{"id":40029,"date":"2006-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/one-with-everything-styx-the-contemporary-youth-orchestra\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"one-with-everything-styx-the-contemporary-youth-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/one-with-everything-styx-the-contemporary-youth-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"One With Everything: Styx & The Contemporary Youth Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/place>Carnac<\/i> the Magnificent: <\/i>Not much.<\/p>\n

Ed McMahon: <\/i>Not much?<\/p>\n

*rips open\u00a0envelope*<\/p>\n

<\/place>Carnac<\/i>: <\/i>What is a live <\/place>Styx album worth these days?<\/p>\n

Okay, before the flames reach my inbox, let me be perfectly clear: I do like <\/place>Styx.\u00a0 But this is an awful album.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, in the ultimate sign of revisionist band history, not a single song on this compilation was written by Dennis DeYoung. Whatever the current members may think about him, for God\u2019s sake he was an integral part of the band\u2019s commercial success, but you won’t find tunes like \u201cLady,\u201d \u201cCome Sail Away,\u201d \u201cBabe,\u201d or \u201cMr. Roboto\u201d here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the band has a reason for their actions, probably something along the lines of \u201cHis songs didn\u2019t fit the creative vision for this album.\u201d To that I would say bullshit. It seems the hip thing these days to release an album backed by an orchestra, but some bands simply don\u2019t need it. <\/place>Styx is one of these groups. Sure, they were over the top, pompous and all that, but if you listen to their albums do they cry to be backed by a full orchestra? They were bombastic enough as is.<\/p>\n

So, One With Everything<\/i> doesn\u2019t include key pieces of the band\u2019s catalog, and quite frankly doesn\u2019t have a good reason to exist. What is there left to like?<\/p>\n

Styx is a touring band now and certainly not a creative entity. In this sense the performances on One With Everything<\/i> are quite well executed and professional, but lacking in energy. Part of this has to do with the orchestra; it\u2019s much more difficult to let it rip when everything\u2019s choreographed, so to speak. \u201cRenegade\u201d and \u201cBlue Collar Man\u201d are actually worse because of the orchestra. <\/p>\n

This is not the fault of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, which performs as well as anyone else. The few moments when the material is suited to their involvement (\u201cA Criminal Mind\u201d) demonstrate the benefits of a partnership like this. The fault is in the material and the idea, not the performers. <\/p>\n

Styx did not need to release this album. It serves no purpose — this is not going to be the end-all be-all for Styx live records, and for those looking for an album of this type there are plenty others worth your time. I\u2019m afraid this is just a case of putting out more product for the sake of putting out more product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5844],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-40029","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-styx","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40029"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40029"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}