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    Posted: August 29 2020 at 10:43
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Kansas/dp/B001P5VT7M/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=kansas&qid=1598719156&s=music&sr=1-2

Everytime I hear a great track, the next one is some hillbilly cock rock rubbish.

Then when I think I'm done, I hear something much more interesting.

Hard work, they are

Good value that set is
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Originally posted by Ghost Whistler Ghost Whistler wrote:

Everytime I hear a great track, the next one is some hillbilly cock rock rubbish.

Then when I think I'm done, I hear something much more interesting.
That's kinda the dealio with Kansas. To be fair there's more hillbilly prog than hillbilly cock rock across those albums as a whole. But equally, not all of the hillbilly prog is all that great.

Edited by Mascodagama - August 29 2020 at 11:36
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Yeah, I don't think this is for me. Maybe another time.
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I would buy it, all those albums are pretty amazing and contain some top notch prog. The Hillybilly stuff is only on the first 3 albums and its kinda scarce at that. Most of it is still really sick besides It Takes a Womans Love and Lonely Street in my opinion.
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I bought that exact set a few years ago from a local music store. For the price it's great value.

Like most groups, there's a few tracks that aren't great, but overall there's a lot of good prog amongst those 5 albums, with Masque and Leftoverture being my favourites of the bunch.
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The albums are great, but these budget priced sets are not just cheap but cheap looking as well. I never buy these kinds of sets, I always prefer to buy each album individually. But that's my own personal preference. If all you want is the music itself, then you can at least pre-listen to the albums online first, before you become a fan Wink
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If it's the first 5....and u don't have them, then hell yes.....imho those early Kansas albums are are very good and as interesting as anything in that period of 74-78 of prog  rock.
You could do worse  with many other bands in that time frame.
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It's about £3 an album and there are no duff albums in there so ''Hell Yes!''

I bought a similar one for Tull and I'm happy with that.
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