The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings


The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings is a 2-Disc set released by Styx in 2005. The compilation contains remastered versions of Styx's first four albums, Styx, Styx II, The Serpent Is Rising, and Man of Miracles, which were released by Wooden Nickel Records. It also includes "Unfinished Song", which was previously released as the B-side to the single "Best Thing" and on the 1980 RCA reissue of Man of Miracles.
The four albums contained in this compilation were recorded with original singer/songwriter/guitarist John Curulewski and feature a harder, eclectic, and more progressive sound when compared to subsequent albums that included Curulewski's replacement, singer/songwriter/guitarist Tommy Shaw.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Movement for the Common Man" – 13:11
  2. *"Children of the Land"
  3. *"Street Collage"
  4. *"Fanfare for the Common Man"
  5. *"Mother Nature's Matinee"
  6. "Right Away" – 3:40
  7. "What Has Come Between Us" – 4:53
  8. "Best Thing" – 3:13
  9. "Quick Is the Beat of My Heart" – 3:49
  10. "After You Leave Me" – 4:00
  11. "You Need Love" – 3:47
  12. "Lady" – 2:58
  13. "A Day" – 8:24
  14. "You Better Ask" – 3:55
  15. "Little Fugue In 'G'" – 1:19
  16. "Father O.S. A." – 7:10
  17. "Earl of Roseland" – 4:41
  18. "I'm Gonna Make You Feel It" – 2:23
  19. "Unfinished Song" – 2:59

    Disc two

  20. "Witch Wolf" – 3:57
  21. "The Grove of Eglantine" – 5:00
  22. "Young Man" – 4:45
  23. "As Bad As This" – 6:10
  24. "Winner Take All" – 3:10
  25. "22 Years" – 3:39
  26. "Jonas Psalter" – 4:41
  27. "The Serpent Is Rising" – 4:55
  28. "Krakatoa" – 1:36
  29. "Hallelujah Chorus" – 2:14
  30. "Rock & Roll Feeling" – 3:02
  31. "Havin' a Ball" – 3:53
  32. "Golden Lark" – 3:23
  33. "A Song for Suzanne" – 5:15
  34. "A Man Like Me" – 2:57
  35. "Lies" – 2:41
  36. "Evil Eyes" – 4:02
  37. "Southern Woman" – 3:10
  38. "Christopher, Mr. Christopher" – 4:02
  39. "Man of Miracles" – 4:55

    Personnel