kansas vs. uncle tupelo

Down here where we're at, everybody is equally poor, because Don Kirshner has all the publishing

there was a time . . . that time is gone

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poll should've been kansas vs these guys

http://i.imgur.com/FTDlV1w.jpg

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I don't get this, is there some similarity in sound or something?
I thought one was one of the few successful US prog acts and the other was country-based post hardcore. Not really heard much of either so I don't know.

actually a more interesting comparison than the thread's content would suggest -- both were pretty blazing live acts, both bands from places that didn't really have much of a scene -- bands who formed sort of in a vacuum -- both bands full of great players. of course, Kansas gets a new singer when the old one can't cut it any more and goes on & on for a long time, and is very much an auteur's band imo whereas Uncle Tupelo is famously a Two-Frontmen band so I'm not really sure what to do about that

have never been able to enjoy Uncle Tupelo on record, so Kansas

I cant believe I missed this. First Kansas album is rock-solid,

My guess is that both bands are emblematic of each era's ideas about what actually constitutes 'art-rock', refracted through a sort of inherited body of Americana signifiers, though typically, even these are different: Uncle Tupelo's Americana is outlaw country, whereas Kansas goes to, like, Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant (they really should've calked one if their songs "Thanatopsis")

*called, even