OT: My favorite Styx Songs ranked

MtNittany

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Sort of. Pretty good songs for a band that has never even been nominated for the rrhof one would think. Where am I off? I want to put 2 and 3 both above 1, but I just can't.

Come Sail Away
Renegade
Crystal Ball
Fooling Yourself
Suite Madame Blue
Blue Collar Man
Miss America
Man in the Wilderness
Snowblind
Rocking the Paradise
 

Big_O

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Plexiglass Toilet on Serpent Is Rising is my number one (also might be #2 as well). ;-)
 

BeerLion

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Sort of. Pretty good songs for a band that has never even been nominated for the rrhof one would think. Where am I off? I want to put 2 and 3 both above 1, but I just can't.

Come Sail Away
Renegade
Crystal Ball
Fooling Yourself
Suite Madame Blue
Blue Collar Man
Miss America
Man in the Wilderness
Snowblind
Rocking the Paradise
I would add Lady, Pieces of Eight, Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself, Lorelei and Boat on the River. I would remove Come Sail Away completely, God I hate that song. Best Albums: Grand Illusion and Equinox
 
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MtNittany

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Agree w/ Lorelei. Oversight. Strike Miss America I guess. My problem w/ Lady is that The Little River Band and Kenny Rogers both have better Ladies.
 
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Phlebitis

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Sort of. Pretty good songs for a band that has never even been nominated for the rrhof one would think. Where am I off? I want to put 2 and 3 both above 1, but I just can't.

Come Sail Away
Renegade
Crystal Ball
Fooling Yourself
Suite Madame Blue
Blue Collar Man
Miss America
Man in the Wilderness
Snowblind
Rocking the Paradise
I assumed easily Grand Illusion, I only clicked to see what was 2-10
 

CowbellMan

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This one hands down needs to be on any list. All the elements of Styx are there


Interesting tidbit is how three bands from the same era had a singular band member change and had a profound improvement to their music and chart success.

Styx swaps guitarists to move on from John Curelewski to Tommy Shaw. Journey needed a lead singer, period, since Greg Rollie was backup level (and a three month trial with Robert Fleishman was a complete bust) and they found Steve Perry on a demo tape. And John Rusty as a drummer was simply limited with Rush and health issues forced a change to Neal Peart.
 

Nittany1865Farmer

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Mr roboto!! Babe!!! Best of times. Cmon man.

renegade has the most streams 160,000,000 followed by come sail away Mr roboto and babe.
My thoughts exactly! Babe was the power ballad played in every PA high school gym for dances. Still brings back hazy warm memories of the dances every time I hear Babe being played.
 

CVLion

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Southern woman… you make feel good but don’t you tell my wiiiiiiiiiiiiife!!!!!
 

saturdaysarebetter

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Sort of. Pretty good songs for a band that has never even been nominated for the rrhof one would think. Where am I off? I want to put 2 and 3 both above 1, but I just can't.

Come Sail Away
Renegade
Crystal Ball
Fooling Yourself
Suite Madame Blue
Blue Collar Man
Miss America
Man in the Wilderness
Snowblind
Rocking the Paradise
Grand Valley State University in Michigan used Come Sail Away for a lipdub that involved a lot of their campus which was pretty cool to see something that took a lot of cooperation and planning to come together and pull it off. Grand Valley State University's nickname is the Lakers.

Brian Kelly coached at Grand Valley State University from 1991 to 2003. During his tenure, he compiled a 118-35-2 record, which included five conference championship titles and two NCAA Division II Football Championships in 2002 and 2003.

 

Colt2169

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Crystal Ball is my #1 and Renegade #2

after that there’s just a bunch of songs I like
 

JWB389

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I would add Lady, Pieces of Eight, Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself, Lorelei and Boat on the River. I would remove Come Sail Away completely, God I hate that song. Best Albums: Grand Illusion and Equinox
Pieces of Eight (the song not the album) is a really good song. Much respect. I played the grooves off of that vinyl.

I understand people love Renegade. Always hated song.

Light Up and Sweet Madam Blue are my faves.