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Track Listings
| 1. Lady '95 |
| 2. The Best Of Times |
| 3. Lorelei |
| 4. Too Much Time On My Hands |
| 5. Babe |
| 6. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) |
| 7. Show Me The Way |
| 8. Renegade |
| 9. Come Sail Away |
| 10. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) |
| 11. The Grand Illusion |
| 12. Crystal Ball |
| 13. Suite Madame Blue |
| 14. Miss America |
| 15. Mr. Roboto |
| 16. Don't Let It End |
Product Description
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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 flights of fancy ("Come Sail Away," "Renegade") to proto-power ballads ("Babe," "Crystal Ball") to songs reflecting the working-class roots of its audience ("Too Much Time on My Hands," "Blue Collar Man"). The band eventually succumbed to a shift in musical tides and just plain silliness ("Mr. Roboto"), but for a time, this disc suggests, a satin-suited pomp-rocker was something to be. --Daniel Durchholz
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst of the Worst,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Abandon all hope for ye who enter here folks, this is god-awful, dire stuff indeed! This is the kind of slick, pretentous "art-rock" drivel that made my adolesent years such misery. Dennis DeYoung's hideous vocals sound sound like a demented leprachaun on helium, and the grandiose trashing of keyboards and synthesizers--a style so near and dear to the heart of tight-pants, mullet-headed art rockers is enough to make all reasonable and intelligent people turn homicidal. I don't know whats worse, bands like this or the mullet-headed nauseating fans who love them so. They should all be made into soylent green and fed to record executives. . .
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Group,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Many familiar melodies in this collection! Would be interested to see them on the county fair circuit. Last time I saw them, there were on the "Grand Illusion" Tour.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get this and Greatest Hits two for real Styx Anthology,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Styx's Greatest Hits was released in August of 1995 and features 15 classic hits digitally remastered including all of their biggest hits. Lady(origianlly a Top 10 hit in 1975 and the reason for Styx signing to A&M) is included in a re-recorded version because RCA wouldn't license A&M/PolyGram the original recording but yet they did so for Come Sail Away. The difference on this version to the original is the return of guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw filling in for John Curulewski and new recruit Todd Sucherman filling in for the ailing John Panozzo(uncredited) plus guitarist James JY Young and bassist Chuck Panozzo. Keyboardist and vocalist Dennis DeYoung's voice sounds so much better on this version than the original. The other big Top 10 hits are included Come Sail Away(#8 in 1978), Babe(#1 in 1979), The Best of Times(it hit #3 in 1981 and not #16 as one other reviewer noted), Too Much Time on My Hands(#9 in 1981), Mr. Roboto(#3 in 1983), Don't Let it End(#6 in 1983 and was wrongfully omitted on Come Sail Away in favor of the Alice in Chains sounding track from the awful Cyclorama One With Everything) and Show Me the Way(#3 in 1991). Also you get Top 30 hits of Lorelei, Fooling Yourself, Blue Collar Man and Renegade. Lastly you get album tracks like Suite Madame Blue, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion and Miss America. This is a great starter to Styx and is the top selling Greatest Hits album the band has as it went Platinum. Highly recommended!
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