Styx - The Message/Lords Of The Ring video free download

Oobi Doob Benooby

Lords Of the Ring? This song was written and sung about Lord of the Rings. I don't think that at the time any of them knew anything about the story. They just wrote a song that sounded cool. The Lord of the Rings was suppose to be Satan incarnate. They are saying to hail many Lords over one ring, when the story has one Lord over many rings that had control with the one Ring of power that they had to destroy to eliminate him. ABBA sings the song about Waterloo where they say Napoleon did surrender. He actually ran away from there when he realized he was going to lose that battle, and had to be hunted down and caught so they could be exiled. That doesn't rhyme with the other versus in the song though. Then they use the second Napoleon outfit and statue in the video that had nothing to do with the battle at Waterloo. So it is what it is. Hitler was Never a Dictator of Germany, it was Charlie Sheen.

Charles K

For some odd reason, whenever I listen to this one I can't help but have a mental image of a psychedelic version of an episode of the Gravity Falls cartoon, with animation/special effects inspired by the 1981 movie Heavy Metal.

Crazy Jenkins Airsoft

the perfect song for a RPG game.

TheRealCritique

These Keyboards have gas.....this is what I'm like after a Bacon Burger, Onion Rings and Root Beer Float! I found some other songs of theirs I liked, but this was the end of the run. The shark died and was mauled to pieces by his peers here. The hardest laughs for me began at 1:40.

nh52050

thank you for sharing !! So so beautiful !!

nh52050

Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful music. I find the voices and vocal arrangements really moving. 

Dee Sharp

my thoughts will cost you

MrMegaFredZeppelin

One of the best Styx tunes ever. ROCK ON!!!!!!

HUGO ESCOBEDO

wow! great song and an amazing sound ! and fabulous lyrics ! still have the long play as a tribute to my younger days and the music that was going on, that time!the pieces of eight was one of the first albums I bought in 1978! yeah! great times and great music the best rock on those days of my youth ! days that I will never change them for nothing I am proud of my early days and the music I grew up listening was the best! like Dennis de young says! we just didn't have a good time we had the best of times! yeah! I was only 13 years old and I was already in love with styx rock and roll music!

mfuji02

EPIC INTRO,

DerekBayRoberts1

i was always confused, was this song about the J. R. R. Tolkien story? or related to...?

Classic Rocker

This is true!

gremmiehodad

Actually, John often sung as well, so it was 5 part harmony! Giving them rhat awesome very full sound in their choruses!

MsBella030

fucking EPIC <3

lebhertz jacques

C'est carrément génial. Bravo pour celui qui à composé cette chanson.

Shift

It actually does sound more like a Dennis DeYoung song. I mean, yes James sung this, but compare this to Great White Hope or Miss America (which were both written and sung by James), then listen to this. It has a different quality about it. (Of course, that's my observation from memorizing Styx's musical style for years). Speaking of DeYoung and rock music, he was the one responsible for 'Lady' and 'Come Sail Away,' you gotta give the guy credit for that.

MrBwags27

it's not Dennis DeYoung - It's James Young (guitar) on vocals - but they use all 4 on the chorus - which gives it the depth and is amazing live! These guys are exceptional musicians and singers. Probably not enough Rock credit given over the years because of the DeYoung split and directional issues musically. They did record some great stuff over the years though. This is one of them in my opinion.....

CK Kim

Styx = DeYoung's compositions + DeYoung's vocals + DeYoung's Oberheim synth work

netrioter

this is also only one of the few moments where they used 4 vocalists on the chorus....Chuck Panozzo sings also...one of the first songs to feature them all singing is Suite Madame Blue...in the "America" bridge

Rick Lewis

Great album here. Classic to this day..

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