Point Of Know Return (Rm)

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Product Details

Artist : Kansas
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0696998538726
Label : Epic, Legacy
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2006-10-18
UPC : 696998538726

ASIN : B00005Y1M3

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Point Of Know Return
2. Paradox
3. The Spider
4. Portrait (He Knew)
5. Closet Chronicles
6. Lightning's Hand
7. Dust In The Wind
8. Sparks Of The Tempest
9. Nobody's Home
10. Hopelessly Human
11. Sparks Of The Tempest (Live) (Bonus Track)
12. Portrait (He Knew) (Remix) (Bonus Track)

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Customer Reviews

Good Rock Album (2004-05-26)

"Dust in the Wind" is the best track. A lot of other very creative productions on this one. Classic rockers...this is a timeless one.

Remastered sound doesn't rip your head off any more (2003-11-29)

I used to test speaker prototypes with the original pressing of this CD. Some idiot must have used master tapes equalized for making LP records. If the speaker had a peak in the mid or high frequencies, man oh man you would hear it! ow!

Thankfully, this remastering sounds much smoother and more listenable. However, offhand I don't find the mix quality is improved, so if you don't feel the album sounds too full of treble (maybe you listen on a boom box or whatever), don't bother.

Boring (2003-09-09)

'Dust in the wind' is an excellent song. Everything else on this album is too abstract or too boring.The only people who'd appreciate this album are die hard Kansas fans or people who like progressive rock from the 70's.I bought the album for 'Dust in the wind' thinking they may have other catchy tracks. I should've looked around for a compilation featuring that track instead.

refused to conform to the (fads) (2003-03-21)

I love this CD in my own opinion it is every bit as good as Leftoverture and is an epic statement of what progressive rockis all about. Its starts with Point of know return (a catchy hit single) onto the very progressive Paradox then to The spider (a tangely complex short instrumental. He knew comes next (a heavy blues orientated rocker)Closet Chronicles follows (perhaps my favourite ever Kansas song. Lightnings hand is a fun heavy rockin tune and Dust in the wind is perhaps Kansas`s bigest hit single to date. Sparks of the tempest is another regarded classic Kansas song and onto, Nobody`s home (its so magical and beautiful) The CD winds up with Hoplessly human and its a progressive classic. I highly recomend this CD for anyone who wants to get down to the facts of what Kansas is all about.This Cd also contains 2 extra tracks, not included on the original CD. Personaly I see this as definatly classic Kansas and to be honest I would personaly Question in my own mind the loyalty of any so called Kansas fan giving this any less than 5 stars ? considering it was released at a time when punk and disco had all but destroyed progressive rock, with that said progressive is now alive and well and getting stronger thanks to a few bands like Kansas who never gave up, and Cd`s like Point Of Know Return that refused to conform to the (fads) of what was happening back then.

The One that Started and Ended it All (2002-11-27)

This, the most successful of Kansas' releases (yes, the one with "Dust in the Wind"), marked the beginning of the end of the band for me. One notes from the number of songs, relative to earlier albums, that shorter forms are becoming prevalent, and shorter forms from a prog rock band in the mid-70s meant, in practice, a swerve toward pop. Not even Yes was immune to this tendency.

As "pop" goes, this is surely some of my favorite, but I didn't get into Kansas (I realized later) for the pop. "Point of Know Return" introduced me (like many others) to the band, but as I worked backward into their earlier music, I found that it was on "Masque", "Song for America" and "Leftoverture" that their music most spoke to me.

"Point of Know Return" (despite the kitsch of the title) is the kind of pop one could live with on the radio. "Paradox", as the sibling of "Point of Know Return", shows truly what a happy marriage of prog and pop Kansas could concoct. As a keyboardist myself, Walsh's "Spider" is a marvelously intricate thing, though much too short. "Portrait" (an homage to Einstein that I formerly mistook as an homage to Jesus) falls a bit flat on the album, but makes up for it 200-fold on "Two for the Show," where it is simply stunning. Side One (I date myself) ends with "Closet Chronicles", another of the compositional high points of Kerry Livgren's (and Walsh's) career. (It wasn't until years later that I found out this song is an homage to Howard Hughes.)

Side Two opens with "Dust in the Wind"--originally a finger exercise piece that Kerry Livgren added lyrics too. There then follow two very unhappy monsters--both "Lightning's Hand" and "Sparks of the Tempest" fell flat for me, then and now. This was worrisome because previously all of the Kansas songs I'd not been fond of had been their more straightforward rockers. Here, we have two songs obviously in the prog-pop vein falling on their faces. Luckily, the album ends with two more genuine masterpieces, but that makes, in all, only three songs on the album I really want to listen to.

Any Kansas playlist of their songs that genuinely expanded the compositional possibilities of rock (and it is in precisely this aspect that Kansas is most progressive) must contain "Hopelessly Human", "Nobody's Home", and "Closet Chronicles"--they are must hear, or must have, songs for anyone interested in pre-decline Kansas. The rest of the album, however, while superbly performed, as ever, just doesn't have the creative spark that earlier albums did.

In high school, I would become nervous when a band I liked brought out a live album, because it often seemed to be a sign that the band couldn't come up with new material, or that a major change of direction was in the works. Kansas toured "Point of Know Return" extensively, and released a live album to document that. Two noble studio efforts followed, after which the decline became the collapse, and the Kansas I'd become a fan of ceased to be. "Point of Know Return," then, marks the beginning of the end; something that can be heard clearly in the music, especially if you know their earlier stuff.

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