Music Monday: Styx/Cyclorama (Side Two)

The first side of this album can be found here.

As a quick review, the band had spent three years on the road and released a couple of live albums, but this was their first studio album with new keyboardist Lawrence Gowan.

Music Monday: Styx Live Albums (2000-2002)

After Brave New World, the band was ready to move forward touring, but Dennis DeYoung wasn't. They went on without him and replaced him with Canadian Lawrence Gowan. Also, with Chuck Panozzo focusing on his health concerns, Glen Burtnik returned to Styx (yay!), this time as bass player though, with Chuck participating on a part-time basis, sitting in as his health permitted. Styx's new lineup released several live albums and toured extensively during this period.

Styx World: Live 2001

Music Monday: Styx/Greatest Hits

Styx - Classics, Volume 15 is a greatest hits compilation for the band Styx, released in 1987 by A&M Records as part of A&M's classics series of greatest hits albums for artists on its label. Like Best of Styx (one of my favorites that I covered here), this compilation is label-exclusive. Therefore it only contains Styx's hits on the A&M label. This means it excludes Styx's significant hit "Lady", which was recorded for Wooden Nickel Records.

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