Come Sail Away – The Styx Anthology
Come Sail Away – The Styx Anthology is a musical album by Styx, released on May 4, 2004. It is a compilation consisting of two compact discs and contains a thorough history of the band. The album encompasses many of the band's most popular and significant songs, ranging from the band's first single from their self-titled album, "Best Thing", through the song "One with Everything", a track included on Styx's most recent album at the time of release, Cyclorama.
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Released | May 4, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 1971-1998,2002 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 149:55 | |||
Label | A&M Records | |||
Producer | Various | |||
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The most notable omission from the compilation is "Don't Let It End", Dennis DeYoung's top-10 single from their 1983 album, Kilroy Was Here. Another omission includes the top-30 hit "Love at First Sight" from 1990's Edge of the Century. Additionally, no material from their 1999 album, Brave New World, is included.
This is the only Styx compilation album to date to combine the original versions of songs from the band's early Wooden Nickel albums with their later material. Their Wooden Nickel breakout hit "Lady" was included on the 1995 Greatest Hits collection, but as a note-for-note re-recording, labelled "Lady '95". As such, this is the first truly career-spanning collection for the band ever compiled.
In 2006, the album was re-released and repackaged as part of the Gold series.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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1. | "Best Thing" | Dennis DeYoung, James Young | Styx, 1972 | 3:15 |
2. | "You Need Love" | DeYoung | Styx II, 1973 | 3:44 |
3. | "Lady" | DeYoung | Styx II | 2:58 |
4. | "Winner Take All" | DeYoung, Charles Lofrano | The Serpent Is Rising, 1973 | 3:05 |
5. | "Rock and Roll Feeling" | John Curulewski, Young | Man of Miracles, 1974 | 3:02 |
6. | "Light Up" | DeYoung | Equinox, 1975 | 4:21 |
7. | "Lorelei" | DeYoung, Young | Equinox | 3:23 |
8. | "Prelude 12" | Curulewski | Equinox | 1:20 |
9. | "Suite Madame Blue" | DeYoung | Equinox | 6:33 |
10. | "Shooz" | Tommy Shaw, Young | Crystal Ball, 1976 | 4:47 |
11. | "Mademoiselle" | DeYoung, Shaw | Crystal Ball | 4:00 |
12. | "Crystal Ball" | Shaw | Crystal Ball | 4:34 |
13. | "The Grand Illusion" | DeYoung | The Grand Illusion, 1977 | 4:37 |
14. | "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" | Shaw | The Grand Illusion | 5:31 |
15. | "Come Sail Away" | DeYoung | The Grand Illusion | 6:05 |
16. | "Miss America" | Young | The Grand Illusion | 4:58 |
17. | "Man in the Wilderness" (Extended version previously unissued) | Shaw | Originally from The Grand Illusion | 6:57 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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1. | "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" | Shaw | Pieces of Eight, 1978 | 4:06 |
2. | "Sing for the Day" | Shaw | Pieces of Eight | 4:57 |
3. | "Renegade" | Shaw | Pieces of Eight | 4:13 |
4. | "Pieces of Eight" | DeYoung | Pieces of Eight | 4:45 |
5. | "Lights" | DeYoung, Shaw | Cornerstone, 1979 | 4:38 |
6. | "Babe" | DeYoung | Cornerstone | 4:27 |
7. | "Borrowed Time" | DeYoung, Shaw | Cornerstone | 4:59 |
8. | "Boat on the River" | Shaw | Cornerstone | 3:13 |
9. | "A.D. 1928" | DeYoung | Paradise Theatre, 1981 | 1:07 |
10. | "Rockin' the Paradise" | DeYoung, Young, Shaw | Paradise Theatre | 3:35 |
11. | "Too Much Time on My Hands" | Shaw | Paradise Theatre | 4:33 |
12. | "The Best of Times" | DeYoung | Paradise Theatre | 4:19 |
13. | "Snowblind" | Young, DeYoung | Paradise Theatre | 4:59 |
14. | "Mr. Roboto" | DeYoung | Kilroy Was Here, 1983 | 5:28 |
15. | "Love Is the Ritual" | Glen Burtnik, Plinky Giglio | Edge of the Century, 1990 | 3:49 |
16. | "Show Me the Way" | DeYoung | Edge of the Century | 4:37 |
17. | "Dear John" | Shaw | Return To Paradise, 1997 | 3:04 |
18. | "One with Everything" | Burtnik, Lawrence Gowan, Shaw, Todd Sucherman, Young | Cyclorama, 2003 | 5:56 |
Personnel
- Dennis DeYoung - keyboards, vocals (all except disc 2, track 18)
- Tommy Shaw - guitar, vocals (disc 1, tracks 10–17, disc 2 tracks 1–14 & 17–18)
- James Young - guitar, vocals
- Chuck Panozzo - bass, vocals (all except disc 2, track 18)
- John Panozzo - drums (all except disc 2, tracks 17–18)
- Lawrence Gowan - vocals, keyboards (disc 2, track 18)
- Glen Burtnik - guitar, vocals (tracks 15–18)
- Todd Sucherman - drums (disc 2, tracks 17–18)
- John Curulewski - guitar, vocals (disc 1, tracks 1–9)