{"id":704,"date":"2012-06-11T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2012-06-11T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T00:23:33","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-82-bfms-welcome-to-the-grand-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/11\/my-musical-evolution-part-82-bfms-welcome-to-the-grand-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 82 BFMS Welcome To The Grand Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another of my cousin’s albums that I had the great fortune of sampling was The Grand Illusion<\/em> by Styx. Like Kansas, Styx seemed to be very melodic and symphonic with so many layers of sound and instruments to explore and immerse myself in.\u00a0 I don’t think that I was as enraptured by Styx as I was Kansas. I really liked their sound and The Grand Illusion <\/em>was another of those albums that I could listen to\u00a0over and over again.\u00a0 For some reason, I never really liked the song Miss America.<\/em> It seemed out of place against the rest of the album.\u00a0 Come Sail Away<\/em> was the first track to get my attention and Castle Walls <\/em>was an early favorite.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you why but even though I liked Kansas so much more than Styx, I eventually bought almost every Styx album on Compact Disc. It took me almost 35 years to do that but I did. Again, The Grand Illusion is another one of those albums that I owned on cassette then vinyl then again on Compact Disc. And like those Kansas albums, even though I was first introduced to Styx in the BFMS era, it was until Cornerstone that I really <\/em>became a Styx fan. That happens in 1980 which will be soon, here.<\/p>\n

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The Grand Illusion
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