Top ten - DDY songs

[Zan]

What are your top ten favorite Dennis DeYoung STYX songs? What are your top ten DDY SOLO songs? No cheating! Can you name ONLY ten of each? Try it. Here are mine:

STYX:

Pieces of Eight
Castle Walls
Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
Why Me
Queen of Spades
Suite Madame Blue
Born for Adventure
Goodbye to Roseland
Paradise
Mr. Roboto

SOLO:

Desert Moon
Don't Wait for Heros
Black Wall
South Bound Ryan
This is the Time
Won't Go Wasted
With Every Heartbeat
*Someone Else's Story (I know it's a cover, but it's excellent)
Rain
Rubicon

[GrandIllusionist725]

I was hoping you would do this Zan!

STYX:
Come Sail Away
Best of Times
Love at First Sight
Babe
Show me the Way
I'm O.K
Lady
Unfinished Song
Rockin' the Paradise
Queen of Spades

Solo:
Desert Moon
Boomchild
Outside Looking In Again
Save Me
Unanswered Prayers
Crossing the Rubicon
Dear Darling (I'll be there)
Call Me
Don't Wait For Heroes
Won't Go Wasted

[Grotelul]

STYX:

1. Come Sail Away
2. Lady
3. Best of Times
4. Pieces of Eight
5. Golden Lark
6. Lorelei
7. Castle Walls
8. This Old Man
9. Queen of Spades
10.The Grand Illusion


DDY Solo:

1. Desert Moon
2. Don't Wait For Heroes
3. Gravity
4. Beneath The Moon
5. Outside Looking In Again
6. Bring Him Home
7. Who Will Love This Child
8. Someone Else's Story
9. Forgivenesse
10.Paradise (Hunchback CD)

[Rockwriter]

What are your top ten favorite Dennis DeYoung STYX songs? What are your top ten DDY SOLO songs? No cheating! Can you name ONLY ten of each? Try it. Here are mine:

STYX:

Pieces of Eight
Castle Walls
Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
Why Me
Queen of Spades
Suite Madame Blue
Born for Adventure
Goodbye to Roseland
Paradise
Mr. Roboto

SOLO:

Desert Moon
Don't Wait for Heros
Black Wall
South Bound Ryan
This is the Time
Won't Go Wasted
With Every Heartbeat
*Someone Else's Story (I know it's a cover, but it's excellent)
Rain
Rubicon

Hmmm . . . tough one, but here goes:


STYX
1. Father OSA
2. Earl of Roseland
3. Light Up
4. This Old Man
5. Castle Walls
6. Pieces of Eight
7. Why Me
8. Lonely People
9. Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
10. Great Expectations

SOLO
1. Desert Moon
2. Suspicious
3. Black Wall
4. South Bound Ryan
5. Harry's Hands
6. Outside Looking In Again
7. Goodnight My Love
8. This Time Next Year
9. Rain
10. Crossing The Rubicon


Funny, looking at that list, I always lean toward album tracks instead of hits. Maybe because I've heard the hits so much?


Sterling

[Zan]

Poop, I forgot "I'm Okay." Crap. OK, take out Paradise and replace it with I'm Okay. How'd I miss that one?

I agree with you, Sterling. Album tracks have almost always been my favorites over the "hits." And one reason is because I'm sooo sick of the hits.

[StyxCollector]

Here's mine. All in no particular order, and could change two days from now lol

STYX
1. Pieces of Eight
2. Come Sail Away (yeah, it's a biggie, but still is good)
3. Nothing Ever Goes As Planned
4. Lonely People
5. Goodbye to Roseland
6. Back to Chicago
7. Claire De Lune/Ballerina
8. High Time
9. This Old Man
10. Borrowed Time

Honorable mention: All In A Day's Work (since there's no Glen list and DDY does sing on it ...), Best Thing (hey, with a list of 10, it's hard!), Suite Madame Blue

SOLO
1. Crossing the Rubicon
2. It's In Every One Of Us
3. I'll Get Lucky
4. Won't Go Wasted
5. Don't Wait For Heroes
6. Call Me
7. This Is The Time
8. Gravity
9. Rain
10. Breathe Again

Honorable mention: Warning Shot, Harry's Hands, Desert Moon

[kipthekid]

Styx

1. Lady
2. Come Sail Away
3. Queen of Spades
4. Lorelei
5. Suite Madam Blue
6. Why Me
7. Lonely People
8. Pieces of Eight
9. The Grand Illusion
10. The Best of Times

Solo

1. Black Wall
2. Harry's Hands
3. Desert Moon
4. This Is The Time
5. Street Where you Live (cover from 10 on Broadway)
6. Southbound Ryan
7. Suspicious
8. Gravity

Saving two spots for "100 Years"

[bugsymalone]

A toughie, indeed!!

Styx DDY – I am picking the ones he wrote alone (so Queen of Spades and Born for Adventure get left off, though they are among my very favorites)

Castle Walls
Pieces of Eight
Lonely People
Suite Madame Blue
Why Me
Goodbye Roseland
Paradise
Father OSA
This Old Man
Lady (How did I leave this out first time 'round???)

DDY Solo – Even more difficult with this new CD

Desert Moon
Beneath the Moon
Esmerelda
Outside Looking In Again
Gravity
This is the Time
Crossing the Rubicon
Save Me
I Don’t Believe in Anything
One Hundred Years from Now

ALL subject to additions and subtractions!

Bugsy

[cittadeeno23]

With Styx
1. Borrowed Time
2. Castle Walls
3. Queen of Spades
4. Rockin the Paradise
5. I'm OK
6. Born for Adventure
7. Suite Madam Blue
8. Lady
9. The Grand Illusion
10 Come Sail Away

Solo
1. Rain
2. Crossing the Rubicon
3. Turn off CNN
4. Don't Wait for Heroes
5. This Time Next Year
6. Black Wall
7. What a Way to Go
8. Desert Moon
9. The Best is yet to Come
10 I don't beleive in anything (I love the lyrics in this song!)

Boy, that was hard!! Other than "Borrowed Time" firmly at #1 with a bullet for as long as I live, the rest of the songs are subject to move around in order. Although Castle Walls is pretty much set at #2. Talk about EPICS!

And although it is not in my top ten Dennis-with-Styx songs, I beleive "The Best of Times" is the greatest rock Ballad ever recorded. I'm not a big ballad guy, but that song has lots of meaning to me. And the harmonies are some of the best I have ever heard. Plus it was my Wedding song and my Prom song. (Too bad both of those situations turned out horrible for me! But at least the Music was good!!!)
And I don't care what anyone says. LADY is NOT a ballad!!

Zan, most of your songs are not in my top 10, but I do like all the songs you picked. I think "Nothing ever goes as Planned" is Under-rated. And even though Roboto helped kill the band, and it is goofy, I still find myself listening to it quite a bit
all these years later. It just sounds GOOD in the Car!!

Jimmy

[cittadeeno23]

And I could go on forever with Honorable mention!!

Lonely people, Christopher, Mr. Christopher, Why Me, Goodbye Roseland, This Old Man, Peices of Eight......This could go on for days!!!

[Abitaman]

In no order (they remain in top ten, just change where I put them from time to time)

1. Suite Madame Blue
2. Lady
3. Grand Illusion (live)
4. Come Sail Away
5. Mr Roboto
6. Goodbye Roseland
7. Best of Times
8. Pieces of Eight
9. Show Me the Way
10. Castle Walls

Solo
1. Desert Moon
2. Unanswered Prayers
3. What a Way to Go
4. Beneath the Moon (Boomchild ver.)
5. Harry's Hands
6. It's in Everyone of us
7. Rain
8. I Don't Believe in Anything
9. I Believe in You
10. Hello God

[brywool]

What!? No Boomchild?? That song is great.

[Abitaman]

What!? No Boomchild?? That song is great.

The song was in my top ten until the new cd came out.-ERIC

[DeeJaySTYX]

Styx

1. Castle Walls
2. Born For Adventure
3. I'm O.K.
4. Queen Of Spades
5. Pieces Of Eight
6. Suite Madame Blue
7. Lady
8. Come Sail Away
9. Show Me The Way (Live)
10. Borrowed Time

Solo

1. Black Wall
2. Warning Shot
3. Desert Moon
4. Harry's Hands
5. Suspicious
6. Don't Wait For Heroes
7. Gravity
8. Unanswered Prayers
9. Beneath The Moon
10. Southbound Ryan

[yogi]

Dennis has tooooooooo damn many GREAT songs but I will try. Here I go:

Dennis with Styx:

Lady
Come Sail Away
The Best Of Times
Borrowed Time
Golden Lark
Paradise
Goodbye Roselawn
Pieces Of Eight
Suite Madame Blue
Born For Adventure

Dennis Solo

Desert Moon
Memory
Outside Looking In
Unanswered Prayers
Black Wall
Wont Go Wasted
Save Me
On Hundred Years From Now
I Dont Believe In Anything
Cross The Rubicon