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CD - Remastered / Reissue

  • Release Date: 05/04/2004
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 14,433
  • Label: A&M
  • UPC: 602498618370

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Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology

Disc 1
1LISTENBest Thing 3:15
2LISTENYou Need Love 3:44
3LISTENLady 2:58
4LISTENWinner Take All 3:05
5LISTENRock & Roll Feeling 3:02
6LISTENLight Up 4:21
7LISTENLorelei 3:23
8LISTENPrelude 12 1:20
9LISTENSuite Madame Blue 6:33
10LISTENShooz 4:47
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Disc 2
1LISTENBlue Collar Man (Long Nights) 4:06
2LISTENSing for the Day 4:57
3LISTENRenegade 4:13
4LISTENPieces of Eight 4:45
5LISTENLights 4:38
6LISTENBabe 4:27
7LISTENBorrowed Time 4:59
8LISTENBoat on the River 3:12
9LISTENA.D. 1928 1:07
10LISTENRockin' the Paradise 3:35
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It seems that a double-disc collection of Styx would contain all their biggest hits, along with all of their key album tracks. Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology comes close to fitting that description, but it falls short in a couple of noticeable ways. The compilers have made a conscious decision to emphasize the progressive hard rock side of the band, devoting most of the first disc of the 35-song collection to their '70s album-oriented rock radio staples. By the end of that disc, the hits start coming with "The Grand Illusion," "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)," and "Come Sail Away," and these spill over to the first part of the second disc, which covers their prime period of Pieces of Eight, Cornerstone, and Paradise Theater, including all the big hits. Around this time, the song selection, which had been excellent until now, starts to slip, missing minor hits like "Why Me" and "Nothing Ever Goes as Planned," and that inconsistency plagues the final stretch of the compilation. The most egregious omission is "Don't Let It End," the excellent power ballad from Kilroy Was Here that reached number six on the Billboard pop charts, and its absence is all the more notable with the inclusion of material from their late-'90s/early-2000s comeback efforts, which may bring the anthology up to date, but simply isn't as good as their prime period. This is a major omission and it hurts Come Sail Away, but not fatally since, apart from the missing "Don't Let It End" and the other mentioned minor singles, this does its job right, and provides a thorough and accurate summary of Styx's long career. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthologyby Anonymous

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December 06, 2004: Styx, my favorite band of all time. A band that made so many hits over the years, and now, they finally release a double-disc greatest hits collection. Most of their hits are here, but like some compilations in my opinion, I could have seen it better. Not a lot of material from their mostly ignored first four albums is on here, but the most important hits from those four are. I do not find that "Shooz" and "Man in the Wilderness" were necessary songs to put on here. I was surprised to see "Pieces of Eight" put on here. It kind of upsets me the fact that "First Time", "Don't Let It End" and "Edge of the Century" were omitted. Also, there are no tracks from "Brave New World" included on this collection. Sure there were a couple of missed songs, but Styx still rocks!

Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthologyby Anonymous

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November 23, 2004: This does a terrific job of covering all the big hits that Styx has done.The only disapointment is that it forgot great songs such as Edge Of The Century and Love at First Sight From the EdgeOf The Century album . And how can you possibly forget to include songs from your best album Brave New World ? At least 3 tracs from this should have been includded. Cyclorama is still new so I can understand only one from this one. All in all this is a winner . Styx still Rock


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