This pretty much marked the end of Styx, thanks to Dennis DeYoung who insisted on doing the techno pop garbage, something the rest of the band was not comfortable with..
@@runnergo1398... I guess it's okay to sacrifice the band for money. Look what followed, no studio albums for six years, granted the next album did sell 500,000 copies, and then the next five albums didn't make a dent, just sliding into oblivion.
YES!!! When I was in high school we did this talent expo concert where you had to come up with unique acts. You couldn't just get up on stage and sing something. Me and five friends of mine put this song to a dramatic stage performance. We recreated the video and did our own thing. We kicked ass and won first place!! We had the custumes and everything. Fond memory. Ha!!! But my all time favorite Styxx song is "The Best of Times." Beautiful number.🎉
There is a story behind the song that is impossible to get from the song. Dennis DeYoung, the singer here, loved concept albums. The rest of the band at best put up with them. The previous album (my favorite of theirs) tells the story of the rise and fall of an actual dance club in Chicago that they used to go to growing up called the Paradise Theater. The Kilroy album tells the story of a dystopian future when rock music has been outlawed and a musician called Kilroy leads a rebellion. In this song Kilroy escapes from prison by somehow short circuiting a robot guard and using his shell as a disguise. It is more of a time-capsule that for a brief time there was a kind of panic that Japan was going to overtake the west technologically and economically. In Pink Floyd you get the line "got to compete with the wily Japanese" and there was a movie Gung-Ho which was a comedy based on this fear. Then in the 90s Japan's economy stagnated for a very long time and now we panic about the Chinese instead. I do remember that when I first heard this song I thought it was Queen rather than Styx. It does not sound much like Paradise Theater, and Queen was coming off of The Game with "Another One Bites the Dust" It is true that Styx is one of the bands that has kind of become unhip in retrospect despite a string of 4 really great albums. ELO has kind of gone the other way. They were the height of unhip at the time, but since Guardians of the Galaxy they have become respectable. Styx seems to have gone in the other direction.
awesome song, i remember when this came out , just after Bladerunner was released . very relevant to today with the rise of AI and technology etc... the Broadway comment was accurate Styx was turning into a rock opera rather than a Straight forward Rock and roll band.. and tommy and the rest of the guys did not like that idea or direction. so at least that's the way i heard it.
The whole album - Kilroy was here - was a concept album. The idea was that the lead singer Dennis DeYoung was Kilroy, a rock singer that was unjustly imprisoned (in this world rock music was illegal) due to an evil evangelist.
24 years ago, my wife and I walked into Jamesport Brewery in Ludington, Michigan. There was a man playing an acoustic guitar and I wasn’t really paying attention to him for the first few minutes we were there. After listening to him and wondering what he was playing, I realized it was “Mr. Roboto”. And he was just jamming it out as best as he could and singing his heart out. John Merchant is name. He will always be a legend to me.
I’m 48 and I’ve never heard this whole song. All I know is the chorus. Let’s go . You two always have great content . I sincerely appreciate it.. keep it up..
Re-upload, and you've already seen a few other Styx songs ("Man In The Wilderness", "Queen Of Spades", "Renegade", "Suite: Madame Blue", "Too Much Time On My Hands"), so you already have an idea of typical Styx music and that they have a wide variety of song styles (with 3 lead singers/songwriters); see below for more song suggestions. As mentioned, this song is from a sci-fi/political rock opera. It is also an outlier from the typical Styx songs (even though they have a wide variety of styles). Pure ballad "Babe", european folk "Boat On The River", and jazz-rock fusion "A Day" are also outliers. Kilroy is the name of the character in the story, and not an action to be taken. It's origins go back to WWII where allied GIs wrote "Kilroy Was Here" and a drawing after an attack or raid, and Dennis DeYoung heard stories from his relatives about it; so he gave that name to the character that is the symbol of resistance to an authoritarian government of a future where rock music is banned. In concert, you got a summary of the story and they showed a mini-film before the concert. It was OK in a theatre, but for outdoor festivals of drunks it didn't work - they should have just played their usual mix which includes a lot of harder-driving rock. More typical... Dennis DeYoung: "Come Sail Away" (NOT Official video, album audio or live 1983,1996), "Lady", "CASTLE WALLS", "Pieces Of Eight", "Claire De Lune/Ballerina". Tommy Shaw: "Fooling Yourself", "Blue Collar Man", "Crystal Ball", "Love In The Midnight". James "JY" Young: "Miss America", "Young Man", "Snowblind", "Man Of Miracles". "Fooling Yourself" live performance by Styx with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra is a fun one( ua-cam.com/video/brDDzKOcvPA/v-deo.html ). Tommy also did an awesome "lockdown" multi-remote version of "Fooling Yourself" with the CYO( ua-cam.com/video/nECouHrb6aQ/v-deo.html ).
"Kilroy was here" began as markings from an inspector named Kilroy in the shipyards that were building the warships. As the ships required routine inspections for quality control during construction. He would mark each section with this phrase to indicate that it had been inspected, and presumably, to make sure the ship builders knew their work was being monitored. That's where the armed forces got the name and phrase from, and used it as psychological warfrare.
Yup. And its not without irony that the rebuilding of a post-WWII Japan by US influences (Zero Defect Manufacturing) helped put in place the tools that would make Japan the economic powerhouse decades later.
In the eighties we were all fixated on Japan .Their economy was booming and their quality electronic products were everywhere. The Japanese automobile industry was taking over the world. At the time we were all a little bit intimidated. In a non military way of course.
🌸 this was during my high school years and we always thought it was the weirdest fucking song LOL on the other hand 'renegade' is an amazing amazing song! if you guys haven't heard that I would highly recommend it
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto (dōmo arigatō misutārobotto) [どうもありがとうミスターロボット] Mata au hi made (mataauhimade) [また会う日まで] Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto (dōmo arigatō misutārobotto) [どうもありがとうミスターロボット] Himitsu wo shiri tai (himitsu o shiritai) [秘密を知りたい]
It's funny this popped up in my feeds. Roboto was my nickname in college (hence my UA-cam name). I just now understand the reference. I went to school for engineering and worked with automation with manufacturing in medical devices. I thought the nickname was just because I didn't show emotions. 😶
Styx was dipping their toes back into the concept album pool. Kilroy was here was a callback to the meme during World War II that showed people's opposition without overtly calling out anything in particular, sort of symbolic like that blade of grass that grows through concrete. Styx's Storyline (I saw this in concert) The Paradise Theater was closed and was a museum to the destruction of Rock and Roll, with a loop of Kilroy k*lling a concert goer with his guitar. He wanted to clear his name and bring the people responsible for this to justice. There were robots that took over a lot of manual tasks for us. Kilroy disguised himself as one of these robots to break out of prison ("Thank you very much Mr. Roboto for helping me escape when I needed to"). Throughout the story it was found out that the leader of the Anti-Rock and Roll movement, thinly veiled reference to the Moral Majority IMHO, actually did the k*lling and blamed it on Kilroy. They used this as a touchstone to ban all rock music. This was Styx's attempt to bring music back to the people.
Jack Russell of Great White just died. Ya'll need to check out more Great White. I sent an e-mail a month ago about his illness. One of the 80's greats is gone😥
"I Wear My Sunglasses at Night" (Cory Hart) is a futuristic sci fi theme "Der Komissar" (Falco) someone is spying on you "Somebody's Watching Me" (Rockwell) "It's A Mistake" (Men At Work) "Legs" (ZZ Top) guy and girl get a life upgrade in the video
"Mr. Roboto" warns about the advance of technologies and censorship. The protagonist, Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, hides himself inside of a robot to escape the prison. From the album liner notes : _"Kilroy was just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control..."_ Dennis De Young (Keyboard, Lead Vocals) as Kilroy James Young (Guitars, Lead Vocals) as Dr Righteous Tommy Shaw (Guitars, Synthesizer, Shami-Sen, Lead Vocals) as Jonathan Chance Chuck Panozzo (Bass Guitar &Bass Pedals) as Lt Vanish John Panozzo (Drums & Percussion) as Col Hyde __________________________________________________ THE PAST Dr Everett Righteous, founder and leader of the MMM (The Majority For Musical Morality), became influential in American politics through the use of his own cable TV network. He spoke about the evils of rock & roll music, and how its permissive attitudes were responsible for the moral and economic decline of America. He was charismatic, entertaining, and above all, he understood the media. The MMM soon gained enough power to have rock & roll banned. THE PRESENT It is a future where Japanese-manufactured robots, designed to work cheaply and endlessly, are the caretakers of society. "Mr Robotos" are everywhere, serving as manual labor in jobs that were once held by humans. Dr Righteous enforces his own morality by holding nightly rallies where crowds hurl rock & roll records and electric guitars into huge bonfires... Jonathan Chance, the rebel leader of an underground movement to bring back rock & roll, has made Kilroy the symbol of his cause. Meanwhile, Kilroy has spent a number of years in prison. With no hope of release, he is subjected to the humiliation of mind control via the MMM cable network. In an attempt to contact Kilroy, Jonathan jams the airwaves of the MMM network, replacing a mind control session with outlawed footage of a Kilroy concert. Inspired by Jonathan's message, Kilroy plots his escape. Late one night, he makes a daring attempt to free himself by overpowering a Roboto guard. Disguised as a Roboto, Kilroy moves freely throughout the city leaving graffiti-coded messages for Jonathan. Jonathan discovers the "rock code" which leads him to the old Paradise Theatre, now the site of Dr Righteous' Museum of Rock Pathology. There he sees the last Kilroy concert mechanically depicted by Kilroy look-alike robots as the violent end of rock & roll... And there, he and Kilroy meet for the first time...
This was a re upload, it was before all that. Matter of fact it was this video that made you request those songs. You told me you wanted me to see the other side of the band.
You've mistaken the lyrics: "Now everyone can see my true identity...I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!" It's the robot's name. The name Kilroy goes back to a WWII era meme that soldiers would draw on buildings, tanks, etc. "Kilroy was here"
Not sure you understand the Kilroy reference. US Soldiers in WWII I believe would write "Kilroy was here" at different places to tell any future troops that happened upon that spot that a US soldier had been there previously, Dennis DeYoung in the song was saying that HE is Kilroy letting future people know that he has blazed this trail before them.
Dennis de young (,the original lead singer) for most of thirer hits. Anyways he and the band parted ways several years ago. He now tours as a solo artists with a great band he's put together. He carries in the music and legacy of his time in Styx Wich was from the beginning untill the late 90's or early 2000's
Never heard of this band. Okay geez they've got so many good songs. Let's see too much time on my hands and babe and Lady and renegade and sweet madam blue and blue collar man and crystal ball and sailway
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - " I Robot / I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You " 70s GROOVIN' ROCK/PROG/FUNK JAM 🎸🎹🔥 It's a Long title but it has this kind of Vibe like Mr Roboto only not exactly the same sound yet super groovy & funky
I didn't like this song when I first came out, but it's grown on me over the years. The one song I did like on this album is "Heavy Metal Poisoning" Personally, I think Paradise Theater is their best album.
My teen years were the 80's and yeah, it was mostly good time music during that decade. It was when we entered the 90's, that the music completely changed. Styx was huge back then, this album had a couple of radio hits with this song and Don't Let It End. Their previous album, Paradise Theater might have been their biggest album, sales wise. Hard to go wrong with anything this band did though, they a lot of great music.
This song is basically what broke up the band because Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw had creative differences over the bands music and where it was headed
@@cpmf2112 shaw quit high on drugs to pursue a solo career that's the truth. Young and the panozzo's were pissed and wanted deyoung to replace shaw and continue but he refused.
@@pepperdog2039 nope, sorry, in interviews all the band members have been clear on this. Dennis wanted to make all the decisions because he felt like he had the right and was right, every one of the other band members did not agree with that and wanted to be part of the decision making process for the band. Dennis would not agree with that. Dennis himself has said this as well.
Killroy was a nod at a WW2 pop culture "meme". Killroy was a fictitious person who was always there before anybody, look up "Killroy Was Here" images. No one knows who Killroy is is the joke... and here Mr Roboto is claiming to be this infamous fictitious character.
Your are right , this did sound like song from a Broadway show , I thought for sure back then that it was. It was something that Styx just wanted to do I guess , but nobody liked it, as great a band that thru were, and as great a singer as Dennis DeYoung was . But guess what, decades later now in 2024, companies are planning and developing robots for company and private use in the next few years. That was the 80’s, but this is 2024, what we knew as the future back then.. (“ The year 2000” they used to say😄)
This song pretty much did it for all of us… this was the end for the rock band Styx. I didn’t dislike it and it was actually kind of a cool song but it just wasn’t the Styx we all knew. But it was definitely a huge part of the 80’s.
A lot of people didn’t care for Styx singing this song. I liked it myself though. The rest of the group thought that the unofficial head of the group was taking the band too far into another direction with this song.
On this album check out heavy metal and don't let it end and I don't know what people are talking about cuz Mr. Roboto is very popular song and so is don't let it end
Broadway is EXACTLY what this was meant to be. The lead singer convinced the rest of the band to take this direction, story with sets, etc. There's even footage on YT of the musical. Sadly, it tanked and broke the band up.
This song and album are the reason for the hate part of the love/hate relationship with the band. They were just loved before this even though most of their hits were ballads. Their rock song Renegade is actually used by the Pittsburgh Steelers during games to pump up the crowd when they need a big defensive stop. For some reason, it actually works a lot of the time. Dennis DeYoung, who was a founding member, just completely wet the bed with this whole album and making it and the tour some big concept thing. The album didn't sell and because of the big play aspect of the stage show, they lost a lot of money on the tour. It was the end of Styx.
Their “ death “ was greatly exaggerated. They have been theatrical before with “ Paradise Theater “ tour. But I agree it’s not their best . More of a “ Sweet Madam Blue” , “ Queen of spades “ fan myself!
Yeah I feel the exact same way. I really didn’t like that song. Especially when it came out. I was really disappointed in them I had put them up there with the great bands of the seventies and eighties until I heard this song.
OK. There's absolutely no controversy for me. I saw Styx on tour for the "Kilroy was here" album. You said it was like a "Broadway play" and you are correct. The whole album was a concept album that told a story about a dystopian future. The guys literally acted out this story and played the music from start to finish. Literally one of the best concerts of my life. Sadly "Mr Roboto" became some sort of "turning point" to some of the fans because of it's popish sound and what some mistakenly thought was a joke or "fluff". I have to assume they never saw the show that I saw. It definitely wasn't a joke or fluff in any way. It was a small part of a much bigger production and storyline. And to this day, it's still disliked, unfortunately. There's a ton of drama that followed.
There was a song in the 1960's by Jagger and Evans using basically the same premise. Predicting the current 2024 world we live in. Why was this one reviled and destroyed Styx don't know? I though the whole album was alright. Bought the cassette at the local mall at FYE after drinking an Orange Julius. The 80's were a different era for sure.
This was a concept album about it a robot named Kilroy. And they did the concerts where the bad members acted out a story in between songs. It was more like a broadway production. The band hated this completely. They want it be a rock band and they were Doing this theatrical bs. That being said this is a very catchy song. Totally get why it was hit.
Machines to dehumanize if that's not telling the future, I don't know what is cuz if you'll look around you'll see a lot of us that are oblivious of human emotions. Well maybe not emotions but pretty much video instead of help I guess for a lack of a better thought. But again, I thought this was a pretty good album myself. I bought it for this song but when I listen to it I also liked. Don't let it end and heavy metal cuz heavy metal is similar to what's going on now with books instead of music but at one point in time that was music as well. Specifically rock and roll. Aim tomorrow at kiss and band similar to them
The reason Mr. Roboto broke the band is that Tommy Shaw and some of the other members wanted to be in a rock band. Dennis DeYoung whose songs were more popular wanted to take the band in a different direction. Not only by doing more commercial ballads but even going more concept album oriented. On top of that he wanted to get into video much like The Who had done with their Rock Musical "Tommy" or Pink Floyd's The Wall. The other bandmates just weren't having it. Which is why for years after forcing Dennis out of the band due to health reasons they refused playing this song live in concert. It just left a bad taste in their mouths. Even though it was there most requested hit. 😢
baloney shaw selfishly quit to oursue his own solo career no one else quit but him young and the panozzos wanted deyoung to replace shaw but he refused.
This is THE song that brought on the hate. I like their previous stuff and this was the first band I saw in concert and it was a great concert, but yeah this song did not hit well at all
There are a lot of STYX songs to choose from definitely not this one 😂 1 DON'T LET IT END 2 TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HAND 2 BOAT ON THE RIVER 3 BABE 4 THE FIRST TIME 5 THE BEST OF TIME & a lot more
If this song caused a breakup, then why does the current tribute band(Shaw) play this during performances? The real fans enjoy this song. I certainly do. I think that is bull. Dennis was the sole of Styx. Whether or not you like Dennis, he wrote their top hits. 🤔🫤
Hey guys this is a re-upload
awww, I thought it was new!
This pretty much marked the end of Styx, thanks to Dennis DeYoung who insisted on doing the techno pop garbage, something the rest of the band was not comfortable with..
@@brenthenderson3983 And they probably make a lot of money from this song because it's used a lot in a lot of things.
@@runnergo1398... I guess it's okay to sacrifice the band for money. Look what followed, no studio albums for six years, granted the next album did sell 500,000 copies, and then the next five albums didn't make a dent, just sliding into oblivion.
The song was ahead of its time and how the future impact of technology on society
Kilroy was here😊
I saw Styx for this album tour. They rocked.
What year was that? I saw them in 81!!
@@michaelasay8587 it looks like '83
STYX RULES! ❤
Its a great song..
or it's a terrible song - I think it's one of the most divisive songs in music. People either love it or think it's tacky
I have always been so so with this song! Styx put out great music at one time! Anything off the Grand Illusion or Pieces of Eight are killer!!
This album and the turmoil that followed allowed Damn Yankees to exist.
YES!!! When I was in high school we did this talent expo concert where you had to come up with unique acts. You couldn't just get up on stage and sing something. Me and five friends of mine put this song to a dramatic stage performance. We recreated the video and did our own thing. We kicked ass and won first place!! We had the custumes and everything. Fond memory. Ha!!!
But my all time favorite Styxx song is "The Best of Times." Beautiful number.🎉
There is a story behind the song that is impossible to get from the song. Dennis DeYoung, the singer here, loved concept albums. The rest of the band at best put up with them. The previous album (my favorite of theirs) tells the story of the rise and fall of an actual dance club in Chicago that they used to go to growing up called the Paradise Theater. The Kilroy album tells the story of a dystopian future when rock music has been outlawed and a musician called Kilroy leads a rebellion. In this song Kilroy escapes from prison by somehow short circuiting a robot guard and using his shell as a disguise.
It is more of a time-capsule that for a brief time there was a kind of panic that Japan was going to overtake the west technologically and economically. In Pink Floyd you get the line "got to compete with the wily Japanese" and there was a movie Gung-Ho which was a comedy based on this fear. Then in the 90s Japan's economy stagnated for a very long time and now we panic about the Chinese instead.
I do remember that when I first heard this song I thought it was Queen rather than Styx. It does not sound much like Paradise Theater, and Queen was coming off of The Game with "Another One Bites the Dust"
It is true that Styx is one of the bands that has kind of become unhip in retrospect despite a string of 4 really great albums. ELO has kind of gone the other way. They were the height of unhip at the time, but since Guardians of the Galaxy they have become respectable. Styx seems to have gone in the other direction.
Love styx. Great live.
They did a concert with the cyo (Cleveland youth orchestra and choir)
So worth checking out
I saw them in 81!!!
I saw these guys do this live 41 years ago on the " Kilroy Was Here" tour.
awesome song, i remember when this came out , just after Bladerunner was released . very relevant to today with the rise of AI and technology etc... the Broadway comment was accurate Styx was turning into a rock opera rather than a Straight forward Rock and roll band.. and tommy and the rest of the guys did not like that idea or direction. so at least that's the way i heard it.
Tasha looking beautiful as always…yeah, yeah, Tee, you’re handsome too.
Love this song from my childhood. Thanks, guys ❤
He's lucky to be married to her for sure.
Seemed like they spent more time making fun of the song and that era. Jus' sayin'!
That’s right, total 80’s goodness.❤
OMG I DID NOT KNOW STIX DID THIS I THOUGHT IT WAS FROM EUROPEAN TECHNO BAND IN THE '80S I DID NOT REALIZE STIX WERE BEHIND THIS. WOW
🤨😄
Stix wasn’t behind this but Styx was
@@generoberts9151 lol my bad , but they cool either way😎
The whole album - Kilroy was here - was a concept album. The idea was that the lead singer Dennis DeYoung was Kilroy, a rock singer that was unjustly imprisoned (in this world rock music was illegal) due to an evil evangelist.
24 years ago, my wife and I walked into Jamesport Brewery in Ludington, Michigan. There was a man playing an acoustic guitar and I wasn’t really paying attention to him for the first few minutes we were there. After listening to him and wondering what he was playing, I realized it was “Mr. Roboto”. And he was just jamming it out as best as he could and singing his heart out. John Merchant is name. He will always be a legend to me.
So excited to see this reaction!!! Please do “fooling yourself (angry young man)” from Styx next!!!
I’m 48 and I’ve never heard this whole song. All I know is the chorus. Let’s go . You two always have great content . I sincerely appreciate it.. keep it up..
Re-upload, and you've already seen a few other Styx songs ("Man In The Wilderness", "Queen Of Spades", "Renegade", "Suite: Madame Blue", "Too Much Time On My Hands"), so you already have an idea of typical Styx music and that they have a wide variety of song styles (with 3 lead singers/songwriters); see below for more song suggestions.
As mentioned, this song is from a sci-fi/political rock opera. It is also an outlier from the typical Styx songs (even though they have a wide variety of styles). Pure ballad "Babe", european folk "Boat On The River", and jazz-rock fusion "A Day" are also outliers.
Kilroy is the name of the character in the story, and not an action to be taken. It's origins go back to WWII where allied GIs wrote "Kilroy Was Here" and a drawing after an attack or raid, and Dennis DeYoung heard stories from his relatives about it; so he gave that name to the character that is the symbol of resistance to an authoritarian government of a future where rock music is banned. In concert, you got a summary of the story and they showed a mini-film before the concert. It was OK in a theatre, but for outdoor festivals of drunks it didn't work - they should have just played their usual mix which includes a lot of harder-driving rock.
More typical...
Dennis DeYoung: "Come Sail Away" (NOT Official video, album audio or live 1983,1996), "Lady", "CASTLE WALLS", "Pieces Of Eight", "Claire De Lune/Ballerina".
Tommy Shaw: "Fooling Yourself", "Blue Collar Man", "Crystal Ball", "Love In The Midnight".
James "JY" Young: "Miss America", "Young Man", "Snowblind", "Man Of Miracles".
"Fooling Yourself" live performance by Styx with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra is a fun one( ua-cam.com/video/brDDzKOcvPA/v-deo.html ). Tommy also did an awesome "lockdown" multi-remote version of "Fooling Yourself" with the CYO( ua-cam.com/video/nECouHrb6aQ/v-deo.html ).
I also second 'Come Sail Away' but make sure it's not the "Radio Edit" with the final verse cut off.
"Kilroy was here" began as markings from an inspector named Kilroy in the shipyards that were building the warships. As the ships required routine inspections for quality control during construction. He would mark each section with this phrase to indicate that it had been inspected, and presumably, to make sure the ship builders knew their work was being monitored. That's where the armed forces got the name and phrase from, and used it as psychological warfrare.
"Killroy was here" was a phrase that originated back in WW2.
Styx took the phrase for the title of this album.
Yup. And its not without irony that the rebuilding of a post-WWII Japan by US influences (Zero Defect Manufacturing) helped put in place the tools that would make Japan the economic powerhouse decades later.
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In the eighties we were all fixated on Japan .Their economy was booming and their quality electronic products were everywhere. The Japanese automobile industry was taking over the world.
At the time we were all a little bit intimidated. In a non military way of course.
🌸 this was during my high school years and we always thought it was the weirdest fucking song LOL
on the other hand 'renegade' is an amazing amazing song! if you guys haven't heard that I would highly recommend it
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
(dōmo arigatō misutārobotto)
[どうもありがとうミスターロボット]
Mata au hi made
(mataauhimade)
[また会う日まで]
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
(dōmo arigatō misutārobotto)
[どうもありがとうミスターロボット]
Himitsu wo shiri tai
(himitsu o shiritai)
[秘密を知りたい]
Blue collar man is my fave from styx
Just saw Styx 2 months ago. They closed out the encore with this song. They were awesome!
lol I was just thinking about this song like 1 hour before this video popped up...
It's funny this popped up in my feeds. Roboto was my nickname in college (hence my UA-cam name). I just now understand the reference. I went to school for engineering and worked with automation with manufacturing in medical devices. I thought the nickname was just because I didn't show emotions. 😶
Styx was dipping their toes back into the concept album pool. Kilroy was here was a callback to the meme during World War II that showed people's opposition without overtly calling out anything in particular, sort of symbolic like that blade of grass that grows through concrete.
Styx's Storyline (I saw this in concert)
The Paradise Theater was closed and was a museum to the destruction of Rock and Roll, with a loop of Kilroy k*lling a concert goer with his guitar. He wanted to clear his name and bring the people responsible for this to justice. There were robots that took over a lot of manual tasks for us. Kilroy disguised himself as one of these robots to break out of prison ("Thank you very much Mr. Roboto for helping me escape when I needed to"). Throughout the story it was found out that the leader of the Anti-Rock and Roll movement, thinly veiled reference to the Moral Majority IMHO, actually did the k*lling and blamed it on Kilroy. They used this as a touchstone to ban all rock music. This was Styx's attempt to bring music back to the people.
Nice. But Suite Madame Blue, Cyrstal Ball, Miss America are good sounds to check
Jack Russell of Great White just died. Ya'll need to check out more Great White. I sent an e-mail a month ago about his illness. One of the 80's greats is gone😥
Whatever anyone thinks of this song compared to other Styx songs, you HAVE to give credit for those vocals. KILLER.
If you go into the settings and click speed on 1.25 this video is perfect lol thanks for the laughs T
Songs that are stories or mysteries are so fun.
"I Wear My Sunglasses at Night" (Cory Hart) is a futuristic sci fi theme
"Der Komissar" (Falco) someone is spying on you
"Somebody's Watching Me" (Rockwell)
"It's A Mistake" (Men At Work)
"Legs" (ZZ Top) guy and girl get a life upgrade in the video
Kilroy was here was written by WW2 soldiers with a Kilroy drawing. Showed up everywhere the military went.
A great song a great band! Great reaction.
Omg ... Brought back so many memories from my youth. Thanks guys. Appreciate you guys so much. Take care.
Thankyou very much oh mr roboto for helping me escape just when I needed to thankyou...
Saw Styx with Aerosmith in 1976. It was my first concert at age 13.
You two have to listen to my favorite song all-time, "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright. It's not just a song. It's an experience!!!
"Mr. Roboto" warns about the advance of technologies and censorship.
The protagonist, Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, hides himself inside of a robot to escape the prison.
From the album liner notes :
_"Kilroy was just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control..."_
Dennis De Young (Keyboard, Lead Vocals) as Kilroy
James Young (Guitars, Lead Vocals) as Dr Righteous
Tommy Shaw (Guitars, Synthesizer, Shami-Sen, Lead Vocals) as Jonathan Chance
Chuck Panozzo (Bass Guitar &Bass Pedals) as Lt Vanish
John Panozzo (Drums & Percussion) as Col Hyde
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THE PAST
Dr Everett Righteous, founder and leader of the MMM (The Majority For Musical Morality), became influential in American politics through the use of his own cable TV network.
He spoke about the evils of rock & roll music, and how its permissive attitudes were responsible for the moral and economic decline of America.
He was charismatic, entertaining, and above all, he understood the media. The MMM soon gained enough power to have rock & roll banned.
THE PRESENT
It is a future where Japanese-manufactured robots, designed to work cheaply and endlessly, are the caretakers of society.
"Mr Robotos" are everywhere, serving as manual labor in jobs that were once held by humans.
Dr Righteous enforces his own morality by holding nightly rallies where crowds hurl rock & roll records and electric guitars into huge bonfires...
Jonathan Chance, the rebel leader of an underground movement to bring back rock & roll, has made Kilroy the symbol of his cause.
Meanwhile, Kilroy has spent a number of years in prison. With no hope of release, he is subjected to the humiliation of mind control via the MMM cable network.
In an attempt to contact Kilroy, Jonathan jams the airwaves of the MMM network, replacing a mind control session with outlawed footage of a Kilroy concert.
Inspired by Jonathan's message, Kilroy plots his escape. Late one night, he makes a daring attempt to free himself by overpowering a Roboto guard.
Disguised as a Roboto, Kilroy moves freely throughout the city leaving graffiti-coded messages for Jonathan.
Jonathan discovers the "rock code" which leads him to the old Paradise Theatre, now the site of Dr Righteous' Museum of Rock Pathology.
There he sees the last Kilroy concert mechanically depicted by Kilroy look-alike robots as the violent end of rock & roll...
And there, he and Kilroy meet for the first time...
I think that you two would have had fun in the 80s!
T, a few yrs ago I had you react to Queen Of Spades by Styx. You also reacted to Suite Madame Blue, Too Much Time On My Hands & Renegade by Styx.
This was a re upload, it was before all that. Matter of fact it was this video that made you request those songs. You told me you wanted me to see the other side of the band.
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Gotcha! I messaged you.
I was at a Styx concert in 1975 and this wasn't played haha
Do all of Styx!!! Crystall Ball, Lorelei!!😮
You've mistaken the lyrics: "Now everyone can see my true identity...I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!" It's the robot's name. The name Kilroy goes back to a WWII era meme that soldiers would draw on buildings, tanks, etc. "Kilroy was here"
Did deeper. They got the name and phrase from an inspector at the shipyards who would sign this, as he had to inspect various stages of completion.
I love you guys reactions, keep it up..
Not sure you understand the Kilroy reference. US Soldiers in WWII I believe would write "Kilroy was here" at different places to tell any future troops that happened upon that spot that a US soldier had been there previously, Dennis DeYoung in the song was saying that HE is Kilroy letting future people know that he has blazed this trail before them.
The soldiers got the name and phrase from a ship inspector who would sign areas he inspected with the phrase.
Thumpingly catchy. Check out "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling.
i love styx this song is fire
That song is weird & awesome at the same time! Could u react to mexican radio by wall of voodoo?
Dennis de young (,the original lead singer) for most of thirer hits. Anyways he and the band parted ways several years ago. He now tours as a solo artists with a great band he's put together. He carries in the music and legacy of his time in Styx Wich was from the beginning untill the late 90's or early 2000's
i saw them years back they did every song i was hope they would do but this one lol
I been waiting for this moment
Aww yeah 🤘🤘
Never heard of this band. Okay geez they've got so many good songs. Let's see too much time on my hands and babe and Lady and renegade and sweet madam blue and blue collar man and crystal ball and sailway
You got the story wrong. He is not thanking the robot, he's thinking the guy that saved him from the robots.
Thus the albums name KILROY WAS HERE
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - " I Robot / I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You " 70s GROOVIN' ROCK/PROG/FUNK JAM 🎸🎹🔥 It's a Long title but it has this kind of Vibe like Mr Roboto only not exactly the same sound yet super groovy & funky
I didn't like this song when I first came out, but it's grown on me over the years. The one song I did like on this album is "Heavy Metal Poisoning" Personally, I think Paradise Theater is their best album.
I was a young man when this was on the charts. It was a huge deal back then.
Nowadays, it is scoffed at.
My teen years were the 80's and yeah, it was mostly good time music during that decade. It was when we entered the 90's, that the music completely changed. Styx was huge back then, this album had a couple of radio hits with this song and Don't Let It End. Their previous album, Paradise Theater might have been their biggest album, sales wise. Hard to go wrong with anything this band did though, they a lot of great music.
This song is basically what broke up the band because Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw had creative differences over the bands music and where it was headed
Well, it was Dennis versus the entire band, not just Tommy.
@@cpmf2112 shaw quit high on drugs to pursue a solo career that's the truth. Young and the panozzo's were pissed and wanted deyoung to replace shaw and continue but he refused.
@@pepperdog2039 nope, sorry, in interviews all the band members have been clear on this. Dennis wanted to make all the decisions because he felt like he had the right and was right, every one of the other band members did not agree with that and wanted to be part of the decision making process for the band. Dennis would not agree with that. Dennis himself has said this as well.
double g mails🤣🤣🤣
Killroy was a nod at a WW2 pop culture "meme". Killroy was a fictitious person who was always there before anybody, look up "Killroy Was Here" images. No one knows who Killroy is is the joke... and here Mr Roboto is claiming to be this infamous fictitious character.
the album the killed one of the most popular bands of the 70s.
“ Killed “ ? NOT ! Toured 20 plus years after this release!
More, a "final nail", but yeah, that was the end, effectively.
Your are right , this did sound like song from a Broadway show , I thought for sure back then that it was. It was something that Styx just wanted to do I guess , but nobody liked it, as great a band that thru were, and as great a singer as Dennis DeYoung was . But guess what, decades later now in 2024, companies are planning and developing robots for company and private use in the next few years. That was the 80’s, but this is 2024, what we knew as the future back then.. (“ The year 2000” they used to say😄)
OK can we call this proof T does in fact enjoy happy music? Dude took some heat for not liking Cindy Lauper lol
Thank you
This song pretty much did it for all of us… this was the end for the rock band Styx. I didn’t dislike it and it was actually kind of a cool song but it just wasn’t the Styx we all knew. But it was definitely a huge part of the 80’s.
A lot of people didn’t care for Styx singing this song. I liked it myself though. The rest of the group thought that the unofficial head of the group was taking the band too far into another direction with this song.
This is rock theater. The song was ahead of its time. This song is now relevant. Lookout for AI.
On this album check out heavy metal and don't let it end and I don't know what people are talking about cuz Mr. Roboto is very popular song and so is don't let it end
It's still a great song come on people every band experiments will different styles of music STYX still rocks
Was this featured in "Blades Of Glory" movie??
You should check out Screaming In Digital by Queensryche. It's kind of the same concept. Computer wanting to be human.
Broadway is EXACTLY what this was meant to be. The lead singer convinced the rest of the band to take this direction, story with sets, etc. There's even footage on YT of the musical. Sadly, it tanked and broke the band up.
two top ten singles and a platinum album and money making tour does not qualify for tanked.
The first A.I. song. LOL
Yeah my younger brother loved it. I hated it. Now , well nostalgia. Good job.
This song and album are the reason for the hate part of the love/hate relationship with the band. They were just loved before this even though most of their hits were ballads. Their rock song Renegade is actually used by the Pittsburgh Steelers during games to pump up the crowd when they need a big defensive stop. For some reason, it actually works a lot of the time. Dennis DeYoung, who was a founding member, just completely wet the bed with this whole album and making it and the tour some big concept thing. The album didn't sell and because of the big play aspect of the stage show, they lost a lot of money on the tour. It was the end of Styx.
they made money on the tour roboto is the most liked video by styx on youtube.
Would love to watch the Steeler fans react to a blaring Mr. Roboto.
And laugh 😄
Mr Roboto, virtually the death knell for Styx. A once great rock band. Go back to The Grand Illusion or Pieces of Eight albums for good Styx songs.
Their “ death “ was greatly exaggerated. They have been theatrical before with “ Paradise Theater “ tour. But I agree it’s not their best . More of a “ Sweet Madam Blue” , “ Queen of spades “ fan myself!
Yeah I feel the exact same way. I really didn’t like that song. Especially when it came out. I was really disappointed in them I had put them up there with the great bands of the seventies and eighties until I heard this song.
Yeah the singer wanted to make it a big broadway,the band wasn't on board I believe that was the beginning of the end
This Dennis DeYoung "concept" album was a disaster.
According to the Webster's dictionary, Kilroy is a sailor's name for the devil.
OK. There's absolutely no controversy for me. I saw Styx on tour for the "Kilroy was here" album. You said it was like a "Broadway play" and you are correct. The whole album was a concept album that told a story about a dystopian future. The guys literally acted out this story and played the music from start to finish. Literally one of the best concerts of my life. Sadly "Mr Roboto" became some sort of "turning point" to some of the fans because of it's popish sound and what some mistakenly thought was a joke or "fluff". I have to assume they never saw the show that I saw. It definitely wasn't a joke or fluff in any way. It was a small part of a much bigger production and storyline. And to this day, it's still disliked, unfortunately. There's a ton of drama that followed.
disliked my those who never saw it
There was a song in the 1960's by Jagger and Evans using basically
the same premise. Predicting the current 2024 world we live in.
Why was this one reviled and destroyed Styx don't know?
I though the whole album was alright. Bought the cassette at
the local mall at FYE after drinking an Orange Julius. The 80's
were a different era for sure.
This was a concept album about it a robot named Kilroy. And they did the concerts where the bad members acted out a story in between songs. It was more like a broadway production. The band hated this completely. They want it be a rock band and they were Doing this theatrical bs.
That being said this is a very catchy song. Totally get why it was hit.
rock theater not broadway
Machines to dehumanize if that's not telling the future, I don't know what is cuz if you'll look around you'll see a lot of us that are oblivious of human emotions. Well maybe not emotions but pretty much video instead of help I guess for a lack of a better thought. But again, I thought this was a pretty good album myself. I bought it for this song but when I listen to it I also liked. Don't let it end and heavy metal cuz heavy metal is similar to what's going on now with books instead of music but at one point in time that was music as well. Specifically rock and roll. Aim tomorrow at kiss and band similar to them
The reason Mr. Roboto broke the band is that Tommy Shaw and some of the other members wanted to be in a rock band. Dennis DeYoung whose songs were more popular wanted to take the band in a different direction. Not only by doing more commercial ballads but even going more concept album oriented.
On top of that he wanted to get into video much like The Who had done with their Rock Musical "Tommy" or Pink Floyd's The Wall. The other bandmates just weren't having it.
Which is why for years after forcing Dennis out of the band due to health reasons they refused playing this song live in concert. It just left a bad taste in their mouths. Even though it was there most requested hit. 😢
baloney shaw selfishly quit to oursue his own solo career no one else quit but him young and the panozzos wanted deyoung to replace shaw but he refused.
For a brain twist, follow this on your playlist with George Carlin's "Modern Man"!
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Rush did this subject much better with The Body Electric. This is like some bad off off-Broadway musical.
Yep. This isn’t the Styx song you start with. This is when it became unintentional comedy and broke the band.
no shaw quit to pursue a solo career and young and shaw wanted deyoung to replace shaw but he refused.
This is THE song that brought on the hate. I like their previous stuff and this was the first band I saw in concert and it was a great concert, but yeah this song did not hit well at all
Hi TNT, Try "Come Sail Away".. ♠Mr.G..
There are a lot of STYX songs to choose from definitely not this one 😂
1 DON'T LET IT END
2 TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HAND
2 BOAT ON THE RIVER
3 BABE
4 THE FIRST TIME
5 THE BEST OF TIME & a lot more
Renegade? Has she heard that yet?
Robert Orin Charles Kilroy! R.O.C.K.
If this song caused a breakup, then why does the current tribute band(Shaw) play this during performances? The real fans enjoy this song. I certainly do. I think that is bull. Dennis was the sole of Styx. Whether or not you like Dennis, he wrote their top hits. 🤔🫤
Lets see if the critical Bro likes this!!!😢😢
Better if you read the story behind the song
I like Miss America by Styx better.