The best... SUPERTRAMP song...?

They have a lot of good songs, so it is not easy to answer this question.

From the albums with Roger Hodgson:

-Rudy (the live version of the "Paris" album).

-The Meaning.

-Crime of the Century (the live version of the "Paris" album).

-Oh Darling.

-Goodbye Stranger.

-C`est Le Bon (great lyrics!).

-Lord is it mine (great lyrics!).

-Remember (from "Indelibly Stamped")

From the albums without Hodgson:

-Free as a Bird.

-It`s Alright.

-No Inbetween (great lyrics!)

-Cannonball.

-You Win I Lose

• School
• Bloddy Well Right
• Rudy
• Crime of The Century
• It's a Long Road
• Sister Moonshine
• Ain't nobody But Me
• Soapbox Opera
• Lady
• Even in The Quietest Moments
• Fool's overture
• Goodbye Stranger
• Take the Long Way Home
• Waiting so Long
• Dont leave me Now
• Cannonball
• Brother Where You Bound

...and many more

Man, just about anything from Crisis? What Crisis? is among my favorites, I love that album. Really dig Fool's Overture and Just Another Nervous Wreck, though.

Edited by Nipsey88

For all the Supertramp lovers, I cannot recommend more strongly the album "Open the Door" by Roger Hodgson. It has only three reviews in the site, and a rather negative one by Sean Trane, that IMHO is not a review at all and should be deleted!
But trust me: this is a wonderful piece of art rock, much better than anything Supertramp did after Roger left the band.

tuxon wrote: nacho wrote: For all the Supertramp lovers, I cannot recommend more strongly the album "Open the Door" by Roger Hodgson. It has only three reviews in the site, and a rather negative one by Sean Trane, that IMHO is not a review at all and should be deleted! But trust me: this is a wonderful piece of art rock, much better than anything Supertramp did after Roger left the band.   A great album indeed 4 stars from me, the title track is great, though a bit too much reminiscent of Fool's Overture. Death And The Zoo is also a great track on the album,

I couldn't get into it, while I DO like the old Supertramp music. Maybe I should try again, but maybe it's just not for me

My top 5 in no particular order:

1. Aries

2. School

3. Rudy

4. A Soap Box Opera

5. Fool's Overture

 

Crime of the  Century followed closely by Babajii

Moogtron III wrote: tuxon wrote: nacho wrote: For all the Supertramp lovers, I cannot recommend more strongly the album "Open the Door" by Roger Hodgson. It has only three reviews in the site, and a rather negative one by Sean Trane, that IMHO is not a review at all and should be deleted! But trust me: this is a wonderful piece of art rock, much better than anything Supertramp did after Roger left the band.   A great album indeed 4 stars from me, the title track is great, though a bit too much reminiscent of Fool's Overture. Death And The Zoo is also a great track on the album, I couldn't get into it, while I DO like the old Supertramp music. Maybe I should try again, but maybe it's just not for me

Well it's not really the old supertramp sound, but it's quite close to it, with good piano and guitar based songs, the main difference is the absence of Rick Davies, and his normal contibutions, this may make the whole a bit lacking, but the mentioned songs can be fitted right into supertramps regular output. I really like the album, if you have it, give it another go.

from start to finish it's a great album, like I said not the best you can get (that would be either Crime or Even In The....) but it's easily as good as Famous last words, or Breakfast
Well litle lie there, nothing is as good as Breakfast

The one Supertramp song that really sends a shiver down my spine is Know who you are, the last cut from Famous last words A-side.

Roger Hodgson is one of my favourite songwriters...not that I dislike Rick Davies, but I always found his songs less interesting (with a few exceptions, as you'll notice later)

Other outstanding tracks are (I'll go chronologically, otherwise I would surely miss some of them):

• Words Unspoken
• Maybe I'm a beggar
• Try Again
• Travelled
• Rosie had everything planned
• School
• Bloody Well Right (wonderful keyboard solo at the beginning!!!)
• If everyone was listening
• Crime of the Century
• Sister Moonshine
• A Soapbox Opera (one of my favourite)
• Just a normal day (another incredibly touching song)
• The Meaning
• All of "Even in the quietest moments", except Downstream and From Now On (I pretty much hate this last one!)
• Gone Hollywood (the greatest Rick Davies' composition IMHO)
• The Logical Song
• Lord is it mine
• Child of Vision
• Breakfast in America
• C'est le Bon
• Waiting so Long
• Don't Leave Me Now
• Cannonball
• Brother Where You Bound (greatest post-Hodgson effort)
• NOT ONE SINGLE PICK FROM "Free as a bird" (man, what an AWFUL record...)
• C'est What?
• Sooner or Later
• Slow Motion

Cannonball - I love the piano solo.