Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Styx
1978
Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.
Release: 1977
Release: 1977Source checked | Recent carryover
V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original studio recording was released in 1977 and belongs to the original The Grand Illusion program. Year precision does not assign an album day to a single or a later reissue. The earlier supplied year 1978 is retained in the attribute-change audit.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
Owner-supplied release annotations
Reported dates in 1978.html. Not independently established; neighboring dates can reflect album/single or regional differences.
Styx - official original studio album catalog
The official original The Grand Illusion section supplies its 1977 release and studio tracklist. Other albums, later rerecordings, digital-store availability and day-level territorial assumptions are outside this source scope.
Styx - Universal Music Enterprises original album history
A release supplied by Universal Music Enterprises, not independent press commentary. It explicitly gives original A&M album years and names their studio selections, distinguishing the 1984 live album and subsequent 1990 studio return from the 2015 vinyl box publication.
Inspiration and background
Supplied note - not independently verified
This note came with the supplied collection and has not been independently verified.
The song was inspired by the band's frustrations with their early career struggles.
Evidence scope: Source-provided note, not an established account of the songwriter's intent
Sources for this information
Owner-supplied 1978.html, song-list position 102
Supplied annotation reproduced with attribution; underlying historical claims have NOT been independently verified.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Imported annual selection - further review needed
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Owner-supplied 1978.html
Imported annual selection. Title, artist and year have not all been independently corroborated; retained source annotations are archived, not verified song histories.
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