SOMEDAY SOMETHING WILL FIND YOU
A MAGICAL FEELING YOU
COULD NOT FORSEE
A FEELING SO DEVASTATING
FROM THAT MOMENT
YOU'RE LIFE 'S A COMEDY
AND SUDDENLY
YOU'RE LIGHT AS A FEATHER
YOU'RE FALLING LIKE
A LEAF FROM A TREE
THE THINGS YOU THOUGHT
YOU NEEDED ARE FADING
YOUR REASON TO BE
Monolith
is the sixth
studio album
by American
progressive rock band
released in 1979
The album reached No. 10
on the
Billboard album charts,
marking their third
straight (and last)
studio album
to reach the top ten.
Overview
Their first studio album
to be produced by
the band themselves,
Monolith
would be the third
studio album
release by
Kansas
to rank in the
Top Ten of
the Billboard
album chart.
However,
Monolith
would prove to be a
commercial disappointment
in the face of
bad reviews
and the lack of a
high-impact hit single.
The lead single
"People of the South Wind"
stalled in the
Top 30
of the
Billboard Hot 100
in August 1979,
causing the rush release of
"Reason to Be"
as the second single:
much-likened to
Kansas' signature hit
"Dust in the Wind",
"Reason to Be"
would nowhere near
approximate that
1978 Top Ten
hit's success,
the Hot 100 peak of
"Reason to Be"
being #52.
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.
The opening track,
"On the Other Side",
has since been featured in
performances on and off
on tours,
including 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 South Wind"
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
BONUS !!
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ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE,
EAST TROY, WI
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