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The 10 Best Styx Songs (Critic’s Picks)

The best Styx songs of their Billboard Hot 100 chart hits.

And it’s important to understand the range represented; because of Dennis DeYoung’s prominent keyboards, a few longer tracks, thematic works and album imagery, Styx has prog credentials, but the bulk of its repertoire falls into the more straightforward rock and, in some cases, pop categories. Then-new member Tommy Shaw’s first single for Styx was a buoyant mélange of a boppy Merseybeat melody (the song even mentions London in its chorus) and twinned guitar patterns that straddled Britain and southern California. “Lady” was originally released as the first single from Styx II in September of 1973; it went largely unpromoted and stiffed, but a DJ on Chicago’s WLS-AM subsequently championed the track — DeYoung’s first love song to his wife Suzanne — and built enough of an audience for it to prompt a significantly more successful re-release, entering the Hot 100 in 1974 and peaking in 1975.

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