Title: Give it Up Styx!!
Product review: Why in the world is Styx releasing an album of old substandard songs called "Rockers"? Except for Blue Collar Man, Renegade, Crystal Ball, and Miss America, which you can get on other Styx compilation albums out there (and Lord knows there are enough Styx compilation albums and greatest hits albums), the rest of this album is pure junk. The songs are obnoxious and awful. If you like James Young screeching and screaming at the top of his lungs on songs like Midnight Ride and Heavy Metal Poisoning and Tommy Shaw's obnoxious vocals and juvenile lyrics on Shooz, then maybe this album is for you. Otherwise, consider it B-sides at best and a lame attempt by the current members of Styx to re-create an image that does not include original lead singer and balladeer Dennis DeYoung. This is Styx trying to be "heavy metal" - the problem is that Styx never did hard rock very well, and this only goes to prove it.
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