Roger Hodgson - In the Eye of the Storm
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Topic: Roger Hodgson - In the Eye of the Storm
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Roger Hodgson - In the Eye of the Storm
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 03:13
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 03:41
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To close the album, Roger strikes a big one, Only Because Of You, a calm and sad lament (and album best) that seems aimed at Davies, whose shadow seems float all over this album, when it should've Roger's that should've soared over Brother Where You Bound. So for this first post-split album, Davies takes away the first inning with the outstanding Brother album, despite a meriting Hodgson effort with the present one. ------------- 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: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:39
| What he said! |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 18:13
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I like Roger's solo output more than the post Hodgson era of Supertramp. The reason is that Rick's Supertramp went into a jazzy-bluesy-funky direction, while on In the Eye of the Storm and Open the Door Roger stuck to the compositional techniques, influenced by classical music, that I always liked of the 'old' Supertramp. And for the poll: Only because of you, but the others are great, too. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 18:20
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Brothers where you Bound is brilliant though, -------------
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 18:50
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I just purchased this vinyl today for $1.99. Looking forward to hearing it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 21:01
I agree. Except for the funky Cannonball all other songs could have been on a Davies-Hodgson Supertramp album. But obviously during Famous Last Words both composers spared their best tracks for their first albums after the break up. The diversion of Supertramp's style began after Brother Where You Bound. |
aginor wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 02:42
Yes, I'd agree that Brother is easily the better post-split album (from far, too) , and Davies showed that he could indeed be Hodgson's equal in terms of deeper and more introspective songs >>> Brother doesn't miss Hodgson, but Davies clearly overshadows (involuntarily) Eye Of The Storm..
Roger's general hurt and angst hint that he'd had a lot of personal things (as resentments and bitterness) in his heart, and he tries to exort them in Storm. If you look at Storm's song titles, they can almost all relate to his feelings to Supertramp: it's an extremely painful, sore and bitter album, IMHO... Rick's mood seems almost as bitefull, but he chanels it better on his attacks on society rather than his ex-bandmate.
Actually I have no beef at all with Cannonball (love Davies' bitting vocals and lyrics), because if t had been a once-only groove thing, than things would be perfect. But Cannonball , despite its length, was a radio-hit in North America... (the first of Davies since Goodbye Stranger of Breakfast, which was filled with Hodgson's hits).... So it was probably tempting of Davies to repeat the formula, which he did twice on the poor Bird album and further on.
But for Words, I don't think anyone held back any songs for future releaes (the last two Hodgson tracks are still OK) .... It's clear there are tensions.... but I don't think that they calculated for a split... It was just the group out of steam and under the hangover effect of Breakfast
------------- 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: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 03:32
Roger is playing live in Glasgow tomorrow.
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Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 05:38
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The album was not to my taste, but Lover's In The Wind was pretty nice. ------------- http://www.lastfm.se/user/wilmon91" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 07:44
Read a bio on Supertramp a while back. If I remember correctly,tensions started after Crime of the century all ready. Breakup was due to Rick's wife was/became manager of the band at some point.Roger did not want that,so he said it was either her or him to leave.Rick did not want his wife to stop managing so Roger split. ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 09:59
Wife/girlfriend becomes manager of the band causing another band member to leave, where have I heard that before?
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 29 2011 at 02:13
It's like screwing in a tap in the spine of the band....
 ------------- 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: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 01 2011 at 06:36
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Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 06:56
| He's written some fine songs, but not enough! |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 07:18
Not that bad though,  Supertramp+Solo works= a bunch of good songs
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 07:26
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I wonder how much he have laying around and how much ends up on a album and I wish he made more studio albums
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Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: June 11 2011 at 00:24
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This was one of my favorite albums in the 90's. Must have heard it about 25 times or more. Only Because of You is probably my fav. track on it but I had to score one for In Jeopardy because it's a great, great track ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 12 2011 at 15:14
| In the eye of the storm is not the only album, Open the door is worth listening too |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 13 2011 at 15:13
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: June 14 2011 at 00:59
But it actually is "that typical old SP sound". That's why I wondered Roger is put in a different category than Supertramp... ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 14 2011 at 07:35
outside one track on Rites Of Passage with Terry Riley, most of his solo songs are not prog per se. ------------- 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 |