Leftoverture

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Leftoverture
Kansas studio album

Publication
(s)

1976

Label (s) Kirshner

Epic Records

Genre (s)

Hard rock , progressive rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

43:12

occupation
  • Rich Williams
  • Kerry Livgren
  • Dave Hope
  • Robby Steinhardt
  • Phil Ehart

production

Jeff Glixman

Studio (s)

Studio in the Country, Bogalusa

chronology
Masque
(1975) 		Leftoverture Point of Know Return
(1977)
Single releases
1976 Carry On Wayward Son
1977 What's on My Mind

Leftoverture is the fourth studio album by the American progressive rock band Kansas . It was released in 1976 by Kirshner and Epic Records , contains the hit single Carry On Wayward Son and has sold several million copies.

Creation and publication

The album was largely composed by Kerry Livgren and recorded at the Studio in the Country in Bogalusa . Cheryl Norman and Toye La Rocca were guest singers. George Marino mastered the album, Jeff Glixman produced it. In 2001 a remastered version with two live recordings was released as a bonus title.

Track list

page 1

  1. Carry On Wayward Son - 5:13
  2. The Wall - 4:47
  3. What's on My Mind - 4:27
  4. Miracles Out of Nowhere - 6:29

Page 2

  2. Opus Insert - 4:26
  3. Questions of My Childhood - 3:38
  4. Cheyenne Anthem - 6:50
  5. Magnum Opus - 8:27
    1. Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat
    2. Howling at the moon
    3. Man overboard
    4. Industry on Parade
    5. Release the Beavers
    6. Gnat attack

Bonus title 2001

  2. Carry On Wayward Son (Live) - 4:53
  3. Cheyenne Anthem (Live) - 6:42

style

Leftoverture is a varied, melodic progressive rock album with hard guitars, Hammond organ, symphonic arrangements and echoes of Southern Rock , Adult Orientated Rock and the mainstream . There are catchy and more complex compositions, energetic, bombastic, anthemic and calm passages; the singing varies between powerful and soulful.

Name and cover

The name, a portmanteau word from Leftover (English for remnant , leftovers ) and Overture ( overture ), was originally for the later so-called main piece of Magnum Opus provided. The band members liked it so much that they used it for the entire album. The cover was designed by Dave McMacken, who was also responsible for the graphic design of Frank Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation , AC / DC's Ballbreaker , Black Market from Weather Report and Reel Music from the Beatles .

reception

The album marked the breakthrough for Kansas, was awarded platinum several times and is considered a classic of American progressive rock. Gunnar Claussen from the Babyblauen Seiten criticizes Kansas “even only boiling with water and the mainstream squint here often enough results in pleasant but ordinary songs”. Horst Straske describes Leftoverture as an “absolute masterpiece” and sums it up: “In the course of their career, no other US band has understood how to incorporate the British tradition of progressive rock so perfectly into the typical American rock sound.” The music magazine eclipsed chose it on the 36th place of his list of the 150 most important prog albums. In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album 32nd of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .

Cover versions and other uses

The American thrash metal band Anthrax released an interpretation of Carry On Wayward Son that was very close to the original as a bonus track on their 2016 limited edition box set vinyl album For All Kings and in 2017 as a 12 " maxi single . The motif of the record cover also parodies the motif of the album Leftoverture .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leftoverture ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kansasband.com , accessed November 2, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kansasband.com
  2. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Kansas: Leftoverture , Baby Blue Pages , accessed November 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b eclipsed No. 144, p. 37.
  4. ^ Jeb Wright: Phil Ehart shares' behind the paintbrush 'stories of Kansas' album art. Gold Mine , June 19, 2014, accessed December 3, 2018. (English)
  5. ↑ UnCovered Interview - Over-Nite Sensation by Dave McMacken. Rockpopgallery, April 26, 2010, accessed December 3, 2018. (English)
  6. ^ Dan Epstein: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Kansas, 'Leftoverture' (1976). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Anthrax: For All Kings at Discogs
  8. ↑ Anthrax: Carry On Wayward Son at Discogs