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The true acid test for good music is whether or not you can continue to listen to it over a span of thirty years and still find something fresh in it. The first time I bought Leftoverture was not long after Kansas was still playing bars around Topeka. At the time, no one thought of them as being a Christian band. They certainly weren't advertising themselves that way! However the music, and the sheer poetry of their lyrics, touched the spiritual side of an entire generation attempting to re-create themselves in a world full of drugs, gratuitous sex, social unrest, and nuclear weapons. "The Wall", in particular, was a song that touched something hopeful in my young, and often troubled, heart. I am no longer young. When my heart is troubled, it is usually over things I had never even considered all those years passed. But the same musical genius and soul-reaching poetry will give me sustaining new perspectives again as I send my son off to war for the third time, and deal with the grief of lost friends and family. There are good reasons for music or literature to be considered classic; the largest being that it has to be good not just for a season, but for many. It has to offer something to the recipient that fills basic needs - to be soothed, inspired, energized, uplifted, entertained, or enlightened. And, it must be able to provide these things to a diversity of people, in different ways, under varying circumstances. Leftoverture is a classic. This music has brought, and will help bring me again, through some dark times by reminding me of the light. And on the days when the light is already evident? I can teach my grandson to dance!Read full review
The album was met with mixed reviews. Rolling Stone called Leftoverture Kansas's best album to date, and said that it "warrants Kansas a spot right alongside Boston and Styx as one of the fresh new American bands who combine hard-driving group instrumentation (with a dearth of flashy solos) with short, tight melody lines and pleasant singing."[3] In contrast, Robert Christgau said the album lacked the intelligence and conviction of European progressive rock, and that the self-deprecating humor implied in the song and album titles is completely absent from the record itself
I've my hometown band ever song great on the album
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Kansas finest & well crafted music
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Great example of progressive rock from the 70's one of my favorites!!
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