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Styx - The Grand Illusion (1977) {2009, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 21 Jun 2025 12:41:00

Styx - The Grand Illusion (1977) {2009, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 284 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 95 Mb
Full Scans ~ 200 Mb | 00:39:09 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Classic Rock | A&M Records / Universal Music #UICY-93921

The Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album by American rock band Styx. Recorded at Paragon Recording Studios in Chicago, the album was released on July 7, 1977, by A&M Records, intentionally choosing the combination 7th on 7-7-77 for luck. The release was a smash worldwide, selling three million copies in the US (Triple Platinum) alone. Some estimates have the album at over 6 million copies sold. The album launched the band to stardom and spawned the hit singles "Come Sail Away" and "Fooling Yourself." The title track also received substantial FM airplay and continues to be a mainstay on classic rock radio, but was never released as an official single. The album cover art is based on Rene Magritte's 1965 painting, "The Blank Signature."

Other than being their first platinum-selling album, The Grand Illusion led Styx steadfastly into the domain of AOR rock. Built on the strengths of "Come Sail Away"'s ballad-to-rock metamorphosis, which gained them their second Top Ten hit, and on the high harmonies of newcomer Tommy Shaw throughout "Fooling Yourself," The Grand Illusion introduced Styx to the gates of commercial stardom. The pulverized growl of "Miss America" reveals the group's guitar-savvy approach to six-string rock, while De Young pretentiously struts his singing prowess throughout the title track. Shaw's induction into the band has clearly settled, and his guitar work, along with James Young's, is full and extremely sharp where it matters most. Even the songwriting is more effluent than Crystal Ball, which was released one year earlier, shedding their mystical song motifs for a more audience-pleasing lyric and chord counterpoise. Reaching number six on the album charts, The Grand Illusion was the first to display the gelled accomplishments of both Tommy Shaw and Dennis De Young as a tandem.

~ Mike DeGagne, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. The Grand Illusion [4:40]
02. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) [5:33]
03. Superstars [4:05]
04. Come Sail Away [5:58]
05. Miss America [5:05]
06. Man In The Wilderness [5:50]
07. Castle Walls [6:00]
08. The Grand Finale [2:00]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 25. March 2019, 21:35

STYX / «The Grand Illusion»

Used drive : ASUS DRW-24D5MT Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\EAC(v.1.3)\WV\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -h -hh -m %source%

TOC of the extracted CD

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8 | 37:08.21 | 1:59.70 | 167121 | 176115

Range status and errors

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Filename E:\«The Grand Illusion».wav

Peak level 99.8 %
Extraction speed 4.3 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 3AAFD8B0
Copy CRC 3AAFD8B0
Copy OK

No errors occurred

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CUETools Log

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