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Styx - Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away Audio CD

A fair review of the Styx "Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Styx reviews here, or go back to the Styx tabs.

Styx Band: Styx
Title: Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away
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Release Date: 2004-05-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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: Grand Illusion 14: Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) 15: Come Sail Away 16: Miss America 17: Man in the Wilderness [#] 18: Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) 19: Sing for the Day 20: Renegade 21: Pieces of Eight 22: Lights 23: Babe 24: Borrowed Time 25: Boat on the River 26: A.D. 1928 27: Rockin' the Paradise 28: Too Much Time on My Hands 29: Best of Times 30: Snowblind 31: Mr. Roboto 32: Love Is the Ritual 33: Show Me the Way 34: Dear John 35: One With Everything

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Styx's Best Anthology Ever
Replacing the two volumes of GREATEST HITS, it has several advantages over those: 1) It includes the original version of the band's first hit, "Lady" (GREATEST HITS had a remake that even the types of people who volunteer regularly at such places as hospitals and nursing homes wouldn't have anything positive to say about); 2) It doesn't include the goopy ballad "First Time" (which was on the second GREATEST HITS); and 3)It includes a song from CYCLORAMA. GOLD, a two-CD set of Styx material, is the best anthology of Styx material ever released. In fact, the only important songs missing are the moderate hit "Why Me", "Superstars", and the PIECES OF EIGHT album tracks "I'm OK" and "Queen of Spades. " Nonetheless, this anthology, along with PIECES OF EIGHT, THE GRAND ILLUSION, CRYSTAL BALL, and CYCLORAMA are the essential Styx library.


An excellent overview to Styx despite some omissions

This compilation collects the very best of Styx from their Wooden Nickel era stuff up through their classic A&M Records era material up to the material recorded for CMC International (which is now owned by Universal). Styx's Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology was released in May of 2004 and re-released as Styx Gold in 2006.
While this collection captures many of the band's great Top 40 hits like the original recording of "Lady" (#6 in 1975), "Lorelei" (Top 30 in early 1976), "Mademoiselle" (#40 in 1976), "Come Sail Away" (#9 in 1978), "Fooling Yourself" (Top 30 in 1978), "Blue Collar Man" (Top 30 in 1978), "Renegade" (Top 40 in 1979), "Babe" (#1 in 1979), "The Best of Times" (#3 in 1981), "Too Much Time on My Hands" (#9 in 1981), the infamous "Mr. Roboto" (#3 in 1983) and "Show Me the Way" (#3 in 1991), some of their biggest hits are not included like the great ballad "Don't Let It End" (which peaked at #6 in June 1983 and to not include it here is somewhat sacrilege) plus the other three Top 40 hits Styx had "Why Me" (hit #26 in 1980), "Music Time" (#40 in 1984) and "Love At First Sight" (#25 in 1991) are all absent. They could be absent due to the bad blood Tommy Shaw and James Young have with Dennis DeYoung and I supposed Tommy and JY in their egotistical revisionist way, didn't want Dennis to dominate the compilation.
We do have some classic album tracks here like "Suite Madame Blue", "Shooz", "Crystal Ball", "The Grand Illusion", "Pieces of Eight", "Borrowed Time" and what have you plus "Best Thing" from their Wooden Nickel years.
The song that should not have made the cut was "One With Everything" which sounds like an Alice in Chains holdover (when the Hell was Styx ever a grunge band?).
There is only one rarity on this set which is the full version of "Man in the Wilderness" with its full ending which was faded out on the original recording due to time constraints on vinyl LP.
However, this is a good overview to Styx's career but if you want to go with both Greatest Hits albums (like I did) that's OK as well. .


All The Captains Gold
The sound on this particular disk is really crisp and clear. Great Disk with all the big songs. The inside booklet has a lot of information on the band as well with some pictures.

If you like Styx, you can not go wrong with this purchase. Even if you own a lot of their Albums, this one is of such quality it makes it worth it.


An Interesting Picture of One of the Arena Kings


The collection feels balanced enough, going through the entirety of their discography, but happens to leave out the excellent ballad "Don't Let it End", and a couple of other noteworthy songs. So, we have here a collection of Styx music, ranging from their early, prog-rcok influenced early days to the diasterous end of the "Kilroy Was Here" tour. While it is dangerous to leave such good songs off an "anthology", the track list is still well done, and I am still listening to it, learning more about the band, and enjoying their music, even if it is "Corporate Rock".


You can see a complete list of all Styx discography, or go back to the Styx tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.

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