The Classic Albums Collection 1974–1983

Compilation by Kansas

Released 14 November 2011

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Kansas
  • 1
    Can I Tell You
    3:32
    5.0 ★
  • 2
    Bringing It Back
    3:33
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Lonely Wind
    4:17
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Belexes
    4:24
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    Journey From Mariabronn
    7:58
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    The Pilgrimage
    3:43
    5.0 ★
  • 7
    Apercu
    9:36
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Death of Mother Nature Suite
    7:58
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Bringing It Back (live)
    9:41
    4.0 ★
  • CD 2: Song for America
  • 1
    Down the Road
    3:44
    5.0 ★
  • 2
    Song for America
    10:03
    5.0 ★
  • 3
    Lamplight Symphony
    8:16
    5.0 ★
  • 4
    Lonely Street
    5:42
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    The Devil Game
    5:04
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Incomudro — Hymn to the Atman
    12:17
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Song for America (single edit)
    3:02
    2.0 ★
  • 8
    Down the Road (live)
    3:48
    4.0 ★
  • CD 3: Masque
  • 1
    It Takes a Woman’s Love (to Make a Man)
    3:08
    3.0 ★
  • 2
    Two Cents Worth
    3:08
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Icarus – Borne on Wings of Steel
    6:03
    5.0 ★
  • 4
    All the World
    7:11
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    Child of Innocence
    4:36
    5.0 ★
  • 6
    It’s You
    2:31
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Mysteries and Mayhem
    4:18
    5.0 ★
  • 8
    The Pinnacle
    9:44
    5.0 ★
  • 9
    Child of Innocence (rehearsal)
    5:06
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    It’s You (demo)
    2:41
    5.0 ★
  • CD 4: Leftoverture
  • 1
    Carry On Wayward Son
    5:25
    3.7 ★
  • 2
    The Wall
    4:51
    3.4 ★
  • 3
    What’s on My Mind
    3:28
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Miracles Out of Nowhere
    6:28
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    Opus Insert
    4:28
    5.0 ★
  • 6
    Questions of My Childhood
    3:40
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Cheyenne Anthem
    6:55
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Magnum Opus: a. Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat / b. Howling at the Moon / c. Man Overboard / d. Industry on Parade / e. Release the Beavers / f. Gnat Attack
    8:35
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Carry On Wayward Son (live)
    4:44
  • 10
    Cheyenne Anthem (live)
    6:41
  • CD 5: Point of Know Return
  • 1
    Point of Know Return
    3:13
    3.4 ★
  • 2
    Paradox
    3:50
    5.0 ★
  • 3
    The Spider
    2:05
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Portrait (He Knew)
    4:37
    4.4 ★
  • 5
    Closet Chronicles
    6:31
    4.5 ★
  • 6
    Lightning’s Hand
    4:24
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    Dust in the Wind
    3:28
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Sparks of the Tempest
    4:19
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Nobody’s Home
    4:40
    3.5 ★
  • 10
    Hopelessly Human
    7:17
    4.0 ★
  • 11
    Sparks of the Tempest (live)
    5:17
  • 12
    Portrait (He Knew) (remix)
    4:49
    5.0 ★
  • CD 6: Two for the Show (30th Anniversary Edition)
  • 1
    Song for America
    7:31
  • 2
    Point of Know Return
    3:07
  • 3
    Paradox
    4:09
  • 4
    Icarus / Borne on Wings of Steel
    5:56
  • 5
    Portrait (He Knew)
    5:20
  • 6
    Carry On Wayward Son
    4:36
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Journey From Mariabronn
    8:55
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Dust in the Wind (acoustic guitar solo)
    6:18
    5.0 ★
  • 9
    Lonely Wind (piano solo)
    4:29
  • 10
    Mysteries and Mayhem
    4:00
  • 11
    Excerpt From Lamplight Symphony
    2:39
    4.0 ★
  • 12
    The Wall
    4:53
    5.0 ★
  • 13
    Magnum Opus
    11:17
    5.0 ★
  • CD 7: Two for the Show (30th Anniversary Edition)
  • 1
    Hopelessly Human
    8:42
  • 2
    Child of Innocence
    7:47
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Belexes
    4:34
    5.0 ★
  • 4
    Cheyenne Anthem
    6:55
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Lonely Street
    8:20
  • 6
    Miracles Out of Nowhere
    7:59
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    The Spider
    7:41
  • 8
    Closet Chronicles
    6:55
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Down the Road
    3:44
  • 10
    Sparks of the Tempest
    5:19
  • 11
    Bringing It Back
    7:07
    5.0 ★
  • CD 8: Monolith
  • 1
    On the Other Side
    6:26
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    People of the South Wind
    3:41
  • 3
    Angels Have Fallen
    6:39
  • 4
    How My Soul Cries Out for You
    5:46
  • 5
    A Glimpse of Home
    6:37
  • 6
    Away From You
    4:26
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Stay Out of Trouble
    4:15
  • 8
    Reason to Be
    3:51
    4.0 ★
  • CD 9: Audio‐Visions
  • 1
    Relentless
    4:57
  • 2
    Anything for You
    3:58
  • 3
    Hold On
    3:54
    3.5 ★
  • 4
    Loner
    2:31
  • 5
    Curtain of Iron
    6:12
  • 6
    Got to Rock On
    3:21
  • 7
    Don’t Open Your Eyes
    4:06
  • 8
    No One Together
    6:58
    2.5 ★
  • 9
    No Room for a Stranger
    3:00
  • 10
    Back Door
    4:24
  • CD 10: Vinyl Confessions
  • 1
    Play the Game Tonight
    3:29
    2.5 ★
  • 2
    Right Away
    4:09
  • 3
    Fair Exchange
    5:04
  • 4
    Chasing Shadows
    3:24
  • 5
    Diamonds and Pearls
    4:53
  • 6
    Face It
    4:20
  • 7
    Windows
    3:34
  • 8
    Borderline
    4:03
  • 9
    Play On
    3:36
  • 10
    Crossfire
    6:33
  • CD 11: Drastic Measures
  • 1
    Fight Fire With Fire
    3:42
    2.9 ★
  • 2
    Everybody’s My Friend
    4:01
  • 3
    Mainstream
    6:36
  • 4
    Andi
    4:17
  • 5
    Going Through the Motions
    5:48
  • 6
    Get Rich
    3:44
  • 7
    Don’t Take Your Love Away
    3:39
  • 8
    End of the Age
    4:33
  • 9
    Incident on a Bridge
    5:38

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Release credits

  • mix [1-11]
  • steel guitar [4, 7]
  • engineer [1-10]
  • additional [8], associate [1-13], co [1-10], engineer [1-10]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • additional [7], other vocals [7]
  • assistant [1-9]
  • assistant [1-9]
  • engineer [1-9]
  • background vocals [1-9], bass [1-9], bass guitar [5.1-12, 11.1-9, 4.1-10, 9.1-10, 3.1-10, 10.1-10, 2.1-8], vocal [1-10]
  • background vocals [1], guest [1]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • co [1-10], engineer [6.1-13, 9.1-10, 7.8]
  • additional [3, 8], background vocals [1], guest [1]
  • art direction [1-8]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • assistant [1-9]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • vocal [3]
  • assistant [1-10], engineer [1-12], mix [1-11], producer [7.1-11, 4.1-8, 3.1-10, 5.1-12, 2.1-8]
  • producer [1-11]
  • assistant [1-9]
  • additional [3, 8]
  • guitar [2-10], keyboard [11.1-9, 10.1-10], lead vocals [11.1-9, 10.1-10]
  • arranger [3.1-10, 4.1-8, 2.1-8, 5.1-3, 5.5-12], producer [10.1-10, 6.1-13, 11.1-9, 9.1-10, 7.8]
  • engineer [1-10], producer [1-10]
  • Moog [2.2-7, 4.1-10, 1.1-9, 3.1-4, 3.7-8], acoustic guitar [5.1-12, 3.1-10], background vocals [1-9], clavinet [4.1-10, 5.1-12, 3.1-10], electric guitar [2.1, 2.4-6, 2.8, 4.1-10, 5.1-12], guitar [10.1-10, 3.1, 3.1-2, 3.2-3, 3.3-4, 3.4-5, 3.5-6, 3.6-7, 3.7-8, 3.8-9, 3.9-10, 3.10, 9.1-10, 11.2-9], guitar family [2.1, 2.4-6, 2.8, 1.1-9], keyboard [10.1-10, 9.1-10, 11.1-9], organ [1-9], percussion [5.1-12, 9.1-10], piano [1.1-9, 2.2-7, 4.1-10, 3.1-10, 5.1-12], strings [2-7], synthesizer [3.1-10, 4.1-10, 5.1-12, 2.2-7], vocal [1-10]
  • assistant [1-9]
  • engineer [1-10]
  • additional [3, 8]
  • additional [2], keyboard [2], mix [1-9], producer [1-9], recording [1-9]
  • engineer [5]
  • engineer [1-8]
  • design/illustration [1-8]
  • Moog [6], chimes [1-12], drums (drum set) [10.1-10, 9.1-10, 2.1-8, 11.1-9, 5.1-12, 4.1-10, 1.1-9, 3.1-10], electronic drum set [1-10], glockenspiel [2], gong [2.6, 5.1-10], percussion [4.1-10, 5.1-12, 9.1-10, 3.1-10], producer [1-11], timpani [1-12], vocal [1-10]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • assistant [1-10]
  • acoustic guitar [4.1-5, 4.7-10, 1.1-9, 2.1-8, 5.1-12], electric guitar [2.1-8, 1.1-9, 4.1-10, 5.1-12], guitar [3.1, 3.1-2, 3.2-3, 3.3-4, 3.4-5, 3.5-6, 3.6-7, 3.7-8, 3.8-9, 3.9-10, 3.10, 10.1-10, 11.2-9, 9.1-10], guitar family [1-8], percussion [1-10], vocal [1-10]
  • background vocals [1.1-9, 2.1-8, 5.1-2, 5.4-12, 4.1-10], cello [1-10], lead vocals [2.1, 2.8, 5.6, 5.8, 5.10, 4.4, 4.7, 1.1-9, 9.3, 9.8], viola [9.1-10, 4.1-10, 5.1-12], violin [5.1-9, 9.1-10, 2.1-8, 10.1-10, 3.1-10, 1.1-9, 4.1-10], violin family [10-12], vocal [3.1-10, 2.2-3, 2.5, 10.1-10, 9.1-2, 9.4-7, 9.9-10]
  • background vocals [1], guest [1]
  • assistant [1]
  • Moog [3.1-10, 2.2-7], background vocals [1.1-9, 5.1-2, 5.4-5, 5.7-12, 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 4.1-8], celesta [1-10], clavinet [1-10], congas [1.1-9, 3.1-10], keyboard [1-10], lead vocals [2.2-7, 5.1-2, 5.4-5, 5.7-12, 1.1-9, 4.1-3, 4.5-6, 4.8-10, 9.1-10], organ [2.2-7, 4.1-10, 3.1-10, 5.1-12, 1.1-9], percussion [5.1-12, 9.1-10], piano [5.1-12, 1.1, 1.1-2, 1.2-3, 1.3-4, 1.4-5, 1.5-6, 1.6-7, 1.7-8, 1.8-9, 1.9, 3.1-10, 4.1-8, 2.1, 2.8], synthesizer [4.1-10, 5.1-12], vibraphone [5.1-12, 9.1-10], vocal [3.1-10, 2.4, 2.6]
  • additional [1-10], engineer [10-12]
  • additional [3, 8]
  • additional [3, 8]
  • art direction [4]
  • other vocals [7]
  • additional [7]
  • additional [3, 8]
  • producer [1.1-9, 2.1-8]
  • mix [1-11]

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