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    Posted: May 01 2017 at 15:06
Supertramp, as much as I love the band, really isnt prog. But a few songs are, including Fool's Overture which I think is an overlooked masterpiece in prog. What do you guys think? Do you think its overlooked?
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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.

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Points: 15186 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2017 at 16:16
I love it; and it ended up on rank 129 here, so it's certainly not totally overlooked:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=107690


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a unbelievable masterwork from the band in it,s prime, not only prog but a great album overall

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Points: 6451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2017 at 18:50
Originally posted by Logan 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.

As a fellow Canuckistanian maybe you can confirm something for me. There was a Canadian news program, maybe W5?, that used the synth riff from FO for the opening theme music. If it wasn't that then it was only on some local show from southern Ontario in the '80s.
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Points: 18995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2017 at 19:28
This and Telegraph Road by Dire Straits are two long tracks by bands who maybe aren't known for longer songs. Supertramp being more proggy than DS but over all probably closer to art rock where as Dire Straits were mostly just rock or roots rock.
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yes it was used as the intro to w5
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Points: 37525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2017 at 22:24
Watching W5 with my parents when they used that theme is a memorable part of my childhood (was a TV staple in the family house).

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Anthemic genius ! A fabulous piece I saw live At Parc Jarry, bewildering!
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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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Brilliant song !!
But only the 'tramp's debut is full-blown Prog IMO.
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i have the album. When I was buying albums back in the dark ages the question of whether or not it was a particular style never really entered my head. 
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2017 at 05:25
Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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.
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Great band! Really irrelevant to me what how their music would be categorized. 
School was the first I heard from them , their use of harmonica there was love at the first sight!
The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories...
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Points: 46 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2017 at 08:15
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.
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Points: 46 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2017 at 08:16
I don't think that Fool's Overture is overlooked, at least from my point of view. Supertramp were VERY big in Spain, where Breakfast in America broke record sales in its day.
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Points: 501 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2017 at 10:39
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.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2017 at 11:35
It had certainly been overlooked by me, as I'd never actually heard it. Supertramp have largely passed me by.

Now that I have finally taken the time to listen to it...I dislike it intensely LOL
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