Is Fool's Overture Overlooked?

I'd say overlooked by me, personally.  I dig the classic Tramp as much as anyone, but I've never been able to warm to most of Quietest......maybe it's that I've owned a first generation CD copy that leaves the whole thing limp.....no sass, weak highs and inaudible lows.....then again, maybe not - nothing ever caught my ear from EITQM, especially the epic Overture.

There are quite a few pieces from bands that aren't prog as a whole which nevertheless qualify as prog songs. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" are the most famous examples. "Fool's Overture" is another. I call this phenomenon "slipstream prog". But then Supertramp are much closer to being a prog band than either Queen or Led Zeppelin.

Come to think of it they were huge in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where i grew up. Saw them in Jarry Park with Jean-Luc Ponty opening up. So it was a win-win. Don't remember them playing Fool's Overture though.

Another Supertramp track, Another Man's Woman, was used for years as the intro to Informe Semanal, a tv program that has the record as the longest running over here (it still has the same place at Saturday night). They used the wonderful instrumental coda of the song.
And the guy who selected the intro theme had good taste, after that they used for another couple years the main theme from Bladerunner.

Tom Ozric wrote: Brilliant song !! But only the 'tramp's debut is full-blown Prog IMO.

Ironically one of their worst albums too, bar the very late offerings..

Their strength was song writing, not noodling and meandering all over the place.

Brilliant song !!
But only the 'tramp's debut is full-blown Prog IMO.

It's rarely mentioned here, so I guess you could say it's over looked.

That whole album is somewhat overshadowed by Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America, which is understandable as they are immeasurably superior albums IMO.

Fools Overture is very good though.

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yes it was used as the intro to w5

Logan wrote: It's not overlooked in my experience. I've known plenty of people who love it who are both into Prog and not into Prog, and it has been played on classic rock radio here in Vancouver regularly. To me it works well as a companion piece to Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding". The long Supertramp track that I think wonderful and hasn't got as much attention as I would like, at least that I've noticed, is "Try Again" off of Supertramp's debut album.