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Balance of Power: I liked the concept of your "Get to Know the Band Idea" I still think their best album is
Book of Secrets but I've still yet to hear their later stuff.
Styx: I saw you featured a song of theirs, which was followed by the comment that you don't know the band that well, I'm shocked! Not only are they one of my very fav bands, but are without doubt one of the finest bands of their era. They took aspects of the Queen sound without the excesses and fused them with prog rock better than Queen ever did. What made Styx great, is that they had 3 strong vocalists who all sounded very different and all three brought something different to the table. The main two Dennis De Young and Tommy Shaw were usually at loggerheads over the direction of the band and its this tension which gave their albums that special feel. Their mix of prog/pomp rock is something special. The albums
The Grand Illusion and
Pieces of Eight are essential, I'm sure you'd love em based on your music tastes.
Bad English: One of the late great AOR albums of the 1980s, it came out in 1989 when AOR had died but this was one of the best. It was a Journey meets The Baby's reunion, not sure if you know the Baby's but they were a really great hard rock act of the 1970s that featured John Waite as lead singer and bassist, Jonathan Cain was with them for a while as well. I absolutely love the below song of the Baby's and the video as well.
The Babys - Dying Man - YouTube
Trevor Rabin: I've never decided what I really think about him, he often gets a lot of credit for putting Yes back on the map with the
90125 album, I've not heard the solo album you've put up, so will give it a listen.