Styx - Love In The Midnight Lyrics

The Pannozo Brothers were so underrated as a Rhythm Section

この曲のtommyのguitarフレーズが官能的で好きです！

The best song on the album.

Man! This is the shit Styx should be known for; not Mr. Roboto.

The band was Great when Dennis was in it! they haven't had radio airplay nor a hit since they ditched Dennis DeYoung!!!

Totally wrong... Waiting For Our Time was a mai stream rock hit in 2003 and I Am The Walrus made classic rock charts

I blame my mother.

1:45 ... Sensacional !!!!!

Everyone who gripes about the changes Styx made on Cornerstone .

Genesis did similar with Duke and the old fans hated it but got the chicks but all blame Phil Collins for the change in sound.

Pink Floyd went to arena rock with The Wall at the same time and many accused David Gilmour for having nothing on the album (I know that Roger Waters wrote all the lyrics and most music but Gilmour wrote all of "Comfortably Numb"'s music and he also wrote "Run Like Hell"s music and the verse riff to "Young Lust" and wrote other things he didn't get a credit for because Roger Waters was being a douchebag) whereas David Gilmour wrote three songs' music alone, co-produced, arranged and also wrote parts he didn't get credit for as did Bob Ezrin.

ELP tried to blend epics with short songs on Love Beach and it killed them. Yes died as well.

Rush changed and they got more fan base and alienated some older underground fans starting on
Permanent Waves and peaked with Moving Pictures.

Prog was dead by 1978-79 so was either change OR be relegated to has-been.

Cornerstone intro'd me to Styx as a small toddler and Paradise Theater sealed the deal with Styx for me.
I got Caught in the Act Live as a new album then got Cornerstone on cassette and upgrade of Paradise
Theater from LP to cassette then The Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight. Styx was epic when Tommy, JY &
Dennis worked as a unit. Once fame ate away at the band, Tommy was cheating on his first wife with
groupies before he went into a relationship with Linda Blair (Exorcist star) after Cornerstone was finished
(her first rock star she dated stone cold sober). Dennis talked about the relationship and said Linda was
a great girlfriend for Tommy and also Linda and Tommy took Dennis' daughter to see Linda's movie she made Roller Boogie on a day off from touring during The Grand Decathlon Tour (Cornerstone Tour)).

This was an unfold album cover were you could see the pictures of the band and the lyrics a gem!

I THINK,...we've all been there,...

Great song off of a not so great album, I didn't think the Cornerstone album was as great compared to their previous albums.

I was just kidding ,... it's not a bad album at all ,..

one helluva song!!! what should be pointed out is the fact that all of their albums since Equinox were all self produced. they did not need an outside producer to come in and tell them how to make a record. they made those records on their own and they all sold very well.

This song is just terrific. I remember being slightly disappointed when I unwrapped the "new" Styx album in the fall of '79 and put it on the turntable. Cornerstone seemed so mellow, but it had a handful of songs that I loved (Lights, Love In The Midnight, Borrowed Time, and the amazing Boat On The River). Those songs salvaged the album for me and made up for dreck like First Time. I bought this album the same day as I bought Judas Priest's Unleashed In The East, so Cornerstone was bound to suffer by comparison. Almost any album would have.

Chris Damon ~ Agreed... If not for Tommy's & JY's tracks, *Cornerstone* would have been a total snooze, going deep into adult contemporary catagory with most of Dennis's material...

First time is really good ,..I don't know why so many people claim to hate it ,..just because Tommy hates it ,..don't make it bad,..

A great finishing track to a pretty lousy, sub standard album, made all the more disappointing by the fact that it followed the brilliant Pieces of Eight.

WHAT ????????????????

I dont listen to Styx too often... but when i do so my neighbors..!!

that is the weed talkiong

I discovered STYX over 40 years ago. Seen them LIVE 7 times,mostly with REO SPEEDWAGON. Still, listen to them today! Just great!

Favorite song from this LP

I think TS said by this time he was drinking quite heavily and trying to cope with DDY at the same time. So the fact he wrote a song about picking up one nighters at the bar isn't too shocking. Great song writing. Album represented the end of proggie Styx and the new hits Styx. TS was still a man in the wilderness and DDY said he was "OK", but it was all for total airplay now.

Tech Admin ~ I believe you're right.
Albums like this,
"Paradise Theatre" & "Kilroy..." was all about commercial sales. Ironically, Kilroy initially didn't sell as much as their previous 4 Lp's, breaking Styx's streak. But Tommy & JY stuck to their guns, and didn't sell out their musical style, thank goodness.

Tommy is a douche ,..

Stev Stevhoov Tommy is awesome!

@Auntie Geigui Debbie is a Tommy Shaw Kool-Aid drinker. She reminds me of the brain-dead KISS fans ala Peter Griffin and/or Darren Lock reviewers who accuse Phil Collins of Genesis selling out or David Gilmour hijacking Pink Floyd from Roger Waters when he in fact broke up the band (Gilmour reformed once Roger's departure was official and made three great albums after Roger took his ball and went home) or accuse Sammy Hagar for neutering Van Halen when it was Eddie Van Halen himself who did the damage. Prog rock was dead in 1979. Dennis DeYoung knew prog was dead. Cornerstone was a transition album from prog to more streamlined rock with Paradise Theatre and Kilroy. Genesis had their transition album with And Then There Were Three and completed with Duke, Abacab and The Mama Album (Genesis got more female fans but lost the arty farty fans). Pink Floyd went from a democratic band from 1970-75 with David Gilmour and Rick Wright all writing with Roger Waters as a band to The Roger Waters Ego Trip with Animals and The Wall completed the change (and kicking Rick Wright out in the process) and The Final Cut was a Roger album with Gilmour and Nick Mason as session players (Gilmour re-hired Wright after Waters quit and ended PF when Rick died). Supertramp changed their sound and then Roger Hodgson eventually quit. The Eagles imploded. KISS imploded and Dynasty was transition (mostly a hard rock album sans I Was Made For Lovin' You) to the shitty disco poppy Unmasked but did redeem themselves with the brilliant but underrated The Elder and came back with their second best studio album ever Creatures of the Night. Hemispheres was Rush transitioning from epics to shorter songs and New Wave influences on Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Signals.

The pro-Tommy Shaw people I met are also pro-Roger Waters people (both are Virgos, both are pushy and tyrannical in nature, both have difficulty keeping relationships going). I'm a pro-Dennis DeYoung and pro-David Gilmour person.

The Mission sucked as did Roger's Is This the Life We Really Want? If DDY was still in Styx and DG/Rick Wright had not ever fallen out with Roger then those albums would be epic.

Awesome song by a band that deserves more recognition

You mean 4 triple Plat discs in a row didn't quite do it ?? for the rec ?

Kind of reminds me of "These Are The Times," a song from a much later album, Cyclorama.

Subnerd64 ~ I can hear in certain areas of this, why you say that. Ironically, it's Tommy's part in
"These Are The Times" that are similar to this.

Viva Tommy Shaw!!

Cornerstone. Great album

A deep cut, one of my all-time faves.

Art Moore ~ Tommy's material on
"Cornerstone" for me, made the album. And this is my favorite from it...👍🎶

I forgot about this song. A typical Styx rocker! How the critics hated this band! The critics are clueless when it comes to rock and roll!

Actually ,..it was just Lester bangs and a couple a' others,..

@stev stevhoov Lester bangs is a homo

love it!!!

Remember the days when a band could put together multiple compilations over the course of years and still remain good? That began ending in the late 80s and 1990s, but now, I think, mp3s have finally killed the career bands.

Although I hate how TS did DDY, he really displayed some soul singing in this song. Especially the way he says"ravenous".

StyxFan93.. I really appreciate the sheer volume of music you've put up.. however I have an equally momumental request.. lyrics.. if you put the lyrics up that would greatly facilitate the experience

Cornerstone, My favorite Styx album. Especially "Lights" and "Boat on the River". I was a struggling vocalist in a wedding band at the time. And oh, that song described me so perfectly. Still love these guys today. The guitar bridge here is sublime.

Absolutely the best album ever!!!

My two favorites off the album, too !

I have always been big into Styx. Listened to them all the time. One of my top five or six favorite bands. And I just don't remember anyone around me really being into them as much as I was. A lot of head bangers were into some of their hard rock hits, but they had so damn much good music. I used to hear people making fun of them too. Why? Their music was so tight and so rich and layered, very thoughtful, very classy and very inspiring. I had always hoped I'd have a friend or a girlfriend who was into my kind of music, but it never happened. Is there something substandard or unentertaining about Styx, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Pat Benatar or Steely Dan? Is this stuff too eclectic for the common man? Please! I would think everyone would love this shit. It's the creme de la creme.

+Garrett Farr As far as their old line up that is.

+Garrett Farr Well, the critics always hated Styx anyway. But after Babe and Kilroy, they weren't taken serious as rock musicians anymore.

I think, "rich and layered," has something to do with it. People like simple songs. A lot of money has been made with a simple 3 chord structure, and some of those songs are great, but to me, if that's all I hear it gets a bit boring.

@Deborah Kerns you know if critics don't like it that means they're good. Who takes critics serious anyway. I don't... they're wanna be music fans. I have loved Styx from the first time I heard that at 7 years old. Been my favorite band all my life.

@Deana Rupe ~ I know what you mean. I've been a fan since 1975, after I first heard *Lady.* But not knowing who they were. Then in 1978, my mother bought the *Pieces Of Eight* on 8-track. And that's when I really got into Styx. Although *Paradise Theater* was my first album. And from there, I went backwards, and bought all their Lp's, except for *The Serpent Is Rising,* which I was never able to find. But have since bought their complete Wooden Nickel catalog on CD...

some of this songs they made reminds me off the older songs they complete from the  MAN OF MIRACLES  .
when they were really Good.  

What a way to end an under-played but real good record..All tunes have a certain energy to them. This was one great band!

It still is a good band, Mission To Mars is way cool :-)

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I remember listening to this song late at night 1980 on my car stereo, cassette deck, when I was a teenager after high school.

WHO DO LOVE STYX MI AND MI WOMAN!!!

Outstanding song from one of their many great albums.  Like much of their music, did not get the credit it deserved because artistically, it is way over the heads of most critics and radio personnel.

they gotten and probably have a lot of radio waves going around.

they wrote the soundtrack to my life

Going through all the old Styx albums on YouTube I am finding so many gems! I had some of their old singles in the 70s like Lorelei, but I never actually had their old albums. Thank God for YouTube so I can hear all this classic stuff!

we played this in my high school marching band...I played french horn and we had the lead guitar part...showing my age but kick ass song

Just started listening to Styx today. I was aware of them, like Mr.Roboto, and Renegade ... So I decided to give other songs a shot, and boy I'll tell you. I HAVEN'T found a bad song by them. They're awesome :) .

"Plexiglass Toilet" from The Serpent is Rising is pretty bad, in fact the album it's on, The Serpent is Rising, makes absolutely no mention of it anywhere, but it's the hidden track tagged at the end of "As Bad as This". It's basically a joke calypso number, courtesy of Tommy Shaw's predecessor, John Curulewski. So I guess you can count that one out since it was hidden and probably never intended to be included.

As an avid, hard core Styx fan, they do have a few bad ones. But depending on who you talk to, it differs on which ones.
I mostly prefer Styx's "deep cuts" such as this one, to many of their "hits". *Cornerstone* certainly wasn't their worst from the A&M years, but not their best either...

I have this Album on Vinyl, and it sounds great!

Me to, but classic prog rock died the day Styx recorded Cornerstone

One of the more obscure songs that had hit potential, but never quite made it. An awesome song nonetheless!

@regionguy149 13,891 now.

I wonder why this song never gets any airtime. Is in my opinion a top 10 styx song.

philkensebben ~ Well personally I agree with you. But in 1979, lyrics about 'one night stands' were probably not going to fly with a mainstream audience. I'll take Tommy's music over DDY's anytime though, and especially on this album.

Always my favorite song from Cornerstone. So under-rated.

rockvillem ~ Mine as well. A great song. For me, Tommy's tracks on this Lp made the album. "Babe" &
"First Time..." never did anything for me. And JY only did one track on it.

No dislikes!!!

As a child of the 70's and early 80's Styx ruled. Their songs were not only musically inspiring but lyrically as well. They rocked!

@ElpiCcC 1978???? this album was released in 1979

great album, one of my first rock albums on 1978, in Greece we love BOAT ON THE RIVER..

This was one of the greatest rock bands in history and they still put on a great live show. However,I do not like the fact that Larry Gowan is in the band. Don't get me wrong,I really like Gowan's solo material too but he is just no match for the original band Styx.

FOO!! LG rules

Tommy Shaw can really wirte a brillant punchy and rocky song. This is the case in point. What a tune. Top notch stuff from Shaw and the boys.

So this song is about Tommy Shaw driving around picking up hookers?

magtownrep I think so

magtownrep 😂😂🤣💓

thanksStyxFan93 gotta be one of my top fav albums of all time cornerstone, cheers

Cornerstone was my very first album and man was it timeless. Still all great songs on this one!

a styx classic almost forgot how good this album really is.......thank you

There are more views but it's not like Blue collar man which is with 200 000
People really don't know real music!

i find this their best song handsdown

So glad to see this one here. One of many that did not get released as singles or get much air play. I have listened to this on 8-track, cassette, LP album and now CD. Great work Styxfan93. My boys grew up on Styx, as if they had a choice, and now my 23 y/o son has started my granddaughter on them.

@65metal exactly. This is one of my favs

@kwindshawne I agree, kwindshawne, some of Styx songs are deep cuts like this. A greatest hits song doesn't do the group justice, as there are just too many great songs that were never released as singles.

This was one of the best they did and it never gets played anymore

For the past two years I've been looking for Styx. Thank very much StyxFan93 for presenting the real music.