Supertramp: Worst to Best Albums
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- Y'all know what time it is! It's Worst to Best Album time. This time we're looking at a group that I grew up with: Supertramp! How does my list compare to yours? Let me know :)
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It really shocks me that we have so many differences, i would rank Breakfast higher, crisis lower. And many songs you really dislike, i really like instead. But it's your opinion and your taste. You're not saying "this IS good, this IS bad".
And we should all respect everyone's opinions. Good video!
Joaquín Velázquez finally someone gets it! :)
Of course that's what he's saying. They're called opinions.
He isn't portraying what he says as objective.
@@Flameking20 Not at all. It's very subjective.
@@steelyman08 Exactly
for me
1: Crisis
2:Crime
3:Even in the quietest moments
4:Breakfast in america
5:famous last words
All are such fantastic albums
Agree with the first four. Not sure about number five
Roger Hodskins wasn't on any Supertramp albums! Nor was John Halle Welly lol
You're correct. It's Roger Hodgson and John Helliwell in this band.
The guitar solo at the end of Goodbye Stranger is very underrated yet so magnificent. Same as Another's Man Woman.
I AGREE
Absolutely! Especially, Goodbye Stranger.
Crime of the Century Album In my very humble opinion, the greatest album ever!
While i personally don't agree, i can confirm that it's by far their best
School, Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, Rudy and the title track - what elso do I have to say?
@@Nikioko How about Hide in Your Shell? Still gives me chills every time I listen to. Such a moving song. Everything about it, just...perfect.
Crisis is a brillaint album, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. Thank you.
Crisis is a superb album ! It is second only to Crime. The melancholic mood of "Just a Normal Day" is perfect. And this is the song where the sharing vocal of Rick and Roger yelds the best effects
I put 'Crisis? What Crisis?' a smidge above 'Crime of the Century.' "Crisis' IMO is the PERFECT Supertramp album. That being said, "Hide in Your Shell' is my ultimate anthem.
You got it exactly right. Crisis What Crisis? #1 Crime of The Century #2. Hide in Your Shell best song.
Hey, bud, please! His name is Roger HODGSON, not HODSKINS!
Not as bad as doing a Rush worst to best and calling the lead singer Geddy Leech or something. But rather close! :)
Really? HAHAHAHA
This goof can't pronounce the names of the members or the names of the albums on any worst to best videos that he put together. If you want an even larger laugh watch his Worst To Best Yes Albums. He pronounces The Gates Of Delirium (The Gates Of Derillium) twice. He also mispronounces many other things on that video. He needs to go back to grade school.
@@TR-qg3jy I'll have you know that it's stupid to make fun of someone who mispronounces names. I can tell that you're new here for that reason alone. Notes has a form of dyslexia. He said it himself. It is common to mispronounce stuff when you have it. I think you should be the one educating yourself.
No it's not stupid and I'm Not making fun of anyone here. These are famous rock groups that people loved for years and these are members of these famous rock groups that people consider their idols. DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND LEARN THE PRONOUNCIATIONS BEFORE PUTTING THEM DOWN IN ANY WAY PLEASE. Thanks.
Huge Supertramp fan and discovered them during Crime but my top 4 are:
1] Crisis
2] Even in The Quietest Moments
3] Crime of the Century
4] Breakfast in America
The reason you love Crime and Crisis most is because both albums were produced by genius Ken Scott.
Also because they are the most prog, I believe.
Crime of the Century
Breakfast in America
Even in the Quietest Moments
Famous Last Words
Supertramp
Indelibly Stamped
Crisis What Crisis
Brother Where you Bound
Free as a Bird
Slow Motion
Some things Never Change
I would label Even in the Quietest Moments more prog than Crisis. Crisis is a collection of ten very melodic songs but isn't nearly as proggy as Crime of the Century and Fool's Overture is, arguably, Supertramp's proggiest song.
@@DonaldMains I never understood how Supertramp could be prog. RUSH was said to be prog. Yes is apparently prog. Supertramp sound like neither of them.
There are definitely proggy elements in Asylum, Rudy and Fool's Overtures. The constant throughout all of Supertramp's output is just lush, sublime melodies. Crisis is a very difficult album to classify because it's neither pop nor prog. @@Reel-Justice
Crime Of The Century is indeed a masterpiece. I listened to it again for the first time in about 40 years and was struck by how deft the arrangements are and also the subject matter is a lot more raw and honest than I remembered it. Crisis and Breakfast were the only other two I knew from back then, but I must know Quiet Moments so will have a listen. Great video as always. Thank you!
I'm going to take a stab and pressume that "School" was the first rock song to criticize British education 5 or 6 years before Pink Floyd did. Also, some of the lyrical subjects in Crime Of The Century reflect Dark Side Of The Moon in some ways, and the production reminds me of Moon a little.
I think you're right there - in fact much of Crime deals with mental health issues as does Dark Side.
Production production production and song writing!! Masterpiece!
All album order aside, "Fool's Overture" is just one of the best songs.
Also, "Goodbye Stranger" is one of the few songs I can actually play on piano. It's pretty much the first thing I play any time I step up to a keyboard.
Agree - Fool's Overture is real a super song - perhaps the best.
my favorite album by Supertramp is their debut
. . .Shadow Song & Words Unspoken. . . .
..."Try again. She replied to some story I told"... Great track!
Wouldn't disagree with that
the road I see before me, friend, has pain at every bend yeah
You are right.
My Favourites are in order:
1) Crisis? What Crisis?
2) Breakfast in a America
3) Crime Of The Century
4) Famous Last Words
5) Even In The Quietest Moments
6) Indelibly Stamped
7) Supertramp
anything past Famous Last Words i don’t count...
I think you pretty much nailed it. “Hide In Your Shell” is one of my favorite songs of all time.
…Can you hear what I'm saying
Well I'm hopin', I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
I know what you're thinkin'
See what you're seein'
Never ever let yourself go
Hold yourself down, hold yourself down
Why d'ya hold yourself down
Why don't you listen, you can
Trust me
There's a place I know the way to
A place there is need to feel you
Feel that you're alone
Hear me
I know exactly what you're feelin'
Cos all your troubles are within you
Please begin to see that I'm just bleeding to
Love me, love you
Loving is the way to
Help me, help you
Why must we be so cool, oh so cool
Oh, we're such damn fools
There is a common theme to every single one of this guy's videos & its that he hates all love songs no matter how classic they may be
Crime Of The Century is a masterpiece. Every single track of this album is epic.
C'mon Dude. Brush up.
>It's Roger "Hodgson"...Not ""Hodgkins".
>John Helliwell did a Ton of background vocals and had a huge impact on their final sound
It really sucks when a guy is ranking albums and too ignorant to know the name of a main artist!
He mispronounced "indelibly" as well No quality control .
@@robertcerney5797 he has dyslexia, give him a break
@@markrigg6623 He is dyslexic. It's a struggle
@@markrigg6623 He has dyslexia. It's a struggle
1. Crisis what crisis? 2. Even in the quietest moments 3. Crime of the century 4. Famous last words 5. Breakfast in America 6. Brother where you bound. The rest is no good.
a real Supertramp fan would not mispronounce their names.
Someone with dyslexia would mispronounce stuff, which is the case. He admit it himself.
Hodgskins 😂😂😂😂
Fascinating your reaction to breakfast! The back half is when the weed kicks in. Lord is it mine is phenomenal organ!
Hi Notes, good video, my own list would be (1) Breakfast (2) Crime (3) Quiet (4) Crisis (5) Famous, personally I think that their first two albums are stinkers and after Roger Hodgson left they weren’t Supertramp anymore. Should’ve changed their name to The Rick Davies Band. Cheers.
Rush: Worst To Best. Please
DJ Duendinho Robot Yessssssssssssssssss! (To Rush of course not yes the band because he has already done them lol 😂)
You got that now lol
@d oug Rush did 3 good albums : 2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemisphere. But only these three can be considered masterpieces to me ;) R.I.P. Neil Peart
1. Even in the Quietest Moments (Every song is perfect with the exception of Babaji); 2.Crisis; 3.Crime
Hi, can you do Radiohead please? I'll really like to listen to your opinion of each of their albums
Roger Hogkins got indeblibly stamped!
If "Crisis What Crisis" had "Fools Overture", it would have been every bit as good as "Crime Of The Century".
"Breakfast in America" is too sweet, too commercial for me.
To each his/her own (obviously), but I really love Lord Is It Mine on the "Breakfast" album. Surprised you had such a harsh view of that beautiful, heartfelt number.
Crime Of The Century is in my top ten albums of all time, School is such a brilliant track, as are all Roger's songs on the album
I totally respect your opinion and you bring up some really great points but when you said (about Breakfast) there's really no reason to listen to the second side... you completely lost me... DUDE!!! I know the songs are a little slower in the second half (and that's even arguable, the end of Nervous Wreck?!! C'mon bro! ;P ) but they are anything but a snoozefest!!! To each their own, I suppose - anyway keep up the reviews dude!
the second side is your nap after you eat a big breakfast
I agree with pretty much everything here except for one thing: I enjoy "It's Raining Again".
It's Raining Again is among my favorites of theirs, tbh, so I certainly can attest to that.
Same with Lord Is It Mine, funny enough. XD
Along with Chicago, I've never seen a band where the SUM was as exponentially larger than the individual parts. The vocalists for Chicago and Supertramp need each other because individually, each vocalist have a difficult time carrying an entire album.
can you get the band members' names correct?
I have to agree! I do have very sentimental feelings about Crime Of The Century. When the opening notes to School begin it takes me back to a time when I had just begun to investigate music. There was so much, and when you are on a budget you don't want to blow your album dollar on a stinker. This was a wise investment, and I still love it 40 years later.
please do gentle giant.
Pete VanDenberg yeaaah gentle Giant, three friends my fav!
What if i tell you that some things never change is my favourite album
Idk. I tought it was something by Zappa or The Mothers
Hi there. Just subbed you. You are half my age but couldn’t agree more with your ranking. B in America is great but over rated. To be a true fan of Supertramp, you have to realise the greatness of Crime. I was 15 when this record came out and Hide in Your Shell remains MY favourite Supertramp song as well. I have all of their albums as well and your top 3 is also mine. Great job!!! You know your stuff!!!
How can something be great but overrated? It's either great or it isn't. Breakfast is not only a great Supertramp album, it's one of the great rock albums, period.
Beninski707 Shell is my favourite song of all too💖
Not gonna lie: I got really excited when I saw this in my notifications, and what would you know I enjoyed the shit out of this.
And of course we got Crime of the Century rightfully at the #1 spot, and I totally agree with how perfect it really truly is (so much so that it's in my top 5 favorite albums ever).
What's that music that's being played at the very end of the video?
Fantastic, sir ! Several agreements with me !
1 - Crime Of The Century being the two best ones
2 - The assesment on Famous Last Words. Perfect
Desagreements : the debut album is a killer ! Does't matter it came "late"; its melodic quality is superb. The second one is also good because it variates a lot; exactly contrary to Some Things Never Changes greater weakness
In a overall view it's pity Rick&Roger stopped working together
1. Crime of the Century
2. Breakfast in America
3. Crisis? What Crisis?
4. Even in the Quietest Moments
5. Famous Last Words
6. Supertramp
7. Indelibly Stamped
8. Slow Motion
9. Free As A Bird
10. Some Things Never Change
11. Brother Where You Bound
also, I really really love Crime of the Century. Dreamer, Hide in Your Shell, Asylum, and If Everyone Was Listening are such excellent songs that they've defined the Supertramp experience more than, say, the stuff off Breakfast in America.
Best to Worst
1974 Crime of the Century (Duh....)
1977 Even in the Quietest Moments... (All Time Classic Album, Period.)
1980 Paris (Live)
(DVD Version is also Incredible!)
1985 Brother Where You Bound (UNDER-Rated Album!)
2010 70-10 Tour (Live) (A shame its not on DVD or CDs !!!)
1970 Supertramp
(Highly UNDER-Rated Album!)
1975 Is Everybody Listening? (Live)
(now on Crime 2CD Deluxe)
1975 Crisis? What Crisis? (Great follup to Crime of the Century !!)
1997 Some Things Never Change (Pretty Solid, could be a stronger 42 min CD)
1971 Indelibly Stamped (Country and Blues album, Their Weirdest One)
1982 Famous Last Words (Decent Album)
1979 Breakfast in America (Incredibly Over-rated !)
1973 Land Ho (7") (Obscure single with decent b side) (on Retrospectacle 2CD)
1999 It Was the Best of Times (Decent Live Performances of Oldies)
1988 Live 88 (Dated,not as bad as Free as a Bird. 2020 remixed by Steve Wilson would be sweet)
2002 Slow Motion (Seems very Bland....)
1987 Free as a Bird (Totally AWFUL..but "It's Alright, and I'm Beggin' You" is OK! )
Notes Some things never change, have the perfect opener, it reminds me of Steely Dan...
I Need to check out Slow Motion though. Free as a Bird could have been a decent album, live to the live versions they have done of those songs, listenable at-least, they could have done a so much better studio album thinking of their still unrecorded studio version of "you started laughing" which were played live all the time, and probably other oldies (goldrush ect). Regarding Breakfast so low in my list is i dont enjoy the whole of it, probably "Child of Vision" "Just Another Nervous Wreck" and "Take the Long Way Home" are the only GREAT songs, the rest are over-produced and it reminds me of bad disco music, but were the craze in 1979. These three are not disco or dated at all, they could fit nearly any other album they did, so its an important album. and Famous Last Words is an album Roger regret he did with them, there are moments on that too though. Roger`s first solo album is also just as important as Brother were you Bound "Open the Door" is also a strong album, i hope new studio music comes from his, and Supertramp too !!! Indelibly Stamped have some genious "Aries" "Potter" but there are so much filler songs on it. the DEBUT is a masterpiece to me, as Crime,Even,Paris......
I feel the same for the most part! I'd put crisis at number 4, breakfast at number 3, even in the quietest moments at number 2 and crime is definitely at number 1 for me. That's the album that's helped me appreciate supertramp. Great list my friend!
Don't know the early albums but top three are spot on for me. I found Breakfast in America a bit weak and 'glitzy' with the exception of Long Way Home which I think is an excellent track and one which I believe Roger penned many years before they recorded it. Crisis is a good all rounder but Crime is a classic. It is every bit as relevant and classy today. Let's not forget the quality of the production long before digital bits turned up. In fact, the more I listen to it, the better it gets. That is the sign of a classic.
I love listening to It's Raining Again immediately after Fool's Overture. It's dessert after a steak. School has the best piano solo.
Not sure if I should feel guilty that it's raining again is probably the only track I like from Famous Last Words
Would love to see you for this series for Camel
I would wholeheartedly agree with your top 5 picks. Crime Of The Century is superb.
Who is "Roger Hodgkins"?
horror/thriller author sez: Commercial appeal aside, this band reached its creative apex with "Even in the Quietest Moments" and the magnum opus of its entire catalog "Fool's Overture."
Spot on.Crime of the Century is one of the great classic rock albums...........a masterpiece..Love to know what Rick D's favourites are...Hope he's feeling much better & making a good recovery
Given that Supertramp is one of my favorite groups, I started listening to this video expecting that my well-established opinions would find a lot to argue about with anyone else's list.
And then, well, I pretty much agreed with everything you said for the first 12 minutes. I agree with the order and most of the comments for all these albums:
7 - Debut album
8 - Slow Motion
9 - Indelibly Stamped
10 - Free as a Bird
11 - Some Things Never Change
I'd say that "Some Things Never Change" is particularly disappointing given that some of these same guys had already worked on multiple albums that were masterpieces. I might be okay with it as a first album, but not coming from experienced song writers and musicians.
But then while you were reviewing "...famous last words...", you talked about how much you cringe at "It's Raining Again". Now I'm not going to claim it's a top-tier classic song, but it's a fine song for what it is. Which is just a friendly pop song. And because I find that song more enjoyable than you do, I'd give "...famous last words..." a higher score than you do.
But that's a "higher score" in the sense of "on the scale of 1 to 100", and it's not enough higher to change the rank in the list of Supertramp albums. So that album still comes in at #6 on my list. And I'd also agree with "Brother Where You Bound" as #5, although the title bugs my sense of english. It should be "Brother Where ARE You Bound"! So that gives:
5 Brother Where You Bound
6 ...famous last words...
And it's at this point our choices are going to diverge. While I like "Crisis? What Crisis?", I don't see that it has any stand-out masterpiece songs on it. And I enjoy the songs on the second side of "Breakfast in America" much more than you do.
To pick one example, casual conversations do tend to bore me in real life, so "Casual Conversations" seems like a perfect song to convey that feeling. And I think the mood of the music fits perfectly with the topic. It'd make no sense to have some up-tempo multi-layered instrumentation while the singer talks about something which literally bores them! IMO, the only weak song on the album is "Lord Is It Mine". It isn't a bad song, but I think it's a bit weak when compared to everything else on the album.
Also, when "Breakfast in America" was released, I was attending college. A college which focuses very strongly on science and engineering, so "Logical Song" was a huge favorite here. Not only that, but Supertramp included that college as part of its tour to support "Breakfast in America". That concert was just stunningly excellent, including all kinds of extra films added to match the songs. When the concert started out I had a great seat in the middle of the floor, and I thought the band was playing much too loud. By the time of the encore, I couldn't even hear the band because the audience was cheering so loudly. It was a great great concert!
And that concert focused mostly on songs from "Breakfast in America" and "Crime of the Century", along with "Give a Little Bit" because it was their most well-known song from their catalog. There were a few more songs from "Even in the Quietest Moments" and "Crisis? What Crisis?", but those didn't stand out compared to the rest of the concert.
So I'd have to list my top-four as:
1 Crime of the Century
2 Breakfast in America
3 Even in the Quietest Moments
4 Crisis? What Crisis?
IMO each one of these easily beats the one below it on the list, and if you add in "Brother Where (Are) You Bound", you have a group of albums which are head-and-shoulders above the rest of their albums.
I agree, Crime is their best on a song-for-song level. It is perfectly constructed, arranged, and the darkness and alienation of the songs make it compelling and personal. Breakfast's singles are better, but the lows are lower. I disagree with you, I love "Lord is it Mine?"
My favourite ST albums will always be Quitest Moments and Breakfast. No other albums have topped the songs from those 2 for me. Lord Is It Mine, the title tracks, Goodbye Stranger, Logical Song, Babaji, Fool's Overture, Give a Little Bit and especially From Now On. It's one of the few prog bands I don't consider too technical for their own good. Sure it's very poppy at times but I love it and my dad is still a big fan.
[1] Crime of the Century
[2] Brother Where You Bound
[3] Breakfast in America
[4] Crisis? What Crisis?
[5] Supertramp
[6] Even in the Quietest Moments…
[7] Free as A Bird
[8] Famous Last Words…
[9] Slow Motion
[10] Some Things Never Change
[11] Indelibly Stamped
your concept of videos is great, thank you , i hope you will continue like that !
Hey thanks for coming out with this, I had requested it in the past and I'm glad you came out with the goods. Although I think putting Breakfast in America at 4th is a bit of a sin, otherwise, I can't really disagree too much with your choices. I would rank them as follows:
11- Slow Motion 4/10
10 - Indelibly Stamped 4/10
9- Free as a Bird 5/10
8- Supertramp 5/10
7- Some Things Never Change 6/10
...and the next 6 albums are all records I really love:
6- Even in the Quietest Moments... 8/10
5- Famous Last Words 8/10
4- Brother Where You Bound 8/10
3- Crisis? What Crisis? 9/10
2- Crime of the Century 10/10
1- Breakfast in America 10/10
Love the way you describe personaly how certain tracks helped you in certain phases in your life. I fully concur with that, and know where your coming from! (Hide in your shell Is dreadful though)
My ranking if I had to make one
1.Crime Of The Century: 10/10 : Top 3 tracks: 1.Rudy 2.School 3.Asylum : Worst Track : Bloody Well Right
2.Even In The Quietest Moments: 9,6/10 : Top 3 Tracks : 1.Fool's Overture 2.Even In The Quietest Moments 3.Give A Little Bit : Worst Track : Downstream
3.Crisis? What Crisis?: 9,5/10 : Top 3 Tracks : 1.Lady 2.Another Man's Woman 3.Two Of Us : Worst Track : Poor Boy
4.Breakfast In America: 9,25/10 : Top 3 Tracks: 1.Child Of Vision 2.Gone Hollywood 3.The Logical Song : Worst Track : Casual Conversations
5.Supertramp (Selftitled) : 8,25/10 : Top 3 Tracks: 1.Try Again 2.Maybe I'm A Beggar 3.Surely (Reprise) : Worst Track : Nothing To Show
6.Famous Last Words: 7,25/10: Top 3 Tracks: 1.Waiting So Long 2.Bonnie 3.My Kind Of Lady : Worst Track : Put On Your Old Brown Shoes
7.Indelibly Stamped: 6/10: Top 3 Tracks: 1.Aries 2.Rosie Had Everything Planned 3.Your Poppa Don't Mind : Worst Track : Coming Home To See You
8.Brother Where You Bound: 5,5/10: Top Track: Even Open Door
9.Some Things Never Change: 5,25/10 : Top Track: Sooner Or Later
10.Slow Motion: 5/10: Top Track: Dead Man's Blues
11.Free As A Bird: 1,75/10 : Top Track: Free As A Bird
the live in paris album is incredible
1. Even In The Quietest Moments
2. Crisis What Crisis
3. Crime of the Century
4. Breakfast in America
5- Indelibly Stamped
6- whatever... Don't care... don't listen to 'em
Thanks for the reaction... Love your enthusiasm... and I relate to your comments about this band and how they hit that emotional spot when I was a teenager. Cheers!
Great Prog band of the 1970s
1. Crime of the Century
2. Crisis What Crisis
3. Even in the Quietest Moments
4. Breakfast in America
Hey, that’s the order they were released!
Indebidly?
Thanks for posting this list.
There are only 4 decent Supertramp albums
1 Crime of the century
2 Breakfast in America
3 Even in the quietest moments
4 Crisis, what crisis
That's it...
1 - Crime of the Century
2 - Breakfast in America
3 - Crisis? What Crisis?
4 - Even in the Quietest Moments
5 - Brother Where You Bound?
The rest are not worth mentioning
"Casual Conversations" rules
1 Crime/Breakfast 3 Crisis 4 Quietest Moments / 5 ...Famous / 6 Brother / 7 Supertramp / 8 Indelibly / the others are weak
Yes, Crime of The Century is a masterwork, easily #1. To me, Breakfast In America is #2, and while it's a very cheesy and somewhat dated album production-wise, it's got to be one of the catchiest track-lists in the annuals of Rock, I never grow tired of it.
Who's Roger Hodgkins and Bob Sibenburg?
Great Reviews! Love the personal tidbits that backup your choices! Music, just like movies, are at their best when they remind us of our past or mirror our current life experiences. Thank you for sharing!My top 3 are:1.) Even in the Quietest Moments2.) Breakfast in America3.) Crime of the Century
I understand you dropping Breakfast in America down a few pegs over side 2 of the album. Side 1 is up there on the all time great album side lists. I'm one of those people that also loved side 2. I didn't need those songs to be as big and bold as side 1. For me the weakest song, and a song I still enjoy, on the album is Just Another Nervous Wreck.
Supertramp's debut album, for me, is one of the best progressive rock albums ever made, course my fave by Supertramp
Love your content!! I'd love to see you do a worst to best on Kansas.
The first album is a masterpiece and one of the best I've ever heard. It is the best album by Supertramp.
I agree with your choices in terms of recognising the worst & the best of Supertramp’s albums. The only difference in order of preference is that I rate Famous Last Words higher than Cannonball.
I also recommend as a compilation for anyone wanting to own a good representation of their work, 'Retrospective, The Supertramp Anthology'. The five best albums are well represented but in addition you get the best track from the last five albums.
Great video. I absolutely agree with number 1, a fantastic album with some truly standout songs. I'd love to see you make more of these. Perhaps a Worst to Best of Electric Light Orchestra? I'd love to see that!
CRME OF THE CENTURY est vraiment excellent.
Par contre, je ne connais pas "crisis", Roger Hogson a dit que c'était son disque préféré.
Oui je suis nous sommes, le croissant, c'est magnifique, à dix heures moins le quatre.
Hodgson
Who the hell is “Roger Hodgkins”? What the heck does EXspecially mean? Perhaps you’re referring to Roger Hodgson?
Especially...Espresso
No “X”
Dude, don't be childish. Cut the guy some slack. He pronounces some names wrong or very idiosyncratic to say the least. So what.
When I saw Hodgson last year, the guy announcing him pronounced it "Hobson". I'd rather have a guy on youtube fuck it up than having it fucked up for a concert that I paid 70$ just to enter.
Arcana-NaN lmao xD
@@fattburger6801 the concert was great though!
he said drum mist instead of drummer as well LOL
Really enjoyed this video! Helped me discover a lot of supertramp i'd been missing out on. Please please please do The Worst to best Electric light orchestra Albums at some point!
Good listing! Personally I'd list 'Crime' and Crisis' as the band's masterpieces, however 'Breakfast' is the album I listen to more often, it's also perfect.
My Top 5 Albuns You Must Have From SUPERTRAMP:
1- Crime of the Century
2- Even in the Quietest Moments
3- Breakfast in America
4- Crisis? What Crisis?
5- Famous Last Words
This is completely subjective but here’s mine:
1. Quietest Moments
2. Breakfast
3. Crime
4. Crisis
5. Famous Last Words
6. Some things never change
7. Brother
8. Slow Motion
9. Free As a Bird
Paris and 70-10 are killer but those are live so I chose not to include them.
Also, I’m strongly of the opinion that “Lover Boy” is the best Supertramp song, but to each their own.
1. Crime 2. Breakfast 3 Crisis 4. Even 5. Paris 6.Supertramp 7. Famous 8. Indelibly. 9. Brother 10. Free 11. Some 12. Slow (there is no supertramp without Roger Hodgson)
I love broken hearted off slow motion.
Shout out for that spine tingling one note (almost) flanged guitar solo towards the end of Goodbye Stranger on Breakfast? One of the best 36 bars they've ever produced.
Thanks for putting your opinions out there. Of course I don't agree with some of what you say (we are all different after all with different tastes), the main disagreements being
1The first album is brilliant and criminally overlooked. Words Unspoken and Maybe I'm a beggar are sublime.
2 Indelibly is great too, ok a bit dodgy in parts but plenty of highlights. ...Rosie, Travelled, Forever, Times have changed
3 Downstream is one of the highlights of EITQM.
4 Breakfast is not top heavy, there isn't a weak track on it .
Interesting 24 minutes thou 🖒
I got to see them live in Ottawa during the COTC tour in Aug. 75. I can still remember wondering what the projector over my left shoulder was for. How they got the whole audience to scream in unison during School still sends chills down my spine. Incredible show. The encore was when I found out what the projector was for. During the long outro, the OCC faded into complete darkness. Then a pinpoint of light came out of one corner over the stage. It slowly grew into the COTC album cover! It just kept coming, even after the song ended, and we were cheering and leaving.
AS far as your ranking goes, my only difference would be Crisis? What Crisis? should be lower, while My choice for #2, would be EITQM.
Roger's last name is Hodgson, not Hodgkins.
Roger who?
There is no bad Supertramp album.
bellyofanarchitect Free As A Bird is awful.
@@obarg281 Not really. It's just a little upbeat.
bellyofanarchitect I think if it was not Supertramp and called something else then it would’ve been decent.
1. Crime of the Century
2. Breakfast in America
3. Brother Where You Bound
4. Even in the Quietest Moments…
5. Crisis? What Crisis?
6. …Famous Last Words
7. Supertramp
8. Indelibly Stamped
9. Slow Motion
10. Free as a Bird
11. Some Things Never Change
Do ELO, Kansas & Chicago worst to best
Yes, I want to see Kansas and Chicago
also add some Proto-Kaw to that line-up as well
Don’t think I‘d have the Patience or attention span to get through the Chicago list.
ELO might be tougher to do, as they don’t have any bad albums.
Sounds pretty right-on. Except I put Crisis? as #1. I just love all those songs!! / #2 Breakfast / #3 Crime / #4 Even / #5 (does it even really matter after those 4??)
No mention of the Wilson sisters on "Famous last words"?!!? C'mon, man.
I don't dislike it's raining again, but I didn't dig into that album too much. I also don't rate Breakfast very high. Yeah it has the hits, but I think it's a bit bland and a bit too much Roger's sound. I once saw The Logical Song played live by a jazz ensemble with a female singer and John Helliwell as a guest on sax (in a small café), and it was much better than the original imho. From their second album I always enjoy Coming Home to See You. Agree with the top three!!! Nice review!
I'm definitely into the "Crisis" league. By the way, I never felt it like an optimistic or summerish album. I find it a bit dark though. For my part, the second side is where the magic of the album lies, "The meaning" being my favourite.
Crisis, then Crime of the Century ,I like Indelibly Stamped, then Quietest Moments, such an underrated band overall, still some of their songs are classics, two brilliant vocalists and brilliant musicianship . Whats not to like?
I have to point out an aspect of your very worthy top 4 that often goes unmentioned: the sonic excellence of the recordings. A real audiophile sound system can enable a listener to easily differentiate good from mediocre recordings. Supertramp are right up there with Elton John, Dire Straits, and (some of) The Who (Who's Next) as rock recordings that exemplify what I call "breath of life" sonics, free of the signature spatial and equalization gimmicks that egotistical engineers apply all too often in an attempt to make their recordings sound "even better than the real thing".
You peed on my favourite one! It's raining again was Roger desperately trying to be friendly and "lets not fall out over me leaving."
I like Breakfast in America then Crime of the Century. I think breakfast is basically great all the way through and can listen to it again and again. It does hold a special place for me since the Logical Song and Breakfast in America were my quirky introduction to the group when they first came out and the Logical Song really hits me in the right place. I like their humor in this album. It is almost a perfect album for me. But I expect I am less a progressive fan than you. I like Rush a lot more than Yes and Dream Theater although I like the latter a lot also. I just like good songs with good grooves with good musicianship. Progressive music can suffer some with over playing (DT and bands like Mastadon especially (see progressive metal)) and trying to be too innovative versus just having good songs.