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 Grand Illusion, Side Two)

After covering the magnificent first side of The Grand Illusion here, it is time to take a look at side two.

Tommy Shaw Gets Me

All day long I have been thinking of this song, which is kind of appropriate seeing that it's New Years Eve day. I usually just associate it with my birthday, but throw in the fact that most of my shift at work today was isolated away from people and back in the woods and it really fits. And it sums up how I feel in a lot of ways. Tommy Shaw just gets me.