Caught in the Act (Styx album) explained

Caught in the Act
Type:Live album
Artist:Styx
Cover:Styx - Caught in the Act.jpg
Released:April 1984
Recorded:April 9–10, 1983, Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA except "Music Time" recorded at Pumpkin Studios in January, 1984
Genre:Rock
Length:83:30
Label:A&M
Producer:Styx
Prev Title:Kilroy Was Here
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:Edge of the Century
Next Year:1990
Caught in the Act
Type:video
Artist:Styx
Released:1984
Recorded:April 9–10, 1983, Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA
Genre:Rock
Label:A&M
Director:Jerry Kramer, Brian Gibson
Producer:Jerry Kramer
Next Title:Return to Paradise
Next Year:1997

Caught in the Act is a live double album by Styx, released in 1984. It contains one new song, "Music Time," which was released as a single, reaching #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Caught in the Act is also the name of a VHS video recording that featured the band acting out the concept established in their Kilroy Was Here album. A DVD version was released on December 11, 2007.

Shortly after this album's release, Tommy Shaw announced his departure from the band to pursue a solo career. The band then went into hiatus for the rest of the 1980s. Caught In The Act would ultimately prove to be the final album by the massively successful 1975-84 Styx lineup of Dennis DeYoung, Shaw, James Young, Chuck Panozzo, and John Panozzo; by the time Shaw returned to the band in 1995, John Panozzo's declining health prevented his participation, and he died in 1996.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Music Time" [*] (DeYoung) – 4:45
  2. "Mr. Roboto" (DeYoung) – 4:59
    • Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  3. "Too Much Time on My Hands" (Shaw) – 5:01
    • Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  4. "Babe" (DeYoung) – 4:52
    • Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw

Side 2

  2. "Snowblind" (Young, DeYoung) – 6:00
  3. "State Street Sadie" (uncredited) / "The Best of Times" (DeYoung) – 6:30
    • Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  4. "Suite Madame Blue" (DeYoung) – 8:51
    • Lead vocals and synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead guitar: James "JY" Young

Side 3

  2. "Rockin' the Paradise" (DeYoung, Young, Shaw) – 4:40
    • Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
    • First guitar solo: Tommy Shaw
    • Second guitar solo: James "JY" Young
  3. "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" (Shaw) – 4:47
    • Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
    • Guitar fills and end solo: James "JY" Young
  4. "Miss America" (Young) – 6:15
    • Lead vocals and lead guitar: James "JY" Young
  5. "Don't Let It End" (DeYoung) – 5:25 (on US LP, cassette and CD)
    • Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  7. "Boat on the River" (Shaw) – 3:10 (on LP AMLM 66704, A&M Records 1984)
    • Accordion: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead vocals, lead guitar, mandolin: Tommy Shaw

Side 4

  2. "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" (Shaw) – 6:05
    • Lead vocals: Tommy Shaw
    • Synthesizer solos: Dennis DeYoung
  3. "Crystal Ball" (Shaw) – 6:24
    • Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
    • Synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
  4. "Come Sail Away" (DeYoung) – 8:56
    • Lead vocals, synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
    • Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw

* New studio recording

Video track listing

  1. Kilroy Was Here mini-movie
  2. "Mr. Roboto" (DeYoung)
  3. "Rockin' the Paradise (with J.Y. guitar solo)" (DeYoung, Shaw, Young)
  4. "Blue Collar Man" (Shaw)
  5. "Snowblind" (DeYoung, Young)
  6. "Too Much Time on My Hands" (Shaw)
  7. "Don't Let It End" (DeYoung)
  8. "Heavy Metal Poisoning" (Young)
  9. "Cold War (with extended Tommy Shaw guitar solo and extra verses)" (Shaw)
  10. "State Street Sadie" (uncredited) / "The Best of Times" (DeYoung)
  11. "Come Sail Away" (DeYoung)
  12. "Renegade (with John Panozzo drum solo and band getting arrested)" (Shaw)
  13. "Haven't We Been Here Before" (Shaw)
  14. "Don't Let It End (Reprise)" (DeYoung)

DVD bonus tracks

  1. "Come Sail Away" (1977 video)
  2. "Borrowed Time" (1979 video)
  3. "Babe" (1979 video)
  4. "Boat On the River" (1979 video)
  5. "A.D. 1928"/"Rockin' the Paradise" (1981 video)
  6. "The Best of Times" (1981 video)
  7. "Too Much Time on My Hands" (1981 video)
  8. "Mr. Roboto" (1983 video)
  9. "Don't Let It End" (1983 video)
  10. "Heavy Metal Poisoning" (1983 video)
  11. "Haven't We Been Here Before" (video)
  12. "Music Time" (1984 video)

Personnel

Production (album)

Production (video)

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