Styx song. Also, for anyone who isn't a Styx fan if you mention Styx this is often the only song the general public thinks of and this isn't exactly the kind of song Styx fans want as the general public's basic representation of what kind of music they make.
But there was a lot going against the album as a whole too. First, it wasn't just an album but a full on stage play with different members having spoken lines and heavy costumes. They even had a series of premade short films that would be played on a screen before and after each scene, it was a neat idea.
None of this was expected by the people who bought tickets and were hoping for rock concert however, so a lot people felt they didn't get what they paid for. Also the release of the play coincided with the world experiencing a record breaking heatwave so fans who bought tickets to see a rock concert instead stood outside all day long in 100+ degree weather to watch people put on a play and speak into microphone some convoluted plot they had no patience for instead of just rocking out. Tommy Shaw and other band members also wasn't too happy about having to put on play especially while having to dress up in very heavy all black costumes during the heat which created an internal rift with the band.
Plus, the story for the concept album being about rock music being outlawed by religious zealots had been done before several times by other bands and done better by most people's opinions so it just felt old by the time it came out.
Personally, I find it sad there were so many problems. I like the idea of rock concerts being stage plays that's a whole new genre that could've revolutionized music and the experience listening to music. Oddly enough I think the Paradise Theatre concept album from Styx did a better job at that idea even though there wasn't any spoken lines written. But musically it just feels like a stage play.
With their previous album, the Moral Majority accused Styx of backward masking "evil messages" in the song "Snowblind". While the album directly confronts organizations that attempt to censor rock music with false accusations. Styx did purposely include a real backward masked message at the beginning of the song "Heavy Metal Poisoning". It was actually the words "Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum", which is latin for "He (in the capital HE sense) has approved our undertakings and a new order of the ages". That is found on the Great Seal of the United States.
Just a 1980s Styx rock opera. The other reference is to a World War 2 GI meme “Kilroy was here”. It is a face looking over or around a wall or corner with the words printed near it. It was a hand drawn graffiti left by GIs in all sorts of places.
The song wasn't the problem, it was Dennis insisting on producing a stage show making the guys try to act and playing in smaller venues. The rest of the band wanted to be a band and play music in large venues.
Fans were booing them. It was the beginning of the end.
Maybe DD should have made it a solo concept album.
@@mysterymac38 The group being booed has been disproven. The Texas situation was about much more than Styx's performance. This tour sold like crazy.
My gf and I saw them play on this album tour in 1983 at the Greek in Berkeley. It was pretty much song for song straight off the album. After the intermission the crowd was demanding "Lady! Lady!" and they played a hurried, shortened version of it before continuing Kind of tepid applause at the end, and there was no encore. Kind of disappointing overall, but it was a decent performance, just not what I would have asked for.
@@josephcote6120 Are you high? It was performed at the the Berkeley Community Theater. I was there. What you described never happened. They played 4 songs from the album and the rest were Styx staples. There was an encore.
Snowblind and Queen of Spades are both awesome Styx tracks to check out.
I love this song and it has always been my kids and grandkids 1st intro to Styx. They've always loved it too
Liked out of sheer loyalty to our host DS9.
My favorite is "Come Sail Away." Classic mellow rock into hard rock toward the end...I'd almost say it's Styx's Bohemian Rhapsody. Dennis's vocals are amazing. A unique voice and range. 🙂👍🎵🎶
"Novelty-ish" is a perfect word for why this song is a disrespected hit.
Dream Theater's "Trial of Tears" fuses the extended intro from this song with Rush's "Xanadu."
Kilroy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
Here are some more Styx recommendations for you:
Lady
Lorelei
The Grand Illusion
"Lady", an absolute classic.
Reminds me of my roller skating days in junior high. Light show
DANIEL, you might want to react to the classic Styx song “Suite Madam Blue” from 1975, it shows what they were capable of.
One the greatest anti-cocaine songs is Styx’s “Snowblind” from 1981. The lyrics really make an impact, and the guitar works is stellar.
"Machines to save our lives. Machines Dehumanize." Prophetic, and now we are living it.
Huge Styx fan here, I grew up listening to them. My Mom loved them so much and we saw them live in concert. Amazing to say the least. I sang along to every hit. Despite what most fans say, I love this song. It’a weird but so damn catchy. The band created the album Kilroy Was Here partly to mockingly respond to Christian groups and other anti-rock-music activists who had previously influenced the Arkansas State Senate to pass a bill requiring that all records containing backmasking be labeled as such by the manufacturer. ELO similarly responded with their own 1983 album Secret Messages.
The album's somewhat rock-operatic story tells of a future where a fascist and theocratic government and the "MMM (the Majority for Musical Morality)" have outlawed rock music. The story's protagonist, Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (DeYoung), is a former rock star who has been imprisoned by MMM leader Dr. Everett Righteous (Young). He escapes using a disguise (according to the album's famous song "Mr. Roboto") when he becomes aware that a young musician, Jonathan Chance (Shaw), is on a mission to bring rock music back. Vocalist and keyboardist Dennis DeYoung conceived Kilroy Was Here as an album and accompanying stage show, which opened with a short film of the same name. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, James Young talked about the creative differences in the band, and what led to their breakup: "Dennis really wanted to do these soft, intimate love ballads, and that was against the grain for me and Tommy Shaw, so our differences got magnified, because Dennis was insisting on going outside the boundaries we lived with. He's an assertive and strongly opinionated guy.” Which explains the mushy soft love songs and those hard rock hits that don’t match musically. Still love the band tho.
In the 1950s and 60s, "made in Japan" had the connotation of being mass produced and low quality. Much like "made in Korea" later and more recently "made in China."
But in the early '80's, Japanese manufacturing was SUPER threatening to the US. Their auto industry was definitely eating Detroit's lunch. I remember Newsweek had a cover article ominously captioned "Japan, Inc." The movie Die Hard took out the looming Nakatomi Tower and murdered Nakatomi Corp's CEO. That was all part and parcel of early 80's America.
Vancouver was called Hongcouver on 60 Minutes.
My first Styx concert was this album's tour. They finally played within 3 hrs. drive. It was early in the tour and inside a non-huge arena where you could see the film segments played, and Styx was the only act. This was definitely not suited for the outdoor summer festivals(in 100+ degree heat) of yahoos that had been drinking all day there to see just hard-driving rock from a variety of bands.
The show I saw did have the film clips and Kilroy-themed songs, but also woven in there were most of the hits as concert segments within the story.
The Kilroy album is low on my list of Styx albums, but it was the tour of my first concert, so I had a great time there.
As far as the theme/concept/story, it's way too involved for the casual fan; but as someone who enjoys sci-fi and deep-thinking songs it was OK. Probably if they made a full feature film where the story was more fully explained and explored with a production budget of a Star Wars, then go out on tour it would have been better. I got most of the story and knew what they were fighting back against (censorship, demonizing bands for corrupting their kids). That reminds me of the movie "School Of Rock" where the kids lives were so regimented and controlled.
At the time, computers and devices were just starting to show where they could evolve to; and I'd say there are a lot of dehumanized and programmed people around these days. One of my favorite movies, "The Terminator", was made just after this and released in 1984 where the machines took over(a common sci-fi concept); but this album is about technology used as tools for power and control over society. Can you say information "fact-checking", "harmful false content", and "misinformation" as determined by those in power or want it to control what gets out for people to see and hear using technology platforms. This censorship of free speech and expression is to stop any debate because only what fits the agenda is acceptable for them and cannot stand up to logical debate. Any deviation from the dogma is evil misinformation that must be cancelled along with anyone associated with it. The teams of Chinese operatives writing the algorithms of censorship working in our tech/media companies honed their craft in communist China, and then infiltrated corporations in this country like they infiltrated many other institutions. Once the free-flow of information is lost, so is our society. I'd say Dennis was a prophet.
You wanted to know what we think of the song? I have loved this song since it first came out.
Yeah I'm one of your older subscribers. You've got to remember that when this song came out there was a lot of buzz, among what was my generation of young folks, about how much rapidly expanding technology was causing a rift in human communication and interactions. And yes we used words like "buzz"
From Jesus Christ Superstar
"What's the buzz tell me what's a happening! What's the buzz tell me what's a happening.... 🎶 "
Sorry, I digress.
What Mr. Robots (pronounced robot ohh) really represented to the kids listening to it was a cautionary tale. Don't get so reliant on technology that you begin to loose your ability to work, play, or interact with the rest of the world in a real or palpable way.
I remember about 10 years ago or so I was standing in Starbucks waiting to get my coffee and the couches were filled with teenagers who were texting with each other. It took me a minute to realize that they were texting the person they were sitting next to or across the table from but once I realized that, I just couldn't understand why they didn't just open their mouth and speak with each other.
I have three kids, age 15 - 23 and none of them are really very good at striking up a conversation with a stranger. This is something that we all have to do in order to function in the world we live in.
The ability to talk to each other is becoming a serious challenge. Look at the state of our society today. Noone is hearing anyone else. We are so utterly divided that families are breaking apart.
Technology didn't cause the divide we are experiencing now but it primed the pump, so-to-speak. We have been losing the ability to communicate effectively with each other for decades and it did begin with technology that evolved faster than we did.
To me , this was just Styx goes totally '80s. There was a lot of that in 1983. But I only heard it on the radio. I think you had to be a Styx fan to have heard much of this background. I don't think it's about how technology has taken over, or made us lazy or whatever. Modern robotics and computer systems were little more than a dream back then. I learned my college programming on an IBM 370, a state of the art machine the size of a truck with less computing power than the four function calculators they used to sell in checkout lines at Walmart. I think it was fear of technology, fear of what would some day come. Thinking about it gives me a whole new appreciation for the song, because it was really prophetic. "Made in Japan", by the way, symbolized cheap mass produced goods even when I was a little boy in the early '60s. '80s, Japan was starting to replace that image with the high tech image it has today.
As someone who was a fan of this group when they were still out and Relavent; I can tell you with most certainty, those fans did not feel like they been had gone astray. this album was a culmination of everything the band was working towards; telling a story with music, and in an album form. Dennis DeYoung wanted to make this into an actual play, but that Projekt never saw the light of day.
The live concert for this was literally a stage performance. they had this entire movie sequence they played up into the band played the first song which was Mr. Roboto. this and Tommy Shaw will be onstage performing their characters telling the story up until when the concert was technically supposed to begin. as we are watching the band perform a revamp of their Paradise Theatre tour; we are technically watching Kilroy not Styx. at the end of the first half the concert you hear a message from Dennis Young playing his characters and everybody's in violation; for which he comes back as his character and does his song Heavy Metal Poisoning.
concert continues until the tragic end; then Dennis and Tommy come back on and finish off the concert and perform the last song. the true spectacle to behold, and one of the best times of my life to be in the audience
Kudos on the t-shirt. Favorite album from my favorite band…for 45 years.
Wasn't real happy with this when it came out but I saw Dennis live a few years ago and this song brought the house down!
This comes from Styx 11th studio album "Kilroy was Here". It was a "rock opera" or "concept album". (I'm big on those if you haven't noticed.) This song sets the tone for the theme woven through the entire album. The album was an answer to the anti-rock movement in the early/mid eighties[1] that charged rock groups with including subliminal messaging and other idiocy (many were the same sort of fuk-wits that attacked D&D). "Kilroy was Here" is a story of a man in a future theocratic fascist dystopia.
[1] - this was Tipper Gore's group, but there were many like it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
This was why Tommy Shaw left the band during a concert in DC many years ago.
Years later, the revised Styx lineup, played this same song. Dennis DeYoung was shocked, and commented how how everything seemed to go around. (Sarcastically)
I was in high school when this album came out, and STYX was my favorite band at the time (I still love STYX, and see them and Dennis whenever they come to town-- I have seen them more than 15 times). The concert started with the band onstage, "acting" for almost 20 minutes before the music started. Thankfully this was the only tour in which they did that, but it did lead to the demise of their classic lineup that gave STYX 4 platinum albums in a row. The show was great once the acting stopped.
Another 70’s Prog rock band that succumbed to the pressure of the new sound of the eighties. Catchy and snappy synth driven songs were replacing the long (sometimes over complex and pretentious) epics that defined the golden age of Prog. Even the greats...Yes, ELP, Genesis could not escape the NewWave craze. Mr Roboto was the poster child for the “selling out” syndrome. I had a Canadian friend in my Texas high School that loved Prog Styx. He used his Mr Roboto record for skeet practice... Daniel, just imagine Tool trying to sound like Taylor Swift. Or Steven Wilson releasing a pop album...oh, wait.
Heheh, I actually liked Wilson's latest release, it was an interesting change of pace that made sense as a cold reflection of the current climate:) But yeah, it was certainly a jarring shift.
It was a new wave song by a rock band. It wasnt odd, it was a left turn.
"Kilroy was here" was a message WW2 soldiers would write on walls of places they pushed the German's out of...A reminder of who beat them if they came back.
There was also a simple line drawing of a long nosed bald man looking over a fence that the soldiers would draw along with the words.
Domo origato, Danielson. I was a kid when this came out so I loved it.
Soldiers used to draw a picture of eyes and nose looking over a wall and write Kilroy was here
I remember when this song was released. Not surprisingly, it was VERY popular among young and teenage boys, given the robot concept and voice box sound. it might have been off putting and cheesier to adults, but kids loved it. but I was like "who the hell is Kilroy!?" at the time, and didn't find out until many years later.
I like this song and every other song they sing.
I always kind of dug this song. I don’t think I ever knew there was a video for it though.
It's a great song. It reminds me of when the internet was popular
This is, and has always been, my favorite styx song!
BTW, i think you would enjoy the royal guardsmen, the song i grew up with is snoopy vs the red baron,
There was a huge backlash against this song and many "true Styx fans" disowned it or saw it as the end and were very upset. I was 7 when the album came out and I loved the song. Then there was the backlash and I hated it. Then I heard it again in high school and I loved it. It's very polarizing. I was just following the crowd, like in the sad disco backlash. Dumb kids.
I heard a guy sing Lady at karaoke and was inspired to do Mr. Roboto and have done it several times. The Lady man was kind of upset and said something to me while I was singing and then left. I don't know what he said, but at the very least it was mocking.
Thank you very much Mr Dethstrok9, that was a fun song, a real ear worm. Life imitates art eventually.
It's nice to see a person's thoughts on this song who does not know the controversy that this song and the album it came from. So much criticism has been leveled at it because some in the band's fan base did not care for the change in the band's sound on this album. Even so, the song did chart well and the song has become a part of our Pop Culture. The concept was maybe too much over the heads for some in the fan base leading to them not liking it. The more simplistic structure to the song as well as others on the album was intentional. To evoke the impression of music being created by and\or reliance on technology rather then artistic human input. The album came along before the push by politicians and morality groups to put content warnings on albums. Which did happen. I can't say I agree with you on your opinion that technology has not had a negative effect on human society.
The album is called Kilroy was Here.
Some Styx albums have one track that got used for the following concerts as the intro/opening. This intro was extended and made more dramatic to get the crowd to take their seats, stop making noise and get ready for their show.
For the previous album, Pieces of Eight, that song was Renegade.
Both songs have a rather softer and slower intro compared to the rest of the song.
Styx predicted the future when they wrote this. Now robots rule the world.
This was my first 45 I bought with my own money so it will never be a bad song.
Someone called Maria's name
I swear it was my father's voice
Saying, "If you stay you'll all be slain.
You must leave now. You have no choice."
-- Warren Zevon (1978)
"Veracruz"
The song "Heavy Metal Poisoning" from this album is pretty good. It features James Young on vocals.
Actually I bought the album upon it’s release and saw them live doing this show! It was very good and way ahead of it’s time predicting the future of computers birtually taking over the world! I would have liked to hear more of their other great songs at that concert though it was still good
I don't know for sure that this was the intent of the writer, but "Kilroy was here" evolved from one man's signature in WW2 manufacturing, to a common tag by American soldiers left everywhere during the war meaning "an American fighting against tyranny was here" and eventually "a common man (of any nationality) fighting for good was here." So I THINK the choice of Kilroy for the name was an ode to the common man (I'm just one of you) fighting against injustice/tyranny and, in this specific case, technocracy. I'd love to ask Dennis if I'm right! Also, I know many Styx fans hate this song, but I LOVE it! Thanks for the reaction! ❤️✌🏻✌🏻❤️
Loved the reaction. I am continuously impressed by your analytical skills whether you like the song or not. Please take this complement from much older guy. World is not more complicated than in my time or this songs time. Technology changed humans remain the same.
Bit of Rock Opera. They regreted making this song for a while but they have many other great songs.
This is my favorite concept album. The Wall is the second. This is one of the few albums where I love every song and the story and it isn't a musical. The characters and story are told so clearly through the music I dont need a visual medium. This song however is the most commercial from the album. Glad u didnt think it too weird.
Kilroy is an old reference, even by my archaic standards. "Kilroy was here."
One of the regular regular antagonists on Doctor Who were the Cybermen. Their [/!\ Warning Mixed Metaphor Alert /!\] prime directive was to take biological humans and upgrade their bodies with advanced, identical (one size fits all), android forms, whether said human wanted them to do so or not. The usual alternative to being upgraded was "Delete." Oh yeah, their remaining human central nervous system was also suppressed to be a loyal drone. A very few individuals may rise within the hierarchy, but I wouldn't count on it.
Check out the deep cuts from this album!
Double Life and Just Get Through This Night are both fantastic.
Why would you be apprehensive about a classic like this. It top the charts.
I can't help but laugh
This was the end of the Styx road for me. I’ve seen them since and still love Styx, just not the spray painted cardboard box/dressed like robots on stage Styx. There are actually GREAT STYX SONGS, perhaps give older albums a shot. EQUINOX & GRAND ILLUSION are my two faves, GREAT STUFF!
Or the Paradise Theatre album.
Astro was The Jetson's dog. Elroy was George Jetson's son. Rust rought rou'd rike to row.
Put this into the context of the time it was written. That explains it's popularity to a certain extent.
It was part of a whole concept.
I liked this song from the start. The vocoder had me hooked.
People say this is a concept album about Robots but I'm not sure there's any song on it about robots except Mr Roboto
"Elroy" was the boy... His dog was Astro. ;-]
The person who discovered fision and fusion of particules also thought that technology was progress, but he didnt saw anything that happened later, is it that good give so much power to us humans when we can even manage the little power we have over our own selves?
its a pretty cool statement on technology
It took Styx in a different direction that ultimately splintered the band. Lead Singer and founder Dennis DeYoung was going more theatrical and Tommy Shaw/JY Young (JY was also a founding member) wanted to rock more. The Panozzo brothers (bass/drums and also founding members) tried to stay out of it. I actually had tickets to see them in concert, but was in the Navy and my submarine left port three days before the concert - Styx then broke up after this tour.
I don't care what anyone says, the bass line is awesome in this song!
Album was call "Killroy Was Here" if you ever seen grifftti Killroy Was Here
parece una apertura de un anime de los 70 s80s ♥♥
Kilroy is a term that goes back to WWII.. you would see graffiti 'Kilroy was here' in many different places.
Wow, I loved this song when it came out, thought it was the coolest. I was also 11.
Frozen pizza vs local town pizza.
Machine vs human, easy answer
7:25 Ruh-Roh 🐶
Roboato? Roboto! Like in robot!
I always loved this song, but I'm a sci-fi geek. It was very different for Styx at the time and did not do well. Definitely ahead of its time, but I thought it was visionary.
This is why Dennis was fired from the band because this was the route he wanted to take the band, more a theatrical direction and the other members wanted to stick with being a rock band.
Dennis was not fired over this song. Tommy Shaw quit during a live performance due to a cocaine addiction and people whispering in his ear to go solo. Dennis put the band on hiatus to give Tommy time to sort himself out.
Kilroy was here!
It sounds like a putrid cream merengue that a robot dog has had a shit on.
Read up about kilroy. The name came from graffiti on US military equipment. It would say "Kilroy was here. " I think this was around WW2.
There was a full story actually. Given the state of AI these days, and reliance on robotics, it's kinda eerie. I still like the song.
Thanks for taking a chance of being blocked. Others won't do that. Thanks.
You should look up Kilroy on Wiki, he was a WWII characiture
Mr. Roboto - aka Dennis DeYoung's ego trip where he was bigger than the band
super song