It's my favorite album. From time to time I sit back and listen to it from A to Z. One of the best albums ever released at the early 70's, and still fresh after 51 years.
Love Supertramp, but this is actually my favorite album of theirs and also Indelibly Stamped- the first two especially this debut are cryptic, haunting, totally uncommercial and this album totally rocks and also has reflective spookiness all over the place like that classic "Aubade" and this hard rocker. If they'd continued down this path success wouldn't have come, but they would have been an all out prog/folk/hard rock corker of a band!
@@JoaquinLucero22420 I mean lots of vinyl are fairly easy to get hold of nowadays through sites like discogs. My humble collection has been made up of like 90 percent discogs purchases
I cannot believe I am such a late bloomer to the brilliance of their first two albums...yet then again...A&M did not release them in the United States when they first came out. It's like the first two Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Wigwam...or whateveh...someone in the hierarchy of the record biz just though they wouldn't fly or break ground or produce hit singles in the good ol' US of A.
You are far from the only one!! I've loved Supertramp since I was seven (1979). I've listened nearly everything of ST's and yet it was oinbly two years ago that I started listening to these first couple of albums! "It's a Long Road" is a fantastic song and never should have been buried in the past. While it doesn't have all the creative magic of later Supertramp, you can see the roots of it in this song and others here. I suspect that because this early stuff is not as potent and genius of their later works, it got left behind. Some other bands have seen some of their early works fade into absolute obscurity which is shameful. Works like this go to show that you can't trust your radio or song streaming outlets for you entire musical experience!
Holaaa, es mi primera vez escuchando este disco y estoy comenzando a adentrarme en el rock progresivo en general, ya he escuchado lo más famoso como Pink Floyd pero quisiera saber si me podrías recomendar algo para comenzar, gracias!
My theory is that it might have received more attention if Supertramp hadn't produced so much more potent and genius works later on. I love this song here. It shows the band developing their creative roots that would sprout some of the finest pop music to travel the airwaves but these first two albums don't measure up to that insanely good status. Radio in the past and song streamers of the present always gravitate towards the most popular works of artists. 80% chance a Supertramp song you hear on the radio over the last 40 years was something from "Breakfast in America". Thankfully RU-vid gets nearly everything imaginable and whatever isn't pulled on copyright issues, is there to be discovered and enjoyed.
@@charliesilvester2985 ughhhhhh I hope so..... Seems a shame that there's so much garbage on Spotify in place of music like this - it's all about profit I guess :(
Well the road I see before me Threatens pain at every bend, yeah Well I might meet some men I understand And hope to call 'em friends Well, good company, it may comfort me But I don't want love to distract my heart from the way Now your love it gave me sorrow And a broken heart to mend, yeah So I took me to this lonely road My sweet hopes to defend Oh and why pretend, I won't look back Even though the love of a happy man waits before Well, the winter wind blows chilly And the road is dark and grey So take pity on a wanderer Should you pass me on the way Oh, I'm left alone without a home Makes a man ask why he travels on when hope is gone It's a long road It's a long road It's a long road It's a long road
Took me a few more listens but I really like this album. Not as ambitious as what they would go on to do but in a way it works really well for these songs.
@@lucasmateus184 Because they in their own words when asked what product they believed they were selling said 'Spotify' as opposed to the correct answer which is music.
The guys recorded this in 1970, most of the classic bands didn't even exist or were in their infancy. it was supposed to be glorified as the greatest album in rock n roll history
