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"Fool's Overture" vs. "Funeral for a Friend"
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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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kenethlevine View Drop Down
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Points: 8951 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote kenethlevine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2023 at 19:49
Elton John by far, even then, and Supertramp's style has aged poorly IMO.  I can only listen to a few of their songs
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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.  

Funeral, on the other hand, starts four sides of moving pictures - each song a different film.  Funeral is such a proggy gas to start such a fun album.....first a some lite prog, then a ballad, then boppy pop, then a country-tinged number, then a whack at Jamaica.  Prime Elton - stuff that ping pongs in your head when you're out for shopping or taking a hike.  Fool's Overture never ever pops up into your head.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Points: 20240 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2023 at 01:24
Originally posted by Intruder 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.  
I'd rank at lieast one more as high and change one of your choices. 
 

Brother Where You Bound is possibly the band's proggier album and can be seen as a concept album (as for Crime), because it's extremely political (>> almost in a Roger Waters sort of way) and I believe it should be commercialized with the movie and other videoclips made at the time. 
(ditto for Waters' 80's release... Difficult to pry apart TFC, P&C and KAOS from the clips made at the time)

TBH, I can't stand Give a Little or Downstream, but I love everything else from Moments - which is more than I can say for Crisis.
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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