Supertramp is the most underrated band. I was a child of the 70’s. I could have heard the first song through a k-Tel album, but so solid. Anyone remember the K-Tel albums?
I love many rock group and solo artists but they have always been my favourite since hearing Crime of the Century as a 12 year old in 1975. My love for them is followed closely by that for ELO. P.S. I still have a K-Tel 22 Fantastic Favourites album of early 1970s pop/rock hits.
Yes on underrated. My daughter was born in 1987 and I did my best to expose her to the best music. She's now 33 and Supertramp has been her favorite band since she was in high school. I did something right!
This is why I love psychedelics. It can take the catastrophe of your life and infuse it into your soul, no hiding, no repression or denial. And you grow from that.
Who knew back when this came out, that in 40 years time we’d be watching videos of a new generation of people reactions on our phones? It’s nice because it’s like we are reliving the moment we first heard it ourselves. Those were special times.
@Antonio Rivera This may seem a bit far fetched, but we should all ask if he may be down with a fan meet-n-greet, when things get back to some sort of normalcy, of course. I think he would be cool to hang with, even for just a few hours. Just throwing that out there to see what sticks.
Agree! I was just thinking "wow, it's sooo great to see his videos, but I'd LOVE to meet him and his family. Jamal, seriously---if you lived anywhere near me, I'd invite you and your fam over for dinner....you would be so fun to talk with on serious topics, but you're also quite funny---especially your facial reactions! :-)
What could he do to those Friends of the Whole Worlds...?? Just curious, since i talk that way sometimes myself if i've had a 5th of whiskey...in about an hour.
This song just made me cry, haven’t heard it in the longest time, ohhhhh the memories of my folks being young and healthy and my school days, oh my God, the good ol days....beautiful song, very nostalgic for me tho😞
I'm glad you have good memories of this. I associate it with a rotten time in my life, I'm trying to forget about what I associate it with and enjoy the music anyway.
The power of a song, it can take you to the most beautiful place in time or the most painful one, it’s a shame it brings back times of hardship for you it’s such a beautiful song, hope you stay strong and get to experience a beautiful and prosperous future.
GUD MURNIN MISS WOOSTA I appreciated these lyrics back in the 70s when this came out and now that I'm 62 years old and widowed last year after 40 years together I sure feel like I'm living these lyrics now.
...which is why you must live every day like it could be your last. Live with nothing untried and no regrets. Do everything you can today and put nothing off till tomorrow.
John Helliwell who plays the harmonica, sax, clarinet, and even some keyboards deserves a lot of credit for making this song sound so good. What a great feel!
It's Rick Davies who played the harmonica, not Heliwell. But yes, Helliwell was crucial for the band and deserves far more credit than he's usually given.
@theh1n1shot Was gonna say, some songs just make you think and introspect and really take stock of things. This is a special one. The long way home for me right now takes me up and over this big hill and sometimes I just need to have this playing as I crest it and my little corner of the world comes into view
I loved when your eyes got wide when the harmonica set in. In Germany we say "Ein Bild für die Götter" - a picture for the gods. I don't know why Supertramp seems to have been forgotten - they have so many incredible songs.
@@motomass8458 You're welcome. It's an expression on the border of being old fashioned, but I always liked it. It's similar to "a sight to behold", I guess.
"When you look through the years and you see what you could have been, oh, what you might have been, if you had had more time." ......right in the damn feels, e.v.e.r.y.t.i.m.e.
A dear friend of mine passes away and the next morning my alarm clock went off with this song playing. Was the first time I heard it and I thought I was hearing from her from heaven. Was the weirdest feeling. Stay happy Jamel ,and keep dancing! We love you!!!
There's a live version where the harmonica just cuts you in half. "Then you feel that your life's become a catastrophe, ohhhh it has to be...for you to grow, boy" This line never fails to hit me so hard.
Ill say it here too. The entire Crime of the Century album is a MUST but the 3 songs that are essential are “Crime of the Century”, “School” and “Bloody Well Right”
I love that harmonica opening. It sounds COLD, like a dark, late-Autumn night where our song's protagonist is walking alone from streetlight to streetlight.
The biggest mistake Roger Hodson made in his life was not getting back in line behind Mr. Synergy profound striker of the keyboards himself - the flat out unabated 100% effort of Rick Davies!
I grew up listening to this tune. And took for granted just how well-composed it is. This is some gorgeous sound. Supertramp were so unique in so many ways.
The intro to this song just makes me smile, I hope it has the same effect on everyone else who is listening right now.....we need more smiles than cries
Give a Little Bit was in Superman the Movie. The song "Give a Little Bit" - sung by Supertramp - plays on the radio as Lois parks at the gas station. The name of the band is a whimsical reference to the protagonist, as well as its lyrics foreshadow what the hero does later.
I'd suggest starting with "Stay" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S9D9dUgV8jE.html That song had punk energy more than ten years before punk rock.
These lyrics hit so much more at 55 than they did at 18. The music is as good as ever. Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, what you might have been If you would have more time.
This song is still so amazing. they just don't make bands like this anymore. it's true. bands now aspire to make music like this but it just can't be done. and his voice is so pure, sweet & high! the 1970's were just packed with legendary bands with a progressive rock sound. I don't think there will ever be another decade quite like it.
from a songwriters point this to me is one of the best written songs in any style. The instruments tell a story right away . sad , lost and where the fuck is home . then there's hope and that harmonic is giving the song the feel like its a old story from the 1850 . Then the ending that goes through all these chords like its all slipping away and then you realized your OK being late because you're finally at peace with yourself . Amazing is the only word i can use because art this good can't be described
So true! :-( It has such an upbeat melody, I never really noticed. And, just like SO MANY other songs, hearing Jamal's thoughts makes it even more meaningful.
Listening to songs so good like this makes me so happy to have had the luxury of growing up when they were released,but also listening to songs like this today makes me so sad that such good songs are rarely made anymore,if at all.
It is sad, indeed. I grieve for the teens of today - the music now is shite. Listening to what's being played in the car next to me at a red light is heartbreaking - foul language, anger, hate, rage, ugliness. The beautiful, happy, soul-enriching 1970s are gone forever.
@@lisahinton9682 Nicely put.The 70's had such variety and creativity,and we did not have to search for the songs because they were everywhere,and it seemed like it would never end.There was always another great new song to listen to.To me it is a lost art form.Some say I am getting old lol but there is more to it than that... I could have been next to that same car you mentioned>except it wasn't...there are too many of those cars out there now unfortunately.I will turn up songs like this so I don't have to listen to that rubbish from those cars haha...
@@Trashman1964 I, too, was born in 1964. You're exactly right - you didn't have to "look" for good music, or, as another user on this thread said, "just know where to look" (frigging HELL, that breaks my heart for that CHILD), because great music was everywhere, all the time. It was on every station, every concert, every everything, had great music. A swear word was rare - emotions could be, and were, expressed brilliantly without filth. Now, filth's all you hear and it's boring, dull, depressing, predictable. Ahh, to leap on a time-travelin' bus and go back.. If only.....
Goosebumps, that's the word, That's the feeling when you attend to a Roger Hodgson show and this song, which is the opening one, starts. You know straight ahead that tne magic and fun is starting, and as Roger says, we leave all our problems out of the venue and a special journey begins...
Gotta do “breakfast in America” as well as “goodbye stranger”. Goodbye stranger has great buildup to the end when they fade out to a jam. Great stuff 👍
Five master musicians in the group with Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson leading he way lyrically and on keyboards and guitar. John Anthony Helliwell is the master of the woodwinds including the harmonica, clarinet and saxophone. I recently learned though after all these decades that Richard davies played the haunting harmonica on the intro to School.
Yep! This song is a masterpiece. The composition, the musicianship. You’d really would be hard-pressed to find stars of today that have this amount of actual musical talent.
Alex n Andy seem like good young fellows. Jayveetv just graduated HS, I believe. Always a pleasure seeing you young people discovering music we older folks have known for decades.
I like Jayvee, he seems really sweet. Alex and Andy bring in a technical view to the songs, kinda like the Masterpiece Theater of reactors. They cracked me up when they did Frankenstein. But Jamel, he just feels the music, he rocks out. He is a pure joy to watch, like seeing your child open a present and really loving it. 🙂
@@nancy9478 Great analogy! If I'm honest, I'm kind of jealous of Jamel, Jayvee, and Andy & Alex. I'll never again get to experience the joy of discovering this music and hearing it for the first time like we did when we were young. I love watching them all so I can live vicariously through them. I enjoy their facial expressions, and just overall love for the music we've been enjoying for so long. They make me feel 18 again.
I really really enjoy Jamel’s reactions to these classics because a lot of times I feel the same exact way he does with those old school harmonies, and the Soul that seemed to be in a lot of that music back then. I loved the reaction to that harmonica. That’s how I feel every time I hear that song. Thanks Jamel I feel like I know you personally:)
The band's current lineup includes Davies alongside drummer Bob Siebenberg, saxophonist John Helliwell (both since 1973), guitarist Carl Verheyen, trumpeter Lee Thornburg, bassist Cliff Hugo, keyboardist Mark Hart (all of whom joined in 1996), multi-instrumentalist Jesse Siebenberg (since 1997), keyboardist Gabe Dixon and backing vocalist Cassie Miller (both since 2010).
I remember when I first realized reaction videos were a thing on RU-vid. WTF? Seriously? Now I'm addicted. It's like being a teen again discovering new music with friends. J is so open-hearted and genuine in his appreciation, it adds a dimension to the experience only surpassed by actually playing with other musicians - something I've not had the opportunity to do in many years. Brings joy to my heart and a tear to my eye. Rock on brother, peace and blessings. So much great music in this world, you'll never run out, and it's a pleasure to share it with you.
I remember hearing this entire album at my friend's house when I was 12. Her older sister bought and made us listen to it while we played with Smurfs. I never forgot how it made me feel. It was so different and deep. Still amazing!
I chalk up that immersive quality to the fact that this whole record is brilliantly arranged and impeccably engineered. It puts you right in the middle of the music - it wraps around me and gets inside me. I love this record.
Jamel your reactions are priceless and you deserve much praise for being a great human and bringing these classics to the present generation. Peace & Love 😍
I don't think Jamel will have heard The Supertramp song "Even in the Quietest Moments" on the radio. Andy and Alex sometimes act like they tend to prefer "bangers", and I think Jamel will possibly appreciate Even In The Quietest Moments more than Andy & Alex. It could be a song to stand out on this channel. It's very lovely. But it has to be the extended studio version, or you don't get the birds, etc. This one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dkrnIuxgSUg.html
This was the first concert I ever went too. 1979, Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. Terrible seats in the last row of the blue section, but what a great first concert! Saw them two years later with front row, center seats. Awesome!
My only connection with my father was through music that he could identify with. The harmonica in this song created a connection that we could experience together.
Just listened to Child Of Vision last Friday and it blew my mind to pieces. Boy, do I profoundly regret not having listened the whole album before! I always skipped the last two songs and it turned out to be one of my favorites now.
This song used to come on the radio driving home from my first job late at night after working second shift, driving my dad’s car on a nearly empty downtown St. Paul freeway. It was PERFECT
The leader of the group was Roger Hodgson, now he is not with the group anymore but it's him who create all the Supertramp best song! He can do all alone, he is a beast! I am supposed to go to his show in Montreal on december 2nd, if the virus is not there anymore!!
Core group was four guys, with a fifth added now and then, depending on the album. Layered recording and multiple instrumentalists explains their rich sound.
