Caught in the Act (Styx album)


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" – 4:45
  2. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  3. *Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  4. "Mr. Roboto" – 4:59
  5. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  6. "Too Much Time on My Hands" – 5:01
  7. *Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  8. "Babe" – 4:52
  9. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  10. *Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw

    Side 2

  12. "Snowblind" – 6:00
  13. *Co-lead vocals and lead guitar: James "JY" Young,
  14. *Co-lead vocals: Tommy Shaw
  15. "State Street Sadie" / "The Best of Times" – 6:30
  16. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  17. *Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  18. "Suite Madame Blue" – 8:51
  19. *Lead vocals and synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
  20. *Lead guitar: James "JY" Young

    Side 3

  22. "Rockin' the Paradise" – 4:40
  23. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  24. *First guitar solo: Tommy Shaw
  25. *Second guitar solo: James "JY" Young
  26. "Blue Collar Man " – 4:47
  27. *Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  28. *Guitar fills and end solo: James "JY" Young
  29. "Miss America" – 6:15
  30. *Lead vocals and lead guitar: James Young
  31. "Don't Let It End" – 5:25
  32. *Lead vocals: Dennis DeYoung
  33. *Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  35. "Boat on the River" – 3:10
  36. *Accordion: Dennis DeYoung
  37. *Lead vocals, lead guitar, mandolin: Tommy Shaw

    Side 4

  39. "Fooling Yourself " – 6:05
  40. *Lead vocals: Tommy Shaw
  41. *Synthesizer solos: Dennis DeYoung
  42. "Crystal Ball" – 6:24
  43. *Lead vocals and lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
  44. *Synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
  45. "Come Sail Away" – 8:56
  46. *Lead vocals, synthesizer solo: Dennis DeYoung
  47. *Lead guitar: Tommy Shaw
* New studio recording

Video track listing

  1. Kilroy Was Here mini-movie
  2. "Mr. Roboto"
  3. "Rockin' the Paradise "
  4. "Blue Collar Man"
  5. "Snowblind"
  6. "Too Much Time on My Hands"
  7. "Don't Let It End"
  8. "Heavy Metal Poisoning"
  9. "Cold War "
  10. "State Street Sadie" / "The Best of Times"
  11. "Come Sail Away"
  12. "Renegade "
  13. "Haven't We Been Here Before"
  14. "Don't Let It End "

    DVD bonus tracks

  15. "Come Sail Away"
  16. "Borrowed Time"
  17. "Babe"
  18. "Boat On the River"
  19. "A.D. 1928"/"Rockin' the Paradise"
  20. "The Best of Times"
  21. "Too Much Time on My Hands"
  22. "Mr. Roboto"
  23. "Don't Let It End"
  24. "Heavy Metal Poisoning"
  25. "Haven't We Been Here Before"
  26. "Music Time"

    Personnel

Album - Billboard
YearChartPosition
1984Billboard 20031

Singles - Billboard
YearSingleChartPosition
1984"Music Time"Billboard Hot 10040