Label: A&M Records (Japan), UICY-77886
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock
Country: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Time: 42:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 284 Mb
Charts: US #6, AUS #70, SWE #30. UK: Silver; GER: Gold; US: 3x Platinum.
The record is considered by some to be Styx's most obvious concept album, as well as the last Styx album with significant progressive rock leanings. The theme of the album, as Dennis DeYoung explained on In the Studio with Redbeard which devoted an entire episode to Pieces of Eight, was about "not giving up your dreams just for the pursuit of money and material possessions".
Rolling Stone reviewer Lester Bangs was critical of the album, writing that "what's really interesting is not that such narcissistic slop should get recorded, but what must be going on in the minds of the people who support it in such amazing numbers. Gall, nerve and ego have never been far from great rock & roll. Yet there's a thin but crucial line between those qualities and what it takes to fill arenas today: sheer self-aggrandizement on the most puerile level. If these are the champions, gimme the cripples." The Globe and Mail noted that "when Styx strays too far from its rock and roll foundations ... as on the Gothic-pretentious numbers by Dennis De Young like 'Lords of the Ring', it starts getting less credible."
Mike DeGagne of AllMusic has retrospectively praised the album, saying that the songs on the album "rekindle some of Styx's early progressive rock sound, only cleaner."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieces_of_Eight)
01. Great White Hope (04:23)
02. I'm Okay (05:44)
03. Sing For The Day (05:01)
04. The Message (01:08)
05. Lords Of The Ring (04:33)
06. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) (04:07)
07. Queen Of Spades (05:41)
08. Renegade (04:16)
09. Pieces Of Eight (04:44)
10. Aku-Aku (02:51)
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