 | Styx The Grand Illusion
3.8
excellent
| Ranking: #30 for 1977 | |
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| 4.5 superb | Iluvatar | June 25th 06 |
Ah, the Grand Illusion. What a splendid album. This was the first album I ever bought of my own accord, and it owns a special place in my heart. It's bombastic, dynamic, and by golly Dennis DeYoung has one of the most homoerotic voices I ever heard. I love it.
btw Come Saily Away > You.
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| 3.0 good | marf1300 | June 1st 17 |
I'm a Swiss Wisconsinite, and this has a bit too much cheese for me.
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| 4.0 excellent | CockKnife69 | November 23rd 12 |
This is a very bombast album by Styx. This is still one of their best.
The album opens up with the title track, which is probably the most pogressive song on the album.
A great highlight of the album is Miss America, a powerful rocker featuring a lot of Dennis De Young's singing.
Man in the Wilderness is a slower piece, but erupts into a great rock song with the solo.
Superstars is the olny song I kinda didn't like, kinda boring filler with not much to talk about. Listen to it and tell me what you think.
Castle Walls is pretty rad, reminding me of Halloween and medieval ages.
Overall, this is one of my favorites by Styx, and should be listtene o by Styx veterans or fans of the great AOR genre. I like it, and so should you.
4 out of 5 stars.
Enough said.
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| 0.0 | rogerebert | February 4th 07 |
This is as overrated as a Queensryche album. The Grand Illusion, the song, is short and annoying track with a progressive feel to it, but it does not progress. All tracks are high-pitched vocal filled, simple guitar stuffed nonsense songs for little kids. Come Sail Away is what gets this a 2.5 though. That song is hilariously brilliant. Unfortunately, nothing else is. The Grand Finale is the best part though, because it's the finale.
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| 2.0 poor | JohnXDoesn't | June 23rd 06 |
This album blows harder then a mighty hurricaine wind. Full of overblown synthsizer work, boring guitar drivel, Queen inspired faux chior vocals, and silly pretentious pap such as the overwrought "Superstars", dumb cautionary tale "Miss America", the preachy "Fooling Yourself", corny "Man In The Wilderness", and of course the bloated, grandiose title cut, this kind of crap is like the heavy straw that would break the back of rock n roll. 100% awful.
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| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | May 8th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | Asas747 | February 16th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Lani | January 25th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mojito | December 14th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Brabiz | June 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | August 1st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | NewDawn | April 15th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ztetter | December 27th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | November 21st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | November 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | BoerK | October 18th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Zakusz | August 23rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | June 25th 21 |
| 3.0 good | SuzyC | February 5th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | fenman | July 12th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Source | July 6th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Sowing STAFF | May 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Howpper | April 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mac | April 6th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | igi78 | November 13th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | September 30th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Cisumla | February 22nd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | dlbk03 | October 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | October 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | February 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | December 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 709baj | August 5th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Xinlo | July 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Robbit | May 8th 16 |
| 3.5 great | manosg EMERITUS | May 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | February 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Splint | July 27th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jethro42 | February 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZackSh33 | February 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | MoF | November 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Titan | October 19th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | bjb | October 8th 14 |
| 3.0 good | slackr | February 17th 14 |
| 3.5 great | hudso | November 16th 13 |
| 3.5 great | DRZ | July 13th 13 |
| 3.0 good | dh198 | January 8th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Lucido | October 4th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | ADM20 | September 6th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Cru | July 7th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Spec | May 2nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | joejjc | January 18th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Jips | November 5th 10 |
| 2.5 average | noisy | September 6th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Lakes. | February 20th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | KJAnsia | January 14th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Ire | January 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | 1m0nf1r3 | September 17th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Kakz | November 26th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | ffbadd | September 14th 08 |
| 5.0 classic | kv22 | August 12th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Sandu | July 15th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Egglord | September 16th 07 |
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