Carry On Wayward Son (track)
by Kansas
Carry On Wayward Son appears on the following album(s) by Kansas:
- Leftoverture (track #1) (this album) (1976)
- The Kansas Boxed Set (track #11) (1994)
- Two For The Show (track #6) (1978)
- The Best Of Kansas (track #1) (compilation) (1984)
- The Ultimate Kansas (track #1) (compilation) (2002)
- There's Know Place Like Home (track #13) (2009)
- Device, Voice, Drum (track #18) (2002)
- Super Hits (track #1) (compilation) (2007)
- Leftoverture Live & Beyond (track #11) (2017)
- King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents (track #12) (1998)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 41 hours ago | NiceLemon282 | 319 | 88/100 |
| ! | 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 47,435 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 10:09 |  Norshammar | 1,046 | 90/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2025 11:45 | mash | 4,189 | 92/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2025 11:38 | timosbuecherei | 3,160 | 60/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.9/100, a mean average of 89.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.9.
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AAL2014 02/13/2025 13:25 | #307580
About as good as AOR-radio-length-epics get. Fantastic hooks, playing and sequencing.
This is one of the staples of rock and roll. Songs that define the genre, one of the first songs that come to mind when you hear the term "Rock And Roll". Other songs like this are "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Back In Black", "Smoke On The Water", "Free Bird", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Born To Be Wild", and "Rock You Like A Hurricane". Just incredibly iconic songs that everyone seems to know regardless of age or musical taste
Over played, but it's so great idc.
Fischman 01/13/2017 23:13 | #182625
I don't care how overplayed this is, I never tire of it. A brilliant song in construction, production and delivery. It never wears out its welcome.
A big, bloated pile of pseudo-classical pomp.
Kansas, a band that had nothing, wrote a mega-hit that is constantly played on radio stations of multiple genres. This song is one of the only reasons Kansas is still making albums and selling albums. This is one of the most important songs in the rock genre, and will live on forever.
As for the actual content of the song, it may please hard rock fans... but after listening to enough Kansas, you can totally see the prog.
Romanelli 06/11/2012 23:52 | #44264
By far their best song.
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