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Chipiron 
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 Posted: March 06 2006 at 10:06 |
 tuxon wrote:
Bloody well right is in my top 10 of most irritating songs of all time. But the rest of the album is very much a classic, I'm a huge fan of this band. Great music skills and a great recognisable sound. |
The same for me. I can't stand BWR  , but I love the classic albums of Supertramp (74/79) 
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Firepuck
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:13 |
tuxon wrote:
| Bloody well right is in my top 10 of most irritating songs of all time. But the rest of the album is very much a classic, I'm a huge fan of this band. Great music skills and a great recognisable sound. | | |
The same for me. I can't stand BWR  , but I love the classic albums of Supertramp (74/79) 
Me too - that song irritates me. Love Supertramp though, one of the few groups listed on this site that I can play with my wife in the car... well, there are now the Beatles of course. Guess my wife is turning into a bit of a prog head!
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Kryten : "'Pub'? Ah yes, A meeting place where humans attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks."
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:22 |
Their music is as infectious and catchy as a dose of syphillis! 
But, I cant help liking them. I've owned a Supertramp compilation for years, and listened to it every now and then. I bought 'Crime of the Century' at the weekend - it was in the bargain bin. Good melodies and a very original sound. They are very poppy, and I think thats why I'm not a BIG fan. I can hear the potential, but am dissapointed that the music doesn't quite get there for my taste.
Crime of the century = XXX
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 03:44 |
A full blown conceptual album, a stunning masterpiece and the first album I bought (almost as it came out, I was 11) and lyrically very strong
Not completely progressive I agree, but for me the weak point on the album, Dreamer is it. It has that w**ker-type melody you will find in future albums - Lady - Give A Little Bit - Breakfast In America title track - It's Raining Again (Almost one of those Nah-nah-nah- naaaaahh, nah-nah thing: that kid atitude)
School is a real art rock piece
BWR might be a bit weaker , but the lyrics are up there
Hide In Your Shell is another superb piece but not enough space is given for instrumental play
Asylum is full blown prog rock
Dreamer (see above but Thompson's bass line saves the day)
Rudy : the cornerstone of the album and anyone telling me this is not prog , does not know what prog is.
If Everyone Was Listening: not the most upfront tune and a slow sinker, but still very worthy of the album
Crime Of The Century: the closer which pushes the album to superior oeuvre status
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I personally love their debut album (typical proto-prog album) and Brother Where You Bound? is also a prog album
Edited by Sean Trane
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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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Chipiron
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 04:16 |
Firepuck wrote:
tuxon wrote:
| Bloody well right is in my top 10 of most irritating songs of all time. But the rest of the album is very much a classic, I'm a huge fan of this band. Great music skills and a great recognisable sound. | | |
The same for me. I can't stand BWR , but I love the classic albums of Supertramp (74/79)
Me too - that song irritates me. Love Supertramp though, one of the few groups listed on this site that I can play with my wife in the car... well, there are now the Beatles of course. Guess my wife is turning into a bit of a prog head!
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 A good reason to like them, really...
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zbida
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 04:28 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
I have just recently started getting into this band and I do agree that Crime of the Century is a great album.
Quick question...has anybody ever heard their first two albums and are they any good?I have seen those albums described as very proggy.
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I've got their first album 'Supertramp' from 1970. Very good and interesting debut, especially for fans. Sound rather much simple and 'archaic', piano not so distinct as later, first 'samples' of fantastic Hodgson's voice (Davies is definitely not good in singing - till today). My rating: 3,5 stars.
Their second 'Indelibly Stamped' is still out of my reach (since many years).
Really GREAT effort appears with 'Crime ...'.
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jaystone tdot
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Posted: March 08 2006 at 04:44 |
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I saw Supertramp in 1976, that was the "CRIME" tour, Maple Leaf Gardens, I was 13 then. Really set me on my way, wish I saw PINK FLOYD in 1978 "Animals" Montreal, mom would not let me go.
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Chipiron
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Posted: March 08 2006 at 04:59 |
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tdreamer
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Posted: March 08 2006 at 17:06 |
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The new Supertramp anthology is well worth checking out. I bought Crisis? What Crisis. & In the Quieter Moments . But haven't had a chance to listen yet.
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rupert
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 12:55 |
BLOODY WELL RIGHT IS... GREAT FUN, LADS ! 
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...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock !
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Raff
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 12:59 |
Fantastic album - a 5-star classic if there ever was one. And who cares if it's poppy at times? Pop is not necessarily a four-letter word (even though it has only three... ), when it's done in a tasteful and intelligent way. We're not talking Spice Girls here!
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horza
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 13:00 |
Live in Paris is great Supertramp
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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rupert
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Posted: July 14 2006 at 14:33 |
Horza and me at ONCE have something we agree about... MIRACLES HAPPEN ! 
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...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock !
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: July 14 2006 at 14:39 |
Amazing album from in my opinion one of the finest bands ever. Their output quality between Crime and Paris is almost unmatched.
To the Progtologist, their first two albums are probably considered proggier, but of much lesser quality. Both are good, around three star releases, but nothing to the scope of Crime.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 15 2006 at 16:07 |
My very first album bought (or at least in the first three) COTC is simply still one of my favorite
For a long time I thought Dreamer was the track I liked least because of the w**ker chorus (nah-nah-nah-nah), but the music on it (Thompson's bass) is still quite good. Nowadays I finf BWR the weaker rack , but the lyrics are still so very important to the overall concept of the album. No tracks is lesser than a 4*/5 on the album
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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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crimson thing
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Posted: July 15 2006 at 17:16 |
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I was given this one (CotC) & Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak as copies on cassette by a (then) girlfriend in 75 or 76 - and I still think it's one of the best albums ever.....(she also gave me some Wings stuff - and that's sh2te.....).....
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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rupert
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 13:47 |
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I think that "If everyone was listening" is a bit TOO larmoyante compared to the rest, and "Asylum" has a heavy-weight-feel though I still think of it as a great song. RUDY is my No. 1, followed by Hide in your Shell, School and CAS.
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...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock !
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"Crime Of The Century" supertramp
, but later I went to a gig of Roger Hodgson solo with his guitar and it was 