MR

Imagine if you could select songs from their entire catalog to create a kickass debut Styx album. 12 tracks maximum.

1. Borrowed Time
2. Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man)
3. Renegade
4. Show Me The Way
5. These Are The Times
6. Pieces Of Eight
7. Suite Madame Blue
8. Blue Collar Man
9. Come Sail Away
10. Midnight Ride
11. 100 Years From Now
12. One With Everything

How do you think that would have stood up to the test of time as a debut album?

well that's hard to say because in doing this exercise we are choosing songs spanning multiple decades.....as great as the imaginary album you just put together is.......if it were released in 1975-1980 it's logically gonna explode......if it's released in 2014 it will sell less than 5000 copies and if it gains enough attention to even be reviewed its gonna be called "throw back" rock......lol

with that said, i love stuff like this so I will still play along.......my ultimate release today would be.....and I say today because when I narrow the list down to 12 then that means there are about 5-6 songs that may change depending on my mood.....so today it would be;

In no particular order, I would have to give that quite a bit of thought;

1) Mademoiselle
2) Crystal Ball
3) Fooling Yourself
4) Come Sail Away
5) Great White Hope
6) Renegade
7) Blue Collar Man
Lights
9) Borrowed Time
10) Rockin The Paradise
11) The Best Of Times
12) Lady

Today this would be the list of 12 songs in chronological order to indicate to someone who wanted to know who Styx is.

1. Lady (1973)
2. Unfinished Song (1974)
3. Midnight Ride (1975)
4. Born For Adventure (1975)
5. Suite Madame Blue (1975)
6. Crystal Ball (1976)
7. Fooling Yourself (1977)
8. Come Sail Away (1977)
9. Blue Collar Man (1978)
10. Queen Of Spades (1978)
11. Borrowed Time (1979)
12.The Best Of Times (1980)

1. Born For Adventure
2. Golden Lark
3. Cross The Rubicon
4. Love In The Midnight
5. Man In the Wilderness
6. Young Man
7. Paradise
8. Prelude 12/Suite Madame Blue
9.Come Sail Away
10. The Best Of Times
11. Renegade
12. Good Bye Roseland

This is very, very hard. I'm at work so I can't listen to each song to create an accurate running order... so I'll just list them as they come to me.

1. Lady
2. Fooling Yourself
3. Pieces of Eight
4. I'm Okay
5. Renegade
6. Borrowed Time
7. Babe
8. Man in the Wilderness
9. Castle Walls
10. Suite Madame Blue
11. Crystal Ball
12. Come Sail Away

Honrable Mention: Queen of Spades, The Best of Times, Mademoiselle, Snowblind, Born for Adventure, Light Up, The Grand Illusion, Lights, Love in the Midnight.