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Poll Question: your fave?
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2013 at 08:37
im goin with The Best of Kansas because most of the songs found on here were from at least 1 of these studio albums. It basically, in other words, got me to recognize those other songs i like besides Carry on Wayward Son or Dust in the Wind
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Points: 32482 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2013 at 08:43
Somewhere to Elsewhere is my favorite.
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Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2013 at 08:43
I really DON'T find most boogie or pop-oriented Kansas tunes from their earlier albums really cringeworthy: they had their own level of exquisiteness despite them not being as abundantly artsy as their more explicitly epic songs. But they are all well crafted and with an extra dose of artsy scheme. They knew how to jam with skill and feeling. For instance, Tocents wrth would have been a hell of a Doobie Brothers song, and what about The devil game and Can I tell you? They bear GG mannerisms that are originally reformulated. Lonely street is one of the best blues-rock compositions ever, IMHO. 



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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2013 at 15:02
Originally posted by Cesar Inca Cesar Inca wrote:

I really DON'T find most boogie or pop-oriented Kansas tunes from their earlier albums really cringeworthy: they had their own level of exquisiteness despite them not being as abundantly artsy as their more explicitly epic songs. But they are all well crafted and with an extra dose of artsy scheme. They knew how to jam with skill and feeling. For instance, Tocents wrth would have been a hell of a Doobie Brothers song, and what about The devil game and Can I tell you? They bear GG mannerisms that are originally reformulated. Lonely street is one of the best blues-rock compositions ever, IMHO. 

 
Agreed.  IMHO nobody did proggy American blues better than Kansas.  "Lonely Street" is an exquisite composition, and another that doesn't get enough attention is "Mysteries & Mayhem".  "Down the Road" and "Bringing it Back" rock balls-out with a violin and a Hammond for criss-sake - what more do you want?
 
I like what Gerinski says about "Journey from Mariabronn" on the previous page:  "Try this; if you don't like it then give up on Kansas, you don't need to like them." 
 
Six platinum and four gold albums, 12 top-40 singles, 40 years of making music and they just recently easily sold out almost 3,000 tickets at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh at $65+ for the cheap seats - I don't think the band needs to justify themselves to anyone at this point.
 
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Points: 123 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2013 at 17:35
To be honest, I actually always liked Two Cents Worth and the other tunes that are getting flack. No seems to sh*t on Rush for writing poppy tunes next to epic ones, so I don't think Kansas deserves it either.
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Leftoverture by a hair over Song For America.

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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2013 at 15:09
Originally posted by CKnoxW CKnoxW wrote:

To be honest, I actually always liked Two Cents Worth and the other tunes that are getting flack. No seems to sh*t on Rush for writing poppy tunes next to epic ones, so I don't think Kansas deserves it either.

Not that i care, but Kansas' song were more pop-oriented. Rush's were just simple rock songs, more in the vein of classic rock. 


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Points: 123 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2013 at 01:10
^ I was thinking more along the lines of New World Man and - wait, that song rocks. Forget I said anything.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2013 at 12:24
Kansas is the band that I love to hate.

But I will admit that I found about half of Point of Know Return quite entertaining.
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