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Kansas Albums Ranked


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Kansas albums ranked, including the first Livgren solo album and the Native Window album.

Created by: majormalfunction | 24.05.2023



1. Kansas - Leftoverture
1976 Rating: 10 Top picks: Miracles out of Nowhere, Cheyenne Anthem, Carry on My Wayward Son
2. Kansas - Masque
1975 Rating: 9 Top picks: Icarus, The Pinnacle, Child of Innocence
3. Kansas - Point of Know Return
1977 Rating: 9 Top picks: Closet Chronicles, Hopelessly Human, Sparks of the Tempest
4. Kansas - Song for America
1975 Rating: 9 Top picks: Lamplight Symphony, Song for America, Incomudro
5. Kansas - Kansas
1974 Rating: 8 Top picks: Belexes, Journey from Mariabronn, Death of Mother Nature Suite
6. Kansas - Monolith
1979 Rating: 8 Top picks: People of the South Wind, A Glimpse of Home, On the Other Side
7. Kansas - Audio-Visions
1980 Rating: 8 Top picks: Hold On, Curtain of Iron, Don't Open Your Eyes
8. Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
2016 Rating: 8 Top picks: Rythm in the Spirit, Refuge, The Voyage of Eight Eighteen
9. Kerry Livgren - Seeds of Change
1980 Rating: 8 Top picks: How Can You Live, Mask of the Great Deciever, Ground Zero
10. Kansas - The Absence of Presence
2020 Rating: 8 Top picks: The Absence of Presence, Jets Overhead, The Song The River Sang
11. Kansas - Vinyl Confessions
1982 Rating: 7 Top picks: Crossfire, Play the Game Tonight, Windows
12. Kansas - Freaks of Nature
1995 Rating: 7 Top picks: Cold Grey Morning, Peaceful and Warm, Under the Knife
13. Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
2000 Rating: 6 Top picks: Icarus II, Myriad, Distant Visions
14. Kansas - In the Spirit of Things
1988 Rating: 6 Top picks: Bells of Saint James, Rainmaker, Stand beside me
15. Native Window - Native Window
2009 Rating: 6 Top picks: Money, Still (We Will Go On), An Ocean Away
16. Kansas - Power
1986 Rating: 6 Top picks: Musicatto, Three Pretenders, Tomb 19
17. Kansas - Drastic Measures
1983 Rating: 5 Top picks: Mainstream, Fight Fire With Fire, End of the Age
18. Kansas - Always Never the Same
1998 Rating: 5 Top picks: Eleanor Rigby, Prelude & Introduction



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31.05.2023 - 09:01
JoHn Doe


If there ever was band that i started listening with the "wrong" album it's Kansas; the two albums with Steve Morse were the ones I listened first and a couple of years later Audiovisions (still not the 70s ). But that was way before the internet days. I took those two albums for what they had to offer (I knew nothing about who Kansas was ) and I enjoyed them immensely. I would not rate them the same because I find In the Spirit of Things more interesting and with better song-writing than Power.
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31.05.2023 - 22:08
majormalfunction
Written by JoHn Doe on 31.05.2023 at 09:01



If there ever was band that i started listening with the "wrong" album it's Kansas; the two albums with Steve Morse were the ones I listened first and a couple of years later Audiovisions (still not the 70s ). But that was way before the internet days. I took those two albums for what they had to offer (I knew nothing about who Kansas was ) and I enjoyed them immensely. I would not rate them the same because I find In the Spirit of Things more interesting and with better song-writing than Power.

It's not a bad thing though to start somewhere else than the classics, it can make one appriciate the "odd" albums more. Those days before the internet exploded was so much more intresting (not necessarily better though).. you bought what you found and you didn't really know what albums were considered great or trash, you kind of had to make your own opinion of everything
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01.06.2023 - 16:12
JoHn Doe
Written by majormalfunction on 31.05.2023 at 22:08

Written by JoHn Doe on 31.05.2023 at 09:01



If there ever was band that i started listening with the "wrong" album it's Kansas; the two albums with Steve Morse were the ones I listened first and a couple of years later Audiovisions (still not the 70s ). But that was way before the internet days. I took those two albums for what they had to offer (I knew nothing about who Kansas was ) and I enjoyed them immensely. I would not rate them the same because I find In the Spirit of Things more interesting and with better song-writing than Power.

It's not a bad thing though to start somewhere else than the classics, it can make one appriciate the "odd" albums more.

Another band that I started listening with two albums that didn't score any hits (as i imagine the label asked of them) was Night Ranger - "Big Life" (1987) and "Man In Motion" (1988), both fine albums IMO, especially Man In Motion, great melodic hard rock if you ask me. It was many years later that I listened to their very successful albums.
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03.06.2023 - 05:34
majormalfunction
Written by JoHn Doe on 01.06.2023 at 16:12

Another band that I started listening with two albums that didn't score any hits (as i imagine the label asked of them) was Night Ranger - "Big Life" (1987) and "Man In Motion" (1988), both fine albums IMO, especially Man In Motion, great melodic hard rock if you ask me. It was many years later that I listened to their very successful albums.

Not that familiar with Night Ranger but now i'm pretty sure there will be a ranked list made of them this year Always on the look out for more melodic hard rock
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03.06.2023 - 10:17
JoHn Doe
Written by majormalfunction on 03.06.2023 at 05:34

Written by JoHn Doe on 01.06.2023 at 16:12

Another band that I started listening with two albums that didn't score any hits (as i imagine the label asked of them) was Night Ranger - "Big Life" (1987) and "Man In Motion" (1988), both fine albums IMO, especially Man In Motion, great melodic hard rock if you ask me. It was many years later that I listened to their very successful albums.

Not that familiar with Night Ranger but now i'm pretty sure there will be a ranked list made of them this year Always on the look out for more melodic hard rock

Their 80s work is fun, beyond that, not so much for me, although there are 2 albums from the 90s that I like.
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