Best of Styx

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Best of Styx

Compilation album by Styx

Released

1977

Recorded

1971-1974

Styx compilation chronology

Alternate Album Cover
	Best of Styx (1977)	Lady (1980)
Cover of 1979 Reissue

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[2]

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", "You Need Love" and "Best Thing" are the principal songs that could be classified as hits in this collection, having charted at numbers 6, 88 and 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively; the remainder of the songs are selected album tracks from Styx's Wooden Nickel releases.

RCA Records reissued the album with new artwork in 1979.

In 1980, the Wooden Nickel released the compilation Lady, containing the same tracks as this set (in a different running order), minus the song "Winner Take All".

Track listing

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

Personnel

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

References

↑ Allmusic 1979 review
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 789. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

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Chuck Panozzo James "J.Y." Young Tommy Shaw Todd Sucherman Lawrence Gowan Ricky Phillips Dennis DeYoung John Panozzo Tom Nardini John "J.C." Curulewski Glen Burtnik

Studio albums	Styx Styx II The Serpent Is Rising Man of Miracles Equinox Crystal Ball The Grand Illusion Pieces of Eight Cornerstone Paradise Theater Kilroy Was Here Edge of the Century Brave New World Cyclorama Big Bang Theory

Studio EPs	Regeneration: Volume 1 Regeneration: Volume 2

Live albums	Caught in the Act Return to Paradise Arch Allies: Live at Riverport Styx World: Live 2001 At the River's Edge: Live in St. Louis 21st Century Live One with Everything: Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight 2010 Tour

Compilations	Best of Styx Lady Styx Classics Volume 15 Greatest Hits Styx Greatest Hits Part 2 The Best of Times: The Best of Styx Best of Styx 1973-1974 Extended Versions Singles Collection Styx Yesterday & Today 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection Rockers Come Sail Away – The Styx Anthology The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings

Singles	"Best Thing" "Lady" "You Need Love" "Lorelei" "Mademoiselle" "Crystal Ball" "Come Sail Away" "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" "Sing for the Day" "Renegade "Babe" "Why Me" "Boat on the River "Borrowed Time" "The Best of Times" "Too Much Time on My Hands" "Nothing Ever Goes As Planned" "Rockin' the Paradise "Snowblind" "Mr. Roboto" "Don't Let It End" "High Time" "Music Time" "Love Is the Ritual" "Show Me the Way" "Love at First Sight" "Paradise" "Everything Is Cool" "Waiting for Our Time" "Can't Stop Rockin" (with REO Speedwagon)

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