Listening to Kansas: Point Of Know Return, Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
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"He's got a great voice this guy ...." said millions of people who first heard the brilliance of Steve Walsh
I'm loving hearing this again. And I think Portrait (He Knew) is a masterpiece.
I know a lot of these songs, but can't remember listening to the full album in one go before. No time like the present.
I learned about gambling at a church fair when I was a kid trying to win this album when it 1st came out.
I blew all my quarters on the "Big Six" wheel and watched someone else take it home.
My favorite Kansas is Leftoverture. Cheers Jim!
Huh! What a story!
The greatest of all American bands!!!
They are good
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Hmmm... we'll find out in a week's time!
To hear an American band from the 70s who really DID sound like Yes, you need to listen to Starcastle!
Hey Jim! I have seen Kansas several times in concert going back to 1978. My favorite show was when they opened for YES!! Incredible show. Both bands were at their best that night!! Kansas ROCKS!!!!!🎵🎼🎶👍😎
I saw that tour, across the river from Philly, in Camden NJ. Great performance from both bands.
Hey Jeff, thanks buddy…. Hope you’re ok.
Beautiful album cover. Decent album. I like Leftoverture and Song for America better, but it has its moments.
Me too though this is up there too.
Seems like we got a similar ranking😊
@@rudolfbecker4313 🙂
Great album for the bands 5th studio output. (Kansas, Song for America, Masque, Leftoverture).
Their next release was their first live album Two for the Show. The 30th anniversary release of TFTS is an expanded version of the original release. Treat yourself to this gem, as it is the original line up at their prime.
Saw Kansas at the fair for free, it was an incredible performance, and a great time was had!
Ha ha! Great fade out!
Closet Chronicles, not closest. The late Robby Steinhardt was one of the most underrated violin/vocalists of the seventies. Each one of the first six albums (presumably the set does not include Monolith) are all essential in my opinion. Love the channel and your approach to music Jim.
I saw them my senior year of college in 1976 in a 5000 seat music hall, fantastic show,
I just bought a copy of Leftoverture.....great band.
Song for America is a must, if you love Kansas
I wore out several vinyl copies of this album as a teenager.
'Portrait (He Knew)' per Wiki: "The inspiration for the song came from Kerry Livgren's admiration for Albert Einstein".
Also per Wiki 'Closet Chronicles' is "a Howard Hughes allegory".
You can really hear the Kansas influence on the flower kings in my opinion
Solid from beginning to end. American prog. So few bands in this country that played and created progressive music as the best of British and Scofizh bands had done in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s!
Nice choice of album Jim. I do like Kansas
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I’m starting to!
Good evening Jim,
Back to my teenage years when I heard this album for the first time.
It’s a good to great album. Dust in the wind is the highlight for me.
Hi Will, german radio played it to death, I still switch stations when it's played😅
@@rudolfbecker4313 hi Rudi,
The same in the Netherlands 😅
If you were a kid playing dungeons and dragons in 1980 this album was unbelievable.
Such a wonderful album. It is part of the soundtrack of my life. It was played repeatedly.
How many heavy(ish) bands can you think of who incorporated violin regularly and well? So much great stuff in their discography. Some say this is their second best album, but for top to bottom quality, I submit it is their best.
Aha another Jim and me coincidence strikes....was listening to several Kansas albums including this AND I have all 5 in exactly the same set!!!🤗 After 4th go of just about all 5 albums I've really tuned in to them.
Love the classic albums sets...got loads of them. They all provide great intros to many famous and overlooked artists. Also got Joan Armatrading set this year and it's also amazing. 👍👍👍
They are certainly a brilliant value-centric way to get the music! I’ve also got loads.
Nothing wrong with a fade out from time to time. Live this Chronicles ends with a very staccato fanfare, and Point has a definitive ending. Fade outs can be very effective.
Dream Theater covered Paradox from this album in concert. There is a recording of it on RUclips. Look up it up!
It's not quite Leftoverture, but it's good. I love seeing Jim do full album reactions. Would love to see him do Heart - Dreamboat Annie! That album is surprisingly quite proggy.
Kansas are a great American progressive rock band who put out several fantastic albums in the seventies…Enjoy the journey..
This album works well as an introduction to Kansas. There are several earlier albums I like better than this one, but this is still pretty great. Top notch musicians all! I sense a lot of affinity with the Gentle Giant of the same era. Complicated compositions.
I think Portrait (He Knew) is a great track, that reviewer needs his ears clearing out ! I remember Steve Walsh (vocals, keys) singing for Steve Hackett solo album "Please Don't Touch" released around the same time. "Closet Chronicles" is probably my favourite track.
How do you like "Kansas" now ?
Question: how come some channels can play music in their videos but others if they do it they get copyright strikes?!
Kansas are prog, no question (The keyboards plus tempo and time signature changes prove this), but are they great prog? I'm still not convinced. Steve Walsh, excellent singer though he is, fits snuggly in the classic rock genre and 'grounds' the music too much where Jon Anderson would make it soar, Peter Hammill would drag it to the depths and Peter Gabriel would take it who knows where (Willow Farm probably) I really don't like criticising Kansas as they might well be the best American Prog band - the Prog corner says so below and he knows! - but my British ears look for something a little different. I suspect a UK poll would be fairly different from a US one. Good record though.