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Average Rating: Rating: - Styx II Styx II, the album, is a classic. "A Day" is a gem of a rock song -- way, way before it's time. John Curuluski (replaced after this album by Tommy Shaw) was the "Pete Best" of Styx. If you grew up a fan of Styx, and if you like Foreigner songs like "Blue Day" and David Bowie songs like "Warszawa" and "TVC-15" then you will especially love this album. Rating: - The Real Styx Styx started in Chicago, and actually had used the name TW4 from 1964-1972. At that time the Panozzo brothers Dennis Deyoung and John Curulewski added a guitar player (James Young). Since there were more than four members TW4 needed a name change and chose Styx. This line up produced 4 albums for Wooden Nickle records, and The album Equinox for A&M. At that point John Curulewski quit and was replaced by Tommy Shaw. It may be noted that Styx had established its sound and platinum status before Tommy Shaw's arrival. It may also be noted that none of the original TW4 lineup is now a member of Styx and neither is the man who created the fomula with his song Lady. That song can be found on Styx 2 which was released in 1973. That song set the groundwork when it hit big for the sound Styx would stick to in the future. Styx without Dennis Deyoung is like Wings without Paul MCcartney. No knock on Tommy Shaw or Denny Laine. Rating: - Excellent! I found this on vinyl during the covered bridge fest (held every October in West Central Indiana), and this band is awesome! Even though I was more familiar with The Grand Illusion, still, The Wooden Nickel label shined, and they should've been popular then. In Early 1975, "Lady" became a top 10 hit, which launched the band's popularity on later songs like "Come Sail Away", and "Renegade". Even though Curlewski's "A Day" is very long, the vocals are excellent. "You better ask", the other Curlewski song, sounds like Beatles music. "I'm gonna make you feel it" is a short and very last Young-DeYoung-Curlewski trio song, but Young primarily does vocals. "You need love" I think would be the heaviest song on the album, but catchy, very catchy. "Little Fugue in G" is a Bach-written song, transcribed by DeYoung. Sounds like a Halloween tune (it's that time of year), but the beutiful organ by DeYoung leads into "Father O.S.A" is good, but why did they add the "OSA"? But I don't want to give away the remaining two tracks, "Earl of Roseland", and "Lady", and partially "Father O.S.A".

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