Great stuff lost in the wilderness of dismissed 70's "art" rock for toooo long. Glad Bill & Becca are bringing this to the kiddies

Love this song.

Often speculated just how much this is influenced by Pink Floyd, if at all? Perhaps it's just influenced by the times.
There's elements of Tubular Bells too.

Great times for very introspective music (60's gone etc. dream over etc.), whichever way you look at it.  

Super Supertramp

This song is still sooo good!!!!

The pinnacle song of their collection. A true volume turner..............

I remember being in junior high and my friend's brother came back from college with this album and said we "had" to listen to this. Damn, we loved this. Good to hear the old Supertramp. Great memories of running to his room to listen to it after school....

I've never heard this on the local Clear Channel classic dreck station.  Pretty cool.  

Damn.  Thought I was getting some classic The The at the start.  Instead I am still waiting for this song to start - oop there it goes.  Not really for me and it keeps stopping again.

Great read about making of this and lots of other excellent music..  By Ken Scott (with the prolific Bobby  Owsinski), engineer/producer extraordinaire...

click here

DO remember to link to it via RP!

 Grammarcop wrote: 
Thank you. I can only read a little at a time.

Nice little extra intro by Bill today...very cool... although I must admit "their later works" i.e. "Breakfast in America" are, of course, what then had me back tracking to albums like this one. But yes this whole album was the peak of what Roger and Rick could achieve. When I saw them in concert and that harmonica started?... sends a chill even now... see my journal entry.

One of the albums I totallly wore out then I was a kid.  Had a million skips and I still kept playing it.

"...it stands head and shoulders above their later work..."
Well said, Bill, well said.

 

Expecting to see Bronson or Eastwood any second now. 

Lets    Turn up the volume!!! -

Hadn't heard this one in ages, though have their awesome album Even in the Quietest Moments. First time I heard this was at a friend's in Flagstaff Arizona who worked at a Circles record store and bought all kinds of stuff. Billy D also turned me onto my first listen of Genesis, Trick of the Tail?, I didn't appreciate that music until later as well. Great stuff.

This wonderful band kind of got swallowed up by A.M. radio during the 'Breakfast In America' days. This album, though it predates BIA...is absolutely what I really appreciate about this band. Most who were introduced to this band from their more popular tunes...never got to hear this amazing stuff. It's too bad, but kudos to RP for bringing it back to life.

I regret not appreciating ST in the day; although I was aware of them, I didn't pay enough attention and lacked the control over the music I heard then compared with now. Thanks again, Bill & Rebecca, for RP!

...wow....38yrs.old....was 10 when it came out,..buyed it first time with 12........8->9.........for the memories..................

The piano break in this song is pure magic.

Great song!
Just recently my daughter (aged 10) asked me whether this song is from Pink Floyd, which, in a way, could be very much so!
Turn up the volume !! (Oh, oops, its half pas two in the morning here: excuse me, neighbours !)

I love Supertramp and one of the number of bands i would have really liked to see live. Won't happen now as Roger Hodgson has disappeared up his own back passage.

The album Paris was always on my turntable back in the day, actually i have no Supertramp on CD, entire catalogue on vinyl.

 bulleminan wrote: 
Nice reference. The old spaghetti western.

 oldsaxon wrote: 
My original sentence said: "I think I'm glad I went to school in North America."

I'm sorry if you did not understand that. Next ... time ... I'll ... try ... to ... write ... more ... slowly.

Rush is my nemisis.

 smackiepipe wrote: 

May be my favorite Supertramp, tho the whole album is killer. They did a tour with a mad film of a train careering down the tracks for Rudy ("Rudy took a train to nowhere...").

 Love it and it brings back days of the Mobile Fidelity Masters. My poor bleeding ears.

 LifeIsMusic wrote: 
Yeah, the piano solo and ensuing final is pure brilliance. I was daft when I gave this a 9.
There, sorted.