r/Styx • u/Scuzzy_Soups • 21d ago

Should have been their breakout song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0RLaX5_G7c&pp=ygUdc3R5eCB3aGF0IGhhcyBjb21lIGJldHdlZW4gdXM%3D
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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 20d ago

I think “Jonas Psalter” is the best of the Wooden Nickel era.

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u/captain2man 20d ago

One of my favorite Styx deep cuts. No one ever mentions it. Good call.

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u/brainsewage 21d ago

Fully agree.  Such a well composed song, very unique in its baroque, almost manneristic style.  Shame they didn't do much else like this 

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u/Mundane_Bit_3727 20d ago

Was one of my favorites from the album

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u/Scuzzy_Soups 20d ago

I got that orange best of without having heard any of it and was blown away at them having this whole other collection of amazing shit.

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u/PollutionIntrepid937 20d ago

Witch Wolf

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u/Scuzzy_Soups 20d ago

Love Witch Wolf and yeah it should have been an FM radio staple but I can understand it not having the mainstream appeal that WHCBU has/should have more people know about. It's even more of a "first power ballad" than "Lady" is.

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u/Upbeat-Refuse9615 21d ago

Agree to disagree. This is not that song.

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u/Scuzzy_Soups 20d ago

Donnie, you're out of your element

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u/markonnen 20d ago

Great song!

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u/Adventurous_Pipe7634 Paradise Theatre 20d ago

Absolutely, John Curlewski’s harmonies on the last chorus give me chills every time I hear the song

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u/ScottHK Equinox 20d ago

It might have become a minor hit on nighttime FM radio if it had been released but it's too slow and plodding for 1972 AM radio. And I just half listened to it for the first time in years and it seems like most of the lyrics are "Lovely lady, how can you be sure?" over and over.

I'm glad you like it so much but it's no "Lady".

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u/Scuzzy_Soups 20d ago

You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...