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Kansas - Drastic Measures

Before I actually bought this album I knew that it was not gonna be as good as all the other Kansas albums. The fact that there was another singer, instead of my favourite Steve Walsh, was only that a negative thing. Not that John Elefante is a bad one, and he actually sounds like a Kansas singer, but most of the songs were also written by him and his brother Dino. Kerry Livgren has contributed with three (?) songs on this album and those are "Mainstream", "End of The Age" and "Incident On A Bridge". All these tracks are great, so I'll comment the others instead. When did Kerry ever create an uninteresting piece.....

The introducing "Fight Fire With Fire" is a pretty good one, and it was put on the "Best of..." later on. Other really good ones are "Going Trough The Motions" and "Don't Take Your Love Away". As I said before, John is not a bad singer. Not at all, and it's quite entertaining to hear his voice and good melodies. In fact, I think his vocal style is almost exactly the same as Steve Walsh's, only with the voice as a difference.

All the other tracks not mentioned are a little far from the original Kansas sound. They're not bad songs either really, but when Kansas is doing an album you expect some other stuff to be included......

1. Fight Fire With Fire
2. Everybody's My Friend
3. Mainstream
4. Andi
5. Going Through The Motions
6. Get Rich
7. Don't Take Your Love Away
8. End of The Age
9. Incident On A Bridge

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Kansas - Discography

Best of (re-issue)
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents : Kansas
Always Never The Same
Freaks of Nature
Boxed Set (2-CD Collection)
Live At the Whiskey
In The Spirit of Thing
Power
Best of
Drastic Measures
Vinyl Confesssions
Audio-Visions
Monolith
Two For The Show (Live)
Point of Know Return
Leftoverture
Masque
Song For America
Kansas

Into the New Wind


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