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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Hits List: Styx

This group started out with success in only small areas like Boise, Idaho and built from there.  Early Styx material is every bit as good as when most people discovered the group, if not better.  This is a group that has dozens of great songs not released as singles also.  Here is the complete Hits List from Styx:

1972:  "Best Thing" (#82)



1974:  "Lady" (#6, #17 New Zealand)--underrated
1975:  "You Need Love"(#88)--underrated
1976:  "Lorelei" (#27)--underrated
           "Mademoiselle" (#36)--underrated



1977:  "Crystal Ball"
           "Come Sail Away" (#8)
1978:  "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" (#29)--underrated
1979:  "Sing for the Day" (#41)
           "Renegade" (#16)
           "Babe" (#1, #6 UK., #3 New Zealand)
1980:  "Why Me" (#26)
           "Boat on the River" (#5 Germany)
           "Borrowed Time" (#64)
           "Lights" (#35 Germany)
           "First Time"--highly underrated
1981:  "The Best of Times" (#3, #16 Mainstream Rock, #42 U.K., #26 New Zealand, #52 Germany)
           "Too Much Time on My Hands" (#9, #2 Rock)
           "Nothing Ever Goes As Planned" (#54)
           "Rockin 'the Paradise" (#8 Rock)


1983:  "Mr. Roboto" (#3, #3 Rock, #8 Germany)
           "Don't Let It End" (#6, #56 U.K., #70 Germany)
           "High Time" (#48)
1984:  "Music Time" (#40)
1990:  "Love Is the Ritual" (#80, #9 Rock)
1991:  "Show Me the Way" (#3, #3 Adult Contemporary)
           "Love at First Sight" (#25)
1997:  "Paradise" (#27 AC)
1999:  "Everything Is Cool"
2003:  "Waiting for Our Time" (#37 Rock)
           "I Am the Walrus"


2009:  "Can't Stop Rockin'" (with REO Speedwagon)

Styx has had 26 hits, with 10 Top 10's on either the regular or Rock chart and one #1.  Plus, as indicated by the unusually high number of underrated songs, radio blew it on several occasions.

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