THE BEST OF KANSAS

There are two versions of this album. This, the first version, has some of their singles (with some of them being real Hit Singles) from the band, with their two main lead singers (Steve Walsh and John Elefante) plus two songs ("The Wall", "No One Together") that were not released as singles, and a new song (the very Pop Rock in music style, "Perfect Lover", which also was released as a single) recorded by the then three remaining members of KANSAS (John Elefante, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams) before they went their separate ways for a time in 1984 (with Ehart and Williams reforming the band in mid 1985 with Walsh, Steve Morse and Billy Greer). The other version of this album, which was released in 1999, was expanded with additional songs, and it is maybe better than this 1984 compilation album. That album didn't include "Perfect Lover" anymore, a song which maybe now is more like a "rare" track from the band.

In this original version of this album, from the "classic" line-up there are the next songs: "Carry on Wayward Son", "Point of know return", "Dust in the wind", "Song for America", "Hold on", "No one together " and "The wall". The rest of the songs ("Fight fire with fire", "Perfect lover" and "Play the game tonight" were from the line- ups with John Elefante. Ten songs for a "Best of " or a "Greatest Hits" compilation, which for the casual listener could have been a very good buy, but for the main fans maybe it was a bit "incomplete" compilation, despite the inclusion of several very known songs.