Styx - Mr. Roboto | REACTION
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I love Dennis no matter what he sings or writes. He is very humble, kind and intelligent. Go Mr. Roboto! Love it. 😊
I agree! His solo album was amazing
I've met him a few times. Always kind and willing to sign albums. Very friendly
@@vinceaiello3163 Dennis Deyoung seems very nice! He was born in Illinois, just like me 😊
I love Styx I love this tune I don’t know why people are so bummed out about it back in the day. It was a huge hit that’s just my opinion even my 17-year-old daughter loves it she and her friends they love it.❤😊
As best I remember, it was a big hit when it came out and was on the radio all the time. So I don't know who all the people were who were hating on it, but I personally never heard from them. ;)
People hate on Mr. Roboto because it literally killed Styx, even though the video showed Mr. Roboto saving them.
It didn't. That's a myth.
"guitarist Tommy Shaw's reported dislike of the song and direction of the group's concert performances - which, in keeping with the album's concept, featured bandmembers acting out certain roles - led him to leave the band at the completion of the "Kilroy" tour."
"What that song did is it killed a whole lot of people's interest in our music," Young said
"Young and Tommy Shaw would usually reference similar reasons when asked about moving on without DeYoung and this hit song. They didn’t like the direction of “Mr. Roboto,” Kilroy was a toxic experience they didn’t want to revisit, and creative differences with DeYoung were simply too much to handle."
@@tonyallen4265 Reports can say what they want. Doesn't change the fact that the band plays Mr. Roboto every single night.
@@xDarthSTYXx Mr. Roboto was the rift between the band and Dennis. Tommy left because of Mr. Roboto's (or Kilroy Was Here) stage requirements. Styx ain't Styx without Dennis or Tommy. I could continue to find more quotes from band members that say Mr. Roboto started the end of the full Styx band. Believing Mr. Roboto had nothing to do with it is ridiculous
@@tonyallen4265 they play roboto nightly first encore they are hypocrites
“Don’t Let it End” was the second single from this album. It’s a ballad.
Yes!!!
I was a teenager in the 80’s and absolutely love this song. My favorite song by Styx lol
Got to see Dennis live before the big lockdown and he brought the house down with this song. Lot of people hated on it when it came out, but it was a huge hit, and the album went platinum. I think most bands would have been happy with those results.
Styx supposed to be rock..... no guitar riffs, just synthesizer......
@@JoseCespedes67janaIve never heard of any artist being confined to one genre or instrument, what a weirdo you are
@@JoseCespedes67jana Supposed to be? It's supposed to be what the songwriter makes of it, not what your opinions are.
This Was 🔥. Some people just don’t know good music ❤️✌🏼
This entire album is killer. All three of Styx's singers are very good.
As a Styx fan I never understood the backlash from older Styx fans. It was a departure from their established sound, but I liked the change at the time, & still do.
As for vocals - as great a singer as Tommy is, he possesses a more traditional Rock voice. Dennis is often regarded as Styx's definitive vocalist, possibley because his voice & style is more distinctive, as well as the fact that most of Styx's top 10 hits were written & sung by him. He also had tenure of course.
Great song. Always has been. F the haters.
Always loved this song.
Bump the haters! I have always loved this song. It is theatrical but I love some musicals.
"Too Much Time On My Hands" another great one
powerfull song with a lot of meanings now!!! powerfull song powerfull lyrics... maybe ahead of its time....
Little known fact, at the time this video came out in 1983, it was the most expensive video ever shot. It cost a whopping $50,000.00
This song came out when I was in the 8th grade and it's probably been almost that long since I've heard it. I forgot how much l love it.
Dennis sang and wrote many of their top songs. Lady, Babe , Come Sail Away or just a few. I enjoy listening to Dennis over Shaw. Thanks for your reaction.
This was a great reaction! I watched this with the screen enlarged so I could see the video better. Hey man that you guys were only visible from like the neck up. I couldn't help laughing. You all are !obbing your heads with intense expressions on your faces. Especially my guy with the sunglasses on!
I've always loved this album ... every song. Worth a listen.
Saw the Dennis DeYoung band in concert a few years ago and he put on a killer concert. He even played up Mr. Roboto but live it sounded great.
While this did initially break up the band, they did reform in 1990 ( without Shaw). They had a huge hit Show Me The Way. Shaw returned to the band in the late 90's where the did their Return To Paradise Tour, which was also made into a PBS special. Their last album featuring both Shaw and DeYoung was ,1999's Brave New World. Tensions rose once again within the band and DeYoung was unceremoniously ousted from the group.
You have to listen to “Lady”…..
Styx, like many bands from the 70s, reinvented themselves in the early 80s. The musical zeitgeist was changing, and there was no choice but to remake yourself in the new era. Evolve or perish. And many did just that.
great word! I had to look it up, but will try to use it in conversation at least twice a week from now on!!
@@bluelionvintage8134 It's always good to add words to our lexicon! Articulation is an important aspect of language. Have a fabulous day!
I love this song. Mr. Roboto costume for Halloween would be the best.
This was Dennis DeYoung dragging the rest of Styx into his Broadway musical fantasy. It drove a wedge between them and alienated a lot of fans. It definitely grew on people over time but it was a bridge too far at the time for the Styx audience who tolerated his romantic songs but wanted more guitar rock.
He was, also, completely egotistical and uncompromising in it (although: his "direction"/his intentions were, in-and-of-themselves: compromises/compromising (to begin with!)!).
-I had some scant experience with Japanese, so:
I often got laughs out of "singing back to" the song/people who were listening to the song:
"Ie kekkodessu, Mr. Roboto" (or, as I preferred: "Mr. Blowboto"!😋😛).
[It would translate, approximately, as: "...yeah, no thanks, "Mr. Roboto' ..." 🤪]
The single went to # 3 on the Billboard Charts and the album quickly went platinum. It's an absolute myth that this wasn't a very successful album for the band.
@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra deyoung wrote 3 songs shaw wrote 3 and young 2 for this project. it was deyoung;s concept but they all contributed doesn't sound uncompromising to me
Exactly the perfect description of this song and album's history. 👍🏻
@@kentmains7763 ty. Complete myth.
I never knew anybody who didn’t like it when it came out. I put the complaints in the same category of those who burned disco records.
This must obviously be followed up by reactions to Peter Schilling's Major Tom, Nena's 99 Luftballons, Falco's Der Kommisar and, of course, Men w/o Hats' Safety Dance.
I definitely was not one of the haters of bands that evolved their style and sound with the times. I liked this song and the album and was a fan of Styx before it was released.
Mentioned this on another of your Styx reaction videos: Kilroy Was Here is the album Styx fans love to say they hate (but secretly love) - The 3 hits were this one "Mr. Roboto" "Don't Let It End" and "High Time" all sang by Dennis DeYoung. Tommy Shaw's best song on this album is "Just Get Through This Night" - but my favorite is "Haven't We Been Here Before" a true master Ballad where Tommy and Dennis sing together (was supposed to be a single - and video was even made for it - but then wasn't released as on).
Yes. When Dennis and Tommy harmonized on that song, it was incredible. It brought some men I know to tears.
Listen to Styx ‘prelude 12/Suite Madame Blue’ from 7 years earlier. Prog rockish with Dennis at lead vocals. To many Styx fans.., their best. And you may see why many had a problem with this song .
Now that's the way I'll always remember them. Great classic Styx.
fans should be able to overlook one songs considering how many great albums and songs they produced. fickle fans
I always liked this song! Dennis does have lead on this. He has a thick Chicago accent. When you hear his regular speaking voice, he sounds like a typical Chicagoan. I like his voice, but I also like Shaw's rock voice too. I also like that they are versatile. Dennis sings on Don't Let it End and Dessert Moon (two 🔥 songs)! This is just a fun song to sing. And quite a ride listening in headphones. 🎧🔥🤖
I was in elementary school when first time listen this songs and always wondering the meaning of "my brain IBM". 😁😁
First time hearing this, for some reason his voice gives me Rocky horror picture show vibes!
Not everyone hates this and many of us think the stage show was brilliant if you ever get to see the vid it is sooooooooooo wonderful
His voice is so great and powerful
They did a amazing unplugged performance of "Come Sail Away" on VH1 back in the 1990s which is worth listening to (just search "come sail away unplugged vh1 performance" for the video). Also, check out their music video for "Music Time" from 1984, really cutting edge CGI/animation.
Kilroy, I believe, refers to a phrase (and at times a drawing of a bald character) from World War 2... "Kilroy was here."
I'm not going to break this down, but if you Internet search "Kilroy was here" you will see how it fits into the theme of the song.
Oh and I forgot to say in my other comment, not just the song, but the video was well received.
It really was the concert concept that was disastrous...
¡Esto es una obra de arte !
Styx fans reacted to this in the same way Metallica fans reacted to Load and Reload. The departure from the known style of the bands seemed to be abandoned, and the die-hards flipped out. BTW, y'all are so hilarious doing the robot together towards the end. Love it.
14:31 favorite part of the video by far.. just them vibing to Mr. Roboto
Went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Love the song, fun halloween vibe, though it kind of hurt their career once Dennis DeYoung started with the whole theatrical thing. The video is quite cheesy though😂
For me; I love this song. This was my very first concert; which was done as a stage play. This was a great album and an amazing concert.
As for who's singing; James gets the least attention, even though he has some great songs. Dennis and Tommy make up most of the songs on album.
The heart of the song though is too much technology; which is why the syth sound was used. Dennis talks about a future we are now living in. Everyone on their phones, laptops, whatever, all pluged in and not paying attention to the real world around them.
I love this song
People despised it cuz the rock radio stations played this tune non stop. Still a great song!!😎😊🔴
This wasn't one of my favorite Styx songs but ya'll made me like it more after your reaction!!
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime. Greatest concept album ever! Cool reaction, Styx is a great band 👍
The banger from this album was " heavy metal poisoning"
There was a VW commercial years ago with this song that is pretty funny. Made the song cool again. It’s probably on UA-cam somewhere…
The concert opened with a movie telling the story of Kilroy before they started playing the songs from the album and other albums.
I saw it live it was great to me!
So what do you guys think about his (Dennis) voice? It is unique and I have always loved it!
Takes me back to the early 80's when Styx was rockn. Perfect song for Halloween, I remember it. Like the "robot" movements by you guys, thanks for the Halloween reaction. 🎃
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The movie was a concert video released from the tour. It's killer !
The whole “ Paradise Theater “ album is FIRE ! Watch concert video!
I think people hated the transition from their rock & roll roots to “selling out” to pop music. I love the synths. As a kid I remember hearing this thinking how did those sounds go from left to right in the speakers?!? Lol
Perfectly said
This is far from being Dennis De Young's first song, he shared lead vocals with Shaw, and only illustrious boneheads had issues with his great voice, not to mention his technical mastery of keyboards. If you guys are interested, there are a few voice instructors channels here on YT that explains just how incredible De Young's performance is, even on this maligned(unjust and frankly narrow-minded so) song.
The film you're talking about is the opening of the live dvd Caught in the Act. DDY is Kilroy. Tommy Shaw is Johnathan Chance. James Young is the evil Dr. Righteous. The Panazzo brothers work for Dr. R.
People despised it cuz the rock radio stations played this tune non stop. Still a great song!!😎😊🔴
In my world..my realm of people.. my family & friends LOVED this tune!!! Never hated it or got sick of it. Still to this day I love this tune.😎😊🔴
I saw a guy do a solo cover of this song with just an acoustic guitar. It was so surreal. Fall of 2003 at Jamesport Brewing in Ludington Michigan. His name was John Merchant. You just don’t forget something like that.
Back then also, many of our electronic goods were made in and came from Japan. It was before globalization, current/modern trade agreements and the emergence of China as a global manufacturer particularly in the US. You always expected your electronics to be from Japan so when this came out, that lyric was totally on point, but I understand why a more modern generation might wonder why...
Thinking about this song, the lyric "machines dehumanize" and the latest fears around AI is interesting.
prophetic i'd say
This song was a hit because it catered to the sound that was popular at the time, but for a lot of Styx fans it was too much change, too quickly. It may have been a good business decision at the time but it did a lot of long-term damage to the relationships within the band.
It wasn't "a good business decision," either. ...despite what some record executive of the day might have told you/will, still, tell you, now: THIS "sound" was, already, over.
Done with. ANY kid on the street either NEVER thought it was "hip" or knew it was over, by this point (effectively).
...their parents and single-digit age younger sisters or brothers, MIGHT have thought it was (mildly so ...briefly....) ...but, outside of that??: No.
-Also: this was Dennis DeYoung taking his desire to do "musical theatre:9or some form of popular music associated, directly, with THAT!) to "the Nth degree," ...To make the band (which was, itself, collapsing, already, by this point) ascribe to that notion.
It failed (deservedly so!).
This horrible song hardly catered to the prevailing sound of the time. More like mocked it. Unironically. Actually took itself seriously. LOL
@@flubblert Exactly!!
Some people hate the Rush 80's era keyboard sound and that is their best era by far. lol
Man we used to make fun of this song. And then listen to it again.
I love this song. I would rank it in the top 10 songs of the 80s.
When this came out it was a radical departure from the traditional Styx. I always just accepted it as something different and didn't hate it at all. If you are going to do a whole album from Styx, I would suggest "The Grand Illusion" or "Paradise Theater".
Love the synth in this one! For the best synth of all their songs, listen to "Fooling Yourself".
I followed Styx from their beginning. Saw them in concert. One of the best I've ever seen, and Ive seen a lot. I hated this song when it came out in my twenties Im 60, and its one of my favorite Styx sings now, lol. Go figure.
i seen styx playing this song at a restaurant at either disney world or universal studios when i was like 9 - 10 years old ... In 1977 - 78 ... before this song was popular ... my "dad" realized i liked the song so it was "time to go" ... i told him id catch up with them outside after the song and i just danced till it was over ... i think it was disney world ...
Respectfully, it couldn't have been that early, was released in 1983, I doubt they sat on it for five years. I saw them twice in late 90's and early 2000's, and unfortunately they didn't play this either time!
@MrCRayAnderson well since I was a kid, I was there and I danced to it as a kid plus I doubt you actually researched your opinion "respectfully" blow it out your azz ...
"My" "dad" also gave me 2 45 records i was listening too at 9 - 10/1977 - 1978 ... One 45 record was billy idol white wedding and rebel yell and the other had "chariots of fire" on it ...
@@MrCRayAnderson are you "respectfully" satin im a liar orrr makin it up ... my first memory here is at 7 "months" old ... my spirit comin to this hu(ed)man form ... AM I "respectfully" lying/makin up more device lickin sheople ...
this song is so underated....it pissed off a bunch of hardcore styx fans though...rock opera
I owned a Vending machine business back then. I went to a trade show in Japan (fyi, the Japanese are the KINGS of Vending...absolute freaks!! You can buy...wait for it...women's used panties in a VM in Japan. Freaks!!). Anyway, this song was HUGE at the time. They played it a lot at the trade show.
To understand the critics you'd have to have listed to Styx's earlier music fist. It was always more rock and rollin'. They had great success with their first concept album called Paradise Theater. Kilroy Was Here was it's follow up and people (including the other band mates) thought this was just too cheesy. It caused a lot of animosity among them.
I don't know how much Styx you've listened to since you have posted these videos, but there's one song you REALLY have to listen to, especially with headphones on. It's not necessarily one of their best songs. It's good, but just not a hit or anything that they play on the radio. It's called Mother Dear. It will give you one of the trippiest sensations listening to it with headphones on. They engineered the sound in a way that makes it feel like the music is travelling back and forth through your head. I swear, you will actually get the feeling that it's moving RIGHT THROUGH YOUR FREAKIN HEAD. It is so cool.
And, by the way, JY was also a killer Strat player!
It's like watching daft punk's great grandpa (subtle influences)
Styx is not Styx without Dennis DeYoung, a founding member of the band. They forced him out because they thought he was becoming too avant garde and experimental and theatrical and less rock 'n' roll (with "Mr. Roboto" being a prime example of his creativity and slight weirdness). I highly recommend reacting to these songs written by Dennis DeYoung that feature him on lead vocals: "Come Sail Away" (the longer album version in which there is a middle section with synthesizers that sound like dolphins and whales) and "Lady."
My second video by you guys and I've just subscribed.
B.T.W.: It *should* interest you that: "Kilroy was here" was an old "catchphrase"/"meme" (before "meme" meant the types of things it does, TODAY!) -a graffiti tag; which, basically, came to represent "Allied troops" during WW II.
Often used to equivocate the idea that "American troops have been here"
(and of unknown origin) ...but found all across the eastern front; generally left by U.S. troops....).
It was, very much, out of use and not recognized by most youth at the time that it was appropriated and attempted to be mutated for this album project. (the mid.-ish 1980s)
...most teens had no idea what it was or that it had existed/been used, previously.
...however: the phrase "Kilroy was here" HAD been used/shown-up in different contexts, in: movies, comic books, fiction short stories or novels, SINCE WW II, so: there were, of course, a fair number of people who recognized it (even if they had no, personal, connection to it -or knowledge ABOUT it).
I have ZERO idea what "Kilroy" was supposed to imply WITHIN the context of this album, etc. absolutely NONE! ...except, perhaps, that: it was a war reference and a "turning back to the past" ...and that the Styx album refereed to/implied (at least) war as well as: a(n at least, SEEMING!) preference for "the past" or "past mannerisms and behaviors." 🤷🤷
...But: it is reappropriation/reuse of cultural/sociological "remainder'/'holdover." ...It cannot be considered "smart" or 'cool' [🙄🙄🤦] because: there is no clear reason for its use and no clear implication or statement which derives/is represented, from using it. ...so it becomes: utterly circumstantial, non-sequitur and useless (in context of the Styx album).
Here some background info on the album Killroy was Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here_(album)
The band was already divided, as Dennis wanted to go the soft ballad route. Due to the huge success of Lady and Babe, I love you.
The rest of the band didn't want to go that way. The album Killroy was Here divided the band even more. On top of that it divided the fanbase, too.
"Kilroy was here" along with a cartoonish drawing of a head peeking over a ledge was graffiti on a wall found from a battlefield site during WW II.
It had, in the ensuing years, been popularized worldwide to be a stand in for the everyday nobody who becomes, along with millions of other troops, sent as "anonymous drones" - a presence whose only sign of humanity is this mysterious whimsical drawing, with the desperate cry in the empty universe of "Kilroy was here".
Its use here with that philosophical description of the common man's lot in mind, in what this song sees as his eventual usurpation by technology, is a repurposing that is meant to remind us of the initial impetus for why the graffiti was put there in the first place - not to be forgotten.
I loved it from the beginning!
I was best man at my friends wedding and they played this for me in honour of my crap dancing🤣
The song that made some of the members have to be coked out just to go onstage while on tour.
Even if nobody else liked it, my cat loved it. They were parts where he couldn’t take his eyes off of it and his earsears were definitely pointed at the iPad.
The Styx songs you WANT to hit are (I don't mean "all of them" -duh!! - but those of primary quality & band-relstionship definition!):
"Loreli";
"Blue Collar Man";
"Quick Is The Beat Of My Heart" [🔥🔥🤘🤘];
"Miss America";
"Midnight Ride";
"Suite: Madam Blue";
"Lady";
"Borrowed Time";
"Witch Wolf"
...maybe: "Light Up" (🤷)
"
...Go get to those!
And “ Boat on the River” … I love that one! ❤
@@TheFairyintheFishBowl
I'll vote for that one, too! 😉😁
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You guys know that Styx had three completely different singer/songwriters, right? While Dennis DeYoung wrote some great rock songs, he was more of the balladeer. Tommy Shaw wrote some great rock songs and some great ballads. But if you guys want rock, you need to turn the songs by James (JY) Young. Listen to songs like Midnight Ride, off of the Equinox album, Put Me On, off of the Crystal Ball album, Miss America, off of the Grand Illusion, and Half-Penny, Two-Penny, off of Paradise theater. Those will give you guys some rock! Lisa 💖🎸
The best song with Dennis De Young (and best Styx song) is Suite Madame Blue. You have to listen to this. Nothing to do with Mr Roboto. Even if I like This song too.
this was meant to be like a broadway rock show ...
"My brain IBM" - Mr. Roboto.
Check out "Twilight" by Electric Light Orchestra, one of the best synth songs out there from the era
My favorite by them that nobody knows! Thank you! ❤
I've heard Styx described as "punk-ass fake Queen." Not qualified to speak on it, but I see why someone might think so.
Kilroy was actually a thing in WW2. Not gonna list the whole story here (easy to google it), but Styx borrowed the name Kilroy as a symbol of 'everyone and no one' anonymity.
PS: I was at the perfect age for Mr Roboto. Teens weren't old enough to be professional music critics and the older generation jumped on Styx for producing crap synth not worthy for "serious music enthusiasts". Truth is, Roboto allowed us kids to "discover" older Styx tunes and thus their back catalog got a booster shot. So, looking historically, Mr Roboto was a brilliant move on Styx's part and Kilroy was one of the last good concept albums.
I was a huge Styx fan and saw them many times in the late 70s/80s. Dennis De Young is great but they jumped the shark with Mr. Roboto.
Oh boys it would be so very lovely if you could do me a big favour and listen to “Boat on the River” by Styx…it’s one of the special ones that will stay with you for life…sending lots of love ! ❤ p.s. We loved Mr Roboto as kids…there seemed to be a huge fascination with aliens, robots and anything psy fi in the early to mid 80’s…I was a bit a creeped out by it if honest. 😑
I suddenly have the urge to pull out an Atari 2600...
I loved this song when it came out. Still like it. They did over play it at the time and Styx fans didn't like the direction this was going for the band at the time. It was fire in the 80's when it came out. Way cool at the time.
A little back story on who Kilroy was in history.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
The song was popular. It was a time when Japan was economically powerful and this song was kissing their ass like many American corporations did at the time
This song/album is what caused STYX to part ways with Dennis DeYoung mostly because he wanted to get theatrical with
everything. Both JY and Tommy Shaw hated this song but still have to play it
during concerts to avoid riots.
I saw this concert in Bezerkely and they started and ended with this video presentation.
They're playing (sans Dennis). If you get the chance, go check them out while you still can.
I’ve never hated this, I just take it for what it is.
Even if you go back one album and listen to Rockin’ the Paradise (a huge hit) you’ll discover the dramatic difference immediately