"Fool's Overture" vs. "Funeral for a Friend"

Intruder wrote: I enjoy three Supertramp albums from start to finish - the debut, Crime and Crisis.  There are gems scattered through the rest of the catalouge, but I can't say there's a great album outside the three mentioned.  The one album that's always left me cold was Quietest - I love the pop song to start but the rest passes by and leaves nothing behind.  I forget it the moment it passes.

Elton John by far, even then, and Supertramp's style has aged poorly IMO.  I can only listen to a few of their songs

Interesting.

The ccountry they become most popular is Canada, so ive read. The story of Rick Davies is quite interesting, not that the backround of Roger Hodgson, Bob Siebenberg, Dougie Thompson, John Halliwell or Richard Palmer James arrent interesting.

Edited by Icarium - September 10 2023 at 08:31

Musicians whom were involved with the musicians in Supertramp, previous to Supertramps beginning are Gilbert O'Sullivan whom played in band with Rick Davies and Reginald Kenneth Dwight whom played in Argosy, led by Roger Hodgson and had Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson on drums.

I heard Supertramp in a mall once, I was honestly surprised. But I guess they have a few famous songs, so I guess I should not be that surprised.  

^I wasn't able to embed it on here but if you go to youtube listen to his track "out of the blue" from his Blue Moves album. It might surprise you. It's probably more fusion than prog though. Also, the short track "theme from a non-existant tv series" from the same album. Both are instrumental.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - September 08 2023 at 21:25

Very good matchup. I voted both.

Fool's Overture 

By the way, I actually do like some Elton John tracks (Our Song, Rocket Man,...), but I don't expect of artists with other qualities to be "as proggy as they can", and the stuff that people think is "their most proggy" is often not what I'm attracted to. (I do understand why these two make sense as a pairing though.)

When i did this poll we didn't even have a Crossover Prog category. Supertramp was in Art Rock. I think I did it because there had been comments that Elton John had nothing to do with Prog, yet Fool's Overture, from a band in PA, has oft been considered a particularly Proggy Supertramp track and I have long closely associated "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" with "Fools Overture" -- good companion pieces to me. Bat Out of Hell may be Crossover Proogy but I don't get the same vibe from it as these two. Listening to that 10cc now and it's reminding me of Queen (great track regardless), and actually getting some of that Fools Overture vibe too. Maybe I would too off Bat out of Hell if I listened again.