Classical Composer Reacts to SUPERTRAMP: Goodbye Stranger | The Daily Doug (Episode 588)

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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm returning to Supertramp and their classic album Breakfast in America to hear Goodbye Stranger. This was the third single release from that album, and I thoroughly enjoyed being reminded of this elegant song about the life of a drifter.
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@rg807 Год назад

This is an ALBUM. It really needs to be listened to from beginning to end. What a great work of art.

@darrellminx5459 Год назад

You got that right!

@stevo43068 Год назад

All the albums are like that, yeah? Rick and Rodger, playing off each other. Better than John and Paul (for this one). 😁

@Skunk77 Год назад

Personally the first 3 albums are perfect the rest are meh like they're ok

@darrellminx5459 Год назад

I agree.

@chris4973 5 месяцев назад

@Skunk…. I don’t agree. Their self titled 1st lp and Indelibly Stamped we’re, imo sorta meh. Their 3rd, 4th and 5th however (Crime of the Century, Crisis, What Crisis? , and Even in the Quietest Moments) saw them at the height of their careers. I saw them live in ‘76, ‘77 and ‘79. Breakfast saw their turn toward pop commercialism

@chief_mourner Год назад

Take the long way home, breakfast in america, the logical song, goodbye stranger this whole album is so so good

@Kosgrim Год назад

My dear mamma played "take the long way home" to me when i was 12, have been a fan since then

@Essin62 Год назад

"...get the shaker for this one" LOL!

@fixxxt Год назад

It fit perfectly!

@CuriousGeorge1111 9 месяцев назад

For me, this is Supertramp's masterwork: cinematic, metamorphic, with clever lyrics, and superb performance and production. Prog rock in an ear-candy shell--multiple changes. Glorious. 💥

@broadsword6650 Год назад

The guitar solo is so great and so unexpected, and the structure of the song is unusual in where that solo is placed - many bands would have put it in the middle of the song and then returned with the keyboards, ending with the whistle as the "drifter" drifts of down the road.

@AdamKane-dw8hh Год назад

Exactly.

@chopperdeath 5 месяцев назад

This song is closing credits to a great movie.

@Pru1PC Год назад

Phenomenal keyboards on “Child of Vision”. You’ve got to put it on your list!

@g54b95 Год назад

Best track on the album!

@MrKersey Год назад

Yes, Child of vision is a must!

@macsnafu Год назад

I agree. My favorite song on the album.

@sourisvoleur4854 Год назад

My favorite Supertramp song. Rick's piano solo is just mind-bending.

@caroleann_2142 Год назад

Rick is amazing on the keys, just Superperb 🎉🎉

@richardsims3847 Год назад

As a Brit who landed in LA in 1981 and stayed for eight yers this track resonates .Then my accent was a bit exotic and met some fine Marys and Janes.Simple story not to be over analysed;band playing in different cities whilst "laying pipe".Enjoy your expert reactions to great music that was made by artists for audiences with attention spans.

@Alberto_1965_BR Год назад

Love Supertramp Great songs and amazing albums! Brilliant musicians

@carlossaraiva8213 Год назад

While i dont count myself as a fan of Supertramp, this album is magnificent, a masterpiece of music like few others.

@jm12green31 5 дней назад

Yeah same here hard to not be impressed

@hackenbush23 Год назад

You playing the shaker deserves a thumbs up, well done.

@yes_head Год назад

This and "The Logical Song" were in constant rotation in '79. This one was a bit more FM radio friendly, but both became classic rock format staples. And yeah, I think Doug's take on the lyrics are spot on.

@UKcanuck55 Год назад

Supertramp was an outstanding live band. Outrageously good.

@chopperdeath 2 месяца назад

I remember my crazy metal music fan friend playing this for me after we cleaned up a HS keg party in 1986. Breakfast in America crossed musical boundaries and just made people fans of great music. We drove across the fields picking up trash and kegs after AFTER 4:30 AM IN the big party in Kansas!

@lisathurston8265 Год назад

God I love this song. I am happy to have parents that enjoyed rock. I was spoiled with the Supertramp songs when in the car.

@German___ Год назад

The main voice in the chorus is Rick! Roger has a higher voice but Rick does this crazy falsetto.

@Eleventhearlofmars Год назад

Yep, was looking for a comment to confirm this, it saved me posting one. 😂

@pdcrmr Год назад

Ah! I thought it was John Helliwell who did the super high parts

@German___ Год назад

@@pdcrmr John and Roger join in the high parts and keep singing that when Rick goes back to his lower voice. Can be seen when they play this live. My Aha! moment was when I first watched the video clip for the song My Kind of Lady. Then I learned to recognize Rick's falsetto.

@Buckfast2003 Год назад

@@German___ Only when they played the song live, not sure on the studio version John or Roger singing, Rick is doing all the vocals parts, I think ! I don't hear John or Roger on it !

@German___ Год назад

@@Buckfast2003 you might be right! There are multiple voices though (he may have double tracked himself)

@j.jennings1722 Год назад

This song always makes me mad (kinda), but not because I dislike the song. NO! I love the song. What I don't love is the guitar solo at the end ...I ALWAYS want it to last at least a minute or two longer, it's such a frickin' great solo! 😉

@johnwebster5983 Год назад

This is my favourite guitar solo of all time.

@mikeowens9227 Год назад

Radio DJs back then often would cut out the solo or talk over it. I wanted to punch them in the throat

@tonymusolino2369 Год назад

It amazes me how some music can take you back in time…and does it with ease and oh so eloquently too.

@doplinger1 Год назад

You're really missing out if all you do is the hits. "Child of Vision" is the best track on the album, and it is EPIC.

@estefaniasucre6966 Год назад

I agree with this! Totally underrated, is one of the best Supertramp songs!

@jerrycuppari290 Год назад

Agreed as a deep cut off this. But long way home is still my fave of the album.

@geoffos42 Год назад

Definitely do Child Of Vision. One of the most amazing songs ever written; the arrangements are stunning. Definitely in my personal top 3 of all time.

@DavidJacobsvo Год назад

Totally agree! The deep cuts are where the magic lies.

@stevo43068 Год назад

Yes, that is the one.

@funkster007 Год назад

One of my older brothers brought this album home when it was released. I would listen along with him on his new Technics stereo system. I was probably around 11 or 12. Supertramp's sound just reeled me in. To this day it remains one of my fave rock albums.

@YesYouCANPlayGuitar Год назад

I remember hearing this when I was a kid in the late 70's.... Always loved this song! Hope all is well Doug!

@keithlommatsch1233 Год назад

A perfect album! Perfect production, songwriting and sequence. There's no skip over material here.

@jimtatro6550 Год назад

I was 12 years old when this album came out and you could not turn on the radio without hearing a song from it, great album.

@stevo43068 Год назад

I remember that time, it was even on the PA at some stores...

@JL-1123 Год назад

Hearing this song on the radio as a kid, I don't believe the guitar solo outtro was ever included. I never really connected with the song as a kid, but the first time I heard the actual studio version as an adult... Wow. An all-time favorite of mine now.

@jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

Ab, Bb7/Ab, Db/Ab, Ab in the verse IIRC, and then an unexpected augmented chord on the way into the chorus. You really need to hear the whole album - "Take the Long Way Home" was also a single (IMO the best on the album), and the serene "Lord is it Mine" is also a must-hear. As to the lyrics, a love'em and leave'em type. He doesn't want to be tied down, so he just moves on. Could easily be about a musician and his one-night stands. Another lovely Supertramp song that features both vocalists is the earlier "Just a normal day".

@hnnymn Год назад

Love the augmented chord!

@hnnymn Год назад

“Just A Normal Day” is also a favorite of mine!

@iamded. 4 месяца назад

Oh man, this whole album has some deep nostalgia for me, my dad would play it on weekends when I was a little kid! I also love the album Even In The Quietest Moments (the titular track is my personal favourite), but this whole album is great as well and this track is a highlight.

@PodCaspar Год назад

First album I bought. Still playing it. Still enjoying it to the max. What a awesome piece of music legacy.

@New-tu3mn 2 дня назад

The addition of the Shaker sounded great!

@carlpeterson8182 Год назад

This is such a great album. One of my favorites that I do not hear often is Lord is it mine. Such a spiritual song about pain and suffering without being pretentious.

@makelikeatree1696 Год назад

Supertramp was the soundtrack to my first year of college, 1978/79. University of Illinois, Sherwood Lodge. Thanks for the intro to Supertramp, Bob.

@sourisvoleur4854 Год назад

H.S. class of 1979 here. This album was HUGE. I was already a ST fan from Crime of the Century. I had my daughter when I was 25, and when she was in high school, ST was HER favorite band as well! They're intergenerational good. I do envy her signed copy of Breakfast - signed by all 5 of the classic line-up.

@Parula06 Год назад

I love this song. Tell me this isn't a train song. The propulsive drumming, the background vocals that sound like a far off train whistle. It even fades out like a train disappearing into the distance. I think it's about being endlessly restless. It ALWAYS gives me a rush, and I've heard it hundreds of times.

@michaelschey1084 Год назад

when they played this live they had a video of a train running down the tracks at the end

@johnwebster5983 Год назад

Train song: see Indelibly Stamped - Coming Home to See You - from about 2:27, but listen to the whole song anyway. Another train song by The Who - Tommy - Underture. This is an instrumental song. Listen to the drums about 2/3 of the way through.

@petersmithm9 3 месяца назад

I'm just glad that for most of my life I have been able to listen to and even see Supertramp and I'm 65. As it says on the cover to Crime, "Thanks Sam". Without your vision we would not have them after all these years.

@TheSlandis Год назад

Crime of the Century is my favorite Supertramp album. Live in Paris is my favorite Supertramp concert. All worth a listen.

@mjm5081 Год назад

One of my favorite outros!(the rest of the song is pretty good too 😉)

@akaluke1 Год назад

I love your reactions. The technical analysis, the air drums and your joy!

@bonitoludi 7 месяцев назад

On chorus is also Rick singing with falsetto along with Roger, of course

@DocRock71 Год назад

Actually, that wasnt Roger's vocals on that falsetto chorus (Goodbye Mary, Goodbye Jane..) That was still Rick Davies singing in his impeccable falsetto.

@mikeb3365 Год назад

Doug- You nailed it. I always interpreted the lyrics as describing someone on the road, in a band?, basically having one night stands. He isn't ashamed of it, just his lifestyle, the way it is.

@acfiv1421 Год назад

Right. It's a song about banging groupies one night after the other, and being rather nice about it, LOL.

@raublekick Год назад

Same, I always thought of it as touring life. It could be autobiographical or maybe sort of poking fun at the way other bands did the party life.

@kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293 Год назад

Supertramp - Fantastic band, wonderful musicians !!!

@RCROX Год назад

Excellent song!

@ofrabjousday1 Год назад

Doug, he's singing his biography. You're so very close with what you'd gotten from the lyrics. He's singing about being on tour and sleeping with groupies, city to city.

@minty_Joe Год назад

The entire "Breakfast In America" album is a masterpiece! I love the dynamics throughout! Very little audio compression! 1979's finest!

@cibonthesaint8903 4 месяца назад

I remember this song when it first came out. I can tell you exactly what it’s about. It’s about a guy who gets with girls, possibly sleeping with them and taking off the next day. Mary and Jane are just names and an accumulation of all the women he’s had. he wants to stay young and he doesn’t want to be anchored down. He’s a free spirit and he’s on his own that’s all.

@PodCaspar Год назад

A lover in every town. Gotta go. Goodbye Stranger

@derekmeade6350 Год назад

Love the album but you’ll really love the earlier stuff like Crime of the Century and Crisis What Crisis?

@Arrow2theACL Год назад

Doug reacted to the entire Crime of the Century album on his Pateron

@gerardbeekman Год назад

Great Music. One of the best songs of Supertramp. It was an early morning yesterday I was up before the dawn And I really have enjoyed my stay But I must be moving on… Released 1979 Artist: Supertramp Album: Breakfast in America

@GuilhermeSilva-rp2it Год назад

Gone Hollywood is even better

@gregbecker8446 7 месяцев назад

My all time favorite song by Supertramp. That Wurlitzer electric piano is gorgeous.

@JeffJefferyUK Год назад

1:15 "Roger Hodgson...provides the lead vocals in the chorus" I'm not sure about that. I think those first high vocals were recorded by Rick Davies using his falsetto then Roger comes in with the harmony line. Have a look at the Live In Paris 1979 performance to see what I mean.

@estefaniasucre6966 Год назад

That's exactly how it is. It's Davies singing in falsetto :)

@enchantedcroissant3212 Год назад

yeah and he does the exact same thing in oh darling and gone hollywood

@josefkurtz2223 6 дней назад

Great revue buddy. Always dig your observations

@adladl4276 Год назад

Good bye Mary, good bye Jane Listened to this since 1979, and realized only this year (2023) what it means !

@rdhudon7469 Год назад

I saw them tour this in the summer of '79 . It was an outdoor concert and I was right beside a huge bass bin . I damaged my hearing that day it was so loud.......worth it.

@bobkessler937 Год назад

It's about groupies. This one was always blasting out of my cassette player in the car when it came out. Still one of my favorite albums.

@bubbabubberson2702 11 месяцев назад

I'm always surprised more people don't get this

@Harriet-Jesamine 3 месяца назад

ive always wondered exactly what is going on with the BEAUTIFUL sounding Bum note at exactly 7:13 seconds...I heard this from the very first time I fell in love with this recording...it adds a spice to this track at least for me.

@skeet4725 Год назад

Love the show. May I suggest Max Webster from Canada. Song in "Context with the Moon" Friends of Rush.

@skeet4725 Год назад

Good afternoon Doug, how are you today?

@Eric3567-p7y Год назад

Slangily, I did not know that is a word, good job Doug, I really love your work, and you guys are a very good couple and I admire you for working in the church. Thanks again 👍

@1962Sparkie Год назад

Another excellent reaction, Doug!! If you get chance, can you do a reaction for "Child Of Vision"??

@johnbelcher7955 Год назад

A Tramp is a person that moves from place to place working or looking for work, the analogy fits nicely!

@lazuardialmuzaki4489 Год назад

I remember how The Office brought me to this song, hence the album. What an album

@GamerToday Год назад

Hey shaker was legit on point 👉

@Sunnywarm12 Год назад

Great music!

@StoneShards 2 месяца назад

And we have "Wild Man" Helvering on shaker! 😊

@jonpevehouse Год назад

Child of Vision... last song on the album is phenomenal.

@HectorJulio-xo5bd 5 месяцев назад

The guy is a musician living musician life. You are right.

@grahamhowes6904 11 месяцев назад

Brilliantly arranged and built and layered - they understand how to build excitement.

@mikeortega6072 Год назад

that songs a great jam! that whole album rocks!

@guitarchannel5676 Год назад

Love Supertramp's electric piano tones. Both Roger and Richard get that unique phase-tone piano. Live version has an extended guitar solo, if I recall.

@robertcussins2807 Год назад

Used to piss me off so much when radio stations cut off the guitar solo at the end. I'd call them and ask them what the fuck...that was a huge part of the song. Love me some Supertramp. I used to play drums to this. My stereo...this is 1979 and my wife and I had bought a two story house. I got this album, and used wire to go outside the first floor window where my stereo (Marantz) was, then I sent wires outside the house up to the second floor where my drums lived. Yup, I'd put the needle on the record, and sprint upstairs to catch the beginning. Did that with so many albums. Great memories. I was nineteen and owned house at the time. I love this album. Gads, such great memories. Thanks Doug.

@caroleann_2142 Год назад

What a FABULOUS Album, Listen in its entirety Doug❤🎉❤🎉❤ CHILD OF VISION, Is a MUST!

@caroleann_2142 Год назад

Doug you are an amazing humsn & Teacher, Thank you❤😊🎉

@xavierberdaguer6670 6 месяцев назад

Supertramp hasn't received even a 10% of the recognition they deserve. They should be at the same level of Pink Floyd or the Rolking Stones in the rock hall of fame.

@dtchinacat3973 Год назад

One of my favorite Supertramp songs! Check out Even In the Quietest Moments from the album of the same name,; also From Now On from that same album?

@vilcopalo2942 Год назад

Listen from the album "Even in the Quietest Moments" the song " FROM NOW ON " their masterpiece. Thanx

@JD0124 4 месяца назад

Interesting... if you watch the Live version from Paris, Rick takes the high refrain vocals and Roger joins him with the even higher harmony vocal part. I always wondered if Rick sang the same parts in the studio... 🤔 This album came out when I was in 8th grade. There were so many great singles off it that it seemed the album would never go away - not that anyone would want it to. This is a favorite.

@Montang2007 11 месяцев назад

"goodbye Mary, goodbye Jane". Is the form to say goodbye to the marihuana.

@Ontariosound Год назад

Great song. This album was an absolute smash hit here in Toronto.

@MikeOfPlano Год назад

Got this my senior year. Yeah, it was on 8-track.

@carlfogelin1388 Год назад

Good reaction. I hope you try some of the songs from earlier albums too. While I really enjoy "Breakfast in America", I'm kind of partial to the songs from "Crime of the Century" and "Even in the Quietest Moments". Any song by Supertramp is pretty dang good.

@Arrow2theACL Год назад

Doug reacted to the entire Crime of the Century album on his Patreon.

@grahamkemble3917 Год назад

Crisis What Crisis is very underrated!

@Eleventhearlofmars Год назад

@@grahamkemble3917 underrated lol.

@helenavandewater3846 Год назад

I lost all my old records to my kids, who bought recordplayers in the recent years. Supertramp is still a band we all love to listen to. 😊

@joelliebler5690 Год назад

My favorite album by them . Of course 2 of their earlier album were great too like Even in The Quietest Moments, and Crine of The Century!

@dennisdickson8058 Год назад

Such a great band.

@patriciahansen6032 Год назад

Another song that seems to fit your interpretation here is Cool Change by the Little River Band. It's an entirely different song, but also seems to talk about what life is like on the road.

@sx64man Год назад

There are more hidden gems in there :-) the end "CODA" transition chord hits are worth analysis harmonically, and especially the note choice that makes that brilliant "un"common tone guitar solo opening so effective and a surprise. Enjoyed it.

@jarichards99utube 9 месяцев назад

Supertramp = 70's SUPER BAND...!!!! 😊 👍 -70SomethingGuy

@rubbersole79 Год назад

Hall of Fame 70's rock masterpiece, along with RUSH, Styx, Boston, Heart, Bad Company, Foreigner, Edgar Winter, and many others.

@MultiPedroAndrade Год назад

my first album, back in 1979

@rayrecordings Год назад

One of the best( if not The Best) sounding albums of the 70s. Peter Henderson’s production and mixing masterpiece. And a collection of outstanding, eternal songs. Should have been on the Voyager 2 on the way to ultraspace.

@Ailsworth Год назад

Oh come on, you normally aren't a leg puller, but it's difficult believing this is only vaguely familiar to you. What gets me every time is the opening of the guitar solo, his picking that single note over and over for six measures!

@johnwebster5983 Год назад

Yes, it's amazing how good repeating one note can sound.

@Ailsworth Год назад

@@johnwebster5983 I wouldn't go so far as to generalize it. Was this what lay behind the success of El Sonidito? Context is everything. Skrillex's "Kyoto" is a great example, and the repeating notes in the trumpet Solo in Penny Lane...

@acronus Год назад

lol, this song is about the encounters the band has with groupies during their tours. Goodbye Georgia ;-)

@AtomizedSound Год назад

Not familiar with a lot of their catalogue except their singles but my late mother got me into listening to them and appreciating their style and era. Good stuff

@glenrotchin5523 Год назад

Yes, Doug you are correct. It’s a quasi concept album about the vagabond life of touring musicians marked by the band breaking through in North America, hence name Breakfast in America. Take The Long Way Home is another song that talks about the difficult life of the touring musician.

@olavjorvik94 Год назад

Rick is so good. I feel he’s so underrated, as a musician in general, but also his contribution in this band. Roger gets all the glory it seems, since he had most of the hits. But Rick had all the best songs, imo at least. Ruby, Crime of the Century, Canonball is also great. So many others. I love them both, though.

@BalazsErnhaft Месяц назад

Yes , Rick is totally underrated but he is also a genius.

@ShemDaniel Год назад

Doug thinks its familiar because he might have heard in The Office Series Season 4, where Michael sings it for Toby's farewell...dubbed "Goodbye Toby"

@MissingMars Год назад

very nice -thanks much Doug

@kobayashiMaroo Год назад

"some they do and some they don't . . . and some you just can't tell some they will and some they won't . . . and some it's just as well" Brilliant snarky English humour ;) Rick would have fit right in with the Pythons.

@TheKrensada Год назад

Nobody has ever reacted to this song that I can find. But it's a song by Roger Hodgson specifically. It's called Had a dream. You gotta hear that thing.

@TheMaurobala Год назад

Many thanks, Doug, for bringing and reacting to the lovely Goodbye stranger. The higher voices, however, seem to me that be Rick singing in falsetto and being followed by Roger and John. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

@Harriet-Jesamine 3 месяца назад

The Chords😂😂They just splat them out man!! cos they can.. they're rock n rollers. we do it on instinct.