That was the first rock album I ever bought and their distinctive sound, poetic lyrics and musical complexity made it the perfect album. Magnum Opus after the vocals is a something I never heard before. Reading the titles of the various movements made it even better.
THIS is a song I had heard KANSAS play ONCE, live in concert, in the early 1980s, I think... the funny thing is that what I remember of the concert most was that the keyboardist, at the time, did a friggin HANDSTAND on the organ/keyboard while playing.................. THEY were great. I think it was Kansas opening for STYX, or double billed.
My favorite band by a longshot. Kerry Livgren (lead guitar; long white blonde hair) wrote most of their great prog songs and their hits. No music lessons; can't read or write music - but he grew up listening to his parents' classical music, which he loved, particularly from the Romantic period (Wagner, etc.). This is reflected in his music, changing time signatures, complex riffs, in etc. And his lyrics are about his spiritual journey to find the truth, which he did when he became an evangelical Christian in July 1979. He's an intellect & an incredible musician. After leaving Kansas, he formed the group AD (recommend "Art of the State"), then went on to form Proto-Kaw (recommend "The Wait of Glory"). And he has done solo albums all along the way (recommend "Seeds of Change" - remastered as "Decade 1." It's no wonder Kerry is known as "the Maestro"!
For your viewing pleasure, check out their rockumentary "Miracles Out Of Nowhere". These guys literally emerged from the cornfields of Kansas, cutting their teeth on rock and soul music but somehow produced these classical inspired epics. Hence, miracles out of nowhere.
What's on my mind....closet chronicles... Portrait...people of the southwind... Song for America... Child of innocence... Journey from mariabronn... Cheyenne anthem... The wall miracles outta nowhere.... I could go on. Kansas is so very underrated. Great musicians!
Just wondering who would give this video a thumbs down! Anybody, no less a 16 year old kid reacting and being exposed to this wonderful music , what is there not to like about it. If you don't "like it" don't watch but to dislike something like this is absurd to me. Keep on rocking Daniel! Love your review and your choice of music your reacting to!
Great reaction. This band is totally underrated. The musicianship is incredible throughout their entire history. This song is a great example of their intense time signature changes and tight playing. I agree with the previous commenter that the Magnum Opus is really a collection of lots of musical ideas, and sometimes that format can lead to disaster, but Kansas connects the ideas so skillfully here that you never lose the groove. Please, try the Closet Chronicles from their album Point of Know Return. Another masterpiece! Great job with your new channel!
Daniel, this album is great from start to finish. This song is the only one with limited lyrics, any of the others would get you thinking. Their first 6 albums are all exceptional and the rest are all pretty good. Miracles out of Nowhere, The Wall, What's on My Mind. Questions of my Childhood and Cheyenne Anthem all worth looking into, even the ones I didn't mention here are good. Earlier stuff like Icarus-Borne on Wings of Steel, Child of Innocence, Mysteries and Mayhem(all from Masque) and Song for America album and Point of Know Return album . Can't go wrong with any of this.
Re-watched your reaction and wanted to add that it might be worthwhile to listen to Carry On Wayward Son for the lyrics alone. This was their first big hit and got so much radio airplay that they gained national exposure and even the masses who didn't know much about music became fans. This song was very popular but it is still really good. After you listen to this you should watch the Rick Beato video What Makes This Song Great on it on youtube. He isolates all the individual instruments and vocals from the mixing board and you'll get a better appreciation of their musicianship and talent. Another song to check out is DOWN THE ROAD, which musically is similar to Magnum Opus in some ways but there are more lyrics to ponder and the instrumental sections are impressive. It's a much shorter piece but packs some punch.
here's my list: Journey From Mariabronn (1973) Apercu (1973) Death Of Mother Nature Suite (1973) Song For America (1974) Lamplight Symphony (1974) Incomudro - Hymn To The Atman (1974) Icarus - Born On Wings Of Steel (1975) Child Of Innocence (1975) Mysteries And Mayhem - The Pinnacle (1975) | essential to react to the longer original version Carry On Wayward Son (1976) The Wall (1976) Miracles Out Of Nowhere (1976) Opus Insert (1976) Cheyenne Anthem (1976) Magnum Opus (1976) Point Of Know Return (1977) Portrait (He Knew) (1977) Closet Chronicles (1977) Lightnings Hand (1977) Dust In The Wind (1977) | the most beautiful song ever recorded Hopelessly Human (1977) Honorable mention: Lonely Wind (1973) - very beautiful ballad Belexes (1973) A Glimpse Of Home (1979) Relentless (1980) Hold On (1980) Loner (1980) Don't Open Your Eyes (1980)
This track was originally called Leftoverture before they decided to name the album that instead (don't know why it couldn't have been used for both, but hey) and was so called because it was simply a collection of bits of music that hadn't made it into other songs, hence it being largely instrumental. Anyway, big fat YES to reacting to the deeper cuts, why react to the same 2 or 3 songs per artist that the other gazillion reaction channels have already done? (actually the answer to that is your reaction would be more interesting than most of theirs, but anyway...) - no shortage of great Kansas songs to find, 3 early ones I'd suggest are Incommudro-Hymn to the Atman, Child of Innocence and Miracles Out Of Nowhere, but they've literally released a new album a fortnight ago (The Absence of Presence) which has some killer stuff on it too - Jets Overhead, Throwing Mountains and Memories Down the Line to name a few worth hearing from that.
and yet, still not even 1000 views. People just don't wanna explore music. They just wanna hear the hits that they've already heard a hundred times. I don't get it. There's thousands of songs that we've never heard. In the last year I've discovered groups and songs that I never heard of, and it's been a great ride. Someone introduced me to Renaissance and Gypsy and I'm just shocked that neither made it big. They're both great bands.
@@Lightmane - Oh, I sure do agree with you! Good Lord, just taking the 60s and 70s, there is so much fantastic music to choose from! It took "us" 2 decades to experience all that music, so I understand how daunting it must be for someone like Daniel. I discovered Gypsy a little over a year ago, right here on youtube. I don't really know how it happened - might have just been one of those things where something comes up in the youtube feed that in some way relates to what you have watched. A rec came up for Gypsy, and both the name and the album cover were enough to make me click...............and WOW! Spent nearly 2 weeks catching up on the history of the band and listening to their songs! Fantastic feel-good music! RIP, Robby!
@@MissAstorDancer Someone I met on yt and now talk to on fb, told me about Gypsy and Renaissance and I showed her the Dixie Dregs. That first album by Gypsy is awesome and so is Renaissance. Sharing music with people is so much fun 😀
Your dad seems cool. I hope you bring him in for a special guest appearance sometime.👍🏼🤓 I heard a little ELP Epitaph in the beginning? I used to play this record over and over at your age. I feel this was as close to Rush as Kansas ever got...in terms of hard driving progressive sound.
Yup a definite masterpiece...a couple of others are Death of Mother Nature Suite and Song For America. Great reaction! I love how it left you speechless!
Hell yes. 👍 Always was my favourite song on the album. Underrated band. Saw them only once in Pittsburgh (I think) at the star lake amphitheater decades after I started listening to them. Utterly brilliant.
Their latest incarnation is incredibly good. They are all classically trained musicians then...and now. With 2 of the original founding members still in the band today. The new members are younger and equally gifted musicians. Which has brought a new energy to their fantastic original "Kansas Sound". Every song on their first 5 albums are stunningly good, legendary. A very original and shamefully underrated classic rock (prog) band. Although highly influential. A lifelong favorite of mine.
Normally, Kansas' writing duties were shared by Steve Walsh (keyboards and lead vocals) and Kerry Livgren (guitars and keyboards). But when the fourth album came up, Walsh was suffering from writer's block and the entire Leftoverture album was written by Kerry Livgren whose orchestration and arrangement skills are off-the-charts good. I'm a Kansas native and this is still referred to in radio as the 'home-state band'. The original members were all natives of Kansas - mostly around Topeka - and I knew people who knew the musicians when I was back in high school. so I always felt connected to this band, as silly as that sounds. Their first album cover is a mural that is on the 2nd floor rotunda of the state capitol building in Topeka, Kansas.
the spinning around effect you hear in your headphones is a technique called "Arc Paning " It was achieved in the 1970's with Lexicon delays out of phase and crossing the null point paned hard left right. It required a pair of PCM 42's , I used it all the time back then ... so happy you noticed it!
So many songs by Kansas are worth listening to. I have listened to them since the 70s and have seen their shows. Great band. Check out Death Of Mother Nature Suite then keep going. The more you listen the more you will love them.
New album, "The Absence of Presence" just dropped a couple of weeks ago and is easily the best Kansas album of this century! I recommend the title cut... PS: they are from my hometown of Topeka, KS and I live 5 blocks from their old band house!
This song took you to a ride...well...Mysteries And Mayhem - The Pinnacle song will do the same and...drive you off the cliff while make you think so much of all kinds of things. Kansas songs lyrics are so deep, so...They will touch your very soul, deep and hard. Its like...they tell your story and...their songs are relative today too. Timeless music.
The one thing about rock back in the 70's artists were constantly experimenting with crossing over in to other areas of music. I always thought a lot of Kansas was a sort of classical rock, were the instrumentals told the story that you had to visualize in your mind. Beethoven on acid! There are so many great Kansas songs, really none of them are bad. Dust in the Wind, Point of No Return, Death of Mother Nature Suite, The Wall, Miracles Out of Nowhere, just to name a few. Their songs are generally intricate with deep meaning. Close your eyes and let the guitar, drums, violin, keyboard and synthesizer tickle the brain. Most of all feel it!
My own experience with Kansas began with hearing their radio-friendly singles (Carry on My Wayward Son, Dust in the Wind) back in the '70's. I enjoyed the singles, which I'd classify as a cut above the usual pop fare, but never felt compelled to buy an album. I don't recall FM stations playing any deeper cuts from Kansas back then. I was heavily into Yes and Genesis at the time, and would have delved into an American bunch of proggers, too, but had no idea Kansas was actually a prog band. Then in 2000, Yes and Kansas toured together. My fellow Yes fans informed me that the pairing was a good one, because Kansas was actually a prog act. So I spent some time listening to the "deep cuts" by Kansas and came away quite impressed by the band's efforts, but elected not to jump on the Kansas fan bandwagon. Kansas does have a rabid fanbase who will love seeing you react to their non-radio stuff. American prog bands are somewhat of a rarity. Kansas is the groundbreaker in that category, and some of the founding members of Kansas split and formed a band named Proto-Kaw, which has put out some really fine music. Echolyn is another fine American prog band with their own very unique and somewhat dissonant foundational sound. Spock's Beard is a neo-prog band very much worth checking out, too. I laughed at the concert, overheaing the Kansas fans excitedly talking about how "Kansas blew Yes out of the water" while overhearing Yes fans proclaiming how "Kansas barely belonged on the same stage as Yes". Such is fandom. From what I've seen of your personal musical taste, you are headed towards prog as your genre of choice. Nothing beats it, and there is tons of epic music out there awaiting your ears and mind. On the downside for a poster to RUclips, there are fewer prog fans extant than pop music fans.
I never realized Kansas was a Prog band either!! This is the first Prog song from them I have heard! And I love Yes and Genesis and King Crimson. If you like this style of Prog you would like Emerson Lake and Palmer a lot as well!
This song and album came out when I was in the sixth grade. Becoming a drummer was paramount to me after hearing Phil Ehart absolutely mind blowing play the song and the rest of this leftoverture album.
See Kerry Livgren's autobiography " Seeds of Change" for meanings of Kansas songs. This song was made of bits and pieces of songs each member had. Essentially, a jam session, hence few lyrics. The various subparts " Father Padilla, etc" are names of the different parts. They were also being pretentiously clever, a characteristic of prog rock at that time
Kansas wrote music in a broad spectrum- which makes this band so diverse- The Devil Game, , Closet Chronicles, Portrait (He Knew), Paradox , Miricles out of Nowhere, Cheyene Anthem, Song for America, The Pinnacle, Journey from Mariabromn, Hoplessly Human, The Wall....for starters! 🎧
Now you have to listen to the rest of Kansas! Believe me it's never boring. The caliber of musicianship has not been equaled. They've been called Rock, Prog Rock but they are KANSAS period..Not to be defined by a genre! It's 2023 and they're still kicking ass. I saw them first in 1976,,seen them live 13 times since. Steve Walsh is the greatest vocalist on the planet..
I am a HUGE Kansas fan, having seen them many times throughout the 70s. There is no better band in the world, live or studio. I highly recommend that you get all their albums from the 70s: Kansas, Song for America (!), Masque, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Two for the Show (double live), Monolith, & AudioVisions. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. The lead guitarist, pianist, and synth player, Kerry Livgren, also wrote all of the progressive songs that Kansas did. It's no wonder that he is known as "the Maestro." I recommend you react to Song for America (the song), Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel, The Pinnacle, Hopelessly Human, The Wall, Miracles out of Nowhere, Hopelessly Human, and Hold On. You just can't go wrong with this band. Their signature is Robby Steinhardt who plays violin and sings second to the incredible lead singer Steve Walsh.
Lightening's Hand is a definitely a song that I would recommend. Outside of the jazz fusion kings Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kansas was the first rock band that I had a violin. I'm a sucker for violin just because it adds another voice.
I remember Rush's song "La Villa Strangiato", which they sub-titled "an exercise in self-indulgence" where they were playing it just because they liked it and they could. I wonder if the lyrics to this were related - "we aren't offering catchy lyrics, this is just us doing what we like...."
"The Wall" is a song with DEEP lyrics, and awesome instrumentals. "Song for America" is a beautiful song, a tribute to this country...a couple of recommendations from me...
A friend of mine, guitarist, commented on first hearing this song that it sounds like a group of music majors were given an assignment to write and perform a prog rock piece, and then stuffed it full of every prog rock concept known to man. Makes sense given the song is really a patchwork of musical ideas they couldn't find homes for. It does hit almost every prog rock trope. Still one of my favorites off the album, because it is really well done.
lolololol..."where we goin now?"...lol...your on a journey son!....hang on. from the mountain top to the rolling hills to the deepest valley. If you continue looking into KANSAS...you will NOT be disappointed. I always enjoy reaction vids to Kansas...they always have that "OMG i had no idea" moment. Life Long KANSAS fan.
Another I have not listened to since I was your age... Enjoyed trip down memory lane but still desire you getting back to Tull journey so you can eventually get to Songs From the Wood... All the best!
Some great Kansas songs - Mysteries and Mayhem, What's on my Mind, Miracles out of Nowhere, Opus Insert, Cheyenne Anthem, Paradox, Closet Chronicles, Sparks of the Tempest.
The effect you're referring to is Spacial and or Stereo Panning. Yes, sometimes it is very disturbing, and other times it is very uplifting, either way, it's pretty cool...
Actually, so many great songs by Kansas. Anything off their debut album is good. And surely you've heard Dust in the Wind (and I'm NOT calling you Shirley)?? It's a departure from their usual sound - one of the most requested rock songs ever...
Had to come back to this today, in honor of Robby, and after watching your tribute to him with "Song for America". To me, this song is right up there with "Close to the Edge" or some songs by Rush or Genesis, as the best prog songs ever. Strangely, I don't remember watching this reaction before! I can't find a comment by me, and I had not "liked" it before today. Don't know how the hell I could have missed it! Glad I got to enjoy both the song again, and your great reaction to it, today! Just sad that the impetus was losing Robby!
If you like metal you should listen to "Heart Of The Sunrise" from YESSONGS, then do "Yours Is No Disgrace" to hear the most outrageous guitar you will ever hear.
Magnum Opus is one of the best pieces of Prog Rock I've ever heard. Magnum Opus means "great work". The title is quite appropriate. If you'd like to react to something even more obscure than Magnum Opus, but also wild and crazy, check out "I'm Freaking Out" by the Dixie Dregs. It's a 9 minute instrumental that's a wild ride : )
This band is SO good that I suggest you listen to everything by them. They are all outstanding musicians. My suggestion would be "Icarus/Borne On Wings of Steel" from their very first album. That is when I first fell in love with this band...45 years ago. I appreciate that you took the time to listen to them........
I first got heavily into this band in 1976. One of the things I loved about this track was not only it's complexity but the choice of harmonic elements in spots. If you study late 20th century music or as is referred to often as the Impressionistic period, you hear these types of harmonies. The music hadn't gone to the 12 tone stuff that came later, but they had clearly started pushing past the typical classically derived chord voicing. Music by Ravel and Debussy use progressions like this. Now Kansas barely develops these ideas during this 8 minute piece, yet they are there in spots. It is almost ashamed they were not given 15 minutes to work with. They were the predecessors along with bands like Rush to the more modern prog metal we love today. The European progressive music was complex and had virtuoso players and also used lots of various time signatures but often lacked any heaviness. Kansas 's players were good, not necessarily virtuoso level players. But as an ensemble they pulled off some pretty amazing musical feats.
Underrated band. From Point of Know Return - "The Spider" is only 2:05. From Song for America "Lonely Street", "The Devil Game", and my favorite driving song "Down the Road" - and from Masque - the "one piece" - "Mysteries and Mayhem" plus "The Pinnacle" which were to be one track - it's 15 plus minutes. Check out "Summer" (2016); this reminds me of the original line-up.
Kansas suggestions: Journey from Mariabronn, Song for America, Lamplight Symphony, Icarus-Borne on Wings of Steel, The Pinnacle, The Wall, Miracles out of Nowhere, Hopelessly Human, Relentless, Hold On, Curtain of Iron, Distant Vision, Icarus II. You won't be disappointed by any of these incredible Kansas songs. Kerry Livgren composed all the progressive works that are listed above. And he is a master composer, orchestrator, lyricist, and multiinstrumentalist. He plays lead guitar, piano, synth, mellotron, and other instruments. No wonder he is known as the Maestro. Steve Walsh is the primary vocalist, and considered to be one of the best in the biz. Please react to as many of these as you can, and you will become a "wheathead" too!
The band thought this album was their last chance and the song was originally named “Leftoverture” but their label wanted that to be the album name so they had to rename the song. It is literally leftover pieces of discarded parts removed from other songs while they were rehearsing before recording this album. They figured if it was the last song ever recorded by them and the last song on the last record they did they’d go out with a bang. Luckily it wasn’t the same end and their newest album released this summer maybe their greatest album yet. My song recommendation is “Journey from Mariabronn” from their first album and “Incumdro: Hymn to the Atman” from their second album which is a little over 14 minutes long.
I'm in my late 50's now, and I've been enjoying Kansas since I was your age. This is timeless music. I classify it less as "classic rock" and more as (my own term) "CLASSICAL Rock". I know you've mentioned your faith in the few vids of yours I've seen (so far :-) ), and though I would interject here that the Leftoverture album was written mostly by the guitarist, Kerry Livgren. He was a musical genius, and was also at the brink of, or just over the brink, of becoming a believer, when this album was written, after his long search for meaning in his life. That should add a dimension to your understanding of where this music was coming from, especially "Carry On Wayward Son", "The Wall", and "What's On My Mind". I recommend very highly reviewing EVERY cut on that album. It is a musical masterpiece. It could be the one album I could be stranded on a deserted island with. I also recommend looking into some of Livgren's post-Kansas solo work, and with his band called "A.D.". Songs that come to mind are "Waiting for Ground Zero" "Mask of the Great Deceiver" (Ronnie Jame Dio doing the lead vocal...stellar), and "Whiskey Seed". These were mostly considered Christian albums in the day, but were every bit as well-though-out as the Kansas material. As a young believer, I tried to keep myself balanced between the rock of the day, and what we called Contemporary Christian Music, Christian Rock, or Jesus Rock. Hey why not stay lifted up AND enjoy some rock-n-roll genre at the same time? :-) PS, I also grew up on Chicago (yep I was a band kid), and Led Zeppelin. AWESOME to find young minds that truly appreciate the virtuosity and skill that went into the music of MY youth. Thanks again, little brother!
If you want to hear where they got the inspiration for the initial Opus melody, listen to "Fly on a windshield" by Genesis off of "The Lamb Lies down on Broadway" album. That album has plenty of lyrics for you to digest, and analyze from now until the rest of the year. Otherwise, give a listen to "Song for America" by Kansas and "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis. You won't be disappointed by the music or lyrics from both. Peace
Check out Kansas "Perfect Lover" wasn't on any of their albums but was basically a bonus track I think hard to come by but nonetheless amazing tune bro I think you'd really dig it man
i saw kansas the 1st time feb1974.. they opened for the j geils band.....in lincoln ne.....they said it was the beginning of there 1st national tour......saw them another 10 times.....jeff glixman was a great producer for them......song for america is a most do
You should check out a band Called The Warning. They are 3 sisters from Monterey Mexico. They started out doing covers now have an Ep and 2 full length albums out all fan funded. They just signed with Lava /Republic records and just finished their 3rd album.
Kansas' first 4 albums are awesome. Lots to choose from "Death of Mother Nature Suite" I would put up against any metal band out there. It is a continuation of "Aperçu" that proceed that song on the album. "Mysteries & Mayhem" is worth listening to also.
Daniel.. since you like LYRIC analysis... I hope you did THE WALL, second song, first side of this vinyl album, great album... GO FOR IT NOW if you did not prior !~~~
anything from Leftoverture... also ... Kerry Livgren left Kansas in 1981 to start new band (A.D), but first did solo album ... check out album “Seeds of Change”. ... two songs with Ronnie James Dio
I love how I keep coming across these months later. Great song. Have you tried "Journey From Mariabronn" off their first album? Also "Apercu." And their cover of JJ Cale's "Bringing It Back From Mexico" is brilliant. Also, please try DIXIE DREGS "Cruise Control" from the "Freefall" album and see if you don't get that spinning sensation again. Do you actually read these?
Can't believe I never left one of my long-winded, pretentious comments on this song so many months ago :) From our mutual Christian background: "Portrait/He Knew" and a fast paced progressive pure rocker in "Sparks Of The Tempest" For the most part, I have an idea of what you may or may not like, and either/both will not disappoint. Kansas is epic.
I don't believe you have ever left a long winded or pretentious comment, heheh:) I appreciate and see your comments and support George, thank you for being here. Also, yeah... It's been a minute since I've done a Kansas song hasn't it?
If you have some free time on your hands, check out www.progarchives.com, where a bunch of music nerds have identified at least 20 sub-genres of prog, and where you can learn all you ever wanted to know about prog, and probably a lot you never knew you wanted to know.
It occurs to me, since you're a Christian, it would be interesting to get your reaction to 3 songs on Jethro Tull's album Aqualung. My God, Hymn 43 and Wind Up... Just an aside, I've watched several of your reactions. If you can make sense of the lyrics of Yes songs like Close to the Edge, you're better than the average reactor, that's for sure! LOL
I will be doing a few more songs off Aqualung, then will do a full album review/reaction. Idk if I'll be able to post that to yt, but it will definitely be on my Patreon. At the least, I will get to My God:)
Back in the day they were too much like Genesis. Didn't get the credit they deserved. Never heard them mention Genesis as an influence. The Brits didn't care for them.
KANSAS 'Leftoverture' is a rock masterpiece! One of the best, most musical rock albums to ever be released!
That was the first rock album I ever bought and their distinctive sound, poetic lyrics and musical complexity made it the perfect album. Magnum Opus after the vocals is a something I never heard before. Reading the titles of the various movements made it even better.
Kansas sound is unique and they were ahead of their times in the 70's.
THIS is a song I had heard KANSAS play ONCE, live in concert, in the early 1980s, I think... the funny thing is that what I remember of the concert most was that the keyboardist, at the time, did a friggin HANDSTAND on the organ/keyboard while playing.................. THEY were great. I think it was Kansas opening for STYX, or double billed.
My all time favorite band, smokin live in the 70’s, 10 x better live.
My favorite band by a longshot. Kerry Livgren (lead guitar; long white blonde hair) wrote most of their great prog songs and their hits. No music lessons; can't read or write music - but he grew up listening to his parents' classical music, which he loved, particularly from the Romantic period (Wagner, etc.). This is reflected in his music, changing time signatures, complex riffs, in etc. And his lyrics are about his spiritual journey to find the truth, which he did when he became an evangelical Christian in July 1979. He's an intellect & an incredible musician. After leaving Kansas, he formed the group AD (recommend "Art of the State"), then went on to form Proto-Kaw (recommend "The Wait of Glory"). And he has done solo albums all along the way (recommend "Seeds of Change" - remastered as "Decade 1." It's no wonder Kerry is known as "the Maestro"!
Adding to the Kansas suggestions...Icarus, Angels Have Fallen, The Pinnacle...so much greatness to choose from!
For your viewing pleasure, check out their rockumentary "Miracles Out Of Nowhere". These guys literally emerged from the cornfields of Kansas, cutting their teeth on rock and soul music but somehow produced these classical inspired epics. Hence, miracles out of nowhere.
What's on my mind....closet chronicles... Portrait...people of the southwind... Song for America... Child of innocence... Journey from mariabronn... Cheyenne anthem... The wall miracles outta nowhere.... I could go on. Kansas is so very underrated. Great musicians!
Lyle B. These are all tasty Kansas cuts to listen to. Not all of Kansas’ songs are rocking like this... but the mentioned tracks are good!
Miracles Out of Nowhere - my all-time favorite and one of their absolute best.
Just wondering who would give this video a thumbs down! Anybody, no less a 16 year old kid reacting and being exposed to this wonderful music , what is there not to like about it. If you don't "like it" don't watch but to dislike something like this is absurd to me. Keep on rocking Daniel! Love your review and your choice of music your reacting to!
Cheyenne Anthem, Steve Walsh was the Native American lead singer for Kansas.
Amazing song
Native American? Don't think so.
I read that he was adopted as an infant and that his real mother was Brazilian and his father was Irish
Check out Song for America-The Wall-What's On My Mind-Hold On-Point Of No Return.😝
Great reaction. This band is totally underrated. The musicianship is incredible throughout their entire history. This song is a great example of their intense time signature changes and tight playing. I agree with the previous commenter that the Magnum Opus is really a collection of lots of musical ideas, and sometimes that format can lead to disaster, but Kansas connects the ideas so skillfully here that you never lose the groove. Please, try the Closet Chronicles from their album Point of Know Return. Another masterpiece! Great job with your new channel!
Daniel, this album is great from start to finish. This song is the only one with limited lyrics, any of the others would get you thinking. Their first 6 albums are all exceptional and the rest are all pretty good. Miracles out of Nowhere, The Wall, What's on My Mind. Questions of my Childhood and Cheyenne Anthem all worth looking into, even the ones I didn't mention here are good. Earlier stuff like Icarus-Borne on Wings of Steel, Child of Innocence, Mysteries and Mayhem(all from Masque) and Song for America album and Point of Know Return album . Can't go wrong with any of this.
Re-watched your reaction and wanted to add that it might be worthwhile to listen to Carry On Wayward Son for the lyrics alone. This was their first big hit and got so much radio airplay that they gained national exposure and even the masses who didn't know much about music became fans. This song was very popular but it is still really good. After you listen to this you should watch the Rick Beato video What Makes This Song Great on it on youtube. He isolates all the individual instruments and vocals from the mixing board and you'll get a better appreciation of their musicianship and talent. Another song to check out is DOWN THE ROAD, which musically is similar to Magnum Opus in some ways but there are more lyrics to ponder and the instrumental sections are impressive. It's a much shorter piece but packs some punch.
here's my list:
Journey From Mariabronn (1973)
Apercu (1973)
Death Of Mother Nature Suite (1973)
Song For America (1974)
Lamplight Symphony (1974)
Incomudro - Hymn To The Atman (1974)
Icarus - Born On Wings Of Steel (1975)
Child Of Innocence (1975)
Mysteries And Mayhem - The Pinnacle (1975) | essential to react to the longer original version
Carry On Wayward Son (1976)
The Wall (1976)
Miracles Out Of Nowhere (1976)
Opus Insert (1976)
Cheyenne Anthem (1976)
Magnum Opus (1976)
Point Of Know Return (1977)
Portrait (He Knew) (1977)
Closet Chronicles (1977)
Lightnings Hand (1977)
Dust In The Wind (1977) | the most beautiful song ever recorded
Hopelessly Human (1977)
Honorable mention:
Lonely Wind (1973) - very beautiful ballad
Belexes (1973)
A Glimpse Of Home (1979)
Relentless (1980)
Hold On (1980)
Loner (1980)
Don't Open Your Eyes (1980)
You didn’t miss much!
This track was originally called Leftoverture before they decided to name the album that instead (don't know why it couldn't have been used for both, but hey) and was so called because it was simply a collection of bits of music that hadn't made it into other songs, hence it being largely instrumental. Anyway, big fat YES to reacting to the deeper cuts, why react to the same 2 or 3 songs per artist that the other gazillion reaction channels have already done? (actually the answer to that is your reaction would be more interesting than most of theirs, but anyway...) - no shortage of great Kansas songs to find, 3 early ones I'd suggest are Incommudro-Hymn to the Atman, Child of Innocence and Miracles Out Of Nowhere, but they've literally released a new album a fortnight ago (The Absence of Presence) which has some killer stuff on it too - Jets Overhead, Throwing Mountains and Memories Down the Line to name a few worth hearing from that.
Deeper Cuts! Deeper Cuts! Deeper Cuts! Yes, please!
and yet, still not even 1000 views. People just don't wanna explore music. They just wanna hear the hits that they've already heard a hundred times. I don't get it. There's thousands of songs that we've never heard. In the last year I've discovered groups and songs that I never heard of, and it's been a great ride. Someone introduced me to Renaissance and Gypsy and I'm just shocked that neither made it big. They're both great bands.
@@Lightmane - Oh, I sure do agree with you! Good Lord, just taking the 60s and 70s, there is so much fantastic music to choose from! It took "us" 2 decades to experience all that music, so I understand how daunting it must be for someone like Daniel.
I discovered Gypsy a little over a year ago, right here on youtube. I don't really know how it happened - might have just been one of those things where something comes up in the youtube feed that in some way relates to what you have watched. A rec came up for Gypsy, and both the name and the album cover were enough to make me click...............and WOW! Spent nearly 2 weeks catching up on the history of the band and listening to their songs! Fantastic feel-good music!
RIP, Robby!
@@MissAstorDancer Someone I met on yt and now talk to on fb, told me about Gypsy and Renaissance and I showed her the Dixie Dregs. That first album by Gypsy is awesome and so is Renaissance. Sharing music with people is so much fun 😀
@@MissAstorDancer Oh, I already said this in a previous comment, LOL. OOPS LOL
THEIR-SONGS-WILL-BLOW-YOUR-MIND. I know that this song already did but...even further more!.
Your dad seems cool. I hope you bring him in for a special guest appearance sometime.👍🏼🤓 I heard a little ELP Epitaph in the beginning? I used to play this record over and over at your age. I feel this was as close to Rush as Kansas ever got...in terms of hard driving progressive sound.
Yup a definite masterpiece...a couple of others are Death of Mother Nature Suite and Song For America. Great reaction! I love how it left you speechless!
Hell yes. 👍
Always was my favourite song on the album. Underrated band. Saw them only once in Pittsburgh (I think) at the star lake amphitheater decades after I started listening to them.
Utterly brilliant.
You are one of the few youtubers, who have reacted to this,...greatest ever rock song recorded. Less than 5 youtubers.
More is coming:)
@@DiconDissectionalReactions Really good to hear.
Their latest incarnation is incredibly good.
They are all classically trained musicians then...and now. With 2 of the original founding members still in the band today.
The new members are younger and equally gifted musicians.
Which has brought a new energy to their fantastic original "Kansas Sound".
Every song on their first 5 albums are stunningly good, legendary. A very original and shamefully underrated classic rock (prog) band.
Although highly influential. A lifelong favorite of mine.
Normally, Kansas' writing duties were shared by Steve Walsh (keyboards and lead vocals) and Kerry Livgren (guitars and keyboards). But when the fourth album came up, Walsh was suffering from writer's block and the entire Leftoverture album was written by Kerry Livgren whose orchestration and arrangement skills are off-the-charts good. I'm a Kansas native and this is still referred to in radio as the 'home-state band'. The original members were all natives of Kansas - mostly around Topeka - and I knew people who knew the musicians when I was back in high school. so I always felt connected to this band, as silly as that sounds. Their first album cover is a mural that is on the 2nd floor rotunda of the state capitol building in Topeka, Kansas.
This entire compilation is a Masterpiece, you should especially love "The Wall" I saw them long years ago on the "Point Of Know Return" tour
Also on Leftoverture, you should listen to "Miracles out of Nowhere.," A masterpiece!
the spinning around effect you hear in your headphones is a technique called "Arc Paning " It was achieved in the 1970's with Lexicon delays out of phase and crossing the null point paned hard left right. It required a pair of PCM 42's , I used it all the time back then ... so happy you noticed it!
Kansas-"Lamplight Symphony" a must.
So many songs by Kansas are worth listening to. I have listened to them since the 70s and have seen their shows. Great band. Check out Death Of Mother Nature Suite then keep going. The more you listen the more you will love them.
New album, "The Absence of Presence" just dropped a couple of weeks ago and is easily the best Kansas album of this century! I recommend the title cut... PS: they are from my hometown of Topeka, KS and I live 5 blocks from their old band house!
This song took you to a ride...well...Mysteries And Mayhem - The Pinnacle song will do the same and...drive you off the cliff
while make you think so much of all kinds of things. Kansas songs lyrics are so deep, so...They will touch your very soul, deep and hard.
Its like...they tell your story and...their songs are relative today too. Timeless music.
The one thing about rock back in the 70's artists were constantly experimenting with crossing over in to other areas of music. I always thought a lot of Kansas was a sort of classical rock, were the instrumentals told the story that you had to visualize in your mind. Beethoven on acid! There are so many great Kansas songs, really none of them are bad. Dust in the Wind, Point of No Return, Death of Mother Nature Suite, The Wall, Miracles Out of Nowhere, just to name a few. Their songs are generally intricate with deep meaning. Close your eyes and let the guitar, drums, violin, keyboard and synthesizer tickle the brain. Most of all feel it!
My own experience with Kansas began with hearing their radio-friendly singles (Carry on My Wayward Son, Dust in the Wind) back in the '70's. I enjoyed the singles, which I'd classify as a cut above the usual pop fare, but never felt compelled to buy an album. I don't recall FM stations playing any deeper cuts from Kansas back then. I was heavily into Yes and Genesis at the time, and would have delved into an American bunch of proggers, too, but had no idea Kansas was actually a prog band.
Then in 2000, Yes and Kansas toured together. My fellow Yes fans informed me that the pairing was a good one, because Kansas was actually a prog act. So I spent some time listening to the "deep cuts" by Kansas and came away quite impressed by the band's efforts, but elected not to jump on the Kansas fan bandwagon. Kansas does have a rabid fanbase who will love seeing you react to their non-radio stuff.
American prog bands are somewhat of a rarity. Kansas is the groundbreaker in that category, and some of the founding members of Kansas split and formed a band named Proto-Kaw, which has put out some really fine music. Echolyn is another fine American prog band with their own very unique and somewhat dissonant foundational sound. Spock's Beard is a neo-prog band very much worth checking out, too.
I laughed at the concert, overheaing the Kansas fans excitedly talking about how "Kansas blew Yes out of the water" while overhearing Yes fans proclaiming how "Kansas barely belonged on the same stage as Yes". Such is fandom.
From what I've seen of your personal musical taste, you are headed towards prog as your genre of choice. Nothing beats it, and there is tons of epic music out there awaiting your ears and mind. On the downside for a poster to RUclips, there are fewer prog fans extant than pop music fans.
I never realized Kansas was a Prog band either!! This is the first Prog song from them I have heard! And I love Yes and Genesis and King Crimson. If you like this style of Prog you would like Emerson Lake and Palmer a lot as well!
This song and album came out when I was in the sixth grade. Becoming a drummer was paramount to me after hearing Phil Ehart absolutely mind blowing play the song and the rest of this leftoverture album.
See Kerry Livgren's autobiography " Seeds of Change" for meanings of Kansas songs. This song was made of bits and pieces of songs each member had. Essentially, a jam session, hence few lyrics.
The various subparts " Father Padilla, etc" are names of the different parts. They were also being pretentiously clever, a characteristic of prog rock at that time
React to the complete "LEFT OVERATURE" ALBUM. A MASTERPIECE... MAGNUM OPUS JUST OUTSTANDING...
Kansas wrote music in a broad spectrum- which makes this band so diverse- The Devil Game, , Closet Chronicles, Portrait (He Knew), Paradox , Miricles out of Nowhere, Cheyene Anthem, Song for America, The Pinnacle, Journey from Mariabromn, Hoplessly Human, The Wall....for starters! 🎧
Now you have to listen to the rest of Kansas! Believe me it's never boring. The caliber of musicianship has not been equaled. They've been called Rock, Prog Rock but they are KANSAS period..Not to be defined by a genre! It's 2023 and they're still kicking ass. I saw them first in 1976,,seen them live 13 times since. Steve Walsh is the greatest vocalist on the planet..
I am a HUGE Kansas fan, having seen them many times throughout the 70s. There is no better band in the world, live or studio. I highly recommend that you get all their albums from the 70s: Kansas, Song for America (!), Masque, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Two for the Show (double live), Monolith, & AudioVisions. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. The lead guitarist, pianist, and synth player, Kerry Livgren, also wrote all of the progressive songs that Kansas did. It's no wonder that he is known as "the Maestro." I recommend you react to Song for America (the song), Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel, The Pinnacle, Hopelessly Human, The Wall, Miracles out of Nowhere, Hopelessly Human, and Hold On. You just can't go wrong with this band. Their signature is Robby Steinhardt who plays violin and sings second to the incredible lead singer Steve Walsh.
The song that gave birth to heavy metal as we know it today.
Lightening's Hand is a definitely a song that I would recommend. Outside of the jazz fusion kings Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kansas was the first rock band that I had a violin. I'm a sucker for violin just because it adds another voice.
Curved Air with Daryl Way too !!!
React to the live version, Kansas two for the show magnum opus. You will be amazed!
I remember Rush's song "La Villa Strangiato", which they sub-titled "an exercise in self-indulgence" where they were playing it just because they liked it and they could. I wonder if the lyrics to this were related - "we aren't offering catchy lyrics, this is just us doing what we like...."
When you can , you should listen to the entire Leftoverture record. It was a true Masterpiece . Great job playing and speaking about this one .
"The Wall" is a song with DEEP lyrics, and awesome instrumentals. "Song for America" is a beautiful song, a tribute to this country...a couple of recommendations from me...
A friend of mine, guitarist, commented on first hearing this song that it sounds like a group of music majors were given an assignment to write and perform a prog rock piece, and then stuffed it full of every prog rock concept known to man. Makes sense given the song is really a patchwork of musical ideas they couldn't find homes for. It does hit almost every prog rock trope. Still one of my favorites off the album, because it is really well done.
lolololol..."where we goin now?"...lol...your on a journey son!....hang on. from the mountain top to the rolling hills to the deepest valley. If you continue looking into KANSAS...you will NOT be disappointed. I always enjoy reaction vids to Kansas...they always have that
"OMG i had no idea" moment. Life Long KANSAS fan.
Another I have not listened to since I was your age... Enjoyed trip down memory lane but still desire you getting back to Tull journey so you can eventually get to Songs From the Wood... All the best!
That back & forth is called "panning."
You want some howling at the moon? This is how we do it! Kansas truly rocks, talkin' bout my generation.
I was 21 when this came out. It was obvious that Kansas was one of America's best bands with the release of this album.
5:1 mixes are so much fun!
Some great Kansas songs - Mysteries and Mayhem, What's on my Mind, Miracles out of Nowhere, Opus Insert, Cheyenne Anthem, Paradox, Closet Chronicles, Sparks of the Tempest.
Hold On by Kansas is a great song i think you will like!!
The effect you're referring to is Spacial and or Stereo Panning. Yes, sometimes it is very disturbing, and other times it is very uplifting, either way, it's pretty cool...
Actually, so many great songs by Kansas. Anything off their debut album is good. And surely you've heard Dust in the Wind (and I'm NOT calling you Shirley)?? It's a departure from their usual sound - one of the most requested rock songs ever...
Had to come back to this today, in honor of Robby, and after watching your tribute to him with "Song for America".
To me, this song is right up there with "Close to the Edge" or some songs by Rush or Genesis, as the best prog songs ever.
Strangely, I don't remember watching this reaction before! I can't find a comment by me, and I had not "liked" it before today. Don't know how the hell I could have missed it!
Glad I got to enjoy both the song again, and your great reaction to it, today! Just sad that the impetus was losing Robby!
If you like metal you should listen to "Heart Of The Sunrise" from YESSONGS, then do "Yours Is No Disgrace" to hear the most outrageous guitar you will ever hear.
michael york great tracks you must get to eventually
Magnum Opus is one of the best pieces of Prog Rock I've ever heard. Magnum Opus means "great work". The title is quite appropriate.
If you'd like to react to something even more obscure than Magnum Opus, but also wild and crazy, check out "I'm Freaking Out" by the Dixie Dregs. It's a 9 minute instrumental that's a wild ride : )
Deep cuts. 💯
Follow your gut!
Be A PART from the pack! Be you.
A shooting star!
🌟✨🌠⭐🌠✨🌟
This band is SO good that I suggest you listen to everything by them. They are all outstanding musicians. My suggestion would be "Icarus/Borne On Wings of Steel" from their very first album. That is when I first fell in love with this band...45 years ago. I appreciate that you took the time to listen to them........
Icarus is on their 3rd album (Masque)
Kansas #1
Song for America #2
@@markscutti9682 Truth...it was the first song I heard by Kansas and also the first album I bought by them...I should've clarified that better...
I first got heavily into this band in 1976. One of the things I loved about this track was not only it's complexity but the choice of harmonic elements in spots. If you study late 20th century music or as is referred to often as the Impressionistic period, you hear these types of harmonies. The music hadn't gone to the 12 tone stuff that came later, but they had clearly started pushing past the typical classically derived chord voicing. Music by Ravel and Debussy use progressions like this. Now Kansas barely develops these ideas during this 8 minute piece, yet they are there in spots. It is almost ashamed they were not given 15 minutes to work with. They were the predecessors along with bands like Rush to the more modern prog metal we love today. The European progressive music was complex and had virtuoso players and also used lots of various time signatures but often lacked any heaviness. Kansas 's players were good, not necessarily virtuoso level players. But as an ensemble they pulled off some pretty amazing musical feats.
Underrated band. From Point of Know Return - "The Spider" is only 2:05. From Song for America "Lonely Street", "The Devil Game", and my favorite driving song "Down the Road" - and from Masque - the "one piece" - "Mysteries and Mayhem" plus "The Pinnacle" which were to be one track - it's 15 plus minutes. Check out "Summer" (2016); this reminds me of the original line-up.
Magnum Opus; as Music, being the portrait, that anyone of us can understand.
Kansas suggestions: Journey from Mariabronn, Song for America, Lamplight Symphony, Icarus-Borne on Wings of Steel, The Pinnacle, The Wall, Miracles out of Nowhere, Hopelessly Human, Relentless, Hold On, Curtain of Iron, Distant Vision, Icarus II. You won't be disappointed by any of these incredible Kansas songs. Kerry Livgren composed all the progressive works that are listed above. And he is a master composer, orchestrator, lyricist, and multiinstrumentalist. He plays lead guitar, piano, synth, mellotron, and other instruments. No wonder he is known as the Maestro.
Steve Walsh is the primary vocalist, and considered to be one of the best in the biz. Please react to as many of these as you can, and you will become a "wheathead" too!
The band thought this album was their last chance and the song was originally named “Leftoverture” but their label wanted that to be the album name so they had to rename the song. It is literally leftover pieces of discarded parts removed from other songs while they were rehearsing before recording this album. They figured if it was the last song ever recorded by them and the last song on the last record they did they’d go out with a bang.
Luckily it wasn’t the same end and their newest album released this summer maybe their greatest album yet.
My song recommendation is “Journey from Mariabronn” from their first album and “Incumdro: Hymn to the Atman” from their second album which is a little over 14 minutes long.
Get any of their first 5 albums, pick any of the songs from those albums, and react to it.
I'm in my late 50's now, and I've been enjoying Kansas since I was your age. This is timeless music. I classify it less as "classic rock" and more as (my own term) "CLASSICAL Rock".
I know you've mentioned your faith in the few vids of yours I've seen (so far :-) ), and though I would interject here that the Leftoverture album was written mostly by the guitarist, Kerry Livgren. He was a musical genius, and was also at the brink of, or just over the brink, of becoming a believer, when this album was written, after his long search for meaning in his life. That should add a dimension to your understanding of where this music was coming from, especially "Carry On Wayward Son", "The Wall", and "What's On My Mind". I recommend very highly reviewing EVERY cut on that album. It is a musical masterpiece. It could be the one album I could be stranded on a deserted island with.
I also recommend looking into some of Livgren's post-Kansas solo work, and with his band called "A.D.". Songs that come to mind are "Waiting for Ground Zero" "Mask of the Great Deceiver" (Ronnie Jame Dio doing the lead vocal...stellar), and "Whiskey Seed". These were mostly considered Christian albums in the day, but were every bit as well-though-out as the Kansas material. As a young believer, I tried to keep myself balanced between the rock of the day, and what we called Contemporary Christian Music, Christian Rock, or Jesus Rock. Hey why not stay lifted up AND enjoy some rock-n-roll genre at the same time? :-)
PS, I also grew up on Chicago (yep I was a band kid), and Led Zeppelin. AWESOME to find young minds that truly appreciate the virtuosity and skill that went into the music of MY youth. Thanks again, little brother!
If you want to hear where they got the inspiration for the initial Opus melody, listen to "Fly on a windshield" by Genesis off of "The Lamb Lies down on Broadway" album. That album has plenty of lyrics for you to digest, and analyze from now until the rest of the year.
Otherwise, give a listen to "Song for America" by Kansas and "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis. You won't be disappointed by the music or lyrics from both. Peace
Check out Kansas "Perfect Lover" wasn't on any of their albums but was basically a bonus track I think hard to come by but nonetheless amazing tune bro I think you'd really dig it man
I would suggest Kansas - Lamplight Symphony...
i saw kansas the 1st time feb1974.. they opened for the j geils band.....in lincoln ne.....they said it was the beginning of there 1st national tour......saw them another 10 times.....jeff glixman was a great producer for them......song for america is a most do
You should check out a band Called The Warning. They are 3 sisters from Monterey Mexico. They started out doing covers now have an Ep and 2 full length albums out all fan funded. They just signed with Lava /Republic records and just finished their 3rd album.
Kansas' first 4 albums are awesome. Lots to choose from "Death of Mother Nature Suite" I would put up against any metal band out there. It is a continuation of "Aperçu" that proceed that song on the album. "Mysteries & Mayhem" is worth listening to also.
Perfectly this song could be a final boss theme from a Final Fantasy game.
Please react to Gentle Giant, as they were a HUGE influence on KANSAS !! Also : King Crimson, Yes, Curved Air, The Beatles...
I think the music world is finally catching up to Kansas... Livgren could have been a legit composer.
from the same album (Leftoverture), “Miracles Out of Nowhere” .... must listen
Daniel.. since you like LYRIC analysis... I hope you did THE WALL, second song, first side of this vinyl album, great album... GO FOR IT NOW if you did not prior !~~~
Look in to a headphone dac amp get you some volume Try The Wall its awesome my fave
Kansas. Journey from Mariabronn. No one else has reacted to it
Death of Mother Nature Suite.🎸🎵🎧🎨
Album lyrics walk you thru this song
Old school Aerosmith metal track Nobody's Fault
anything from Leftoverture... also ... Kerry Livgren left Kansas in 1981 to start new band (A.D), but first did solo album ... check out album “Seeds of Change”. ... two songs with Ronnie James Dio
I love how I keep coming across these months later. Great song. Have you tried "Journey From Mariabronn" off their first album? Also "Apercu." And their cover of JJ Cale's "Bringing It Back From Mexico" is brilliant.
Also, please try DIXIE DREGS "Cruise Control" from the "Freefall" album and see if you don't get that spinning sensation again.
Do you actually read these?
I still read every comment yes.
Quite a bit of Emerson, Lake & Palmer in this track.
^this^
First listen for me as well, and I was honestly wondering if Keith Emerson was on the keys.
Always a good thing :)
Can't believe I never left one of my long-winded, pretentious comments on this song so many months ago :)
From our mutual Christian background: "Portrait/He Knew" and a fast paced progressive pure rocker in "Sparks Of The Tempest" For the most part, I have an idea of what you may or may not like, and either/both will not disappoint. Kansas is epic.
I don't believe you have ever left a long winded or pretentious comment, heheh:) I appreciate and see your comments and support George, thank you for being here. Also, yeah... It's been a minute since I've done a Kansas song hasn't it?
@@DiconDissectionalReactions Thank you Daniel, sincerely. And more Kansas is a good thing :)
I'd like to see and hear your reaction to 'Journey From Mariabronne' by this group. I think you'd like it.
It is my Dream to join KANSAS !!!
"ks(Kansas) joy, Jesus, Peace"
Check out the first album by Kansas
Yes, music is all we can share........music is primitive, instinctual emotion, like howling at the moon.......
please react to the title track of their second album "Song For America"
Check out All the World off the Masque album
U might enjoy El Dorado Orchestra, Ponchito
If you have some free time on your hands, check out www.progarchives.com, where a bunch of music nerds have identified at least 20 sub-genres of prog, and where you can learn all you ever wanted to know about prog, and probably a lot you never knew you wanted to know.
Dude their first 3 albums have incredible content. Try Apercu
Wow this is giving me FF7 boss battle vibes.
It occurs to me, since you're a Christian, it would be interesting to get your reaction to 3 songs on Jethro Tull's album Aqualung. My God, Hymn 43 and Wind Up...
Just an aside, I've watched several of your reactions. If you can make sense of the lyrics of Yes songs like Close to the Edge, you're better than the average reactor, that's for sure! LOL
I will be doing a few more songs off Aqualung, then will do a full album review/reaction. Idk if I'll be able to post that to yt, but it will definitely be on my Patreon. At the least, I will get to My God:)
@@DiconDissectionalReactions Fair enough...
little known fact ... Leftoverture writer Kerry Livgren doesn’t read music
Kansas has always been “progressive.”
I feel the song is more progressive than metal. Maybe some parallels to Yes?
Back in the day they were too much like Genesis. Didn't get the credit they deserved. Never heard them mention Genesis as an influence. The Brits didn't care for them.