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 Posted: February 07 2020 at 15:00 |
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Ok but we all known Kansas’s debut is their best. Those last two tracks kick ass |
Do we ? is it ? That's funny,I just checked a poll we had about the first 5 Kansas albums, and the first came in forth. |
Opinions change, SFA has their strongest track in the title track, but side two has a couple so so songs |
SFA is indeed a good one.Styx had their own song for America,in Suite Made Blue,which is probably one Styx' best songs. You heard it ??
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Posted: February 07 2020 at 16:08 |
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Ok but we all known Kansas’s debut is their best. Those last two tracks kick ass |
Do we ? is it ? That's funny,I just checked a poll we had about the first 5 Kansas albums, and the first came in forth. |
Opinions change, SFA has their strongest track in the title track, but side two has a couple so so songs |
SFA is indeed a good one.Styx had their own song for America,in Suite Made Blue,which is probably one Styx' best songs. You heard it ?? |
Yeah I don’t think it’s that good. I think some of their best tracks are crystal ball, this old man, pieces of eight, castle walls, queen of spades, red storm and a day.
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Posted: February 07 2020 at 16:27 |
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^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Well, in that case nothing is deep. It's not about the subject so much but the philosophical way they go about it. Maybe compared to other prog it's not that deep but for a pop song(or a song that was a hit anyway) it definitely is(imo).
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Posted: February 07 2020 at 17:32 |
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gr8dane wrote:
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gr8dane wrote:
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Ok but we all known Kansas’s debut is their best. Those last two tracks kick ass |
Do we ? is it ? That's funny,I just checked a poll we had about the first 5 Kansas albums, and the first came in forth. |
Opinions change, SFA has their strongest track in the title track, but side two has a couple so so songs |
SFA is indeed a good one.Styx had their own song for America,in Suite Made Blue,which is probably one Styx' best songs. You heard it ?? |
Yeah I don’t think it’s that good. I think some of their best tracks are crystal ball, this old man, pieces of eight, castle walls, queen of spades, red storm and a day. |
Fair enough.The ones you mention are great tracks, and you did mention A Day,which happens to be my favourite Styx track. 
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Posted: February 07 2020 at 20:21 |
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^ a day is really cool, reminds me of take a pebble and sailors tale. But it’s the most blatantly progressive thing Styx’s has ever done.
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Posted: February 07 2020 at 21:00 |
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THe most prog rock oriented Styx track I know is "castle walls." After that maybe "Suite madam Blue."
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Dust In The Wind is probably the deepest song ever written to the point that it actually sounds ironic. However Kerry Livgren was very serious about it . It could be paired with ELP's Lucky man both on general theme (the naive view that material wealth is totally unimportant in the grand scheme of things) but also they were songs that were included on their respective albums almost as an afterthought because there was a space to fill.
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 01:40 |
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Styx and Kansas cd's I have will just gather dust...both bands I will not be revisiting due to better options in the other myriad cds...I will have to build some more shelves soon...
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 01:50 |
This Kansas backlash seems a bit strange to me. I saw them play live around 2002 and they were absolutely brilliant.
I will still happily give the debut a spin if only just for Death of Mother Nature Suite if nothing else. Song For America is also a classic and highly original prog track. Masque is a decent album and worth a bit of attention not to mention great tracks such as The Spider and Magnum Opus. Yeah they did go a bit AOR from about 1978 onwards but they didn't suddenly turn into Foreigner or Boston overnight
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 02:22 |
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Styx and Kansas cd's I have will just gather dust...both bands I will not be revisiting due to better options in the other myriad cds...I will have to build some more shelves soon... |
sure thing whatever makes you happy, I suppose that's why the poll creator included a Neither option 
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 04:02 |
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This Kansas backlash seems a bit strange to me. I saw them play live around 2002 and they were absolutely brilliant.
I will still happily give the debut a spin if only just for Death of Mother Nature Suite if nothing else. Song For America is also a classic and highly original prog track. Masque is a decent album and worth a bit of attention not to mention great tracks such as The Spider and Magnum Opus. Yeah they did go a bit AOR from about 1978 onwards but they didn't suddenly turn into Foreigner or Boston overnight
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This sums up exactly my feelings on Kansas. Loved their first three albums and their most recent, others ventured into AOR but almost always had some good stuff.
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 04:30 |
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Styx and Kansas cd's I have will just gather dust...both bands I will not be revisiting due to better options in the other myriad cds...I will have to build some more shelves soon... |
In the case, why not just get rid of them. Give them to a charity shop Unless you got a big house and like building more shelves of course
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 04:33 |
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This Kansas backlash seems a bit strange to me. I saw them play live around 2002 and they were absolutely brilliant.
I will still happily give the debut a spin if only just for Death of Mother Nature Suite if nothing else. Song For America is also a classic and highly original prog track. Masque is a decent album and worth a bit of attention not to mention great tracks such as The Spider and Magnum Opus. Yeah they did go a bit AOR from about 1978 onwards but they didn't suddenly turn into Foreigner or Boston overnight
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Saw them last year and put on one hell of a show. Livgren Walsh not there is a shame, but these guys are road warriors and perform full tilt.
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Posted: February 08 2020 at 09:12 |
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^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Well, in that case nothing is deep. It's not about the subject so much but the philosophical way they go about it. Maybe compared to other prog it's not that deep but for a pop song(or a song that was a hit anyway) it definitely is(imo).
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Nope, it's not even philosophical. It's far from paraphrasing the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. More like another way to say Don't Fear The Reaper, which BOC did better without being so morbid and depressing. All in all, it's really a silly song. No wonder that you that you think it's deep! 
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Posted: February 09 2020 at 20:05 |
richardh wrote:
This Kansas backlash seems a bit strange to me. I saw them play live around 2002 and they were absolutely brilliant.
I will still happily give the debut a spin if only just for Death of Mother Nature Suite if nothing else. Song For America is also a classic and highly original prog track. Masque is a decent album and worth a bit of attention not to mention great tracks such as The Spider and Magnum Opus. Yeah they did go a bit AOR from about 1978 onwards but they didn't suddenly turn into Foreigner or Boston overnight
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Great band....love all the early lp's...the first 5 are all excellent...Song For America - the track, is simply one of the best prog tracks I have ever heard and I have a pretty large collection at age 68. But then some wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass.
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Posted: February 09 2020 at 20:09 |
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^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Steve... Just curious ,but what do you consider a 'deep prog song'...? We're all ears.
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Posted: February 10 2020 at 04:41 |
dr wu23 wrote:
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^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Steve... Just curious ,but what do you consider a 'deep prog song'...? We're all ears.
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Try "Grave New World" by the Strawbs which is about the effects of terrorism, as told by Dave Cousins. If not deep enough for you, at least it's not the silly "we've all got to die someday" Kansas whine.
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Posted: February 10 2020 at 23:38 |
SteveG wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
SteveG wrote:
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^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Steve... Just curious ,but what do you consider a 'deep prog song'...? We're all ears.
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Try "Grave New World" by the Strawbs which is about the effects of terrorism, as told by Dave Cousins. If not deep enough for you, at least it's not the silly "we've all got to die someday" Kansas whine.
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I wouldn't mind Being Kansas and getting the royalties $ from that Kansas whine as you put it, such a hugely popular song that started with a simple guitar finger exercise by Kerry Livgren 
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Posted: February 11 2020 at 06:07 |
Enchant X wrote:
SteveG wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
SteveG wrote:
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
SteveG wrote:
^ Not a deep song, despite it's title, but I do love that fiddle! |
Dust in the wind not deep? Seriously? You can't get much deeper than DitW. |
Mmm...we live..we die. Nope, not deep to me. Perhaps you're confusing deep with depressing. |
Steve... Just curious ,but what do you consider a 'deep prog song'...? We're all ears.
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Try "Grave New World" by the Strawbs which is about the effects of terrorism, as told by Dave Cousins. If not deep enough for you, at least it's not the silly "we've all got to die someday" Kansas whine.
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I wouldn't mind Being Kansas and getting the royalties $ from that Kansas whine as you put it, such a hugely popular song that started with a simple guitar finger exercise by Kerry Livgren
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Being an old folkie, I absolutely love the melody of the song along with the beautiful fiddle accompaniment. And they vocal is phenomenal. I'm just not that impressed with the lyrics but c'est la vie.
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Posted: February 11 2020 at 07:22 |
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The question is, which band has the lowest lows? Edge of the century and Kilroy by Styx are pretty bad, but Kansas wasn’t doing much of note in the 80s either.
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