As a teenager in the mid-seventies , many of supertramps songs felt like they spoke to me ! That's the main reason I've fell in love with them , They're music spoke to me !
One of my favourite song by Supertramp. First time I heard it I was 15 (1981) and listen to it today is like a dive in a pool of feelings! The end is so emotional! Thank you. 😍😍😍😍😍
Crown jewel of their crown jewel album. 45(!!)years later, still fresh, still fascinating. A keyboard tour-de-force. Might be Roger Hodgson's best composition. Rick Davies on piano...I don't have the vocabulary to describe how great that solo is. John Helliwell nailing his solo at the end, as usual.
That cover art with the waitress and the food crockery is New York as seen from an aeroplane window! The waitress is the Statue of Liberty and the crockery is the Manhattan skyline! Great great song - that wonderful piano solo and then the sax coming in to top it all off. Magical. It could have been ten minutes longer and no-one would have minded! BTW, one of my favourite songs on the album is one you haven't done yet - "Lord is it Mine".
Absolutely love this song, an absolute masterpiece of what I call Prog Pop. The intro is epic in itself, in three sections. The rhythm section is doing some low key superb work. I love the combination of the trademark frenetic electric piano (essentially functioning in the rhythm guitar role) and the more spare, jazzy acoustic piano solo. The sax solo lifts the piece even higher, and yes, I'd be happy if it went for a few minutes more...
.....We have no reason to fight, 'cause we both know that we're right... This is a masterpiece and has aged well. Forty-four years as of this writing and as relevant today as it was then. Check out other classic works by Supertramp: 'Crisis, - what crisis'; 'Crime of the century'; 'Even in the quietest moments'. Johnny Bach and Billy Shakespeare of the twentieth century. Expressing the human condition in music and lyrics like few ever have.
Roger Hodgson really shines on this track. Paired with Rick Davies you can't go wrong. Definitely an extremely talented group. This is certainly one of their best albums.
You really should listen to "Gone Hollywood" soon. Supertramp is one of my favorite bands. They were so talented, and Roger Hodgson's voice only seems to get better with age. This is actually my favorite song by them, and one of my all time favorite songs by anybody, and I love Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Toto, Phil Collins, Journey, Boston, Foreigner, and many other bands. This song has a special meaning to me, that nobody else would understand, but that is OK, it is only for me.
Supertramp is prog rock at its finest. Five very talented and accomplished musicians. Rodger Hodgson is a very overlooked keyboard player and composer, IMO.🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm pretty sure I recommended a track by track review of this album when you first started the Supertramp journey. The last two or three are a must at this point lol. Definitely a great album.
Start to finish on this album is good but it is not perfect. Casual Conversations is 2 step back from the rest imo and ruins an otherwise perfect masterpiece. Gone Hollywood is actually fairly heavy for Supertramp and really rocks.
Can't agree with you there..that song is quite a suitable filler song to maintain this as perfect. It is rare to assemble 10 songs together on an album that all could be hit singles
so the passenger is looking threw a plane window... the lady holding the orange juice is the statue of liberty...and the city behind is new york,,the twin towers ,,etc
