Copied from the Triumph thread:
It never occurred to me until just now that Pieces of Eight had exactly zero DDY singles.
I wonder if that had something to do with the paradigm shift on Cornerstone?
But yes...we should take this to the proper Styx thread.
Styx was my second favorite band (meaning the Beatles were initially my favorite band, and then Styx took that place), but I never did much exploration of the band's history beyond what we got on Behind the Music (and, more recently, on the Dan Rather interview with TS and JY). Is there a particular biography that is considered "seminal"?
Pieces of Eight is probably my favorite Styx album, and Queen of Spades might be my favorite song. It's probably the heaviest song DDY sang, and it is credited to "Young, DeYoung," but I don't know what to make of how the credits are done. I would have assumed it was a single, but it wasn't. I've also read (probably here at DTF) that Renegade was originally a much mellower song and that DDY convinced TS to make it heavier (but DDY got no writing credit on the song).
Not really sure what happened to cause the stylistic shift on Cornerstone. JY and TS objected big time to First Time, but it's not like either of them brought anything exceptional to the table. JY is almost completely absent from the album. Lights and Babe are really the only songs I go to on that album.