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The Best of Styx
Artist : Styx
List Price : $9.98 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 1990-10-25
Studio : RCA
Label : RCA
Avg. Customer Rating :  (13 reviews)
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Customer Reviews for The Best Of Styx
The Wooden Nickel Years are superb! Dennis, JY at their finest!
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Styx was formed in the late '60s by a keyboardist by the name of Dennis DeYoung. By 1970, they had been signed to Wooden Nickel Records, which now is owned by RCA/BMG.
In 1975, Styx switched labels, to A&M Records. This collection was released shortly afterwards. It features 11 of their best tracks from their Wooden Nickel years.
Of course, now there are so many better options. Keep in mind of the 2 CD set 'The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings.'
But if you want a quick look at their best early sides, you'll find most of them here. Read on for the positives and negatives.
Positives
-Obviously, their biggest hit on Wooden Nickel was 'Lady,' so it's nice to see it here.
-The underrated album classics that would pave the way for their A&M years are also here. 'Best Thing,' 'Winner Take All' and 'You Need Love' are all awesome songs, and it's great to see them here.
-The sound quality is great!
Negatives
-Where is one of their best Wooden Nickel songs, 'Movement for the Common Man'? That's 13+ minutes of goodness, and yet, it's nowhere to be found here.
-Why so skimpy? The length of the disc is 39:47, so they could easily find some other Wooden Nickel songs to put on here.
But overall, if you think the only part of Styx is their A&M recordings, you are dead wrong. Buy 'Best of Styx.' You won't regret it.
Highly recommended for any Styx fan. ENJOY!!!
Customer Reviews for The Best Of Styx Cd
The Best Of Wooden Nickel
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In this album you can hear the early versions of their music it is a completely different sound then what you hear as soon as they switched over to A&M. Even though I like the later stuff better. This is still a great album Here Are M Rating by song:
1. You Need Love (15/10) Hard Rocker, A beatiful guitar solo and tons of organ AWESOME!!!!! off of the album STYX II
2. Lady (20/10) Their best song on this CD and their frst Top Ten hit. A Styx classic. off the album STYX II
3. I'm Gonna Make You Feel It (12/10) A very catchy song quick paced kinda one of those songs that gets stuck in our head but your happy that it's there. off the album STYX II
4. What Has Come Beetween Us (10/10) It's a rare Styx breakup song. off the album STYX.
5. Southern Woman (8/10) Some Southern Rock Style sung by James Young and interesting manuever by them. Off the album Man Of Miracles
6. Rock & Roll Feeling (10/10) Another song sung by James Young and a another catchy tune. off the album Man Of Miracles.
7. Winner Take All (9/10) John Curulewski sings really high in this song with Dennis DeYoung but another catch style song. off the album The Serpent Is Rising.
8. Best Thing (10/10) Their first Top 100 hit. A very well done song with a good guitar solo and lots of electric piano with acoustic guitar to back it up. Off the album STYX.
9. Witch Wolf (7/10) Kind of a theatrical song in a way good but not their best. Off the album The Serpent Is Rising.
10. The Grove Of Eglantine (9/10) A nice ballad by DeYoung. off the album The Serpent Is Rising
11. Man Of Miracles (8/10) A ballad/theatrical song pretty good but they have better. off the album Man Of Miracles.
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