KANSAS

I guess I´m not a real fan of Kansas, as I only like about half of their songs, and I really detest their christian lyrics as I find them to be imature and cheesy, I´ll try not to focus too much on the lyrics of the songs when I listen to Kansas, as they really are horrible. The songs I do like, are fantastic though and defining for this genre, and I´ll give praise to that.

This their first album is a milestone in American prog rock, here we find the beautiful songs: Can I tell you, Belexes and Journey from Mariabronn. Apercu is also a good song while I find the unbearably childish lyrics for Death of Mother Nature suite to be devastating for a song that could have been a classic.

On the bad side their are two rather ( short) boring tracks: Bringing it back and The Pilgrimage ( Bringing it back with it´s rock´n´roll sound and that fierce violin from Robbie Steinhardt the best of the two though ) and of course the horrible lowpoint of the album: Lonely Wind, I am disgusted by the fact that they really put this song on this album, what a waste.

This is as you can understand a very hard album for me to review as I really like some of the songs and would give them 5 stars without hesitation but on the other hand I can´t do that as there are too many factors that says this is a pretty average album even though it has excellent songs.

The trademark Kansas sound was born with this album, but looking at it in retrospect this is not their best.