Tag: Kansas

The third studio album from Topeka legends Kansas has long been considered the pinnacle of this band throughout its proto-prog…

Recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, this is Kansas styled symphonic rock on steroids, with the arrangements…

‘Freaks Of Nature’ is one of my favourite Kansas releases and I think one of their strongest, a move away…

‘In The Spirit Of Things’ is (for 1988) and by Kansas standards is a modern sounding recording, wih big production…

By 1985, Steve Walsh had reunited Kansas alongside Rich Williams and Phil Ehart, joining the band were guitar genius Steve…

This album was a turning point for Kansas as it was their first effort without vocalist Steve Walsh, who had…

‘Audio Visions’ represented the beginning of the end for Kansas Mk1 and creative differences and (as already documented elsewhere on…

with changing times and attitudes, prog rock would go on a backburner, impacting bands like Kansas, but this album along…

I do admit to having owned this Kansas album for years, and it astonishes me even more listening to it…

After the third Kansas album ‘Masque’, the Kirshner label was looking for something different (a.k.a ‘a hit single’), stepping up…

All in all and despite its minor inconsistencies, the second Kansas album ‘Song For America’ remains a personal favourite of…

An unusual album by Kansas’ own high standards, and one that has been commented on by many saying it’s their…

A fair bit of time was required to absorb this Kansas effort ‘The Prelude Implicit’, as a Kansas fan you…

After years of struggle and playing nearly every two-bit watering hole in the Midwest, the Kansas debut arrived on store…

Kansas are prog without being pretentious, pomp-oriented without being wimpy, heavy by way of huge instrumentation and vintage with one…