Crystal Ball
by Styx
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Styx bestography
Crystal Ball is ranked 7th best out of 40 albums by Styx on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Styx is The Grand Illusion which is ranked number 1938 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 874.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Crystal Ball track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Crystal Ball rankings
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Crystal Ball ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/26/2025 08:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,475 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 04:47 |  AAL2014 | 4,205 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/06/2025 20:39 |  identifer | 974 | 82/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2024 04:42 | Proto | 4,264 | 33/100 |
| ! | 04/30/2024 19:55 | Philly28 | 956 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.2/100, a mean average of 69.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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The first album with Tommy Shaw. I remember hearing this a lot on the Montgomery radio stations when this came out. "Mademoiselle" and the title track are the best songs...and both are written by Shaw. "Jennifer" has a strange appeal to me as well. This wasn't their best record but you could tell they were heading someplace good with this...it feels like the real birth of the band.
Best Track: Crystal Ball
poppmusic 01/14/2015 02:05 | #131495
"Crystal Ball" and "Ballerina" both are actually GOOD Styx songs...rest of the album doesn't fare so well.
The inclusion of Tommy Shaw just raises the bar for Styx a little more. And his influence is fully felt on this record - co-writing 5 of the 7 tracks and singing on 3. The album title track is an absolute masterpiece. Only criticism (and this applies to Equinox) is that it is 1 track too short.
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