| 词条 | Monolith (Kansas album) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Monolith | type = studio | artist = Kansas | cover = Kansas - Monolith.jpg | alt = | caption = Cover art by Bruce Wolfe | released = May 1979 | recorded = January - April 1979 | venue = | studio = Axis Studios, and Apogee Studios, Atlanta, Georgia | genre = Progressive rock, arena rock | length = 41:40 | label = Kirshner/CBS, Epic | producer = Kansas | prev_title = Two for the Show | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = Audio-Visions | next_year = 1980 | misc = {{Singles | name = Monolith | type = studio | single1 = People of the South Wind" / "Stay Out of Trouble | single1date = 1979 | single2 = Reason to Be" / "How My Soul Cries Out for You | single2date = 1979 }} }} Monolith is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). The album was remastered and reissued in 2011, as a Japanese import vinyl-replica Blu-spec CD (Epic EICP 20078) including the rarity live version of "On the Other Side" previously available only on the 1994 Legacy-issued Box Set. A domestic version of the remaster was released in standard CD format in the US as part of Legacy Recordings' Classic Album Collection series which included all of their Kirshner/CBS studio releases. A Dutch-issued "Music on CD" series released the album on CD in 2016. Although this was Kansas' third straight studio album to hit the Billboard Top 10, its sales were slow compared to the previous releases, and its one Top 40 hit, "People of the South Wind" enjoyed only brief popularity. The title refers to the meaning of the Siouan word "Kansa", the Indian tribe for which the state of Kansas was named. On their 80-city US tour, the band's set list featured the entire album early in the tour, though by the time the tour ended, about half the songs had been cut from the live set in favor of older numbers. A national broadcast of their show at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin on this tour featured the entire album and is one of the most popular unissued live recordings of the band. Believing that fans didn't like Monolith, they did not perform any of the songs again until the mid-1990s, when they revived "People of the South Wind" and "Reason to Be" briefly. This century, the opening track, "On the Other Side", has been featured in performances on and off on tours, including that for the Device – Voice – Drum DVD, although not appearing on the DVD itself. With the arrival of a revamped lineup over the past 5 years, songs such as "Reason to Be" and "People of the Southwind" have been added to the setlist at various times. Following the US Monolith tour, the band had its first tour of Japan, in January 1980. The band performed four songs from Monolith on their Japanese tour: "People of the South Wind," "Stay Out of Trouble," "How My Soul Cries Out for You" (the set closer featuring a dramatic performance including a body dropping from the ceiling), and "On the Other Side" (which was released as an edited picture sleeve single in Japan). A special promotional album entitled Kansas Monolith Tour 1980 in Japan was issued to radio stations there to publicize the dates and featured three songs from Monolith and five of their earlier popular songs (2 studio versions, and 3 live versions). Monolith initially sold about 800,000 copies, obtaining gold status, but ultimately went platinum in the early 1990s. Kerry Livgren donated his platinum record to the Kansas State Historical Society.[1] The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard album charts, marking their third straight (and last) studio album to reach the top ten.[2]Even though MTV was still two years away, promotional music videos were produced for four tracks on Monolith: "On the Other Side", "People of the South Wind", "Away from You", and "Reason to Be". Livgren's lyrics on Monolith were partly influenced by The Urantia Book, of which he was a devotee before his conversion to Christianity. Cover artAs Phil Ehart, drummer for the band Kansas, shared with Jeb Wright (a legendary rock radio and print interviewer) in a Goldmine interview called "behind the paintbrush", Ehart told stories about the artwork for Kansas album covers and this is what he said about the Monolith album cover... Bruce Wolfe, an artist that did a Levi’s commercial, did that album cover. He had done one of the first animated commercials on television. By the time CBS approached him, he had been doing some album covers. We had sent him the song “People of the South Wind” and he sent back this fricking painting … it was huge. It was not a drawing; it was a real painting of this Indian whose headdress was a space helmet. There were all of these overpasses that were broken and there were a bunch of Indians on the back that looked like they were at a Boy Scout camp or something. He did an incredible job. He took our logo and made it work. It was always a challenge to take that logo and make it look cool. He used the features on it and it really worked. Again, what an icon … it was a 9-foot-tall Native American chief wearing some sort of buffalo robe and a space helmet with horns. The guy must have done a lot of drugs, but we thought it was really cool.[3] Reception{{Album reviews|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}[4] }} John Swenson of Rolling Stone, who had previously reviewed Point of Know Return, was far less pleased with Monolith, particularly criticizing the album's pretentiousness ("this band is just an American version of the Moody Blues and Emerson, Lake and Palmer: "serious" music that turns up its nose at rock & roll's expressiveness and substitutes bombast for emotion.") and the awkward hemming and hawing lyrics (citing "And if I seem too inconclusive/It's just because it's so elusive" as an example).[5] Robert Taylor of AllMusic retrospectively awarded the album two stars out of five, commending the band's fine playing while criticizing an exhaustion of their musical style and an overall lack of direction. He particularly criticized the "juvenile" lyrics and a shifting focus towards mainstream radio.[4] Track listing{{Track listing| headline = Side one | title1 = On the Other Side | writer1 = Kerry Livgren | length1 = 6:26 | title2 = People of the South Wind | writer2 = Livgren | length2 = 3:41 | title3 = Angels Have Fallen | writer3 = Steve Walsh | length3 = 6:39 | title4 = How My Soul Cries Out for You | writer4 = Walsh | length4 = 5:49 }}{{Track listing | headline = Side two | title5 = A Glimpse of Home | writer5 = Livgren | length5 = 6:37 | title6 = Away from You | writer6 = Walsh | length6 = 4:26 | title7 = Stay Out of Trouble | writer7 = Walsh, Rich Williams, Robby Steinhardt | length7 = 4:15 | title8 = Reason to Be | writer8 = Livgren | length8 = 3:51 }}{{Track listing | collapsed = yes | headline = Bonus track on 2011 Japanese import vinyl-replica Blu-spec CD | title9 = On the Other Side | note9 = Live in 1979; previously released on the Legacy Kansas Boxed Set | length9 = 6:44 }} Personnel
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References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.goldminemag.com/articles/phil-ehart-shares-behind-paintbrush-stories-http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/platinum-record/10247 |title=Platinum Record |work=Kansaspedia |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |date=October 2001 |accessdate=January 9, 2018 }} {{kansasband}}2. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/kansas/chart-history/billboard-200/ |title=Kansas Chart History: Billboard 200 |work=Billboard.com |publisher=Billboard |accessdate=December 29, 2017 }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.goldminemag.com/articles/phil-ehart-shares-behind-paintbrush-stories-kansas-album-art |title=Phil Ehart shares ‘behind the paintbrush’ stories of Kansas’ album art |last=Wright |first=Jeb |publisher=Goldmine |date=June 19, 2014 |accessdate=January 9, 2018 }} 4. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/monolith-mw0000650347 |title=Kansas - Monolith review |last=Taylor |first=Robert |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=January 8, 2018 }} 5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kansas/albums/album/129788/review/5947015/monolith |title=Album Reviews: Kansas - Monolith |last=Swenson |first=John |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=September 6, 1979 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026032921/https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kansas/albums/album/129788/review/5947015/monolith |archivedate=October 26, 2007 |accessdate=January 9, 2018 }} 6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_Liste_Selection2.php?Lettre=K| title=infodisc.fr Note : You must select Kansas | publisher=infodisc.fr | accessdate=January 7, 2018 }} 7. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3282& |title = Top Albums/CDs - Volume 31, No. 20, August 11, 1979 | accessdate = January 9, 2018 | date =August 11, 1979 | publisher = Library and Archives Canada}} 8. ^{{cite web |url= http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Kansas&titel=Monolith&cat=a |title=Kansas - Monolith (Album) |accessdate=January 9, 2018|work=Swedishcharts.com |publisher=Media Control Charts}} 9. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/kansas/chart-history/hot-100 |title=Kansas Chart History: Hot 100 |work=Billboard.com |publisher=Billboard |accessdate=December 24, 2017 }} 10. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3203& | title = Top Singles - Volume 31, No. 21, August 18, 1979 | accessdate = January 9, 2018 | date = August 18, 1979 | publisher = Library and Archives Canada}} 11. ^{{cite web |url= https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?fwp_gp_search=kansas |title=Gold Platinum Search for Kansas |publisher=Music Canada |accessdate=December 26, 2017}} 3 : Kansas (band) albums|1979 albums|Epic Records albums |
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