Best of Styx

Infobox Album |
Name = Best of Styx
Type = Compilation
Artist = Styx


Released = 1977
Recorded = 1971-1974
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Wooden Nickel
Producer =
Reviews =
Chronology = Styx compilation
Last album =
This album = "Best of Styx"
(1977)
Next album = "Lady"
(1980)Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Album Cover
Type = compilation


Lower caption = Cover of 1980 Reissue

With the success of Styx's album "The Grand Illusion", Wooden Nickel Records, Styx's previous label, released "Best of Styx", which contained selected Styx songs in the Wooden Nickel catalog. Styx had left Wooden Nickel Records to sign with A&M Records several years earlier, so the compilation does not contain any songs from Styx's three A&M albums that preceded this album's release. "Lady" and "Best Thing" are the two songs that could be classified as hits in this collection, having charted at numbers 6 and 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. "You Need Love" had been released as a single, but it did not chart. The remainder of the songs are selected album tracks from Styx's Wooden Nickel releases.

RCA Records reissued the album with new artwork in 1980.

Track listing

#"You Need Love" (DeYoung) – 3:44
#"Lady" (DeYoung) – 2:56
#"I'm Gonna Make You Feel It" (DeYoung) – 2:23
#"What Has Come Between Us" (Mark Gaddis) – 4:53
#"Southern Woman" (J. Young, R. Brandle) – 3:10
#"Rock & Roll Feeling" (J. Young, J. Curulewski) – 3:02
#"Winner Take All" (D. DeYoung, C. Lofrano) – 3:10
#"Best Thing" (James Young, Dennis DeYoung) – 3:13
#"Witch Wolf" (J. Young-R. Brandle) – 3:57
#"The Grove of Eglantine" (DeYoung) – 5:00
#"Man of Miracles" (J. Young, D. DeYoung, R. Brandle) – 4:55

Personnel

*John Curulewski - guitar, ARP, vocals
*Dennis DeYoung - keyboards, ARP, vocals
*Chuck Panozzo - bass
*John Panozzo - percussion, drums, vocals
*James Young - guitar, vocals