Best of Styx

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Best of Styx
Compilation album by Styx
Released	1977
Recorded	1971-1974
Genre	Rock
Label	Wooden Nickel
Styx compilation chronology
Best of Styx (1977) Lady (1980) Alternate Album Cover Cover of 1980 Reissue

With the success of Styx's album The Grand Illusion, Wooden Nickel Records, Styx's previous label, released Best of Styx, which contained selected Styx songs in the Wooden Nickel catalog. Styx had left Wooden Nickel Records to sign with A&M Records several years earlier, so the compilation does not contain any songs from Styx's three A&M albums that preceded this album's release. "Lady" and "Best Thing" are the two songs that could be classified as hits in this collection, having charted at numbers 6 and 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. "You Need Love" had been released as a single, but it did not chart. The remainder of the songs are selected album tracks from Styx's Wooden Nickel releases.

RCA Records reissued the album with new artwork in 1980.

[edit] Track listing

1. "You Need Love" (DeYoung) – 3:44
2. "Lady" (DeYoung) – 2:56
3. "I'm Gonna Make You Feel It" (DeYoung) – 2:23
4. "What Has Come Between Us" (Mark Gaddis) – 4:53
5. "Southern Woman" (J. Young, R. Brandle) – 3:10
6. "Rock & Roll Feeling" (J. Young, J. Curulewski) – 3:02
7. "Winner Take All" (D. DeYoung, C. Lofrano) – 3:10
8. "Best Thing" (James Young, Dennis DeYoung) – 3:13
9. "Witch Wolf" (J. Young-R. Brandle) – 3:57
10. "The Grove of Eglantine" (DeYoung) – 5:00
11. "Man of Miracles" (J. Young, D. DeYoung, R. Brandle) – 4:55

[edit] Personnel

• John Curulewski - guitar, ARP, vocals
• Dennis DeYoung - keyboards, ARP, vocals
• Chuck Panozzo - bass
• John Panozzo - percussion, drums, vocals
• James Young - guitar, vocals