YMMV / Kansas

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• Awesome Music: Pretty much all of the first five albums, for starters.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "How My Soul Cries Out for You" on Monolith starts off normally, but quickly gets weird in the second half of the song: the music comes to a dead halt. Bar chatter ensues. The barflies gasp, which leads into a brief drum solo. Distorted backward vocals rise up from the din, leading to a final run-through of the chorus. The song fades out...only to fade back in halfway. The main melody of the song plays for about fifteen seconds before the tape speeds up and the song finally fades out for real. It's easily the strangest song in the band's catalogue.
• Epic Riff: Spanning several different instruments. For starters: "Dust in the Wind" for acoustic guitar, "Carry On Wayward Son" for electric guitar (plus the epic Lyrical Cold Open as a bonus), "Point of Know Return" for violin, "Miracles Out of Nowhere" for keyboards, "Lonely Street" for bass guitar, and "Magnum Opus" even pulls this off on tympani (which the rest of the band picks up on afterward).
• Refrain from Assuming: Its "Carry On Wayward Son", not "Carry On My Wayward Son". This is such a common mistake that most unofficial YouTube uploads will refer to the song as the misname.
• Signature Song: "Dust in the Wind" was their biggest hit, but "Carry On Wayward Son" is easily their most famous song, perennially ranking among the top 10 songs played on Classic Rock radio.
• Song Association: As stated on the main page, "Carry On Wayward Son" is commonly associated with Supernatural.
• Tear Jerker: "Dust in the Wind" and "Cheyenne Anthem"

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