The Classic Albums Collection 1974–1983
Compilation by Kansas
Released 14 November 2011
Tracklist
- CD 1: Kansas
- 1Can I Tell You3:325.0 ★
- 2Bringing It Back3:334.0 ★
- 3Lonely Wind4:174.0 ★
- 4Belexes4:245.0 ★
- 5Journey From Mariabronn7:584.0 ★
- 6The Pilgrimage3:435.0 ★
- 7Apercu9:364.0 ★
- 8Death of Mother Nature Suite7:584.0 ★
- 9Bringing It Back (live)9:414.0 ★
- CD 2: Song for America
- 1Down the Road3:445.0 ★
- 2Song for America10:035.0 ★
- 3Lamplight Symphony8:165.0 ★
- 4Lonely Street5:424.0 ★
- 5The Devil Game5:044.0 ★
- 6Incomudro — Hymn to the Atman12:174.0 ★
- 7Song for America (single edit)3:022.0 ★
- 8Down the Road (live)3:484.0 ★
- CD 3: Masque
- 1It Takes a Woman’s Love (to Make a Man)3:083.0 ★
- 2Two Cents Worth3:084.0 ★
- 3Icarus – Borne on Wings of Steel6:035.0 ★
- 4All the World7:115.0 ★
- 5Child of Innocence4:365.0 ★
- 6It’s You2:314.0 ★
- 7Mysteries and Mayhem4:185.0 ★
- 8The Pinnacle9:445.0 ★
- 9Child of Innocence (rehearsal)5:063.0 ★
- 10It’s You (demo)2:415.0 ★
- CD 4: Leftoverture
- 1Carry On Wayward Son5:253.7 ★
- 2The Wall4:513.4 ★
- 3What’s on My Mind3:284.0 ★
- 4Miracles Out of Nowhere6:285.0 ★
- 5Opus Insert4:285.0 ★
- 6Questions of My Childhood3:404.0 ★
- 7Cheyenne Anthem6:554.0 ★
- 8Magnum 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 Attack8:354.0 ★
- 9Carry On Wayward Son (live)4:44
- 10Cheyenne Anthem (live)6:41
- CD 5: Point of Know Return
- 1Point of Know Return3:133.4 ★
- 2Paradox3:505.0 ★
- 3The Spider2:054.0 ★
- 4Portrait (He Knew)4:374.4 ★
- 5Closet Chronicles6:314.5 ★
- 6Lightning’s Hand4:243.4 ★
- 7Dust in the Wind3:284.0 ★
- 8Sparks of the Tempest4:194.0 ★
- 9Nobody’s Home4:403.5 ★
- 10Hopelessly Human7:174.0 ★
- 11Sparks of the Tempest (live)5:17
- 12Portrait (He Knew) (remix)4:495.0 ★
- CD 6: Two for the Show (30th Anniversary Edition)
- 1Song for America7:31
- 2Point of Know Return3:07
- 3Paradox4:09
- 4Icarus / Borne on Wings of Steel5:56
- 5Portrait (He Knew)5:20
- 6Carry On Wayward Son4:364.0 ★
- 7Journey From Mariabronn8:554.0 ★
- 8Dust in the Wind (acoustic guitar solo)6:185.0 ★
- 9Lonely Wind (piano solo)4:29
- 10Mysteries and Mayhem4:00
- 11Excerpt From Lamplight Symphony2:394.0 ★
- 12The Wall4:535.0 ★
- 13Magnum Opus11:175.0 ★
- CD 7: Two for the Show (30th Anniversary Edition)
- 1Hopelessly Human8:42
- 2Child of Innocence7:474.0 ★
- 3Belexes4:345.0 ★
- 4Cheyenne Anthem6:554.0 ★
- 5Lonely Street8:20
- 6Miracles Out of Nowhere7:594.0 ★
- 7The Spider7:41
- 8Closet Chronicles6:554.0 ★
- 9Down the Road3:44
- 10Sparks of the Tempest5:19
- 11Bringing It Back7:075.0 ★
- CD 8: Monolith
- 1On the Other Side6:264.0 ★
- 2People of the South Wind3:41
- 3Angels Have Fallen6:39
- 4How My Soul Cries Out for You5:46
- 5A Glimpse of Home6:37
- 6Away From You4:263.0 ★
- 7Stay Out of Trouble4:15
- 8Reason to Be3:514.0 ★
- CD 9: Audio‐Visions
- 1Relentless4:57
- 2Anything for You3:58
- 3Hold On3:543.5 ★
- 4Loner2:31
- 5Curtain of Iron6:12
- 6Got to Rock On3:21
- 7Don’t Open Your Eyes4:06
- 8No One Together6:582.5 ★
- 9No Room for a Stranger3:00
- 10Back Door4:24
- CD 10: Vinyl Confessions
- 1Play the Game Tonight3:292.5 ★
- 2Right Away4:09
- 3Fair Exchange5:04
- 4Chasing Shadows3:24
- 5Diamonds and Pearls4:53
- 6Face It4:20
- 7Windows3:34
- 8Borderline4:03
- 9Play On3:36
- 10Crossfire6:33
- CD 11: Drastic Measures
- 1Fight Fire With Fire3:422.9 ★
- 2Everybody’s My Friend4:01
- 3Mainstream6:36
- 4Andi4:17
- 5Going Through the Motions5:48
- 6Get Rich3:44
- 7Don’t Take Your Love Away3:39
- 8End of the Age4:33
- 9Incident on a Bridge5:38
More by Kansas
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]
Issues
T14 November 2011





