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Icarium 
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 07:51 |
1. chose youre 5 (or 10) Supertramp songs,
2. also 5 things about what makes Supertramp great or apeal to you as a fan of music
3. 5 general things about art rock/progressive pop as well, and Supertramp's role/contrebution in the genre
same concept as the 10cc and Roxy Music one
Edited by aginor - August 31 2010 at 07:24
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 08:35 |
Wow, that will be difficult
1- The whole of the Crime Of The Century album (which means that my #2 would be #9)
2- Fools Overture (Moments)
3- Surely:It's a Long Road (debut)
4- Quietest Moments
5- Better Days (Brother)
6- No In Between (Brother)
7- Brother where you bound
8- another man's women (crisis)
9- Try again (debut)
10- Nothing To Show (debut
11- Child Of Vision (Breakfast)
12- Babaji (moments)
13- Ain't Nobody but me (Crisis)
14- Cannonball (brother)
15- Aries (Stamped)
Crime was my first album bought with my hard-earned cash as a newspaperboy and seduced me with that concept that seemed to be written prcisely for me.
Brought some pop into prog, but they were the epitome of an art rock (US sense, which meant prog rock) band with Argent
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Icarium
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 09:13 |
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what about the incredible underrated song Wating So Long from Famous Last Words, such a hidden em, great arrangment, agressive, heavy guitar, Morricone escue, tango rythem, leyers upon leyers, and epic segment with Roger Hodgsons greatest guitar solo moment (epic)
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 09:45 |
 aginor wrote:
what about the incredible underrated song Wating So Long from Famous Last Words, such a hidden em, great arrangment, agressive, heavy guitar, Morricone escue, tango rythm, leyers upon leyers, and epic segment with Roger Hodgsons greatest guitar solo moment (epic) |
Well if you saw from my list, I selected nopne from FLW, and there is a perfect reason for it:: I don't like it at all; only two tracks are acceptable (IMHO), and they're the last two: Waiting So Long and Don't Leave Me Now
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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
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Chris S
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:38 |
Nothing to Show - debut
Aries - Indelibly Stamped
School - Crime
Crime of The century - Crime
Aint Nobody But Me - Crisis
Even In The Quietest Moments - Even..
Gone Hollywood - Breakfast
Child of Vision - Breakfast
Somethings Never Change - Somethings never...
Tenth Avenue Breakdown - Slow Motion
one for luck:
Cannonball - Brother Where You Bound
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:53 |
1. Rudy
2. Bloody Well Right
3. Even in the Quietest Moments
4. Cannonball
5. Try Again
6. School
7. Better Days
8. Crazy
9. The Logical Song
10. Goodbye Stranger
11. Crime of the Century
Honorable mention: Brother Where You Bound
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Chris S
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:55 |
Another honorable mention:
Downstream - Even.....
Davies at his best!
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 12:01 |
1. Asylum
2. School
3. Hide In Your Shell
4. Rudy
5. Crime of the Century
I'm a big fan of Crime of the Century  |
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Posted: July 22 2010 at 14:12 |
Sean Trane wrote:
1- The whole of the Crime Of The Century album (which means that my #2 would be #9)
2- Fools Overture (Moments)
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Same for me, and then tack on Take the Long Way Home at #10.
Crime of the Century is one of my very favorite albums.
Edited by Tarquin Underspoon - July 22 2010 at 14:13
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Posted: July 23 2010 at 04:16 |
Chris S wrote:
Another honorable mention:
Downstream - Even.....
Davies at his best! |
Yup it's good too. so are From Now On and Loverboy on that Moments album >>> Actually thinking about it Moments is quite a Davies album.
But....
For me Asylum and Rudy are better and a good deal of Brother top that track too
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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
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Posted: July 24 2010 at 00:46 |
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Rudy
School
Crime of the Century
Fool's Overture
Brother where you bound
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 06:59 |
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Try Again
Maybe I'm a Beggar
It's a Long Road
Crime of the Century
Rudy
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:42 |
Maybe I'm a Beggar Try Again Crime of the Century Another man's Woman Words unspoken
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Tracking Tracks of Rock
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Posted: August 10 2010 at 19:49 |
my topp 5 song are as follows
1. Crime of the Century
2. Soapbox Opera
3. From Now On
4. the Shadow Song
5. Surely part 2
5 things I like about them
1. their sence of writing melodies
2. their abilaty to be both simplistic but if they wanted they were abel to be dramatic and grandious, yet also make ethereal qualities
3. diversity in mood between songs, eclectisisme, their combination of jazz, folk, blues, beatelesque, symphonic elements during the scope of an album
4. by being more then addaptive to utilise, and experiments with dynamic within sound and to fully take advantedge of climaxes during their songarrangement
5. unorthodox song structures, lyrics are often storyline, albums could be operas and be set on stage
whats ther importance in music and art rock, well thei are one of the orginaters of Crossover prog, thei were partly in the shapings and wrote some of the "rules" for accesable prog (together with the Moodys and the Harums)
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 14:12 |
1 Fool's Overture 2 Rudy 3 Soapbox Opera 4 From Now On 5 School 6 Hide in your shell 7 Even in the quietest moments 8 Try Again 9 Aubade...Words Unspoken (see it as one track) 10 Shadow Song Your other two questions would take me too long to explain. 
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Icarium
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 15:19 |
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oh you could at least trye, i'm not asking to write an essay, only 5 points you like about the band, and 5 what they have controbuted to music or art rock in general
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:11 |
Ok, 5 things for both of your questions: 1. The debut album reminds me a lot of King Crimson  . 2. In the classic line up 1974-83 all musicians were technically perfect, no weak points. 3. In my favourite era 1974-79 all songs are very densely composed down to the last detail. Not only referring to dynamic and rhythmic change and construction, but also every single note/sound of every instrument seems to be important and fitting into the composition, no superfluous jamming around. 4. Genuine mixture of classic, rock, pop, jazz and blues. (4a. After Colosseum and Van der Graaf Generator Supertramp finally established saxophone in rock music.) 5. The live recordings of that time proved, that they were capable to play their songs on stage as perfectly as on their studio albums. (Some call it lack of improvisation, I call it perfection.)
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:22 |
I've tried but I still don't get the appeal.
I used to like Dreamer and Give a Little Bit on the radio, so those two are my list.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:34 |
Snow Dog wrote:
I've tried but I still don't get the appeal.
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Well then.... Try Again! 
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Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:35 |
1.- 5 Songs
- School
- Crime of the Century
- Give a Little Bit
- Fool's Overture
- A Soapbox Opera
2.- What makes Superttramp great: The music, what else?
3.- Contribution to Prog: I honestly don't believe they made great contributions to Prog, simply because they never were Prog (IMO of course), except making more popular the genre, being that many people see them as Prog.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - August 29 2010 at 19:40
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