Songoftheday 10/25/17 - Driving past your house again I feel the same way I did then, I get weak just thinking about you...
from the album Edge Of The Century (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6
Today's song of the day comes from the arena-rock band Styx, who had returned in the spring of 1991 without co-lead singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw and scored a top ten pop hit with "Show Me The Way". The follow-up and third single overall from the album, "Love At First Sight", was a mid-tempo adult-pop concoction written by lead singer/keyboardist Dennis Deyoung with rhythm guitar player JY Young and Shaw's replacement Glen Burtnick.
"Love At First Sight" became the band's sixteenth and final top-40 pop hit in June of 1991. The song also climbed to #13 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart. Internationally, the record peaked at #20 in Canada. After touring behind the Edge Of The Century album, they were dropped by their label in the age of merger madness. Tommy Shaw rejoined Styx in 1995, and after a greatest hits set that was very successful, they released a live album Return To Paradise in 1997, which included a few new studio tracks like "Paradise", which made it to #27 on the Adult Contemporary tally. On the momentum of that release, they recorded another studio album, Brave New World, but it failed to sell or garner radio airplay. This time, it was Dennis DeYoung that left the band, after their old demons came back to haunt them. Also, bassist Chuck Panozzo, whose drummer brother John died from alcohol addiction, had to quit the band to care for his health after revealing his HIV/AIDS status, left just Young and Shaw from the classic lineup along with a returning Burtnik for the act's next album, Cyclorama, in 2003. The album charted in the bottom half of the Top Albums list, but single "Waiting For Our Time" became their most recent rock radio hit at #37. Their most recent release, The Mission, almost made the albums top-40 at #45 earlier this year.
Up tomorrow: British modern rock act are in the moment.
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