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Kilroy Was Here (Music)
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Kilroy Was Here is the eleventh studio album recorded by American rock band Styx. It was released through A&M Records on February 22, 1983.Following on the success of the Concept Album Paradise Theatre (and three multi-platinum albums before that), Styx decided to get far more ambitious with a full-on Rock Opera. It would be promoted with a deliberate and complex tour, with a pre-concert mini-film that set up the story, scripted dialogue and choreography in concert, and specific roles for each of the band members.The storyline: 20 Minutes into the Future, Moral Guardians outlaw rock and roll. Enforcing the new law, a riot breaks out at a concert by the famous "Kilroy" at the Paradise Theatre, someone dies, and Kilroy is framed as a murderer. He is imprisoned, guarded by "Mr. Robotos", mass-produced menial-labor robots. Kilroy breaks out, disguising himself in the body of a Roboto he has overpowered. Using a "rock code" graffiti, he leads a protegé, Jonathan Chance, to meet him in the Paradise Theatre, now a museum to rock-and-roll depravity. And then it ends.The story has many similarities to Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage: both feature robot-filled futures with moral overlords who hate rock-and-roll and throw the rocker protagonist in prison. Zappa's work is distinguished by having trickier time signatures, as well as much more gay sex with robots. You could almost mistake Joe's Garage for a parody of Kilroy Was Here, except for the fact that Joe's came out four years earlier.Instead of taking their career to the next level, the band jumped the shark, breaking up and never going multi-platinum again. The album's convoluted production is chronicled on an episode of Behind the Music. The album was critically panned, only garnering 2 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone. Commercially, it was nowhere near as successful as the band hoped, only earning one Platinum from the RIAA.The album yielded three singles: "Mr. Roboto", "Don't Let It End", and "High Time". Only the first two were hits in the United States, neither one hitting #1. They wouldn't yield another hit for seven years.It is not to be confused with the World War II era Bathroom Stall Graffiti. Tracklist:Side One "Mr. Roboto" (5:28) "Cold War" (4:27) "Don't Let It End" (4:56) "High Time" (4:33)Side Two "Heavy Metal Poisoning" (4:57) "Just Get Through This Night" (6:06) "Double Life" (3:46) "Haven't We Been Here Before?" (4:06) "Don't Let It End (Reprise)" (2:22) | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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Subliminal Seduction: Subverted. Right before "Heavy Metal Poisoning", there's an obvious backmasked message. Played backwards, it's the Latin phrase Annuit cœptis, Novus ordo seclorum, part of the Seal of the United States on a $1 bill, and roughly translated as "God approves of our undertakings/ a new order of the ages." This is likely in response to accusations that "Snowblind", a song from the band's previous album Paradise Theatre, had "backwards Satanic messages" on it. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The premise and the entire plot is described in the liner notes to the album and the mini-film. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Heavy Metal Poisoning" and "Double Life" are both from the antagonist's viewpoint. "Double Life" is a Villainous BSoD song where Righteous realizes what a terrible hypocrite he is, but feels he's too far in to dig his way out. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Not of the band, but of two Robotos with an angry book-burning mob in the background. | |
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Power Ballad | |
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Power Ballad: "Don't Let It End". | |
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Oppressive States of America | |
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Oppressive States of America: The album is set in a theocratic America that outlaws rock and roll. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: "Dr. Righteous' Fried Chicken." The boxes are done in a similar fashion to Kentucky Fried Chicken's boxes. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: The Robotos, who enforce Dr. Righteous' theocracy, are built "with parts made in Japan." | |
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Significant Monogram | |
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Significant Monogram: Jonathan Chance has one, alluding to a certain other JC. | |
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Book Burning | |
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Book Burning: In the mini-film at the start, but with records and guitars. The concert from the 'Caught in the Act' video featured prop guitars being snapped over the Panozzos' knees, while JY fed his (prop) to an MMM 'Guitar Shredder'. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: "Mr. Roboto". Todd in the Shadows called out the hypocrisy of this, coming as it did from a band whose lead singer played an electronic keyboard as his primary instrument. | |
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Yellow Peril | |
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Yellow Peril: The slant-eyed, Japanese-built "Mr. Robotos" are an obvious racial caricature, and probably more than a little racist. At the time of the album's release, they were likely meant as a commentary on Japanese car-makers putting Americans out of work. In the accompanying minifilm, one of the prisoners in the eating area mocks a Roboto, saying "your mother was a Toyota". | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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No Music Allowed | |
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No Music Allowed: Rock and Roll music has been banned. | |
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Un-Robotic Reveal | |
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Unrobotic Reveal: The main point of "Mr. Roboto" is that the Roboto Chance found is actually Kilroy. | |
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Prison Ship | |
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Prison Ship: The "Kilroy" short film establishes that Kilroy was imprisoned on one. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: James Young during "Heavy Metal Poisoning" during the concerts. Might even qualify as Ham and Cheese. | |
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Moral Guardians | |
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Moral Guardians: Dr. Righteous and the "Majority for Musical Morality" | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "Haven't We Been Here Before?" | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: A "Paradise Theatre" is featured in the story. This is a reference to Styx's previous album of the same name, also a Concept Album set in the Chicago movie theater of the same name. | |
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Filler | |
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Filler: Between the opening "Mr. Roboto" (in which Kilroy reveals himself to Jonathan), and "Don't Let It End (Reprise)" (in which Kilroy and Jonathan vow to revive rock and roll), nothing happens: the other songs just describe the world of Kilroy from the point of view of the three main characters. Except for "Don't Let It End", a love ballad that has nothing to do with the story at all. | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Mr. Roboto". | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
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Putting on the Reich: The Panozzos did this during the concert during "Heavy Metal Poisoning", as lackeys of Dr. Righteous (see Villain Song). They're credited as officers (presumably of State Sec) on the album. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: From certain angles, the Robotos are less "Yellow Peril caricature" and more "I'm going to kill you slowly and painfully." | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Kilroy's full name is Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, or R.O.C.K. | |
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Rock Opera | |
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Rock Opera: Though given the total non-advancement of the story through the songs, it might just be a very detailed Concept Album. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: For some reason, the Robotos react to getting hit in the groin the same way a man could, as shown in the mini-film of Kilroy breaking out from prison. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The story takes place in the future, but not a very distant one. | |
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Suck E. Cheese's | |
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Suck E. Cheese's: Righteous' museum (formerly the Paradise Theatre) has shades of this, complete with an animatronic Kilroy band "murdering" an MMM protestor. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk: Technology, robots, lost of humanity, outlaws, rebellion, it's all here. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming Rockstar Kilroy's full name is Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, or R.O.C.K. The member of the resistance who's fighting for a chance is named Jonathan Chance. The righteous theocrat is straight-out named Dr. Righteous. | |
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