This Day in Music History (10/09): Styx/Edge of the Century

On this date in 1990, Styx released their 12th studio album, Edge of the Century.

It was the first Styx album featuring Glen Burtnik (who replaced Tommy Shaw) and the last album to feature John Panozzo on drums (he would die six years later of liver cirrhosis).

The album spawned three singles. "Show Me the Way" was written by Dennis DeYoung (DDY!) and peaked at #3, due to the Gulf War Troops adopting the song as an anthem. Some radio stations played an edited version with the children of troops singing. "Love Is the Ritual" (which kicks ass!) and "Love at First Sight" were also released as singles, but neither garnered the same amount of success as "Show Me the Way".

I covered this album in more depth in these posts: Side One, Side Two.

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Music Monday: Styx/Edge of the Century (Side Two)

After covering side one last week, it is now time to look at the flip side. Hopefully I'll get everything 100% right this time so Glen Burtnik won't have to correct me on Facebook. Yeah, that happened (and was epic!).

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Music Monday: Styx/Edge of the Century (Side One)

With Tommy Shaw out of the band, Dennis DeYoung would take back over as the driving force behind Styx. Glenn Burtnik replaced Tommy (who was in Damn Yankees at this point) while the rest of the membership stayed the same. In 1990, seven (7!) years after their last studio album Kilroy Was Here, Styx released Edge of the Century.

Music Monday: Styx/The Solo Albums (1984-1989)

I was in junior high when Kilroy came out. I spent all my high school years talking about the music of my favorite band without ever hearing anything new from them. For everyone else it was "oh yeah they did that roboto song". Grrr. By the time Edge of the Century came out in 1990, Styx was already losing favor with me as I was getting more and more into Yes. Besides, I was almost 1/2 way done with college at this point as well. That's a long time to go between albums (years to be exact).

Even though there were no Styx albums during this time, I picked up every solo album that came out.