Quite possibly the worst concept album in history, and boy there's a lot of tough competition out there. Essentially this broadway style musical masquerading as a "rock opera" has some of the most unintentionally funny music I've ever heard. The irony of this idiotic album: a rock opera as rocking and cool as a Cats revival concerning the fascist outlawing of rock music, is completely lost on the Styx boys, well Dennis DeYoung anyway. I love how DeYoung keeps singing about the "kids" comming across like somebodys dad trying to be cool while chaperoning a highschool prom. Had Styx purposefully made this a comedy it probably wouldn't have been as hilarious. As it is though, it's up there with Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa with which it shares the same theme, although we're not laughing with Styx, but at them. Not so much a satire as a farce and undoubtedly the source for much of the movie Spinal Tap and comedy band Ween's early career.