Styx Gold Come Sail Away Music Cd

Styx - Styx Gold Come Sail Away

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Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away      Artist : Styx      List Price : $19.98 USD        Your Price : $14.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2004-05-04      Studio : A&M      Label : A&M      Avg. Customer Rating : (81 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Styx Gold Come Sail Away      A top-notch collection      Rating:      Formerly known as "Come Sail Away:The Styx Anthology", this is the definitive collection of Styx's best known hits and selected album cuts. It also includes material from their Wooden Nickel days (pre-Tommy Shaw) so you get the original version of their first Top Ten hit "Lady". The set ends with a track from the '03 album "Cyclorama", their first album after Dennis DeYoung's departure. Since there's no boxed set from them (yet),this is the place to go for the ultimate Styx collection. (because the hits "Why Me" and "Don't Let It End" were left off, my rating is actually 4.75 stars)     Customer Reviews for Styx Gold Come Sail Away Cd      An Interesting Picture of One of the Arena Kings      Rating:      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. 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. 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". Editorial Reviews for Styx Gold Come Sail Away Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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