Kansas - Audio-Visions [Kirshner Records FZ 36588] (September 1980)

Dynamic Range Released: September 1980
Country: US
Label: Kirshner Records
Catalog: FZ 36588
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock

Item# SR-KIFZ36588
Ratings: C=NM-; LP=VG+


T R A C K L I S T:
01 Relentless
02 Anything For You
03 Hold On
04 Loner
05 Curtain Of Iron
06 Got To Rock On
07 Don't Open Your Eyes
08 No One Together
09 No Room For A Stranger
10 Back Door




Audio-Visions
Kansas


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Album Review

William Ruhlmann [allmusic.com]

By the time of their eighth album, Audio-Visions, Kansas had entered the post-platinum solo-album phase of the typical successful rock group's career. Leaders Kerry Livgren and Steve Walsh were devoting time to making their own records, and Kansas was becoming a part-time occupation. The two divided up the songwriting chores on Audio-Visions, alternating Livgren's always spiritual and by now explicitly religious lyrical sentiments and ornate musical structures with Walsh's earthier and harder-rocking concerns. Livgren's Christian-themed ''Hold On'' (''Outside the door He is waiting'') made the Top 40, and Walsh's ''Got to Rock'' was a singles-chart entry, but nothing here matched the music from the group's late-'70s heyday. Audio-Visions was the last of seven straight Kansas albums to go gold or platinum and the last album made by the group's most successful lineup. In 1981, Walsh quit.