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Artist: Styx
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Best Thing
  2. You Need Love
  3. Lady
  4. Winner Take All
  5. Rock & Roll Feeling
  6. Light Up
  7. Lorelei
  8. Prelude 12
  9. Suite Madame Blue
  10. Shooz
  11. Mademoiselle
  12. Crystal Ball
  13. The Grand Illusion
  14. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
  15. Come Sail Away
  16. Miss America
  17. Man in the Wilderness [#]
Music CD 2
  1. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
  2. Sing for the Day
  3. Renegade
  4. Pieces of Eight
  5. Lights
  6. Babe
  7. Borrowed Time
  8. Boat on the River
  9. A.D. 1928
  10. Rockin' the Paradise
  11. Too Much Time on My Hands
  12. The Best of Times
  13. Snowblind
  14. Mr. Roboto
  15. Love Is the Ritual
  16. Show Me the Way
  17. Dear John
  18. One With Everything

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Free Music Review: Top Marks from a New Styx Fan
Hit: 5 Stars

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm in my late 20's and I was likely conceived to the tune of "Babe," but I think I can offer a unique opinion.

I started to appreciate Styx a few years ago, probably less from a desire to dig up old rock, and more out of repulsion for today's garbage (sorry Hoobastank fans). For whatever reason, I love Styx. Yeah, many of their songs are corny, sappy, programatic, or all of the above, but it's good music. No offense to Hilary Duff, but if music is going to be on the sappy side, I'd prefer it at least be listenable.

That said, I'll offer my favorite tracks of this anthology (in order of preference), a window, if you will, into the mind of a recent Styx aficionado:

1. "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)"
I'm a sucker for rocking keyboards, so you can't beat this track. DeYoung approaches virtuosity in this track, not bad for an accordion player. Although I lean slightly to the DeYoung side of the DeYoung/Shaw debate, I like Shaw on this track. This is just quintessential Styx in my opinion, rocking, showy, and a little experimental (mixed tempos, mixed meter).

2. "Come Sail Away"
Much of what I said about "Fooling Yourself" I could say about this one, with the notable exception of DeYoung's vocals. It rocks, it's fun, it's catchy. Great tune.

3. "The Best Of Times"
Again, I prefer the Deyoung vocals. This track is a classic example of the Styx formula: Solo melodic verses followed by a harder-rocking ensemble chorus.

4. "Babe"
As corny as can be, but you have to include a DeYoung ballad in the top 5, and this is the best one.

5. "Lights"
Like "Fooling Yourself," this one is a great combination of DeYoung keyboards and Tommy Shaw vocals. I don't care much for the saxaphone-heavy interlude, but the song eventually regains it's strength and then some in the end.

6. "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)"
Rocks about as hard as any Styx song, and the opening keyboard riff is catchy as hell. Again, one of Shaw's better vocal efforts.

7. "Pieces Of Eight"
Maybe I like this one because I can actually sing along with most of it. But it's a good song with nice guitar stuff.

8. "Show Me The Way"
While I don't care much for the song's religious overtones, it's a great piece of music. The instrumental passage in the middle, punctuated by the guitar solo is very nice. In the realm of Gulf War Ballads, I'd choose this one over "Proud to Be an American" any day.

9. "You Need Love"
I really like the pace of this one as well as DeYoung's more soaring vocals. It's also one of the better solo guitar efforts in the anthology, which makes up for the somewhat lame lyrics.

10. "Borrowed Time"
Kind of a "throwback" classic rock song. It's a bit reminiscent of Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty."

And a few more...

11. "Lady"- I like the song a lot, but's been overplayed
12. "Winner Take All"- Good rocker at a good pace
13. "Boat on the River"- Good change of pace. Like the accordion
14. "Sing for the Day"- Great song but Shaw's vocals sound strained
15. "Lorelei"- good song but lyrics are corny
16. "Too Much Time On My Hands"- sounds like the 80's just slapped you in the face
17. "Light Up"- Did DeYoung really write a song about reefer?
18. "Renegade"- Not a bad song, and aptly named. Sounds like Shaw musically rebelling against DeYoung. Doesn't sound like quintessential Styx.
19. "The Grand Illusion"- Has its moments, but overall too programmatic and not melodic enough
20. "Mr. Roboto"- Whenever anyone says anything negative about Styx, it's usually because of this song. A good rock song shouldn't make you laugh every time you hear it. I'm with Tommy on this one. Dennis, what were you thinking?
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Styx may have had their musical roots in the UK's burgeoning late-'60s/early-'70s prog-rock bombast, but they were true pioneers in at least one sense: The Chicago-bred quintet virtually defined the hugely successful "corp rock" boom that followed a decade after prog's original fortunes tarnished. And if that label suggests a certain sense of the formulaic, in Styx it actually denoted a band with sharp ears and a shrewder sense of rock history, attested to immediately here by the Yes-inspired harmonies of "You Need Love" and the staccato rhythms of the Beatles' "Getting Better" on "Winner Take All." This 35-track double-disc anthology charts a course from sudden fame to its sometimes stormy aftermath, spanning the band's 1972 debut and its resilient 2003 comeback contender, Cyclorama. But after working their way up from the Grand Funk-worthy, meat 'n' instant potatoes of "Rock and Roll Feeling" and bald-faced melodramatics of "Lady" and "Come Sail Away" to the gutsier edge of "Blue Collar Man" and "Too Much Time on My Hands," rising tides of punk and new wave began to erode their younger demographic. And by the time "Babe" gave way to the faux techno of '83's "Mr. Roboto," even those sympathetic to the band's hook-rich, prog-lite sensibility seemed restless. Still, their Tommy Shaw-dominate output in the '90s and beyond showcased a band that had subtly matured from their arena-rock cliché salad days. --Jerry McCulley

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