Three album Run - Renaissance vs Kansas
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Topic: Three album Run - Renaissance vs Kansas
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Three album Run - Renaissance vs Kansas
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 08:41
| OK, Before the discography police catch me , I cheated a little here . Masque came out after Song for America but I thought this was a better match up. ( Both were released in 1975) So who do you pick? |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 08:42
| tough choice, i could vote for either of these two choices. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 08:49
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Renaissance. Kansas had too much AOR. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 09:22
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Renaissance, especially these three albums, spends much more time on the turntable than Kansas. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 09:29
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Renaissance, although I do like the Kansas albums. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 09:57
It looks like Renaissance has Aced this poll, and deservedly so too. 
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 10:36
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 10:40
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Kansas. Song for America and Leftoverture are perfect albums. Kansas is one of the best bands ever. Renaissance is awesome, but I like Novella better than any of those. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 10:42
| Kansas |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 10:52
| Kansas by a wide margin |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 11:59
This ------------- Prog On! |
Grumpyprogfan wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 12:40
This.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 12:42
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Renaissance for me. A 1983 Kansas (Drastic Measures) vs. 1983 Renaissance (Time-Line) album poll might be a tough choice for some. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 12:46
It would be an easy one for me, Drastic Measures is listenable, Renaissance in the 80s, not so much. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 13:14
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I have those Kansas albums, but I don't think I've played any of them for 20 years. I just find Kansas pleasant, but no more. I have all those Renaissance albums and I play them regularly. Magnificent. No contest for me. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 19:10
| Renaissance - arguably their 3 best, though I'd put Song for All Seasons into the select group as well |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 20:38
The same. I guess I never reached the point of know return. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 18 2022 at 22:45
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Renaissance
------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: February 19 2022 at 02:08
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I always cared more for the music of Kansas and I don't think that will change if I listened again to those Renaissance albums... (I like me some good AOR!) ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: February 19 2022 at 03:01
| Renaissance - don’t like Kansas |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 19 2022 at 14:40
| Very different bands, but both quite powerful on their own. I voted for Kansas, but just by a hair. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 19 2022 at 19:44
| I know better Renaissance, specially this period, and even though for what I have heard I'm sure this are the very albums I would be most interested in from them, I don't expect them to surpass the Renaissance ones. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 20 2022 at 02:34
| Might be controversial but I find Renaissance a bit 'meh'. All very nice and Annie has a beautiful voice but I do prefer a heavier approach to prog that Kansas provide. Also one of the best bands I've seen live. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 20 2022 at 08:04
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Pretty much a tie for me.......though if you twisted my arm I might say Kansas. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 20 2022 at 10:45
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My God! That would be Renaissance! ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: February 20 2022 at 21:20
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Oh man, I'll have to think about this one. ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: February 21 2022 at 12:21
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I like Renaissance a bit more than Kansas, but the albums selected by Kansas are more among my favorites than those picked for Renaissance, so I chose Kansas. A better competition would have been Scheherazade / Novella / Song For All Seasons vs. Masque / Point of Know Return / Monolith.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 10 2022 at 00:46
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Renaissance-Ashes /Burning, Turn /Cards, Scheherazade ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: July 10 2022 at 06:37
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Well that's a tough one. Kind of a hard pick. SFA/AaB: They're both solid 3-star albums in my opinion, but I would give a slight advantage to SFA LO/TotC: Both of the band's best albums imo, Kansas here gets 4 stars while Renaissance gets 5, so TotC PoKR/SaoS: This one is easy - a subpar Kansas album vs. Renaissance's peak? SaoS. Renaissance wins :) It was tough mostly becuase I have a soft spot for both bands, probably more than any other prog rock bands. Career-wise, choosing a winner would be too difficult for me. While Renaissance, like Yes, had very high highpoints, they also had very low lowpoints, whereas Kansas remained consistently above average, but never amazing, nor terrible. They may be the only 70s prog band, imo, that managed to actually pull off the synthy AOR sound of the 80s quite well and in whom I actually did not lose interest during this period -- controversial opinion, I do not think 80s Rush (post Signals) is at all good, but I digress. I guess I would pick Renaissance as the career-wide winner, simply because I quite dislike Kansas's christian preaching in their later career, and did lose a bit of respect from me for that. Kansas, until they became born again Chrisitians, were quite wholesome and just fun. They were also my first prog band I really got into, years before I even knew what prog was (and no, it was actually Rush, Tool [whom I now quite dislike], and, believe it or not, Avenged Sevenfold, that got me into prog years later). Annie Haslam of Renaissance, on the other hand, is practically a local artist -- she lives in the same relative area in Pennsylvania as I do, and I like supporting local acts :)
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