Author Topic: Supertramp appreciation thread (Read 4877 times)

Blind_FaithX · « **on:** June 09, 2009, 10:27:43 AM »

Supertramp is one of my favorite band and I'm always suprise to see the lack of attention it gets here. It's an easy band to get into and I recommend it to anyone who likes rock... in words, probably everyone on these forums.

My favorite album is Crime of The Century but they've done way more than that: Breakfast in America and Even in The Quietest Moments are awesome, and their last release, ...Famous Last Words is also really good.

My top 10 songs from them:

1. School (the piano solo... do I need to justify?)
2. Don't Leave Me Now (Such a great intro)
3. The Logical Song
4. Hide In Your Shell
5. Crime of The Century (love the piano/guitar)
6. Lord Is It Mine
7. Give A Little Bit
8. Take The Long Way Home
8. If Everyone Was Listening
9. Asylum
10. Dreamer

Nick · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:00:53 PM »

*appreciates very much*

TempusVox · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:33:11 PM »

LOOOOOOVE Supertramp. Very underrated band imo.

Sigz · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2009, 01:03:26 PM »

DON'T LOOK AT MY GIRLFRIEND

Nick · « **Reply #4 on:** June 09, 2009, 02:19:47 PM »

She's the only one I got.

TempusVox · « **Reply #5 on:** June 09, 2009, 04:24:15 PM »

Not much of a girlfriend.......She doesn't even have a G-Spot.........

No! Wait! Thats not right!

Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot.

PlaysLikeMyung · « **Reply #6 on:** June 09, 2009, 04:26:07 PM »

Breakfast in America is a fantastic album

*appreciates*

James007 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 09, 2009, 04:54:19 PM »

Crime of the Century Album > Breakfast in America Album

Nick · « **Reply #8 on:** June 09, 2009, 05:52:38 PM »

Quote from: James007 on June 09, 2009, 04:54:19 PM

Crime of the Century Album > Breakfast in America Album

QFT.

Crime of the Century > All other Tramp albums I've heard.

splent · « **Reply #9 on:** June 09, 2009, 06:30:48 PM »

A band I need to get more into. Everything that I have heard by them is amazing, the only song I KNOW the title to is The Logical Song... help me!

Blind_FaithX · « **Reply #10 on:** June 09, 2009, 08:38:51 PM »

If your looking for recommendations by songs, just check out my top 10 list and listen to those songs... you can't go wrong.

By album, their most "pop" album is Breakfast in America, but I would probably recommend you to go with Crime of the Century which is more rock and so much more awesome on the instrumental aspect.

Zydar · « **Reply #11 on:** June 10, 2009, 12:16:44 AM »

I think School is my favourite Supertramp song. I just love when the piano comes in. But other songs are great too.

Goodbye Stranger, Dreamer, The Logical Song, It's Raining Again, Breakfast In America, Give A Little Bit...

yeshaberto · « **Reply #12 on:** June 10, 2009, 12:27:27 AM »

I have about 1/2 of your list and love them, so I need to move on to the other half

bundy · « **Reply #13 on:** June 10, 2009, 06:19:28 AM »

One of my favourite bands. Crime of the Century is quite simply an outsanding album in every way. Every song is a classic, and the production is top notch. Probably one of my ten desert island albums. Up there with Close to the Edge, Ziggy, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, A Night at the Opera etc. as one of the defining albums of the 70s. Hide In Your Shell is my favourite track, but every track on this album is 5 star.

Even in the Quietest Moments is also very, very good. I prefer this to Breakfast in America myself. Like Rush though all their albums are good it's just that some are even better than others.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2009, 10:02:26 AM »

Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America are both standout rock albums that no music fan should be without.

KevShmev · « **Reply #15 on:** June 10, 2009, 10:05:45 AM »

Quote from: James007 on June 09, 2009, 04:54:19 PM

Crime of the Century Album > Breakfast in America Album

QFT. I also prefer Even in the Quietest Moments to Breakfast in America. "Fool's Overture" FTW!

Crisis? What Crisis isn't as good, but it does have "Sister Moonshine," which is one of their best songs.

But, yeah, Crime of the Century was their masterpiece.

Wazoodust · « **Reply #16 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:14:53 PM »

Production was Ken Scott, he's had magic with everything he touches, maybe MP would let him do the next DT album!!

grendel · « **Reply #17 on:** January 27, 2010, 11:41:21 PM »

this is the song that get me into rodger hodgson and supertramp. pretty amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tugd095e1jk

TheOutlawXanadu · « **Reply #18 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:44:59 AM »

Crime of the Century is the only album I've heard from them but it's one of my favorite albums ever. Anyone who likes good melodies owes it to themselves to hear it.

porksoda · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2010, 11:28:59 AM »

Bump! Just got into them last month when I saw Mr.Supertramp himself, Roger Hodgson, live.
I think their best album is Crisis? What Crisis because of the strength of the first six tracks!
Lady is such a groovy masterpiece!

BTW: If you get an opportunity to see Roger Hodgson live, do it. It's well worth the money to see a man of 60 years plow through hit after hit with such perfection.

Moonchild · « **Reply #20 on:** September 14, 2010, 04:19:47 AM »

I've seen Supertramp a couple of days ago and didn't know any songs except the hits who were sung by very young guys. went home searched for ST and discovered that there's still a fallout between Roger Hodgeson and Nick Davies.

Thought it was strange the diversity of the band because Nick Davies stuff is much more piano driven and laid back proggy stuff than Hodgesons.

Btw, there were 4 or 5 keyboards on stage and 9 people on stage hehe. Good show and excellent sound.

jsem · « **Reply #21 on:** October 24, 2010, 10:04:19 AM »

Supertramp is epic. Crime of the Century is def one must have album

Orbert · « **Reply #22 on:** October 24, 2010, 09:59:51 PM »

Senior year in high school, I got jumped by this girl who was a junior at a different high school, but who I played with in a pit orchestra, because I played the saxophone, and she thought that that was sexy as hell because Supertramp was her favorite band, and they've got that guy who wails on the saxophone on "Fool's Overture". Well, I wasn't about to argue with logic like that, and I graciously allowed her to deflower me. I have to admit, this went a long way towards making me a fan.

We spent a lot of time in her room listening to Even in the Quietest Moments and Crime of the Century, but Breakfast in America had been played to death on the radio. Paris is actually a somewhat unbalanced live album, with some great tracks and some which really don't sound as good live as the studio versions, but it was easier to just put it on and let it go while we made out. Her parents always left for the weekend, literally gone Friday night and didn't come home til Sunday afternoon, so we spent hours and hours at her house, a lot of it in her room, and a lot of it naked. Damn, those were the days.

So anyway, I appreciate Supertramp for their quiet, pensive songs about insanity, and for finally getting me laid my senior year of high school.

drummerThatShreds87 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 27, 2010, 06:33:54 PM »

Quote from: Blind_FaithX on June 09, 2009, 10:27:43 AM

Supertramp is one of my favorite band and I'm always suprise to see the lack of attention it gets here. It's an easy band to get into and I recommend it to anyone who likes rock... in words, probably everyone on these forums.

My favorite album is Crime of The Century but they've done way more than that: Breakfast in America and Even in The Quietest Moments are awesome, and their last release, ...Famous Last Words is also really good.

My top 10 songs from them:

1. School (the piano solo... do I need to justify?)
2. Don't Leave Me Now (Such a great intro)
3. The Logical Song
4. Hide In Your Shell
5. Crime of The Century (love the piano/guitar)
6. Lord Is It Mine
7. Give A Little Bit
8. Take The Long Way Home
8. If Everyone Was Listening
9. Asylum
10. Dreamer

The bassline during that piano part is probably better than the piano part itself. Fuck, I listened to this song religiously when I first heard it. I'd always fast forward to that section.

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