AOTW Styx: EDGE OF THE CENTURY (A&M CD 5327)

[LPJim]

1	Love Is The Ritual Engineer [Additional], Sequenced By, Written-By – Plinky*	3:48
2	Show Me The Way	4:35
3	Edge Of The Century Written-By – Bob Burger	4:20
4	Love At First Sight Programmed By [Synclavier] – Gary FryWritten-By – James Young (3)	4:35
5	All In A Day's Work	4:11
6	Not Dead Yet Written-By – Ralph Covert	3:32
7	World Tonite	3:38
8	Carrie Ann	4:26
9	Homewrecker Effects [Sound Collage] – Terry FryerWritten-By – James Young (3)	5:12
10	Back To Chicago Arranged By [Horns] – John Negus*, Max Bialystock	4:18

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – A&M Records, Inc.

• Art Direction, Design – Hugh Syme
• Baritone Saxophone – Ron Kolber*
• Bass – Chuck Panozzo
• Clarinet, Saxophone – John Negus*
• Drums, Percussion – John Panozzo
• Engineer – Phil Bonanno
• Engineer [2nd] – Chris Shepard
• Guitar, Vocals – Glen Burtnik*, James Young (3)
• Harmonica – Howard Levy
• Keyboards, Vocals, Mixed By – Dennis DeYoung
• Mastered By – Ted Jensen
• Mixed By – Dennis DeYoung, Phil Bonanno
• Percussion [Additional] – Jo Pusateri*
• Photography By – Marc Hauser
• Producer – Dennis DeYoung
• Saxophone – Michael Smith (3)
• Trombone – Mike Halpin
• Trumpet – Dan Barber*, Mark Ohlsen
• Written-By – Dennis DeYoung (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10), Glen Burtnik* (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7)

Entered the Billboard Top 200 on Oct. 27, 1990
Charted for 38 weeks and peaked at # 63


JB

 

[AM Matt]

The song "Love Is The Ritual" was big on the Mainstream Rock stations. The song "Show Me The Way" was also dedicated to the solders who worked during the Gulf War in January 1981 till May of 1981.

 

[Rudy]

The last Styx album that sounded like a Styx album. Never really warmed to it completely, but at least DDY is still present. It's interesting that they used Hugh Syme, the artist that Rush used on many of their album jackets.