Supertramp - The Longs
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Topic: Supertramp - The Longs
Posted By: zbida
Subject: Supertramp - The Longs
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 01:43
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Hi,
here you are some of Supertramp's epic work. All of them are interesting (I think some of them can surely be considered great). Pick your favorite and why?
Note that no Crime Of The Century is included - to keep this poll a bit equivalent.
For me it's a battle between Fool's Overture (great composition) and Child Of Vision (fantastic piano), but Try Again is surprisingly good track on the slightly underrated debut album.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 02:22
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They're all excellent and Fool's Overture shouldn't have much problems winning this
(Rudy from COTC is longer than Child Of Vision and might have given a run to Overture)
I'll pick Try Again, because it's on the first and most unjustly over-looked album. Brother is also excellent, but there are moments when they're not 100% on the money.
I find Child Of Vision is easily the best track from BiA, but the outro is a bit repetitive. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 05:02
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Good poll IMO Child of Vision is the best song Supertramp ever put together. Lyrically and musically a masterpiece. Notwithstanding all the other songs mentioned in the poll.
Rudy and Aries also worth mentioning. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 12:43
Try Again and Brother are fantastic. I go with Brother after few days of hesitation 
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 12:50
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Try Again is a masterful track -------------  |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 14:02
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Good poll. I would have voted for Fool's Overture even if you HAD put Crime on it.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 19:26
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It seems that even without anything from Crime, Fool's Overture would have at least made a very strong contender, if not dominated, and probably would have gotten my vote. Rudy would be the only other one that would challenge it for me. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 12:44
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Fools... Brother... Then Child in that order for me. |
Posted By: mistertorture
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 15:20
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Child Of Vision, amazing track
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 11:38
| on the list Fools Overture but i like as well Even in the Quitest Moments and Waiting so Long is such strong composisions the later have Roger Hodgsons gratest guitarsolo |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 12:19
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I think I'm going with the majority here. "Fool's Overture". I like to pair that one with Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" -- two of my favourite rock tracks for many years. It has added value because W5, a Canadian news magazine show, used part of that track as its theme music. I haven't listened to Breakfast in America in many years. It was the first Supertramp album I remember hearing, my brother had just bought it -- I guess that would've been 1979. I think that, I Robot, and Replicas were my favourite rock albums at that age. Just checked youtube to listen to "Child of Vision"; what a trip back to my childhood. Good song. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 15:17
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Brother Where You Bound, no doubt. The 2 classics are really good, but I still prefer Try Again over them, sadly overlooked.. |
Posted By: dschwartz7
Date Posted: September 28 2009 at 09:48
| Fools's Overture is such a tremendous song. Hodgson paints a wonderful background that is both historical and spiritual with his words and music. One song I think that should be included on the list, if you can call it an epic, is Hide In Your Shell. Crime of the Century was the first Supertramp album I bought and this was the song that made me fall in love with this band. I know it maynot have the production value of Fool's Overture, Child of Vision or Try Again never the less it is still one of their best. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 28 2009 at 11:15
| I went with Fool's. I do love Brother though. I miss those guys. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 28 2009 at 13:15
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All four are incredible, although Fool's Overture still have a special place in my heart.
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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: September 28 2009 at 13:33
| I would vote Fool's Overture whatever other Supertramp songs might be included. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: September 29 2009 at 10:45
In fact I am just giving Child Of Vision max volume throughout the house ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: September 30 2009 at 05:34
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Try Again.
It has a 'Canterbury' feeling to it.Reminiscent of Caravan and early Soft Machine. ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 30 2009 at 06:31
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Fool's Overture just above Brother Where You Bound. ------------- 
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