Best Album

[WZLX Artist]

In your opinion, whats is the best Styx album?

[BostonPeng]

I have to say their live album One With Everything with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. I stumbled on some video from this concert on Concert.tv's OnDemand library last month and I was immediately hooked. For those who aren't familiar with the CYO it's a group with 150+ young musicians and a 50+ youth chorus that have played with a artists including Ray Manzarek, Graham Nash, Jon Anderson and Pat Benatar, and those kids definitely know how to rock the house.

I'll admit that my background as a student of classical composition may color my response to the collaboration, but if you just see one song from the gig you'll know that these teenagers definitely got into the music. A violinist and a pair of cellists got a chance to particularly shine and their contributions make Willie Dixon's It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) and Tommy Shaw's Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) even better than I've ever heard them. If you're not sure how it will sound go to the CYO video page and check out the clip of Lorelei from the DVD. The entire show is so good based on what I saw on Concert.tv and other video clips I've found online that the DVD went to the top top of my Chrismukuh wish list.

'ZLX should definitely favor us with some tracks from the CD (although it is missing tracks from the DVD) on the air.