Kansas-Leftoverture (1976)


Artist: Kansas

Title: Leftoverture

Label: Kirschner

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: JZA 34224

Year of Release: 1976 

Country and Year of Edition: US 3 pin gray shell Dolby

Sell Price: $4.27

Sell Date: 5/31/26

Condition: VG/VG untested

Discogs Last Sold: 3/21/26 VG+/no cover $3.95

Low: $2.00

Median: $3.73

Average: $3.43

High: $4.27

Current low price: $1.94 G+/no cover

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5

Have/Want: 40/45

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Ebay lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No 

A few weeks ago I thought I was going to be staying with some friends in the Poconos and looked to see what music might be playing in the area just for chuckles.  The closest thing to a "rock" show that weekend was Kansas at some local outlet.  This made me wonder how many original members were left in the band.  At this point and time the number is zero but apparently guitarist Rich Williams is still going to rejoin assuming his macular regeneration issues don't prevent this.  Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope sometimes come out for the "Carry On My Wayward Son" encore that opens Leftoverture.  At least they did recently in the state of their name.  The band actually was from Kanasa, Topeka to be exact.

While my neighbor John had this in his first hundred or so used albums, I somehow never bought a copy of this or anything else by the band, so I was sort've looking forward to listening to it to see if I missed anything.  Despite the "hard" rock element, there is something pompous about the pomp rock with pianos that plunk out even on the hit.  Every once and a while a guitar breaks out like on "What's On My Mind" but the music overall still sort've has a overwrought quality that Jack Black would come to  parody, particularly on something like "Miracles Out Of Nowhere."  I thought about giving this a D+, but "Carry On..." and the occasional musical moment throughout makes the many torturous parts of Leftoverture tolerable.

The music gets reshuffled for 8-track, so "Carry On.." closes the whole tape instead of opening like on the record.  This means the "Opus Insert" that opens side 2 kicks off the album and the Magnum Opus follows "Questions of My Childhood" and the "Cheyenne Anthem."  "The Wall" is the track sacrified to fade out/in to make this happen.

Confirmed there is a reason I don't like Kansas.


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