Kansas - In the Spirit of Things
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Artist: KansasEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-01-01
Music Label: Mca Special Products
Soundtracks:
- Ghosts
- One Big Sky
- Inside Of Me
- One Man, One Heart
- House On Fire
- Once In A Lifetime
- Stand Beside Me
- I Counted On Love
- The Preacher
- Rainmaker
- T.O. Witcher
- Bells Of Saint James
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Free Music Review: Kansas - Four Great Songs, But The Band's Weakest Overall Album
Hit: 3 Stars
This is probably Kansas weakest album and it is really too band as I think it had potential for greatness. The album follows a loose concept about a flood that wiped out the small Kansas town of Neosho Falls in 1951. When I found out Kansas was working on a concept album I really had high hopes as I thought they were one band that really could pull off something special. Unfortunately due to record company pressure for a hit they pulled in outside songwriters for about a third of the material on the album and the results are a mish-mash that only vaguely stuck to the concept and provided a whole cadre of mediocre songs. The single "Stand Beside Me" was obviously written specifically for radio airplay and Kansas fans rejected it in droves as it sank down the charts soon after release. All of the outside written songs are throwaways. If you cut them out what you have is a decent Kansas album that loosely sticks to the theme of the small town flood and history scenario. All that being said there are 4 tracks on this album that are excellent and make it worth owning. The opening track "Ghosts" sets the stage for the concept and is a great moody piece with Steve Walsh sounding better than ever with great lyrics and vocals. The song really sets up the concept well, but alas it get abandoned fairly quickly. "The Preacher" is another great Walsh tune telling the tale of a gospel preacher in all his fire and brimstone glory. I always wondered if this was some kind of a reaction to Kerry Livgren's Christian oriented writing on earlier albums. Either way this is a great song. "Rainmaker" is another story teller song and the most progressive rock oriented piece on the disc. The middle instrumental section is prime Kansas with Walsh's keys and Morse's guitar tearing it up. "Bells Of St James" is the album closer and another great tune about a soldier who gets a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend back home while he is off to war. It is another great tune. There are two other songs that are worth noting, neither are great, but both "One Big Sky" and "House On Fire" are pretty good tunes as well. "Spirit" would prove to be the album that broke the band once again. It did not sell very well and the tour was conducted in clubs instead of theaters. The band's sold out arena days were long behind them and in the end Steve Morse moved completely out of music for a while before eventually replacing Richie Blackmore in Deep Purple. The band would not release another new studio album for close to a decade. "Spirit Of Things" is not essential Kansas, but there are 4 great songs that make it worth owning.
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