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Styx
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6964
Styx Album Rankings
1
Sometimes I think that Styx chose the wrong name for their band - it should have been "Phoenix.
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2
Styx's entry into A&M's 1987Classicsseries is one of the best, since it doesn't have too many questionable album track selections, instead preferring to pile on hits from "Babe," "Grand Illusion," and
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3
Styx's feisty, straightforward brand of album rock is represented best by "Blue Collar Man" from 1978'sPieces of Eight, an invigorating keyboard and guitar rush -- hard and heavy, yet curved byTommy S
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4
For many people, this is where Styx begins.
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5
Other than being their first platinum-selling album,The Grand Illusionled Styx steadfastly into the domain of AOR rock.
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6
After successfully establishing themselves as one of America's best commercial progressive rock bands of the late '70s with albums likeThe Grand IllusionandPieces of Eight, Chicago's Styx had taken a
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7
With this four-CD set, the transformation of Paisley Park into a fully dimensioned subculture seems complete.
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8
Presenting radio with one of the best rock ballads ever,Cornerstonegave Chicago's Styx their big break with the number one single "Babe," which held that spot for two weeks in October of 1979.
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9
AlthoughDennis De Young's concept about man being replaced by robots in the near future failed to get off the ground,Kilroy Was Herestill harbored two of the band's best singles.
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10
Being a native Chicagoan, it's almost in my genes that I have an affinity for the rock group Styx.
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11
In 1990, STYX's bombastic single "Show Me the Way" became a popular Gulf War anthem.
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12
Melodic hard pop and power ballads, obviously cut from the same cloth as Journey, but with a nod to modern metal.
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13
Like 2004's less than stellar Cyclorama, those looking for this to be the big Styx record that will catapult them back into the mainstream will be sorely disappointed in the contents of this record.
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17
Although they're not on par with Pearl Jam just yet for the largest amount of live albums released in the shortest amount of time, Styx surely lead the pack of veteran classic rock bands in the live
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22
In 1999, One Way released The Serpent Is Rising/Man of Miracles, which contained two complete albums -- The Serpent Is Rising (1974, originally released on RCA) and Man of Miracles (1974, originally
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24
For Styx II (1973), the Chicago-based quintet of John Curulewski (guitar/synthesizer/vocals), Dennis DeYoung (keyboard/vocals), brothers Chuck Panozzo (bass/vocals) and John Panozzo (drums/percussion
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25
Man of Miracles (1974) was Styx' fourth and final album on the Chicago-based indie label Wooden Nickel and even though the band had co-produced their previous two efforts -- The Serpent Is Rising (19
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27
After a major-label act passes its commercial heyday, the major label generally is left in control of the act's back catalog of recordings, and begins looking for ways to exploit it beyond just enjoy
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28
If Grand Funk was once a publicist's tool, this new live album shows the extent to which they have become a producer's tool. If once their reach exceeded their grasp, they are now not reaching at all.
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