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The first of two albums each in 1975: The Owl vs The Eagle


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The Owl vs the Eagle, Rush vs Kansas  

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  1. 1. Which album do you prefer, Fly By Night or Song For America?

    • Fly By Night
    • Song For America


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FBN has great highs, but very mediocre lows, unbecoming of Rush’s future heights. Song For America is amazing through and through.
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My favourite of the two albums for music: Song For America.

 

My favourite of the two covers:

 

Song For America

 

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Fly By Night is a lovely album. Patchy but hardly forgettable.

 

Song For America sounds like every other classic Kansas album. Which is great because classic Kansas is some of the best music ever released.

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OK, the jury's in.

 

There's no doubt that the Kansas album has better material. As Segue notes, FBN is patchy. The problem I have with Kansas is in the execution. It's perfect, but somewhat nondescript. What I mean is that there are dozens, if not hundreds of bands that could reproduce Kansas' stuff to a note and you wouldn't really miss anything. But RUSH's Fly By Night is distinctive in its execution. No one else can sound like them, and that's what makes them great, even on an album like FBN where the songs sometimes aren't that good. Kansas' Song For America is more consistent, no doubt, and there's way more going on. But in the end the highs just aren't as high as FBN.

 

:rush: for the win.

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OK, the jury's in.

 

There's no doubt that the Kansas album has better material. As Segue notes, FBN is patchy. The problem I have with Kansas is in the execution. It's perfect, but somewhat nondescript. What I mean is that there are dozens, if not hundreds of bands that could reproduce Kansas' stuff to a note and you wouldn't really miss anything. But RUSH's Fly By Night is distinctive in its execution. No one else can sound like them, and that's what makes them great, even on an album like FBN where the songs sometimes aren't that good. Kansas' Song For America is more consistent, no doubt, and there's way more going on. But in the end the highs just aren't as high as FBN.

 

:rush: for the win.

 

That’s a bold opinion...and I actually agree with that more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just the Rush fan in me, but I’ll probably listen to FBN more times in my life than SFA, even though SFA is better.

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OK, the jury's in.

 

There's no doubt that the Kansas album has better material. As Segue notes, FBN is patchy. The problem I have with Kansas is in the execution. It's perfect, but somewhat nondescript. What I mean is that there are dozens, if not hundreds of bands that could reproduce Kansas' stuff to a note and you wouldn't really miss anything. But RUSH's Fly By Night is distinctive in its execution. No one else can sound like them, and that's what makes them great, even on an album like FBN where the songs sometimes aren't that good. Kansas' Song For America is more consistent, no doubt, and there's way more going on. But in the end the highs just aren't as high as FBN.

 

:rush: for the win.

 

That’s a bold opinion...and I actually agree with that more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just the Rush fan in me, but I’ll probably listen to FBN more times in my life than SFA, even though SFA is better.

 

See I wpuld agree...But to my ears Kansas are almost as unique sounding as Rush, in spite of all their obvious influences.

 

Put this album up against CoS and...we have a different outcome.

 

For a short time I'd have put Kansas seventies run ahead of Rush. Now? Well...Springsteen is first then in second is Rush...but Kansas run is one of the greatest for me!

 

But the only two seventies Rush albums I would trade for Kansas are the first two. And I now really LOVE the debut!

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