I’ll admit that I’m not the biggest Kansas fan in the world. Oh, I like a lot of their singles, but most of the time I find their ramblingly long album tracks to be a little bit pretentious (oh boy, I know someone’s gonna shoot that comment right back in my face about ELO…incidentally, I tend to feel the same about Yes, so how’s that for pissing off the entire progressive rock fan world?), and all that organ …whew. I really have to be in a distinctly Kansas mood. But enough of that. This is a good one for those of us who don’t have the aural fortitude to handle a bunch of Kansas album tracks. It includes, naturally, “Dust In The Wind”, quite possibly the most atypical Kansas single of them all. Most people will remember “Point Of Know Return” 
(also on this album, naturally) and other albums’ singles such as the excellent “Carry On”, “Wayward Son” and the mind-blowing “Hold On”, and indeed many remember “Dust In The Wind”, but you have to admit it’s not formula Kansas. If only for this one mournful tune, I recommend this one to you…but you may find that, like me, you have to be in a distinctly Kansas mood.
- Carry On Wayward Son (5:22)
- Point Of Know Return (3:11)
- Fight Fire With Fire (3:40)
- Dust In The Wind (3:27)
- Song For America (9:08)
- Perfect Lover (4:19)
- Hold On (3:52)
- No One Together (6:57)
- Play The Game Tonight (3:26)
- The Wall (4:49)
Released by: Epic
Release date: 1984
Total running time: 48:18
