Favorite Supertramp album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Gnik Nosmirc wrote:

Not familiar enough. Not prog enough for me perhaps.

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Crime

Crisis

They've been one of my Top 5 bands my entire life music listening life.

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richardh wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

Jared wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

I went for Brother because it needs much reevaluation. What a splendid mid-80's album - and and a semi-conceptual one at that too. Almost as angry as a Roger Waters solo album, including the related videos.

Beautifully put! I agree with you completely... one of the best 80's albums released by any band that had its roots in the 70's!!

Indeed.

Crest of Knave, ELPowell are far behind, though they're OK (at best)

Discipline is not the 70's Crimson and Floyd's two albums are more solo albums (one by Roger, which is OK, and David's is awful) than anything else.

Let's not even mention Censored

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Camel

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Brother isn't 70's Supertramp either (no Roger Hodgson) so could be considered a Rick Davies solo album. I much prefer Hodgson's solo album In The Eye Of The Storm that came out in 1984 and actually sounds to me more like a Supertramp album than RD's offering.

I like Eye Of The Storm, but it's whiny, IMHO. It sounds like Roger is ailing (unease and sores seeps though every pore) and misses being in the band already (not that I think he ever was, since he left), while Brother goes on without Roger and don't (seem to) miss him for one bit. I think Brother is a whole lot more Supertramp than AMLOR is Floyd.

However the next albums (Bird and Haï) would suck big times.

I wouldn't dismiss the other three members' participations in the band's song credits *, and apparently a fair bit of Brother was already written by the time Roger exited the band. Someone even said that Roger didn't want those tracks to appear on FLW, but that remains unconfirmed.

*: As we've seen very recently, the three (Siebenberg/Thompson/Helliwell) sue Hodgson for unpaid royalties contractual retrocessions since 2015 (which Davies had also stopped in 2019, but this was settled out of court). Roger won, but maybe appeal will be cast.

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Edited by Sean Trane - April 15 2024 at 03:04

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

"Breakfast in America" by miles.

Jared wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

I went for Brother because it needs much reevaluation. What a splendid mid-80's album - and and a semi-conceptual one at that too. Almost as angry as a Roger Waters solo album, including the related videos.

Beautifully put! I agree with you completely... one of the best 80's albums released by any band that had its roots in the 70's!!

Indeed.

Crest of Knave, ELPowell are far behind, though they're OK (at best)

Discipline is not the 70's Crimson and Floyd's two albums are more solo albums (one by Roger, which is OK, and David's is awful) than anything else.

Let's not even mention Censored

Yes or

Camel

.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

mellotronwave wrote:

BiA is imo uninteresting ( Who cares of Bee gees disco like vocals ?)

I don't think there was any attempt to imitate the Bee Gees. The Supertramp vocals were always a bit high-pitched anyway.

Sean Trane wrote:

I went for Brother because it needs much reevaluation. What a splendid mid-80's album - and and a semi-conceptual one at that too. Almost as angry as a Roger Waters solo album, including the related videos.

Beautifully put! I agree with you completely... one of the best 80's albums released by any band that had its roots in the 70's!!

Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson

Crime of the Century.

Boojieboy wrote:

The first is by far the most proggy. I'm not sure why people here don't like that one. The rest are rather poppy and/or straight rock in comparison.

I wonder why 2nd album "Indelibly Stamped" was left off the list. Not that it's a great album or anything, but it shouldn't be left out.

Because it's apparently not that good. I never heard it but it's not rated very highly. The fact that I don't have any "other" votes (not yet anyway) tells me I made the right decision by leaving it off.

Nogbad wrote:

CWC?

Chris-Chan? :P

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Poll Question: What is your favorite Supertramp album?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Supertramp (same)	3	[7.14%]
Crime of the Century	21	[50.00%]
Crisis? What Crisis?	5	[11.90%]
Even In the Quietest Moments...	5	[11.90%]
Breakfast in America	3	[7.14%]
...Famous Last Words	0	[0.00%]
Brother Where You Bound	2	[4.76%]
All Equally	0	[0.00%]
I'm not familiar enough with Supertramp to vote	1	[2.38%]
None/ Not a fan	2	[4.76%]
Other studio album	0	[0.00%]
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