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Styx - Greatest Hits
(more) »rank: 744by: Styx
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :If it's your belief that one of the reasons today's rock is so bereft of personality is that all sense of show business has been drained from the music, then a look back at the career of Styx offers proof positive that it wasn't always thus. Greatest Hits offers a comprehensive overview of the band, from its art-rock days--which produced a top 10 hit in 'Lady,' a new version of which is included in this package--to its years as a perennial album-rock favorite--with offerings ranging from ...
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Paradise Theater
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: essential recording:One album before Styx cut loose with an honest-to-goodness concept album, Kilroy Was Here, they flirted with the idea on Paradise Theater. The concept here has something to do with the decline of America in the '70s, based on the condemnation and destruction of the Paradise Theater, a famous showplace in the band's hometown of Chicago. Truth be told, the concept hasn't held together that well, though the individual songs have, led by the optimistic ballad 'The Best of Times,' and the rockers 'Too Much Time on My Hands' and 'Snowblind.' Dennis DeYoung gives some of his most theatrical performances throughout, ...
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Pieces of Eight
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: :\N :In some ways, Styx was America's answer to Queen. The Chicago quintet never ascended to the ranks of rock-and-roll royalty, as did their English counterparts, nor are they held in as high a regard today. Nevertheless, Styx fulfilled a Midwestern American hunger for high-flown fantasy typified on Pieces of Eight with songs like Dennis DeYoung and James Young's 'I'm Okay' and 'Lords of the Rings,' with their elaborate arrangements, soaring vocal harmonies, and lyrical pretensions. In quite another direction, guitarist Tommy Shaw writes about basic human needs and working-class values in 'Blue Collar Man,' while his song 'Sing for the Day' ...
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The Grand Illusion
(more) »rank: 1767by: Styx
: essential recording: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 ...
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The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings
(more) »rank: 23274by: Styx
: essential recording: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 ...
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Cornerstone
(more) »rank: 6083by: Styx
: :If Styx didn't do enough to endear itself to a generation of prom-goers with its 1975 slow-dance classic 'Lady,' they closed the deal a few years later with Cornerstone's premiere hit, 'Babe.' Perhaps the prototypical I-love-you-but-I-just-gotta-go power ballad, the song was Styx's first No. 1 hit, and it propelled the album to platinum-plus status. Led by that track as well as 'Why Me,' another Top 40 hit, Cornerstone is Styx at their most accessible and melodic. The album experiments with some new sounds as well, with horns added to the mix on Dennis DeYoung's 'Borrowed Time' and 'Why Me' and mandolin on Tommy ...
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Equinox
(more) »rank: 6119by: Styx
: :If Styx didn't do enough to endear itself to a generation of prom-goers with its 1975 slow-dance classic 'Lady,' they closed the deal a few years later with Cornerstone's premiere hit, 'Babe.' Perhaps the prototypical I-love-you-but-I-just-gotta-go power ballad, the song was Styx's first No. 1 hit, and it propelled the album to platinum-plus status. Led by that track as well as 'Why Me,' another Top 40 hit, Cornerstone is Styx at their most accessible and melodic. The album experiments with some new sounds as well, with horns added to the mix on Dennis DeYoung's 'Borrowed Time' and 'Why Me' and mandolin on Tommy ...
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Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away
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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 ...
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Greatest Hits
(more) »rank: 6670by: Styx
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :If it's your belief that one of the reasons today's rock is so bereft of personality is that all sense of show business has been drained from the music, then a look back at the career of Styx offers proof positive that it wasn't always thus. Greatest Hits offers a comprehensive overview of the band, from its art-rock days--which produced a top 10 hit in 'Lady,' a new version of which is included in this package--to its years as a perennial album-rock favorite--with offerings ranging from ...
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Kilroy Was Here
(more) »rank: 5394by: Styx
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :If it's your belief that one of the reasons today's rock is so bereft of personality is that all sense of show business has been drained from the music, then a look back at the career of Styx offers proof positive that it wasn't always thus. Greatest Hits offers a comprehensive overview of the band, from its art-rock days--which produced a top 10 hit in 'Lady,' a new version of which is included in this package--to its years as a perennial album-rock favorite--with offerings ranging from ...
