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Topic: top 5 Supertramp songs (or 10)
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: top 5 Supertramp songs (or 10)
Date 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
 
 


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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date 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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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 09:13
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)  


Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 09:45
Originally posted by aginor 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


Posted By: Chris S
Date 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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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date 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


Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:55
Another honorable mention:
 
Downstream - Even.....
 
Davies at his best!


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Posted By: The Truth
Date 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 Embarrassed


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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 14:12
Originally posted by Sean Trane 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)
 
 
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.


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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 23 2010 at 04:16
Originally posted by Chris S 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


Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 00:46
Rudy
School
Crime of the Century
Fool's Overture
Brother where you bound


Posted By: akin
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 06:59
Try Again
Maybe I'm a Beggar
It's a Long Road
Crime of the Century
Rudy


Posted By: trackstoni
Date 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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Posted By: Icarium
Date 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)


Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date 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. Wink


Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 29 2010 at 15:19
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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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date 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 Big smile.
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.)


Posted By: Snow Dog
Date 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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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:34
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I've tried but I still don't get the appeal.



Well then.... Try Again! LOL


Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:35

1.- 5 Songs

  1. School
  2. Crime of the Century
  3. Give a Little Bit
  4. Fool's Overture
  5. 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

 


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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: August 29 2010 at 19:58
Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

Ok, 5 things for both of your questions:

1. The debut album reminds me a lot of King Crimson Big smile.
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.)
Just referencing point 2 above I would counter that by saying 1974-present day, no weak points, all musicians tehnically perfect. Why only up to 83? Hodgson left and they got betterWink

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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 07 2010 at 05:27

In chronological order....it'd take too much deliberation to put them in order:

Words Unspoken
Long Road
Surely
Aries
School
Asylum
Sister Moonshine
Soapbox Opera
From Now On
Fool's Overture
Take the Long Way Home
 
Really wish Hodgson would've stuck with the band and worked out his Eye of the Storm stuff with the band....the Davies' jazzy influence and Roger's voice and ideas worked like chips and vinegar.
 


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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 12:07
bump

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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 14:21
1.Fool's Overture
2.Bloody Well Right
3.From Now On
4.School
5.Crime Of The Century



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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 14:37
Good bumpClap

Difficult, but here goes:

1. Asylum
2. Fools Overture
3. Logical Song
4. Crime of the Century
5. Two of Us
6.  Lord Is It Mine
7. Rudy
8. A Soapbox Opera
9. From Now On
10. Ain't Nobody But Me

It will change by this time tomorrow, but I've recently done a few 'Tramp reviews, and have thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this seminal crossover band.


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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 27 2011 at 14:47
like the bumpy bears say, never enough bumps, one good bump is good for the health, ceveral bumps makes wonder for your ass/butt

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Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: August 16 2011 at 15:21
I can only think of two stand-out songs; The Logical Song and Dreamer.


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 30 2017 at 05:15
Rudy
Logical Song
Fool's Overture
School
Child of Vision
Don't Leave Me now
If Everyone Was Listening
Crime of the Century
From Now On
Take the Long Way Home


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 01 2017 at 16:12
1 Child Of Vision
2 Logical Song
3 Crime of The Century
4 Dreamer
5 Goodbye Stranger 


Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 09 2017 at 06:38
All but one are off just two albums..

Assylum
Rudy
Gone Hollywood
Take the long way home
Fools Overture
Dreamer
The logical song
Crime of the century
Hide in your shell

Oops went over the five limit...oh well sh*t happens when there's too many good things on the menu..

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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 09 2017 at 07:06
1. Fool's Overture
2. Hide in Your Shell
3. Try Again
4. Brother Where You Bound
5. Bonnie



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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 10 2017 at 06:03
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

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
 
I was thinking: wow, what an amazing list this isShockedSmile... iI should make it mine ClapStar
 
Then I saw I quoted myself LOLEmbarrassedCool


Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 12 2017 at 11:21
  1. Give a little bit
  2. Just Another Nervous Wreck
  3. Child of Vision
  4. Crime of The Century
  5. Hide in your shell
  6. Goodbye Stranger
  7. Gone Hollywood
  8. Cannonball
  9. From Now On
  10. School


Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 12 2017 at 18:14
I would add Try Again to any list.....in fact, I'd put the whole first album on the list over almost anything in the catalog.  I've broken out my 40 year old cassette copy and recommend it highly to any who doesn't already dig this gem.  

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