Return to Paradise (Styx album)

Return to Paradise
Live album by Styx
Released May 6, 1997
Recorded September 21, 1996, Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois
Genre Rock
Length 1:50:10
Label CMC International
Producer Dennis DeYoung
Styx chronology
Edge of the Century
(1990)Edge of the Century1990		 Return to Paradise
(1997)		 Brave New World
(1999)Brave New World1999

Return to Paradise is a live album by Styx, released in 1997. It features songs from their successful reunion tour with Tommy Shaw, but without John Panozzo, who died in July 1996. It includes three new studio tracks, including "Dear John", which Shaw wrote as a tribute to Panozzo.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Daily VaultA− [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [3]

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "On My Way" [*] (Tommy Shaw) – 5:02
  2. "Paradise" [*] (Dennis DeYoung) – 4:29
  3. "A.D. 1928" / "Rockin' the Paradise" (Dennis DeYoung, James Young, Tommy Shaw) – 5:23
  4. "Blue Collar Man" (Tommy Shaw) – 4:34
  5. "Lady" (Dennis DeYoung) – 3:28
  6. "Too Much Time on My Hands" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:43
  7. "Snowblind" (James Young, Dennis DeYoung) – 5:26
  8. "Suite Madame Blue" (Dennis DeYoung) – 8:31
  9. "Crystal Ball" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:56

Disc 2

  1. "The Grand Illusion" (Dennis DeYoung) – 6:50
  2. "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" (Tommy Shaw) – 5:54
  3. "Show Me the Way" (Dennis DeYoung) – 5:11
  4. "Boat on the River" (Tommy Shaw) – 3:16
  5. "Lorelei" (Dennis DeYoung, James Young) – 4:03
  6. "Babe" (Dennis DeYoung) – 4:50
  7. "Miss America" (James Young) – 6:15
  8. "Come Sail Away" (Dennis DeYoung) – 8:33
  9. "Renegade" (Tommy Shaw) – 6:01
  10. "The Best of Times/A.D. 1958" (Dennis DeYoung) – 7:42
  11. "Dear John" [*] (Tommy Shaw) – 3:03

* Newly recorded studio tracks

Personnel

Styx

Production

  • Producer: Dennis DeYoung
  • Engineer: Timothy R. Powell
  • Mixing: Dennis DeYoung, Gary Loizzo
  • Art direction: Ioannis, Linda Loiewski
  • Design: Ioannis
  • Illustrations: Ioannis
  • Digital painting: Ioannis
  • Photography: Mark Weiss

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1997 Billboard 200 139

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1997 "Paradise" Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 27

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic album review by Bret Adams: Return to Paradise (1997)
  2. ↑ The Daily Vault album review by Christopher Thelen: Return to Paradise (1997)
  3. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 789. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
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