The Grand Illusion

Styx - The Grand Illusion

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Artist: Styx
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
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The Grand Illusion
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Superstars
Come Sail Away
Miss America
Man In The Wilderness
Castle Walls
The Grand Finale

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Free Music Review: Good but over rated
Hit: 3 Stars

I bought this album when it first came out due to "Come sail Away" and I played the first side over and over and became a Styx fan. Then I subsequently purchased their other albums throughout the years and later on their CDs. I now have every album/CD of their's since the Grand Illusion. I know many Styx fans and "experts" think this is their best work but I just don't get it. It is good but I still like Cornerstone, Paradise Theatre, Edge of the century and Cyclorama better. First of all there are really only 7 songs on the disc. The first four are very good and Come Sail Away and Fooling Yourself I consider great songs but Castle Walls, Man in the Wilderness and Miss America (Okay, I am not a JY fan) just don't do it for me. This would be in top for best "half albums" but not for full albums. All in all though they were and still are a great band and I love their music and can't wait for another new disc.

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More than two decades before it became Eric Cartman's favorite song on South Park, "Come Sail Away" was the choice of music fans with one foot in the art-rock camp and the other in Top 40 pop. The Grand Illusion straddled the seemingly divergent directions as only Styx could, laying on the pomp with layers of keyboards and high-flown lyrical conceits, yet keeping the proceedings light with hook-filled choruses and breezy melodies. Tommy Shaw's engaging "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is the set's highlight, offering a bit of armchair psychology even as it acted as a subtle dig at the snarling punk rockers to whom Styx was anathema. James Young's "Miss America" rocks out, while Dennis DeYoung's title track reminds us that life is fleeting and illusory. Not exactly Nietzsche, but you can dance to it, sort of. --Daniel Durchholz

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