STYX Paradise Theater - The thing no one noticed!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- STYX Paradise Theater sold millions of copies, and yet few people noticed the secret image etched in the vinyl itself!
Dennis DeYoung had been thinking in concept album terms for a while, and this was the first album where it was really obvious. The album roughly tells the story of the rise and fall of a theater called "Paradise." The front and back covers show the theater when it opened and after it was shut down. The two albums sides were called "acts" and one of them had a hidden image that many people never noticed.
I still have my *Paradise Theater* vinyl. I certainly noticed it, the first time I opened up the album...
That's cool! It's interesting how many people who owned this never saw it.
Since you are a vinyl person we would love feedback on things that would interest you in future episodes.
Me too! Weird though, I thought the back of my album had Paradise theater and the picture from the front of the album cover. I could be losing my mind so I plan to go back home and look and see what it actually has etched on that side of the album.
@@malalaz66 ~ Give it a listen while you're at it...👍🎵🥁
@@Deborahtunes I listen to the album multiple times but I have to admit it’s been a minute since I have listen to it all the way through. It’s one of my favorites.
@@malalaz66 ~ Cool. Rock On!!!🎵🥁🙂
I remember thinking this was the coolest thing when I bought this album. As a kid, buying a new record was an event. Going over the cover art...praying the inner sleeve had lyrics...getting hyped when it was a gatefold cover.
Yes, every element you mentioned in your post!!!
Dude, Everybody who ever picked up that record noticed that picture on the back of the record. It wasn't something that is unknown. No big secret. I wasn't even a fan, yet I knew about that.
I still remember when I first got this album. I was so excited and stared at that back for hours. It's still so beautiful
it's super amazing. :)
Without looking it up, this is from memory, and three decades plus of working in record stores…
As a huge Styx fan, l noticed this right away, when l bought the elpee as a young teenager. I’m pretty sure that this was a brief “fad” that A&M Records did in the early 1980s. To my knowledge, the label released only three full length albums with the laser etchings: Styx - Paradise Theatre, Split Enz - True Colors, and the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the film Superman II.
Very cool, thanks for highlighting the groovilicious, nutritious and delicious aspect of laser etched vinyl.
Cheers from Noo Yawk, ova heyah!
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The plastic wrap on the cover of mine had a sticker that said it was laser etched so I have no idea how any music enthusiasts could miss it...hell, that's the first thing you're gonna look for before you even put a stylus to it...
I noticed! This was one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money and I played the crap out of it ❤
This album is awesome. Rockin in Paradise is an underrated track honestly.
You like it so much that you don't even know the title of the song. It's called rockin' the paradise. Not rockin' in paradise.
Blimey, its hard to miss. I can see it across the room. Hardly a hidden picture.
It's not a thing that nobody noticed. If you had this record when it came out you knew about the laser etched image on the record. Nice that covered this, but we all knew about it and we knew that only certain copies had it!
I've bought many copies over the years and never saw one without it. I didn't know that some didn't have it until recently when I found one in a record store in Denver. I didn't buy it though. :)
Split Enz - True Colors released the first laser etched vinyl. Styx was second with Paradise Theatre. Styx also released the world's first laser etched single.
The laser etched Paradise Theatre pressing was at least 500,000 copies... it wasn't rare or unnoticed... and no, not "every copy" has it ;)
As a collector, I'm actually amazing how many people didn't see it. Even myself, I had the album for a while before I noticed it way back when. And you're right, I actually found a copy in a record store in Denver a few months ago that didn't have it. Thanks for your input!
I own this album.. Giving to me by my dad in 1988. Has that design in it and I still have it I perfect condition.
You reminded me of the stereogram picture / poster fad from the 1990's. I seem to recall there was even a Seinfeld episode about them.
It's definitely laser etched. Split Enz did this back in the day in many versions of their True Colors album.
I was approx 11 yrs old when that album came out and I spotted the etching the instant I opened it.
I didn't know about this particular album having the imagery in the product but I recall a couple of other albums that did this. The soundtracks to both one of the Superman movies and the first Star Trek (I think) movie had images. (The ST might have been ST II, Wrath of Khan. It's been a while since I've seen these records.)
Erm, when I bought my copy of Paradise Theatre in 1981 it had a sticker on the cover saying the record was lazer etched. Also, the single Best Of Times which was released prior to the album was lazer etched as well. Another A&M album that was lazer etched was True Colours by Split Enz, though the original versions of that album didn't have it. I'm pretty sure everyone who bought the Paradise Theatre album back in 81 knew about the lazer etching.
Thanks for your feedback. It's actually pretty interesting how many people didn't know. Over on Tiktok a number of people commented that they never saw it. One guy actually stitched our video while he went and got his copy so he could see it himself. I actually bought it new in the 80s but didn't notice it until it was playing and it looked dirty, LOL.
You must be fun at parties
I'm a top geezer. 😎 👍
i cant believe no one had seen this. i noticed almost immediately.
Yeah, it's amazing how many people didn't see it right off.
anyone that physically puts the B side on the turntable and drops the needle will notice this as soon as the platter starts spinning. i'll take it one step further, most DJ tables had a light mounted to a flexible wand, and when you angle it at the record just right you'd see the reflection of that logo spinning around on the ceiling. :)
We've had several people talk about the reflection, I've never seen it.
It was surprising how many people didn't see the etching. When we posted this on Tiktok, many people who still own the album had never noticed it commented about it, one guy even made a video about how he had never noticed. Crazy huh?
Thanks for your comment!
Sounds cool but wouldn't the logo on the ceiling be a reverse image as you'd see in a mirror?
Everyone noticed it as soon as they looked at the vinyl..
The thing I personally love about this album is that it used my date of birth , 7 July 1958 , as an important date in the story.
Now that is pretty cool!
This is true. I got the vinyl and see that hologram in side B.
I'm sorry but everyone I knew that was a Styx fan new about the etching . Frankly it's very hard to miss in less you play our albums in the dark.
It originally had sticker telling you about the laser etched image later pressing it was probably not included
At the time it was well known about the laser etched vinyl..
I had one made into a pick guard for my Telecaster guitar.
How did I not know that
I just checked my collection and, yes, Thanks!
I noticed the image on the record right away. It was hard to miss.
Knew this the minute I bought it back in the day. I knew every inch of that album
Longtime Styx fan. Noticed right away. However, some years ago I picked up an original pressing that DOESN'T have the Lazer etching. Yep. Stuck in my Styx collection. 🤘
Funny, I was in a record store in Denver about two weeks ago and found one that didn't have it. I hadn't seen one before.
@@3randomrecords I've not deep dived into the blank issue. Need to do a little searching to check into it.
I noticed at 14 yo. God Love Styx!! My 12 yo is all about PT!!
I've always wondered about that, figured it was a halo gram in a stamping die or something
Everyone noticed this. What are you talking about? It was etched with a laser, there's no big mystery.
I saw that as soon as I took it out of the sleeve. Very cool
That's awesome. I've talked to quite a few people after we recorded this episode who had the record and never saw it.
Cool.
Have it. !!. Got it 1981
Awesome!
You can find many without the laser etching. I have a 1985 copy that has the black/silver/gold label that was typical of that time and no laser etching on the album. I have one copy from 1982 pressed in East Germany no laser etching. I have a SuperDiscs copy with no laser etching. I have one that's a USA pressing that has the old silver/brown standard A&M labels with no laser etching. I collect different variants of this record. Love the record.
That's really interesting.
Several months after making this video I was at a record store in Denver and found a copy and opened it up and it didn't have the etching. It was the first time I had seen one. Thanks for the comment!
First pressings of the vinyl in the USA had it.
I don't really think it is accurate to say "few people noticed." Kind of a silly claim for anyone of a certain age.
You're probably correct.
We have our big record collection in the front of the studio, and the record collection is almost always a conversation piece, especially with people my age. This Styx record is one that I pull out frequently to show people. Amazingly, over all the years of people coming in and out of the studio, I am not sure that a single person I've shown it to had ever seen it before. So at least in my universe the statement is accurate. :)
styx claim the title for first laser etch single, split enz did something similar a year prior in 1980 for true colors
My cousin had one of these copies, we were 70's kids. Collectors item these days.
Very cool!
damn i forgot about that
Laser hologram.
Of course I noticed it! This is silly.
..."setting the tone for SPINAL TAP"... XD
All black!
All the cool people had this as kids- I did anyway...
Too true! It was a really big deal at the time.
Bro - it was laser etched and I do not think one person has ever not noticed this. Every single person that has picked up that record saw that etching. This is the dumbest tag I have ever seen for a video. Just say, "hey check this out for this of you whom have never held this record in yo0ur hand.' The world is not as stupid as you think. Sorry but this was just dumb to say or even think.
At least the pressing I have (Made in Canada) is not this way. Standard Vinyl, Act one on the front, Act two on the back.
I was in a record store a couple of months back in Denver and I found one that way. I had never seen that before.
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Link to video that shows etching on album