The Prelude Implicit
by Kansas
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Kansas bestography
The Prelude Implicit is ranked 12th best out of 29 albums by Kansas on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Kansas is Leftoverture which is ranked number 1807 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 938.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Prelude Implicit track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Prelude Implicit rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 57 Music Albums of 2016 | 13/57 | 4 |
| 2025 |  jeremy9 | Top 71 Music Albums of 2016 | 19/71 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 46/100 | 3 |
| 2023 | LosWochos | Die besten Alben des Jahres 2016 by ROCKS | 41/79 | - |
| 2023 | FieryGunHand | Top 50 Music Albums of 2016 | 44/50 | 1 |
| 2023 |  MW19704U | Top 75 Music Albums of 2016 | 41/75 | 2 |
| 2020 | Fischman | Kansas Albums Ranked | 13/15 | - |
| 2019 |  jdenny2018 | Top 65 Music Albums of the 2010s | 54/65 | 4 |
| 2019 | Highhopes | Top 21 Music Albums of 2016 | 2/21 | 5 |
| 2018 | ruquito124 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2017 |  skelter54 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2016 | Heaven Magazine | Beste albums van 2016 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2016 | eclipsed | Die besten Alben des Jahres 2016 | 33/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 44 | |||
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The Prelude Implicit ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 06/19/2026 21:25 | Adhura | 1,693 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/26/2025 08:26 | SeventhOne | 162 | 67/100 |
| ! | 09/04/2024 03:17 | PapaShiz86 | 11,557 | 79/100 |
| ! | 03/13/2023 12:25 | MW19704U | 6,988 | 59/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2023 13:50 |  AlexSVK | 1,089 | 62/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.9/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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The Prelude Implicit comments
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A brilliant album of modern prog rock. This is the direct heir of Leftoverture and Point of Know return. Serious compositions by serious musicians and it works. Had it come out in the late 70's it would be considered as highly as those two albums. But now not enough people have listened to it os openly as they might have then.
Fischman 12/12/2016 22:40 | #180003
After a long hiatus, Kansas came back in a huge way with 2000's 'Somewhere to Elsewhere.' That gave me very high hopes for this latest first-release-in-a-long-time. A little disappointing, this is no 'Somewhere' but still a solid album.
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