Yeah, I’m a Styx fan. I’m also a Journey (with Perry) fan. Damn, Escape was an incredible album of music. I also liked Supertramp, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies for brief periods. I thought, and still do, that Thriller was the key most important album of the 80s.
The older we get, the less in touch the younger folks are with some of these marginal bands, the more we will be ragged on for liking them. But there are scores and scores of great musicians and bands that shine brightly for short times, but who should nonetheless be appreciated for what they give us…
those Happy Songs.
NB: I listened to the Counting Crows “August and Everything After” continuously for weeks when I was really depressed about our youngest daughter moving out of our house when she was 19 to move in with this guy that we knew would break her heart. I never felt so helpless to protect my kids as I did at that time, and for some reason, that music helped me through that period.
That prick did break her heart within six months of their living together and she moved back in shortly thereafter, but it was all different after that. She was no longer the happy child we knew, the world and the reality of living and loving had changed us all.