★★★★★
It's easy to be cynical about rock dinosaurs playing "classic" albums in their entirety; in effect, it's a credibility-saving alternative to the greatest hits tour. Forget any attempts at being relevant in 2012: just play what people want to hear. The fact is, for many bands - arguably mid-70s radio rock superstars above all - their "classic" period (in Styx's case 1977-81) is of interest only to the hardcore few among the millions...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Until now this 2-CD set of newly recorded versions of Styx hits was only available at the merch table during the band's live appearances. The original arrangements of favorites including "The Grand Illusion," "Lorelei," "Sing for the Day" and "Come Sail Away" are not tampered with; rather they're enhanced by the improved sound provided by today's technology and, in places, punchier playing of guitar and keyboard parts...
- www.antimusic.com
2011-12-12
★★★★★
Despite the enticement of a new track and a couple of reinterpretations of Damn Yankees numbers (via shared guitarist Tommy Shaw), the new material on this 16-song collection fails to live up to the standards of the vintage tracks. For those unfamiliar with the US pomp-rockers' oeuvre, Regeneration offers re-treads of cuts from across much of Styx's formidable 70s and 80s catalogue, aside from their early prog days and latter AOR outings...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-12-05
★★★★★
Styx has endured a lot of slings and arrows over the years, not all of them fully deserved. The band has frequently been disdained as vacuous arena rockers, bloated prog-dinosaurs, and even silly theatrical balladeers. Much of the reason for why their music is so divisive stems from the tension between original singer/songwriter Dennis DeYoung and guitarist/songwriter Tommy Shaw, who joined the band just before it began to embark on its most commercially successful phase in the late '70s...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-11-30
★★★★★
This is the 2006 re-mastering of Styx's transitional period when founding member John Curulewski left and current long-standing member Tommy Shaw came on board. 1975's Equinox has Curulewski's final efforts as songwriter and guitarist. The following year's Crystal Ball begins Shaw's long tenure with the band. It makes sense to have them together on one CD like this one."Light Up" has to be one of the best stadium openers in history. This surely was a major crowd pleaser...
- www.prognaut.com
2011-10-31
★★★★★
While it can be argued that there's more to Styx than this A&M-era collection allows for, their four pre-1975 prog efforts were an altogether different proposition from the evolving pomp-rock that conquered the US charts four consecutive times in the latter half of the 70s. With three redoubtable vocalists in the sublime Dennis DeYoung, guitarist JY Young and Tommy Shaw, melded to a theatricality rivalled by few others, Styx should be regarded as Queen-from-across-the-water...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-06-20
★★★★★
Starting out as the poor man's Yes, Chicago's Styx were the nadir of progressive rock, with preening vocals and witless instrumental flourishes that add up to pure self-parody. While experts may debate whether the wedding-reception ballads ("Babe") or the pompous arena epics ("Mr. Roboto") are sillier, both provide plenty of unintentional cheap laughs.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Sound: This is a pretty good album. I found that my mom had this cassette, and I have listened to some of Styx's stuff anyway, "Come Sail Away" for example, so I thought I might try it out. I asssumed this is a pretty old album. The songs have a classical rock distortion with a lot of piano and horn sounds. The solo was pretty good on "Snowblind". The guitarist has good techniques with wah-effects. // 8 Lyrics and Singing: A conceptual album, I assume. The first track, "A.D...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: "We've grown a little bit..." -- greets the audience Tommy Shaw from the Styx on their latest CD One With Everything: Styx & the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, out November 7th on New Door Records. Really, recorded at the concert with the aforementioned Contemporary Youth Orchestra, the CD features US rock legends together with 115-musician orchestra. The event took place in the Blossom Music Center in Cleveland in May 2006...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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