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Artist:

Supertramp [ more ]

Song:

Logical Song

Album:

Breakfast in America [ info ]

Released:

1978

Last Played:

Apr 29, 2013 - 09:04

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7.1 (Total Ratings: 817)

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202 comments for this song:

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)

Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 07:32

Back in the day...album art was beautiful...oh it was plentiful...now it's so pitiful. Thanks Supertramp for contributing the music and a genre of a long lost place.

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)

Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 13:34

Sometimes there is a lot of truth in a No 1 song. Very deep lyrics about a child becoming an adult and a generation coming of age.

unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)

Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 13:28

BikeCoachDave wrote:

From the 'how could I be both blind AND stupid' admission files.
Seen this album cover a few thousand times since I was young and remember the song from its release in '78.
But until today, just now, did I look at it and realize it was a view from a plane and that the waitress on the cover is playing the statue of liberty. Holy cow I cant believe I just admitted that.....

Well, well, well. It sure is. Learned my "something new" for today. Thanks, BikeCoachDave!

Lichenia,
(uk)

Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 13:26

More of Supertramp please and while I'm asking Steely Dan as they are both tops.

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)

Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 12:28

I'd much rather hear Rudy (Crime of the Century)

lily34
(GTFO)

Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 12:28

this song reminds me of some tv movie in the mid-late 70's with lavar burton who played some kind of disabled teen/young adult that ended up getting really taken advantage of. the song was used in the show, i think.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 00:30

funkyalfonso wrote:

Oh dear. The continual playing of this track and others like it by my local fm stations (e.g. Vancouver's Rock 101) was what made me start listening to RP in the first place. What bugged me most of all was that if these stations insisted on playing music from the same bands, at least play different tracks. I never want to hear this song again.

Vancouver radio really did beat this band to death, this song being a prime example. I know you are not exaggerating when you say you never want to hear it again. The word "shrill" comes to mind.

funkyalfonso
(Vancouver Island)

Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 12:26

calispera
(Brussels)

Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 14:13

spiritfla wrote:

always a good listen.

After having listened to it thousands of times, I'm still in love with it, and it's more than 30 years old.

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)

Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 14:12

Thanks for the commentary Bill. I forgot how much I used to love this band.

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)

Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 14:11

A truly brilliant album cover. A moment of silence please for the art of album covers.. RIP.

spiritfla
(Land O Lakes, FL (I still miss Austin))

Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 14:10

always a good listen.

ckcotton
(Adding snarky comments since 2007)

Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 15:00

zeelandhills wrote:

holy cow, Dave...I can't believe you just educated me, too. There were just a few distractions in the late 70's..at least for me!

Count me in the "educated" now too

horstman
(Syracuse, New York)

Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 09:34

Misterfixit wrote:

The song tells the story of a man who:

is taken away from the unspoilt immediacy of childhood (When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical),
undergoes education (but then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical),
sees a future prepared for him lacking any spontaneity of reaction (And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical),
feels constricted in his freedom of speech (Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal),
is put under pressure to conform (Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable)
and ends up confused, without a coherent self-image (please tell me who I am).

and all of it is Bush's fault, of course.

More likely it was Reagan's fault as this was his era (error).

zeelandhills

Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 15:42

BikeCoachDave wrote:

holy cow, Dave...I can't believe you just educated me, too. There were just a few distractions in the late 70's..at least for me!

Sp3o
(Belgium)

Posted: May 05, 2011 - 10:19

Liked it then, still like it now {#Bananasplit}

BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.)

Posted: May 05, 2011 - 10:19

rdo
(DC)

Posted: May 05, 2011 - 10:18

Misterfixit wrote:

The song tells the story of a man who:

is taken away from the unspoilt immediacy of childhood (When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical),
undergoes education (but then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical),
sees a future prepared for him lacking any spontaneity of reaction (And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical),
feels constricted in his freedom of speech (Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal),
is put under pressure to conform (Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable)
and ends up confused, without a coherent self-image (please tell me who I am).

and all of it is Bush's fault, of course.