Title: Come Sail Away... and they've sunk
Review: Look, wasn't Dennis deYoung the voice of Styx? The man whose melodies and pure vocals mixed with the hard riffs to produce something magical and different? Yes, he was. And wasn't Come Sail Away THE kick-ass stadium/rock/melody track of all time? Yes, it was.And 30 years on neither he nor the tattered remnants of his band have produced anything remotely near as spine-tinglingly thrilling. Instead, he's sulking in his mansion in LA somewhere, while JY and Tommy and a bunch of sub-standard hangers-on stagger on into their twilight years, grinding out the riffs at ever-smaller venues, getting more mundane and mediocre with every passing album.And here's their latest effort - an album of covers even more embarrassing than de Young's haircut and trousers on the Rock The Paradise tour.A more apt title for this hopeless lash-up would be The Last Thrashings Of A Beached Whale. Give it up lads - or get round to Dennis's and patch it up with him. You know it makes sense.
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