| Caught in the Act
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Japanese-only double SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2009.
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By Character Counts (Idaho USA)
Don't waist your money on this CD. This is an old Styx hits album without Dennis DeYoung, the founder and the most notable voice and style. Tommy Shaw is great, but the formula is just lacking with the replacement they used. This is the same live album as "Return to Paradise", but that one has Dennis on it and it sounds fantastic.
I bought them both at the same time and I never listen to this one because it is so substandard to the mystical sound that Styx has created in the past. They have produced other newer material without Dennis and it just doesn't work. It's like an Illusion without Dennis, but it's not a "Grand Illusion". So now they are playing at Jackpot Nevada on May 23rd. It's a gambling town in the middle of nowhere with about 100 residents and about 500 guests a day. They will be playing in front of a few hundred people instead of tens of thousands in the sold out arena's of the past. Isn't Ego a wonderful thing?
Dennis and Tommy was like the good Kirk, bad Kirk episode on Star-trek, where together they were the superior leader and without each other, they are mediocre at best. They need to patch this up and get back together to give us some more great music history, before they end up playing solo in front of 8 people in the senior citizen home. Any and all Styx fans would flock in droves to buy and see them perform a new album of music together. All I would like to say to them is: "Come on, get back on your feet, you're the ones they can't beat and you know it. Let's see what you got, Just take your best shot" and I know you won't blow it.
By C. Ziebell (Texas)
I've always loved this CD. Unfortunately the one I had became damaged. I'm glad I was able to find a replacement, and it was cheap!
By Craciun Vasilica (Romania, Europe)
This is a great CD, infact it's a Best of. It contains all Styx great songs, including Suite Madame Blue, Don't Let It End, Snowblind, Crystal Ball, The Best of Times, Mr. Roboto... I strongly recommend to every man who loves good music to buy this CD.
By Terrence J. Reardon (Lake Worth (a west Palm Beach suburb), FL)
Styx released their first live album, the 2-disc Caught in the Act in April of 1984.
The double live album (and its off-shoot concert video (now on DVD)) was recorded (and filmed) in April of 1983 on the band's Kilroy Was Here tour at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most Styx fans want to compare this album to 1997's Return to Paradise. Caught in the Act slightly has the edge as the band had more energy, were younger and were still an active touring band at the time.
The album leads off with the studio track "Music Time", which was a US charting hit peaking at #40 in the Spring of 1984 yet doesn't appear on either Greatest Hits 1 or 2 or the recently released Come Sail Away Anthology, so you will have to get the track here and a great song (when I first got the album on cassette when released in 1984, I used to crank this track up and set the tone for a great live album to come).
The actual concert kicks off with "Mr. Roboto" which features singer and keyboard player Dennis DeYoung acting out and singing the song live much better than the heavily processed vocals he did on the studio version (the band used the instrumental backing track as the band's equipment was hidden thanks to the props on-stage during the track). You can hear his grunts as he struggles to remove the Roboto mask (you can see this on the Caught in the Act video which was finally released on DVD in 2007). Roboto was given new life with the VW commercial in 1999 but when taken out of context outside of the Kilroy Was Here concept it doesn't work. Within Kilroy the song has meaning which many fans don't see.
The live album has songs that are not on the video/DVD ("Babe", a spirited "Suite Madame Blue", "Miss America", "Fooling Yourself" and "Crystal Ball") and vice versa (the Kilroy film, "Heavy Metal Poisoning", "Cold War" (with extra verses and a long Tommy Shaw guitar solo), "Renegade" (complete with band getting arrested and John Panozzo drum solo), "Haven't We Been Here Before" and the "Don't Let it End (Reprise)").
Other highlights on this album are "Too Much Time on My Hands", "Snowblind", "Rockin the Paradise", "Blue Collar Man", "Don't Let it End" (which is better than the studio version), "The Best of Times" and "Come Sail Away".
The album reached the US Top 40 in 1984 but quickly fell from sight as people didn't give the live album a chance which is a shame as it is one of the best live albums ever recorded (if it had been released during the 1984 Christmas period, either that or 1983 Christmas season then the album may have done better than it did).
Styx's Caught in the Act album turned out to be the final album the classic lineup of Styx would ever release and is a great testament to the classic lineup.
Highly recommended!
By DANtheSTYXfan (Kalamazoo, MI USA)
This is Styx's only live album with all of the 5 classic members of Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, James Young, Chuck Panozzo, and John Panozzo. It is a very well done 2-disc album. With 7 songs on each disc this is a must have for every hard-core Styx fan. This is better than Return To Paradise and all the other live albums Styx has made with Lawrence Gowan. This was when Styx was at their peak and on the edge of their hiatus from 84 to 90. So seriously buy this album. My personal favorite on this album has to be Blue Collar Man (Long Nights). That song alone is worth the price of admission I mean the price of this album. This is really good music that you won't be able to find on today's music this style of talent + creativity = great music is most definetly gone. So buy this CD because you'll never hear music like this on an album or live ever again.
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