Music Monday: Styx/The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings

After allowing some of the early Styx songs to be on the Come Sail Away anthology, Wooden Nickel then remastered all of the old albums and released them as a set together in 2005. This was The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings.

Music Monday: Styx/Come Sail Away Anthology

In 2004, Styx released yet another "greatest hits" album. This one was called Come Sail Away - The Styx Anthology. Now the main difference between this and the 1995 Greatest Hits is that it actually contains songs from the Wooden Nickel albums.

You get "Best Thing" (their first released single) from Styx I, "You Need Love" and "Lady" (the original, not the Lady '95 version) from Styx II, "Winner Take All" from The Serpent is Rising, and "Rock and Roll Feeling" from Man of Miracles.

It contains most of the hits in between and songs as recent as "One with Everything" off Cyclorama. The most interesting nugget in the whole thing though is a never before released extended version of "Man in the Wilderness" from The Grand Illusion.

I could not find a version of this one YouTube, so like before I just made one. Enjoy.

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Music Monday (Styx/The Serpent is Rising, Side 2)

After covering side one of The Serpent is Rising here, it is now time to critique the flip side and hope things get better. Here's a hint: they don't. Before that though, let's take a look at what the 1980 re-issue cover looks like:

As the previous albums before, it also gets a new name. The title gets shortened down to simply Serpent. In this case I think I actually prefer the original though.