Styx - You Need Love Lyrics

EPIC UNKNOWN ALBUM!

Styx was playing ;high schools. I saw them several times. Awesome.

Chuck's descending riff on the bass is hypnotic! 😳😵😎

IMO Styx II, Equinox and Grand Illusion are their top 3 albums in their entire catalog.
Most people think Tommy Shaw made the band better: I could not disagree more. With Shaw they just became a different group, but by no means were they a better band.

Yes they were, because Tommy Shaw was about a 1000 times better guitarist than JC. Tommy's guitar solos took Styx to another level musically.

The 3 wow wow wow notes (1:52) are just like the 3 in Heavy Metal Poisoning!!! I wonder if the boys did this on purpose.....

The descending bass riff is hypnotic!

sounds very broadway show style

With a dash of ZEP, Yes, Iron Maiden, Queen, Wishbone Ash...

Styx II was one of my first 8 track tapes. I'd like it on CD.

Tell me more of this place...

Ace Toon

early styx is the best mix of progressive rock meets classic hard rock , fantastic early stuff !!!

They should play this LIVE. JY needs another song besides Miss America

For a band on a small label the studio production on their first 4 albums is great.  Very powerful drums with vocals mixed in just right.

I hear some Yes and Uriah Heep influence :)

Damn! This is killer! Listen to the vocals!

Does anyone else hear the rhythm, bass and guitar riffs from "Heavy Metal Poisoning?"

Oh you're right!

Except J. Y. wrote "Heavy Metal Poisoning"; this tune was written _in toto_ by Dennis (both music and lyrics), even though J. Y. does sing the lead vocals.

lead singer has a range like David Byron, incredible

Surprised that it was James Young on lead, doesn't sound anything like his later singing. His voice was really good early on.

wow i can hear Van Halen, before Van Halen existed.amazing. You can add this to the first Montrose album.

bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada
bah bah bah bah bya ba ba dada da
welcome my friends
to a place that may seem
most disturbing
quite unnerving




lend me your dreams
and we'll add what we need
to be free
terminally




we'll fly to a spot
where I know there is not
any sorrow
no tomorrow




people just laugh
cause they know how it feels
to have loved
and be loved




don't you worry
ain't no need to hurry
all you really need
is love




bah bah bah bah bah




now you may say
tell me more of this place
so inviting
and exciting




here and above
children love without doubt
and can be
they can be

I don't understand why Styx is so underrated. Is it envy or what?

This was the pre tommy Shaw album so it will be different also Dennis de young dident have control of what the played

Great, classic Styx. You can hear traces of the band they would become later in the 70's.

saw them in our high school auditorium right before this album broke them out on the radio... mid december, '74

Probably one of the most solid Wooden Nickel Styx albums, though I'd argue Man of Miracles is the best of that era. This is a great album, I just dislike A Day and Father OSA a lot.

I agree. An excellent album.

really one of the most underrated bands always had good music.

pre tommy shaw styx

Things changed a lot with Tommy but this song sounds a bit like their Mission album.

I played the Styx II 8-track until it literally fell apart...

same here,  rebuilt it, rewound it, cut the ate up parts then spliced & respliced. cleaned all the the pulleys and cap stans just to make it work again. lol

Same here, OMG

I remember getting this cassette as a kid and being real disappointed 'cause it didn't sound anything like their Kilroy Was Here album. But the more I listened, the more I liked it. Stellar record!

Charlie5thumbs That guitar opening, and the licks that follow, are so damn exciting! (I always thought of STYX as Yes lite! I don't mean that I a bad way.)

Styx II still one of  my farorite LPS of all time.

styx album waaaay before kilroy

Charlie5thumbs I actually like this song they played all instruments like pros and there singing was best ever . and not to be mean to jjy.
I do thing then is the young would've sounded much better voice on that song

I agree

God there are just so many heavily underrated styx songs out there, this being one of the many. Love it!

Agreed. This album is terrific from beginning to end.

Saw them September 1, 1977 at the CNE in Toronto, the weekend before my first day of high school. It was a great show and remains on of the best concerts I have ever seen, and I've seen plenty.

Seen Styx 4 times,  I liked all them, but they never played - A Day, Light Up, & their revision/rendition of Mid-Night Ride that would cool.

entered Cashbox May 10, 1975

another great tune from an underrated Styx album!

Wow, upbeat, major chords, happy lyrics, strong melody, guitar harmonies, This song is so seventies!!

^it really does capture the rock sound of the 70's doesn't it?

totally. It's Catchy as hell.

... and great bass and drums...

used to catch the band in pekin and Peoria ...some of greatest rock I ever heard...thanks for sharing!....

Saw these guys in 1974 in the Tinley Park High school gym. I like Tommy Shaw and don't want to disrespect him but I like the music from Equinox back. Lived in a suburb of Chicago back then. It was almost like we had these guys to ourselves.  

This is truly an excellent album & not just because "Lady" was a big hit for them - the whole album in general is a solid effort.... 

and the many thought I was nuts ,..when it came to being a BIGGER Fan of  STYX ,...

Styx 93  GREAT JOB ! ! 

Ya know what I just love the most about the particular album..no frikken Tommy Shaw!!!!

when HG Wells' time machine is finally invented I'm going back to 1972 Chicago just to see these guys in their formative years......SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO under rated/Overlooked

back when they were TRADEWINDS  ?

@thefeepy Outstanding!

I just bought this on vinyl for my 16 year old. Gotta bring these kids up right.

@davshaw5 - I dont even play bass but it sounds like he's having a blast. LOL

How come a lot of your videos are saying that they aren't available in my country? I've come across three or four so far, all in the Wooden Nickel. Movement for the Common Man, Song for Suzanne and Father O.S.A

I can remember seeing them play at St. Joe High School when I was young and living back in Berwyn.

@Lillihandra, yeah I like both songs as well

@Balin93 because they don't know any better

@epoxycock lol that's like saying saying guitar(a la Led Zeppelin) about Tommy Emmanuel.

@epoxycock .....Sanford n Son????

Check out the bass riff on the verses, killer stuff!

1:50-1:56 was recycled for Heavy Metal Poisoning

Children love without doubt

Definitely one of the best early songs! Good stuff here.......

I wish early styx was more popular in the US! I can't hardly get anyone to listen to their hits around here! Seriously, this may be the best of their early songs or even of their songs in general I've heard.

Love the way the two guitarists play off one another. This is a very mature song for a young band. Believe me, early Styx is popular in the UK.

And Canada.

yeaaaah, this rocks!!!

3:00 Children love with the duck

One of my all-time favorite Styx tunes--this *should* have been a huge hit for them.

It the follow up hit to lady on the album. and it did sneak in the bottom on the billboard top 100.

James Young singing lead! Great!

It was after "Lady" had been released as a single the first time around that Dennis was encouraged to sing more lead vocals.

Ahhhh to be 15 and watching these boys play live in the mid-seventies..Me Davie & Hoss and just having our ears made love to from songs like these...and my high school (St Francis DeSales) this and Earl of Roseland was on the jukebox in our cafeteria..now thats the stuff memorys are made of (who knows why we had these songs on our jukebox hmmm????)

This is the song that turned me onto Styx when this album came out back in the day....

doesn't get any better than this