<span class="p-color" style="color: darkblue;"><span class="post-font-serif1"><span style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"><span class="post-b">Styx</span> / Pieces Of Eight</span></span></span><hr class="post-hr"><var class="postImg postImgAligned img-right" title="http://i101.fastpic.ru/big/2017/1217/fd/b5704e878ddccfdbc019fac9019d6bfd.jpg"> </var><span class="post-b">Формат записи/Источник записи</span>: [SACD-R][OF]<br>
<span class="post-b">Наличие водяных знаков</span>: Нет<br>
<span class="post-b">Год издания/переиздания диска</span>: 1978/2017<br>
<span class="post-b">Жанр</span>: Progressive rock, hard rock<br>
<span class="post-b">Издатель (лейбл)</span>: A&M / Audio Fidelity<br>
<span class="post-b">Продолжительность</span>: 00:42:47<br>
<span class="post-b">Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи</span>: Да (сканы)<hr class="post-hr"><span class="post-b">Треклист</span>:<br>
1. Great White Hope 04:24<br>
2. I’m OK 05:44<br>
3. Sing For The Day 05:01<br>
4. The Message 01:09<br>
5. Lords Of The Ring 04:38<br>
6. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) 04:07<br>
7. Queen Of Spades 05:41<br>
8. Renegade 04:17<br>
9. Pieces Of Eight 04:44<br>
10. Aku-Aku 03:03<hr class="post-hr"><span class="post-b">Контейнер</span>: ISO (*.iso)<br>
<span class="post-b">Тип рипа</span>: image<br>
<span class="post-b">Разрядность</span>: 64(2,8 MHz/1 Bit)<br>
<span class="post-b">Формат</span>: DSD<br>
<span class="post-b">Количество каналов</span>: 2.0<hr class="post-hr"><span class="post-b">Доп. информация</span>: Audio Fidelity AFZ 265<br>
The ISO image is created using sacd-ripper for PS3 version 0.21.<br>
Released September 1, 1978<br>
Recorded 1978 at Paragon Recording Studios, St. James Cathedral (Chicago)<br>
Produced by Styx<br>
<span class="post-b">Источник (релизер)</span>: pssacd (PS³SACD)<br>
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Pieces of Eight is the eighth studio album by Styx, released on September 1, 1978.<span class="post-br"><br></span>Like the band’s previous album, The Grand Illusion (1977), it managed to achieve triple platinum certification, thanks to the hit singles “Sing for the Day”, “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” and “Renegade”. The band members produced and recorded the album (like their previous three efforts) at Paragon Studios in Chicago with recording engineer Barry Mraz and mixing engineer Rob Kingsland. “I’m O.K.” was recorded at Paragon and St. James Cathedral. This would be the last album to be produced at Paragon Studios.<span class="post-br"><br></span>Some consider the album to be Styx’ second concept album (1973’s The Serpent Is Rising arguably being the first) as well as the last Styx album with significant progressive rock leanings. The theme of the album, as Dennis DeYoung explained on In the Studio with Redbeard which devoted an entire episode to Pieces of Eight, was about “not giving up your dreams just for the pursuit of money and material possessions”.<span class="post-br"><br></span>Two of the album’s ten tracks are instrumentals: the DeYoung synthesizer showcase “The Message” and Tommy Shaw’s closing “Aku-Aku” (although for the latter, there was one lyric spoken, the title of the song). “The Message” serves as a prelude for “Lords of the Ring”, and “Aku-Aku” is a postlude for “Pieces of Eight”.The album’s cover was done by Hipgnosis. DeYoung stated in the same 1991 interview with Redbeard on the “In the Studio” episode that he initially hated the cover but grew to like it as he got older.<br>
All Music Review<span class="post-br"><br></span>Styx’s feisty, straightforward brand of album rock is represented best by “Blue Collar Man” from 1978’s Pieces of Eight, an invigorating keyboard and guitar rush — hard and heavy, yet curved by Tommy Shaw’s emphasized vocals. Reaching number 21, with the frolicking romp of “Renegade” edging in at number 16 only six months later, Pieces of Eight maintained their strength as a front-running FM radio group. Even though these two tracks were both mainstream singles, the rest of the album includes tracks that rekindle some of Styx’s early progressive rock sound, only cleaner. Tracks like “Sing for the Day,” “Lords of the Ring,” and “Aku-Aku” all contain slightly more complex instrumental foundations, and are lyrically reminiscent of the material from albums like The Serpent Is Rising or Man of Miracles, but not as intricate or instrumentally convoluted. While the writing may stray slightly from what Styx provided on The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight kept their established rock formula in tact quite firmly.