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- Artist: Styx
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- Release Date: May 04, 2004
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
It seems that a double-disc collection of Styx would contain all their biggest hits, along with all of their key album tracks. Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology comes close to fitting that description, but it falls short in a couple of noticeable ways. The compilers have made a conscious decision to emphasize the progressive hard rock side of the band, devoting most of the first disc of the 35-song collection to their '70s album-oriented rock radio staples. By the end of that disc, the hits start coming with "The Grand Illusion," "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)," and "Come Sail Away," and these spill over to the first part of the second disc, which covers their prime period of Pieces of Eight, Cornerstone, and Paradise Theater, including all the big hits. Around this time, the song selection, which had been excellent until now, starts to slip, missing minor hits like "Why Me" and "Nothing Ever Goes as Planned," and that inconsistency plagues the final stretch of the compilation. The most egregious omission is "Don't Let It End," the excellent power ballad from Kilroy Was Here that reached number six on the Billboard pop charts, and its absence is all the more notable with the inclusion of material from their late-'90s/early-2000s comeback efforts, which may bring the anthology up to date, but simply isn't as good as their prime period. This is a major omission and it hurts Come Sail Away, but not fatally since, apart from the missing "Don't Let It End" and the other mentioned minor singles, this does its job right, and provides a thorough and accurate summary of Styx's long career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Best Thing | Dennis DeYoung, James Young | Styx | (3:15) |
| You Need Love | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (3:44) |
| Lady | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (2:58) |
| Winner Take All | Dennis DeYoung, |
Styx | (3:05) |
| Rock & Roll Feeling | James Young, |
Styx | (3:02) |
| Light Up (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:21) |
| Lorelei (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung, James Young | Styx | (3:23) |
| Prelude 12 | Styx | (1:20) | |
| Suite Madame Blue (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (6:33) |
| Shooz (Lyrics) | Tommy Shaw, James Young | Styx | (4:47) |
| Mademoiselle (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:00) |
| Crystal Ball (Lyrics) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:34) |
| The Grand Illusion (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:37) |
| Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (5:31) |
| Come Sail Away (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (6:05) |
| Miss America (Lyrics) | James Young | Styx | (4:58) |
| Man in the Wilderness [#] | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (6:57) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:06) |
| Sing for the Day (Lyrics) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:57) |
| Renegade (Lyrics) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:13) |
| Pieces of Eight (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:45) |
| Lights | Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:38) |
| Babe (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:27) |
| Borrowed Time | Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:59) |
| Boat on the River | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (3:12) |
| A.D. 1928 | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (1:07) |
| Rockin' the Paradise (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, James Young | Styx | (3:35) |
| Too Much Time on My Hands (Lyrics) | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (4:33) |
| The Best of Times | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:19) |
| Snowblind | Dennis DeYoung, James Young | Styx | (4:59) |
| Mr. Roboto (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (5:28) |
| Love Is the Ritual (Lyrics) | Glen Burtnik, |
Styx | (3:49) |
| Show Me the Way (Lyrics) | Dennis DeYoung | Styx | (4:37) |
| Dear John | Tommy Shaw | Styx | (3:04) |
| One With Everything | Glen Burtnik, Tommy Shaw, James Young, Todd Sucherman, |
Styx | (5:56) |
