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Track Listings
| 1. Lights |
| 2. Why Me |
| 3. Babe |
| 4. Never Say Never |
| 5. Boat on the River |
| 6. Borrowed Time |
| 7. First Time |
| 8. Eddie |
| 9. Love in the Midnight |
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たとえスティクスが1975年のスロー・ダンスの名曲「Lady」で高校の卒業パーティーに行く世代を取りこむことに失敗していたとしても、数年後の「Babe」でその目的を果たしていたはずだ。
本作『Cornerstone』で最大のヒット・ナンバーとなったこの「Babe」は、「愛してるよ、でも行かなければ」というパワー・バラードの原型といえそうな曲で、スティクス初のナンバー・ワン・ヒットでもあり、本作を超名盤の地位に押し上げた。さらに、「Why Me」もトップ40に入るヒットとなった。このことから分かるとおり、本作はスティクスのアルバム中もっとも取っ付きやすくメロディックな性格を持っている。
同時に本作は、新たなサウンドを模索したアルバムでもあった。デニス・デ・ヤングによる「Borrowed Time」と「Why Me」に加えられたホーンや、トミー・ショウによる「Boat on the River」に顔を出すマンドリンは新味といえるだろう。たとえ本作が70年代の終わりにスティクスの人気を決定づけることに失敗していたとしても、1979年の世論調査がものを言っていたはずだ――スティクスは「アメリカでもっとも人気のあるバンド」に輝いたのである。そうとも、君たちで決まりさベイビー。（Daniel Durchholz, Amazon.com）
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If Styx didn't do enough to endear itself to a generation of prom-goers with its 1975 slow-dance classic "Lady," they closed the deal a few years later with Cornerstone's premiere hit, "Babe." Perhaps the prototypical I-love-you-but-I-just-gotta-go power ballad, the song was Styx's first No. 1 hit, and it propelled the album to platinum-plus status. Led by that track as well as "Why Me," another Top 40 hit, Cornerstone is Styx at their most accessible and melodic. The album experiments with some new sounds as well, with horns added to the mix on Dennis DeYoung's "Borrowed Time" and "Why Me" and mandolin on Tommy Shaw's "Boat on the River." If their album sales didn't offer the final word on the band's popularity at the close of the '70s, a 1979 Gallup poll did the trick: The group was named America's most popular rock band. It's you babe, indeed. --Daniel Durchholz
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