The Best from SUPERTRAMP

isn't it obvious??..............Breakfast in AmerAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO; it's the Crime, man!

Goodness, what an almost impossible question to answer.   I would have to say anything with co-founder Roger Hodgson, or any album pre-1983.   So many gems on each of these from Roger and he plays them all at his shows.    Can't wait to see him perform Breakfast in America in New York in November - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODaH_fGtMY

Went with 'Even In The.....',  though I have always thought that Tramp was prog lite and imho an overrated band .

Icarium wrote: aglasshouse wrote: The lovable group of Englishman who call themselves Supertramp have come to make a name for themselves throughout all the years they've active. Even while being in a surge of bands from their country and time period, they still managed to stand out. What is your favorite from them? The drummer is American (Robert Siebenberg)

Couldn't vote.Like all first five albums equally.Big mention to superb live record Paris,one of my favourite live albums.

Alright, it's Breakfast time.

Soft spot for the first one, and Crime has some great tunes, but Crisis is less bombastic, less "epic" than Crime and more focused than the first.  Crisis also has a more stripped down sound.....the instruments seems to blend better, smooth interplay.....just an excellent feel from the cover to the songs. 

Intruder wrote: Soft spot for the first one, and Crime has some great tunes, but Crisis is less bombastic, less "epic" than Crime and more focused than the first.  Crisis also has a more stripped down sound.....the instruments seems to blend better, smooth interplay.....just an excellent feel from the cover to the songs.    Now my questions is:  Why can't I get into ...Quietest Moments?

That's part of why COTC is soooo great... If I hadn't loved that album from the first spin onwards (it was my first album bought with my own money- from newspaper delivery), I probably wouldn't have gone "prog"


As for Quietest Moments, I don't know why you don't get into it, because it's a mix of Crisis's stripped down attitude (Give a Little, Loverboy, Downstream) and Crime's more passionate and dramatic "epicry" (Fool's, Babaji, t/t).

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Another I find really awesome is Brother: Somhow, once Hodgson left, Davies never had it so good... as if to prove that he didn't need Roger, despite leaving an Ever-Open Door for him to come back (the last track on the album). I mean, there is only one weaker song on it (the turgid Still In Love)

Clearly Hodgson's relatively good Eye of The Storm (which howled his pains and aches) was twharfed by Brother - whose title could be Davies' bewilderment at why Hodgson really wanted to leave. It's obviously Rodger's moaning and bitching about the use of "his songs" (how could Supertramp not do them in concert) that shut the door between them.



Edited by Sean Trane - August 18 2015 at 02:53

Hmmm. ...I re-listened to Crime yesterday because it had been about a month since I played it.

Sean Trane wrote: Another I find really awesome is Brother: Somhow, once Hodgson left, Davies never had it so good... as if to prove that he didn't need Roger, despite leaving an Ever-Open Door for him to come back (the last track on the album). I mean, there is only one weaker song on it (the turgid Still In Love) Clearly Hodgson's relatively good Eye of The Storm (which howled his pains and aches) was twharfed by Brother - whose title could be Davies' bewilderment at why Hodgson really wanted to leave. It's obviously Rodger's moaning and bitching about the use of "his songs" (how could Supertramp not do them in concert) that shut the door between them.

Fantastic album! In my opinion, on a par with the older Supertramp stuff, but many people seem to dislike it because of Hodgson's absence.