If you are fans of The Office, you've heard a version of Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" (which you should definitely check out!) - I think Michael Scott sang "Goodbye Toby"
OK. Not always but very often, the sax is the coolest, most earthy and soulful instrument ever. There are loads of rock/pop songs that feature it and it makes the song. I once more must quote the Dire Straits’ song Expresso Love where it goes “ I was made to go with my girl just like a saxophone was made to go with the night.
If you look more closely at the album cover, you'll see that it's actually a parody of the New York City skyline as seen from an airplane passing the Statue of Liberty. :-) The waitress serving breakfast is posed like the Statue, with the serving tray and glass of juce in place of the torch and the menus in place of the tablets; and the city behind her is composed of dishes, cups, and silverware stacked and arranged to look like New York. Those details are kind of lost on a 5-inch phone screen, though...
Precisely. But I can see that this imagery might be lost on the Smartphone generation. Today, we drive through McDonalds, order the #3, substitute OJ for the coffee, hand the cashier a credit card, and she/he hands us breakfast in a paper bag and the OJ in a paper cup with a straw. Most of us get the coffee later at Starbucks drive-thru. Back in 1979 (which was the right on the cusp of the apparently contemptible '80s, musically, for Alex) lots of people like myself bought "Breakfast In America" on the strength of the album cover alone. Definitely the most imaginative ever conceived, and perfectly executed. The image of the coffee shop waitress as the Statute of Liberty, with the tall glass of orange juice as the lamp was so perfectly iconic. By 1979, most immigrants coming to America, and the gateway of NYC, saw the emblematic Statute of Liberty out the window of a jet airliner, not from the deck of a ship (having made the voyage in steerage class). It was wink-and-nod clever and instantly recognizable as said "It's Morning In America" four years before President Ronald Reagan would use the phrase for his 1984 re-election campaign. Perhaps most importantly, it acknowledged that Supertramp was an English Band that by then was making its home and music in the USA.
The most profound thing Hodgeson ever wrote. Bloody brilliant. Beautiful harmonies and still instantly recognisable after half a century. I adore it and always have done.
Child of Vision. I remember buying the 45 single of Take the Long Way Home, and the B side was Rudy, which I had no clue about. I was probably 14 at the time. After listening to Rudy, I listened to it again. I think I preferred the B side over the A side after a while.
1979 was a good year. This album, the Cars second album Candy-O, Led Zep had in Through the Out Door, Pink Floyd The Wall, and that's just off he top of my head.
Also Damn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty, Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young, Armed Forces by Elvis Costello, and in the last few days of the year, London Calling by The Clash.
The lyric ARE the song in this case. They stand as poetry all on their own. Music rarely if ever had that anymore. Not to mention how mechanical an fake it is. I'll be so glad when the last of the beat box drum machines is crushed beneath the feet of the tired brainwashed masses like they did against Disco...and disco was actually good music! Listen to a BeeGees song...there's depth there. Anyone, and according what I've seen of all the upper middle class teens whose parents unwisely spent their college money to present me with another copycat rap song where they pretend to be poor kids in a ghetto (this is glamorous) on my TH-cam ads, and this is literal, can make another copy of another copy of another copy of another rap song. Wtf is wrong with you kids? I was tired of cocaine fueled crappy copycat songs of the 80s after one year and retreated to my older brothers Zeppelin, Yes, CSNY and Rush. I can't imagine that most of this gen has never heard real creative music played on actual instruments. Do they think dancers make those sounds?? It's sad really.
@@jetblack.7186 To be fair, they DO pay attention to the lyrics as well. I've heard them telling rather insightful things about some of the lyrics of the songs they've reacted to.
I disagree...I don't think it's a good idea to do another one of their pop songs next...I think it should be something off of Crime of the Century like Rudy or School.
I'd be honored if some Supertramp fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
I agree JJ. It is one of the few albums I really enjoy every track on and can listen to from start to finish numerous times. Pop that CD in and just start driving!! Great road album.
Yes!!!! Listen to Crime of the Century or the artistic Fools Overture, One amazing Progressive Rock Group. Roger Hodgeson sings This one (Logical song) roger sings more of the commercial stuff but Rick sings more of the loud progressive stuff. But both are amazing Singers May i Recommend "Take the Long way home" off the same album which is favorite off the album.
I saw them in Chicago sometime in the 80's after Roger had left. Thought I'd be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. You could tell they went to great efforts to get the sound and acoustics right. The perfectly reproduced some of their most atmospheric tunes. Right up there with Floyd in sound quality. It was great!
The innocence of youth crashes into adulthood. Nasty ass sax, mixed sooo well, lyrically true, compilation of so many sounds at so many angles. Junglistic in sound they definitely found their groove. Always easy to listen to. Solid band, professionally done.
I just love Dreamer, an earlier hit song from their breakout album Crime of the Century. Roger Hodgson is just one of those underrated geniuses of rock, he still tours with that great voice.
Hodgson was the pop element of Supertramp, Davies the prog element. The 'Brother Where You Bound' album absolutely proved that they could live without Roger.....and indeed improve without him.
Totally agree! This song evolves from an innocent wonder of the world to a border manic breakdown of the ugliness and demands of society. 1, 2, 3...5! Overlooked indeed. Of course there’s U2 and Bono’s use of “uno, dos, tres...catorce” 🤦🏻♂️
I love all of those, but I think Rudy is my recommendation, as it is so different from the Logical Song, and really shows Supertramp's ability to produce different music, different sounds.
That's a song to pay attention to the lyrics. "Goodbye Stranger" is another hit from the album, which rocks a bit harder. What else came out in 1979? "My Sharona" by The Knack.
I'd be honored if some Supertramp & Roger Hodgson fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
Logical Song is one of these songs that once it came to you you will love it forever in many ways. the rhythm, so catchy, the lyrics, that you can feel as your own feeling about how useless can be what you are taught at school, anyway, it's a great song that always sound fresh to me, and I've been listening to it since it was released in 1979. Roger Hodgson has that quality to write about his own feelings and all of us feel that are our own feelings. He writes from his heart, what he sings is so real, that all of us, feel like if we had writen it ourselves. And all that magic, all that sound is even better when you see him on stage with his amazing band. WoW! You have to live it! Many feelings, goosebumps every time. A real must attending to his shows, because, when you go for the first time, you will need more and more and you'll never get tired to see him, no matter how far you have to travel to enjoy him live. I am counting days to next year to live it again.
“In 1980, Breakfast in America won two Grammy Awards, including Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, and Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.“
Nonsense. You're out of your depth. I've recorded several times at The Village, Studio D, and I know their people and their history. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, and *_Don't. Talk. Shit._*
The song was written by Roger Hodgson. It was about how his parents sent him of to a private boarding school to be conditioned and packaged before being sent out into the world. Even in the quietist moments, Lord is it mine and Easy does it to name just a few great Supertramp, Roger Hodgson songs.
@@walterchillkowski8585 not bullshit actually. Hodgeson is an old boy of Stowe school, one of England's most expensive private boarding schools. Then at night when all the worlds asleep/the questions run too deep/for such a simple man. I mean, come the fuck on. Brilliant.
"Oh won't you sign up your name We'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!" - Supertramp // Always loved these lyrics.
The group was filled with multi-talented musicians, they all played several instruments, it was phenomenal seeing them live switch from one to another. One of my favorite guitar pieces is in Goodbye stranger, you should check it out.
JJ Casey I changed my mind. They could definitely do Even in the Quietest Moments now. I just listened again, to that 6:30 of heaven. The orchestration is something that alters my body. Rich.
These are the 3 that I would recommend as well. Edit: I misread the OP, "From Even In The Quietest Moments." as being the *song* "Even In The Quietest Moments" but now I see you meant "from the *album* _Even In The Quietest Moments_ . Oops. Still, I do recommend the song of that name, along with the other two songs mentioned.
One of my favourite all Time bands, Should listen some of the songs off Their Crime of the Century Album Like, School, Bloody well Right, Hide In your Shell, Dreamer, Rudy and the title track. It’s one of the best progressive rock albums ever
He’s right “Crime of the century” Is their masterpiece album and Breakfast in America is their Commercial breakthrough. “Dreamer” is my favorite “School” amazing “Hide in your shell” Great “Rudy” masterpiece.
that's Roger Hodgson on the guitar solo... he rarely showed it off, but man can he shred... I'd be honored if some Supertramp & Roger Hodgson fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
I'm British and only realised this week that Supertramp are too! I was 10 when this song came out. I assumed they were an American band, it all sounds so U.S. to me. Did you get that guys??? I'm very proud they are fellow Brits - genius songwriters and performers.
No. Knew they're British, aware of them from their start. You can tell by lead singer's intonation. Band sound not US to me at all . I'm British,surprised another didn't spot it
Another great prog pop respite from the disco that was overwhelming the airwaves at the time. I love that moment during the fade-out when Roger Hodgson sings the word "digital" and we hear the sound of an early hand-held video game, and Hodgson responds with "One... two... three... five!" The lyrics really, really spoke to me as a disgruntled teen. This was the first non-Beatle-related album I ever bought with my own money.
Sax - John Anthony Helliwell (born 15 February 1945, in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English musician and the saxophonist and occasional keyboardist, woodwind player, and background vocalist for the rock band Supertramp. He also served as an MC during the band's concerts, talking and making jokes to the audience between songs
An oasis of great music in the otherwise barren late 1970's. Goodbye Stranger, Give a Little Bit, Take the Long Way Home, Breakfast in America all solid choices.
Guys I’m a middle aged boomer and I really appreciate your smart, articulate analysis of this tune and all the others. I really appreciate your channel!
Born in 1961. Probably attended 300+ Concerts in my lifetime. Breakfast in America Tour at the US Spectrum in Philly in '79.. 20th row or so... Top 5 in my concert experiences. So Damn Good!
Crime of the Century is their best album. The sauce.. School, Rudy or Crime of the Century, The hit...Bloody Well Right Supertramp very talented band... These will bring Andy way up from a B rating...
Mi amigos time to check out a Canadian band that will be new to the channel and that would be "I Like to Rock" by April Wine. Great band that rolls out 3 guitarists yet the song starts with a bass riff. Also if you ever swing around back to Springsteen just do his/their first hit "Born to Run". I am 99% sure Andy would be adding that to his driving rotation.
It's like an exotic food you've never tasted before. When you first taste it you are like Meh, but once you try it again a couple of times, you fall completely in love with it and can't stop eating it.
We loved that album when it launched and after. A sound like no other. The sax, the interesting percussion, the lyrics. A deceptively cheerful sound for a serious topic.
I'm SO excited you've finally listened to Supertramp! I can tell you were taken by surprise to the point where you couldn't really fall in love with the song but believe me, Supertramp totally grows on you! They have a style all their own, quite different from anyone else. Heavy keyboards and wind instruments. Huge catalog of great stuff. Please, please do more! The album 'Crime of the Century' is on par with 'Breakfast in America.' So here's my story - I loved them when they were at their peak in the 70s and then in the 80s I was working at an eye doctor's office when John Helliwell, their kickass sax and woodwind player, came in for an appointment. I was excited but acted like a normal human and didn't freak out. The doctor clearly had no idea who he was so afterward I explained. Apparently, he went home and told his two teenage sons who went nuts so when Helliwell came back for his recheck, the doctor asked for his autograph for his kids. Helliwell graciously complied. I was actually kind of embarrassed. lol The office was in West Hollywood and had a very large celebrity clientele but that was the only time the doctor asked for an autograph. Since that was 35 years ago, I think I'm not breaking any confidentiality issues by mentioning this. :)
this was my favorite Supertramp song.... I do like Breakfast in America is my 2nd favorite lol..... I always felt like the little high pitch noises and stuff were after he was programed to be logical.... etc.... he was malfunctioning lol...showing signs of the fun child he once was. Even though I was mostly Rock....like ACDC.... I did like Supertramp, The Cars, Romantics, Clash, Ian Hunter.... I liked a variety.
I only saw Supertramp live once in the eighties at their prime and it was outdoors on a rainy night and in the middle of this song,the power went out and their was a 45 minute delay before the show started again.But rather than starting the song over they picked up right from the point the power died,just like putting a needle back on the record.A sign of pure professionals.Always been one of my favourite bands,with such meaningful lyrics.I especially love this song.
Oh man GREAT choice! Breakfast in America is a great album. Goodbye Stranger, the title track and Take the Long Way Home alll awesome! Lol The Logical Song taking illogical turns. Yeah not a funk band. Goodbye Stranger is a little more Steely Dan-ish😃 BTW if you want funk no better band than Grand FUNK railroad. “Inside Looking Out” live. It’s incredible
Grand Funk Railroad, although I do like them, is criminally unfunky for having such a name when compared to all of the other funk bands of the era. Unfortunately, calling it funk doesn't automatically make it so. Good band but yeah, not very funky.
LOVE Supertramp! This song is genius. Take the Long Way Home to me is their masterpiece. Bloody Well Right is tied for favorite. They're just so good . Their lyrics and arrangements are so on point. Good one guys!
You guys really didn’t understand the cover on the Supertramp breakfast in America album it’s brilliant. It’s a statue of liberty, holding up a glass of orange juice like a torch and the menu is the book that she holds seen from a plane arriving from England for. I have over 200 framed albums on my walls because I collect the art. This is one of my favorite.
Just listening to that has made me go and listen to Breakfast in America. Roger Hodgson is still performing live and gives a brilliant concert. One of really great 70s British bands .
Crisis? What Crisis? is also a masterpiece. This is one of the greatest bands of all time! You can’t go wrong with any of their music. I don’t think that their earlier 2 (?) albums-before Crime-are of the same caliber as the rest, but there is still some wonderful music on those, as well. Kind of like looking at childhood photos and getting a glimpse of what’s to come.
Right on. I was in jr high school and already cynical about what adults expect from people. The more educated people become, the more they have to figure out what life means to them and some people go their whole lives without self realization. "Please tell me who I am."
You guys NEED to check out their "Crime of the Century" album. It's my favorite Supertramp album with so many good songs on there. "School," "Bloody Well Right," "Hide In Your Shell," "Asylum," "Dreamer," "Rudy"... The WHOLE album is so good!!
Goodbye Stranger...………...one of my favorites. btw, There are a lot of late night flights from London to NYC...…..arriving just in time for Breakfast in America.
Kate Murtagh, the waitress (“Libby”) on Supertramp cover, passed in 2017. She was an American actress and singer-comedian. Her father was well known since 1920s with “then new” movie theaters: Grauman's in LA, Lafayette Square in Buffalo, NY , and Paramount in Brooklyn, NY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murtagh
They add new sound elements so perfectly and those elements are placed perfectly so they flow so naturally and enticingly. The clarity of the vocals is perfect. The lyrics draw you in right away. A perfect musical creation.
A great band that brings back high school memories for me! Must do Dreamer or Bloody Well Right off of Crime of the Century! Or Fools Overture and Even in the Quietest Moments.
"School" was the Precursor to Logical Song's concept of being Forced/Molded into a "Societal Norm" after being Free as a Young Child. Their, in my opinion , Finest Moment.
I was 21 and living Hayman Isd in far North Queensland Australia. I had finished my shift at one of the island bars and went back to my room. My mail was on my bed, and amongst the letters was a small padded bag from my Mah. Inside was an audio cassette and a letter. The letter read my mum was listening to Fm on the way to work, and Supertramps “ Crime of the Century “ came on. She pulled the car over and waited for the back announcer to I’d the song. She ordered the Record, that day and taped it for me and sent it. I gotta say I was blown away. The lady had great musical taste.
They were band of the year. The sounds were made from anything they could find in the studio at that time. Saw them live in 1975. Sounded just like the album. Crisis what crisis album.
Super excited to finally check out Supertramp!! What’s the next BANGER?! 🤟🏻🔥😁
Andy & Alex Truckin By The Grateful Dead please! ✌️ ☮️
Faces Stay with me
Frank Zappa. Inca Roads, Cosmik Debris, Peaches en Regalia, Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Just a few
If you are fans of The Office, you've heard a version of Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" (which you should definitely check out!) - I think Michael Scott sang "Goodbye Toby"
OK. Not always but very often, the sax is the coolest, most earthy and soulful instrument ever. There are loads of rock/pop songs that feature it and it makes the song.
I once more must quote the Dire Straits’ song Expresso Love where it goes “ I was made to go with my girl just like a saxophone was made to go with the night.
Goodbye Stranger, Take the Long Way Home
These 2 are my go-to's on the album. I love the atmosphere of each of these
Gone Hollywood
Long Way Home..oh, yeah..
Dreamer!
@@davebramble2444 How many times can I hit the thumbs up for Dreamer ... YES!!!!
If you look more closely at the album cover, you'll see that it's actually a parody of the New York City skyline as seen from an airplane passing the Statue of Liberty. :-) The waitress serving breakfast is posed like the Statue, with the serving tray and glass of juce in place of the torch and the menus in place of the tablets; and the city behind her is composed of dishes, cups, and silverware stacked and arranged to look like New York. Those details are kind of lost on a 5-inch phone screen, though...
This. Absolutely. Closer inspection will be rewarded.
Precisely. But I can see that this imagery might be lost on the Smartphone generation. Today, we drive through McDonalds, order the #3, substitute OJ for the coffee, hand the cashier a credit card, and she/he hands us breakfast in a paper bag and the OJ in a paper cup with a straw. Most of us get the coffee later at Starbucks drive-thru.
Back in 1979 (which was the right on the cusp of the apparently contemptible '80s, musically, for Alex) lots of people like myself bought "Breakfast In America" on the strength of the album cover alone. Definitely the most imaginative ever conceived, and perfectly executed. The image of the coffee shop waitress as the Statute of Liberty, with the tall glass of orange juice as the lamp was so perfectly iconic. By 1979, most immigrants coming to America, and the gateway of NYC, saw the emblematic Statute of Liberty out the window of a jet airliner, not from the deck of a ship (having made the voyage in steerage class). It was wink-and-nod clever and instantly recognizable as said "It's Morning In America" four years before President Ronald Reagan would use the phrase for his 1984 re-election campaign. Perhaps most importantly, it acknowledged that Supertramp was an English Band that by then was making its home and music in the USA.
ronforeman ,👊👍✌️👈
Thank you!! I see this album cover differently now.
It was a precursor to Ronald Reagans 1984's Morning in America political campaign television commercial in away.
This song gives me CHILLS.
Nostalgia.
Mornings, radios, schoolbus rides.
Now, decades later...
Initiated, Contemplated...
Educated.
Yes, I first heard Supertramp on a school bus! And this was in the 2000s.
There are no superlatives that adequately express how good this song and album are.
The most profound thing Hodgeson ever wrote. Bloody brilliant. Beautiful harmonies and still instantly recognisable after half a century. I adore it and always have done.
Same. It’s a masterpiece. I knew that as a ten year old and age has only cemented that opinion.
Hodgeson did another song with a similar kind of growing up and being disillusioned with the world theme in "Had a Dream."
Supertramp - Bloody Well Right next! a banger
Well yes you're right.. bloody well right
the live at Paris version, OBOI
Right (quite right!)….You're BLOODY WELL RIGHT!!
Hell yeah my dude!!
You got a bloody right to say...🎶
Some of their best songs are “Crime of the century”, “School”, “Goodbye stranger”, “Rudy”, “Babaji” and so much more. Check them out!
Don't forget the catchy Give a Little bit
Asylum was, to me, the best song on the album. Great one of the best albums there ever was
Oh yes, "Goodbye Stranger" is great.
"Bloody Well Right".
Child of Vision. I remember buying the 45 single of Take the Long Way Home, and the B side was Rudy, which I had no clue about. I was probably 14 at the time. After listening to Rudy, I listened to it again. I think I preferred the B side over the A side after a while.
1979 was a good year. This album, the Cars second album Candy-O, Led Zep had in Through the Out Door, Pink Floyd The Wall, and that's just off he top of my head.
Peter Hineinlegen Candy-O is the Shizz!
Also Damn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty, Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young, Armed Forces by Elvis Costello, and in the last few days of the year, London Calling by The Clash.
Van Halen 2...
I have always said that 1979 was the best year for album Rock. So many good ones .
XTC--Drums & Wires
Elvis Costello--Armed Forces
Joe Jackson--Look Sharp
Boomtown Rats--Fine Art Of Surfacing
You talked right over "oh presentable, a vegetable"… one of the *MOST PERFECT* (and dark) rhymes in the whole song.
They don’t listen to the lyrics. In any of their reactions. Just the music. Sad really.
The lyric ARE the song in this case. They stand as poetry all on their own. Music rarely if ever had that anymore. Not to mention how mechanical an fake it is. I'll be so glad when the last of the beat box drum machines is crushed beneath the feet of the tired brainwashed masses like they did against Disco...and disco was actually good music! Listen to a BeeGees song...there's depth there. Anyone, and according what I've seen of all the upper middle class teens whose parents unwisely spent their college money to present me with another copycat rap song where they pretend to be poor kids in a ghetto (this is glamorous) on my TH-cam ads, and this is literal, can make another copy of another copy of another copy of another rap song. Wtf is wrong with you kids? I was tired of cocaine fueled crappy copycat songs of the 80s after one year and retreated to my older brothers Zeppelin, Yes, CSNY and Rush. I can't imagine that most of this gen has never heard real creative music played on actual instruments. Do they think dancers make those sounds?? It's sad really.
I agree! The greatest lines in the song.
@@jetblack.7186 To be fair, they DO pay attention to the lyrics as well. I've heard them telling rather insightful things about some of the lyrics of the songs they've reacted to.
He spoke over a good sax part too. Oh well, must be the excitement!
Was listening to Supertramp on tape cassette on lunch break first job in my little red Subaru! Almost 50 years ago! 🎶💙🎶💙🎶💙🎶💙
Supertramp IS different. "Take the Long Way Home" should be next
Yes this should be next
the live version!
I disagree...I don't think it's a good idea to do another one of their pop songs next...I think it should be something off of Crime of the Century like Rudy or School.
Yes, agreed. Brilliant song.
Yes! Long way home should be next.
The whole Breakfast in America album is EPIC. Supertramp is such a great, classic and underrated band.
I'd be honored if some Supertramp fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
I agree JJ. It is one of the few albums I really enjoy every track on and can listen to from start to finish numerous times. Pop that CD in and just start driving!! Great road album.
Hardly underrated.
@@kcw absolutely!
It's just a shame that Hodgson is such a jerk.
Yes!!!! Listen to Crime of the Century or the artistic Fools Overture, One amazing Progressive Rock Group. Roger Hodgeson sings This one (Logical song) roger sings more of the commercial stuff but Rick sings more of the loud progressive stuff. But both are amazing Singers May i Recommend "Take the Long way home" off the same album which is favorite off the album.
I saw them in Chicago sometime in the 80's after Roger had left. Thought I'd be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. You could tell they went to great efforts to get the sound and acoustics right. The perfectly reproduced some of their most atmospheric tunes. Right up there with Floyd in sound quality. It was great!
Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moments are their best albums.
Totally agree...they should do something less popish next.
fubblert, WOW 🤩
I love Live In Paris.
I was always a fan of their song “Dreamer”.
Troy W love that song.
Me too. Great song.
I second that - I think, that's my favourite of the Supertramp songs I know!
Oh yeah! Dreamer from 1974. Their first big hit.
I much prefer the live version off the Paris album
The innocence of youth crashes into adulthood. Nasty ass sax, mixed sooo well, lyrically true, compilation of so many sounds at so many angles. Junglistic in sound they definitely found their groove. Always easy to listen to. Solid band, professionally done.
Yep
I just love Dreamer, an earlier hit song from their breakout album Crime of the Century. Roger Hodgson is just one of those underrated geniuses of rock, he still tours with that great voice.
Oh awesome pick 👍
dcanmore Great song
Yep, Dreamer....
Hodgson was the pop element of Supertramp, Davies the prog element. The 'Brother Where You Bound' album absolutely proved that they could live without Roger.....and indeed improve without him.
"One two three FIVE!" is one of the most sublime and probably overlooked lyrics in rock lyrics...
Totally agree! This song evolves from an innocent wonder of the world to a border manic breakdown of the ugliness and demands of society. 1, 2, 3...5! Overlooked indeed. Of course there’s U2 and Bono’s use of “uno, dos, tres...catorce” 🤦🏻♂️
It's got to be from the holy hand grenade sequence from The Holy Grail
This whole album is a masterpiece IMHO.
It’s true, one of the best albums of all time
100%
"Breakfast in America"- The only album that at 1 time, I had the record, the 8 track, the audio cassette and the CD! "Child of vision" is my fave song
I haven't played it for a while now. I still know it's somewhere in my vinyl collection gathering dust!
Alan Parsons Eye In THe Sky album. Same here
Careful... I'm going to start to suspect that there are people
out there with excellent taste in music...
But did you have the reel to reel?
Child of Vision is absolutely the best thing you can do for your ears!!!
Supertramp is amazing - you will be amazed at their musical talent as well as lyrics, like no other band. Goodbye Stranger is AMAZING - have fun!!
Crime of the Century is another awesome album - Bloody Well Right, School, Asylum, Rudy and Dreamer are great
Bloody Well Right
I love all of those, but I think Rudy is my recommendation, as it is so different from the Logical Song, and really shows Supertramp's ability to produce different music, different sounds.
That's a song to pay attention to the lyrics. "Goodbye Stranger" is another hit from the album, which rocks a bit harder. What else came out in 1979? "My Sharona" by The Knack.
My Sharona rocks!!!!
Hell, yeah! Do MY SHARONA!
except when Michael Scott sings it.
Next one should be "Take the Long Way Home" - Their signature song.
I'd be honored if some Supertramp & Roger Hodgson fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
I'll throw a "Please" on that!
whazzuphere YES! That would be awesome !
Speak for yourself. This is their song. 😉
I would have said Logical Song, School, or Bloody Well Right before Take the Long Way Home.
This album came out the year as I arrived in Canada as a refugee. This brings back so much memories. One of the greatest albums, ever!
Wow! That must have been an incredible journey 🙏🏼🌷
Logical Song is one of these songs that once it came to you you will love it forever in many ways. the rhythm, so catchy, the lyrics, that you can feel as your own feeling about how useless can be what you are taught at school, anyway, it's a great song that always sound fresh to me, and I've been listening to it since it was released in 1979. Roger Hodgson has that quality to write about his own feelings and all of us feel that are our own feelings. He writes from his heart, what he sings is so real, that all of us, feel like if we had writen it ourselves. And all that magic, all that sound is even better when you see him on stage with his amazing band. WoW! You have to live it! Many feelings, goosebumps every time. A real must attending to his shows, because, when you go for the first time, you will need more and more and you'll never get tired to see him, no matter how far you have to travel to enjoy him live. I am counting days to next year to live it again.
Should have started with "School", guys. The album "Crime of the Century" is their masterpiece. In fact, do the entire Side 1! :)
Listen to this man, he's talking sense. Listen to the whole Crime Of The Century album.
The entire Album. Crime of the Century is a masterpiece! I think it is a top 20 album of all time...
correct answer
Crimes of the Century had so many great songs.
Louis Rondeau Exactly
Given how much you liked that sax I'd say you have to check out Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Possibly the single best use of a sax ever.
Chris, don't forget Traffic's The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys!
Great guitar solo too.
Agreed!...And I dated his Niece Kerri.. :-)
Chris G , Oh hell yeah! One of the best songs Ever written! 🎷👍
Jungleland sax solo is another good one
“In 1980, Breakfast in America won two Grammy Awards, including Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, and Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.“
This album was one of the first recorded using digital technology. That's why it sounds so clean.
Nonsense. You're out of your depth. I've recorded several times at The Village, Studio D, and I know their people and their history. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, and *_Don't. Talk. Shit._*
I think it has more to do with the senseabilities of the time. Wanting less noise and bleed from other player in the room. But I could be wrong.
Really? Thats interesting. Thanks.
The song was written by Roger Hodgson. It was about how his parents sent him of to a private boarding school to be conditioned and packaged before being sent out into the world.
Even in the quietist moments, Lord is it mine and Easy does it to name just a few great Supertramp, Roger Hodgson songs.
Still, Roger is such a jerk, dissing on the other band members, very low. I guess that the 'packaging' worked.
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex Bullshit, he's a man telling his experience.
@@walterchillkowski8585 not bullshit actually. Hodgeson is an old boy of Stowe school, one of England's most expensive private boarding schools.
Then at night when all the worlds asleep/the questions run too deep/for such a simple man.
I mean, come the fuck on. Brilliant.
I’ll put my vote in for an album listen of, IMO, their masterpiece: Crime of the Century.
Exactly!
Even in the Quietest Moments.
To me, Crime of the Century is Supertramp's goto album. Not this one.
ah, yes. Yes please.
"Fools Overture"
"Rudy"
"School"
"Bloody Well Right"
"Even in the Quietest Moments"
"Crime of the Century"
Yup! all of those. Plus the entire Breakfast album!
you mean the whole live in paris album? ;)
All top drawer songs!
All awesome especially live
@@Exeler-genannt-Vogelsang The whole live in Paris video.
“Goodbye Stranger” and “Just another nervous wreck”
Just Another Nervous Wreck is one of my all time favorite songs ever. And Goodbye Stranger is just as close to perfection as one can get.
Goodbye stranger , it's been nice , hope you find your paradise . Tried to see your point of view .
"Oh won't you sign up your name
We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!" - Supertramp // Always loved these lyrics.
The group was filled with multi-talented musicians, they all played several instruments, it was phenomenal seeing them live switch from one to another. One of my favorite guitar pieces is in Goodbye stranger, you should check it out.
Goodbye Stranger = yes!
There is a Swiss?2 English,1 Scot and the drummer was American,I think
The song Give a little bit. From Even in the Quietest Moments. And Take the Long Way Home.
JJ Casey I love Even in the Quietest Moments, LOVE it...but thought these guys that like bangers so much might not want to start with that one.
JJ Casey I changed my mind. They could definitely do Even in the Quietest Moments now. I just listened again, to that 6:30 of heaven. The orchestration is something that alters my body. Rich.
These are the 3 that I would recommend as well.
Edit: I misread the OP, "From Even In The Quietest Moments." as being the *song* "Even In The Quietest Moments" but now I see you meant "from the *album* _Even In The Quietest Moments_ . Oops. Still, I do recommend the song of that name, along with the other two songs mentioned.
Try "Crime of the Century" - its a masterpiece.
Yes, I guess my favorite too. So amazing.
Rudy is also epic
It is.
"Crime of the Century" is their "Dark Side of the Moon"
I agree. This is the go to album. "Hide in My Shell" is a banger as is "School".
One of my favorite groups. Knew Roger and the guys back in the day. Talented folks. Breakfast in America put out some serious hits way back.
The lady serving Dennys' for me signifies The Statue of Liberty especially with the NYC backdrop.
It's obvious. She even has her right arm held up holdng a platter instead of a torch.
They won a Grammy for the cover!
Young whippersnappers might not recognize NYC with the Twin Towers represented though.
Yep it's totally a take on the statue of liberty. With Manhattan in the background made out of 'breakfast' paraphernalia (egg cartons and silverware)
One of my favourite all Time bands, Should listen some of the songs off Their Crime of the Century Album Like, School, Bloody well Right, Hide In your Shell, Dreamer, Rudy and the title track. It’s one of the best progressive rock albums ever
Cadan Richards .
Hell yeah!
You speak my mind. Great taste!
The Tubes - What do you want from life
Hide in Your Shell is one of my favorites. Not a banger, but it's a songwriting gem.
He’s right “Crime of the century” Is their masterpiece album and Breakfast in America is their Commercial breakthrough. “Dreamer” is my favorite “School” amazing “Hide in your shell” Great “Rudy” masterpiece.
Great album!! many hits off that LP. The song "Goodbye Stranger" has a phenomenal guitar solo fading out
that's Roger Hodgson on the guitar solo... he rarely showed it off, but man can he shred... I'd be honored if some Supertramp & Roger Hodgson fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of IT'S RAINING AGAIN on my YT channel in tribute to this legendary 70s/early 80s band. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and everybody stay safe.
100% agree
My favorite song by Supertramp! Happy to see you both enjoyed this as much I do!
I'm British and only realised this week that Supertramp are too! I was 10 when this song came out. I assumed they were an American band, it all sounds so U.S. to me. Did you get that guys??? I'm very proud they are fellow Brits - genius songwriters and performers.
No. Knew they're British, aware of them from their start. You can tell by lead singer's intonation. Band sound not US to me at all . I'm British,surprised another didn't spot it
@@johnm9845 Gosh, aren't you clever!
That’s why the album is “Breakfast in America”. They had recently moved to LA from England.
I think half of them were American, not the lead singer though.
@@ashyclaret Just the drummer was American .
Red Rider’s “Lunatic Fringe” is another example of the, “constant upward motion” type of song you’ve referenced here.
Love that tune. I also love the movie Vision Quest that featured it.
For the longest time I thought it was Pink Floyd that performed that song.
Love Lunatic Fringe, White Hot & Don’t Fight it! Fantastic songs with great lyrics.
Agree with the OP’s comment, too.
Another great prog pop respite from the disco that was overwhelming the airwaves at the time. I love that moment during the fade-out when Roger Hodgson sings the word "digital" and we hear the sound of an early hand-held video game, and Hodgson responds with "One... two... three... five!"
The lyrics really, really spoke to me as a disgruntled teen. This was the first non-Beatle-related album I ever bought with my own money.
Oh, and the song was a March release... so it was a spring song for me.
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“Crime of the Century”, "School", "Bloody Well Right"
"School" is so damn jazzy and catchy, I love it.
Yes! The best songs.
I think Crime of the Century album is a bit better.
@@tracytaylor5115 Any song on Crime of the Century is amazing
Yes!
Sax - John Anthony Helliwell (born 15 February 1945, in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English musician and the saxophonist and occasional keyboardist, woodwind player, and background vocalist for the rock band Supertramp. He also served as an MC during the band's concerts, talking and making jokes to the audience between songs
I saw them in concert in 1979 in Tucson. Still one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Amazing talent.
Just spent yesterday listening to all things Supertramp. Karma!
Me Too!!! Working from home - grooving to some COtC.
An oasis of great music in the otherwise barren late 1970's. Goodbye Stranger, Give a Little Bit, Take the Long Way Home, Breakfast in America all solid choices.
The "Denny's Lady" remind you of anything that should be there? Statue of Liberty maybe?
“Crime of the Century” is THE album to do. School... just amazing.
Guys I’m a middle aged boomer and I really appreciate your smart, articulate analysis of this tune and all the others. I really appreciate your channel!
SCHOOL IS A MUST HEAR ! My Personal Favorite! Start at the beginning.
BLOODY WELL RIGHT and GOODBYE STRANGER. Both have amazing guitar work!
This whole 1979 album is one of the best ever recorded. Most of the songs were individual chart toppers. This is a vastly under appreciated band.
Born in 1961. Probably attended 300+ Concerts in my lifetime. Breakfast in America Tour at the US Spectrum in Philly in '79.. 20th row or so... Top 5 in my concert experiences. So Damn Good!
You should definitely do “Goodbye Stranger”!
Crime of the Century is their best album. The sauce.. School, Rudy or Crime of the Century, The hit...Bloody Well Right Supertramp very talented band... These will bring Andy way up from a B rating...
Outstanding choice.
Yes finally súpertramp! Please do School it’s a great prog rock song I know Andy will dig 😉 kind of pink floyd esque
But better😉
SCHOOL would have been my pick too. LOVE the transitions in it.
Mi amigos time to check out a Canadian band that will be new to the channel and that would be "I Like to Rock" by April Wine. Great band that rolls out 3 guitarists yet the song starts with a bass riff. Also if you ever swing around back to Springsteen just do his/their first hit "Born to Run". I am 99% sure Andy would be adding that to his driving rotation.
It's like an exotic food you've never tasted before. When you first taste it you are like Meh, but once you try it again a couple of times, you fall completely in love with it and can't stop eating it.
This is a very dark song, fellas, this has sinister undertones. A GOAT.
SuperTramp “Take the long way home”, “Lord is it mine”, Even in the quietest moments”, and “ Give a little bit”,
So big in the 70's. Roger Hodgson wrote some cool stuff. Goodbye Stranger and Breakfast In America were hits off the same album.
A timeless classic song. Look up the lyrics and read them. Very interesting lyrics and true about life. Great reaction as always.
We loved that album when it launched and after. A sound like no other. The sax, the interesting percussion, the lyrics. A deceptively cheerful sound for a serious topic.
I'm SO excited you've finally listened to Supertramp! I can tell you were taken by surprise to the point where you couldn't really fall in love with the song but believe me, Supertramp totally grows on you! They have a style all their own, quite different from anyone else. Heavy keyboards and wind instruments. Huge catalog of great stuff. Please, please do more! The album 'Crime of the Century' is on par with 'Breakfast in America.'
So here's my story - I loved them when they were at their peak in the 70s and then in the 80s I was working at an eye doctor's office when John Helliwell, their kickass sax and woodwind player, came in for an appointment. I was excited but acted like a normal human and didn't freak out. The doctor clearly had no idea who he was so afterward I explained. Apparently, he went home and told his two teenage sons who went nuts so when Helliwell came back for his recheck, the doctor asked for his autograph for his kids. Helliwell graciously complied. I was actually kind of embarrassed. lol The office was in West Hollywood and had a very large celebrity clientele but that was the only time the doctor asked for an autograph. Since that was 35 years ago, I think I'm not breaking any confidentiality issues by mentioning this. :)
Great story! Thanks for sharing with us 😀
One of my favorite bands from the 70s. It’s addictive music. Listen to more.
Great to see so many new bands recently! Hope to see Cheap Trick’s - “Surrender” from At Budokan one of these days.
Big Sky Neal Cheap Trick yes, but I'd have to go with Dream Police.
Surrender, a compare and contrast... Budokan to studio. The Live at Budokan IS a banger.
I'm a LONG time Cheap Trick fan but don't think "Budokan" was their best, just their best-selling.
Saw them live live 8 times! Cool af!
Live like dammit, like!
Breakfast in America!! Excellent. Logical is one of my all time favorites!!
this was my favorite Supertramp song.... I do like Breakfast in America is my 2nd favorite lol..... I always felt like the little high pitch noises and stuff were after he was programed to be logical.... etc.... he was malfunctioning lol...showing signs of the fun child he once was. Even though I was mostly Rock....like ACDC.... I did like Supertramp, The Cars, Romantics, Clash, Ian Hunter.... I liked a variety.
I only saw Supertramp live once in the eighties at their prime and it was outdoors on a rainy night and in the middle of this song,the power went out and their was a 45 minute delay before the show started again.But rather than starting the song over they picked up right from the point the power died,just like putting a needle back on the record.A sign of pure professionals.Always been one of my favourite bands,with such meaningful lyrics.I especially love this song.
Please do "Take the Long Way Home" or "Goodbye Stranger" next. This album is worth continuing to explore.
Oh man GREAT choice! Breakfast in America is a great album. Goodbye Stranger, the title track and Take the Long Way Home alll awesome! Lol The Logical Song taking illogical turns. Yeah not a funk band. Goodbye Stranger is a little more Steely Dan-ish😃 BTW if you want funk no better band than Grand FUNK railroad. “Inside Looking Out” live. It’s incredible
Easily one of the biggest albums of that era. No collection was complete without it.
Grand Funk Railroad, although I do like them, is criminally unfunky for having such a name when compared to all of the other funk bands of the era.
Unfortunately, calling it funk doesn't automatically make it so.
Good band but yeah, not very funky.
@@davearonow65 I agree. If they want to try something a bit funky, I suggest "Superstition" or "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder.
@@otisdylan9532 yup. Those would work fine.
LOVE Supertramp! This song is genius. Take the Long Way Home to me is their masterpiece. Bloody Well Right is tied for favorite. They're just so good . Their lyrics and arrangements are so on point. Good one guys!
You guys really didn’t understand the cover on the Supertramp breakfast in America album it’s brilliant. It’s a statue of liberty, holding up a glass of orange juice like a torch and the menu is the book that she holds seen from a plane arriving from England for. I have over 200 framed albums on my walls because I collect the art. This is one of my favorite.
Definitely check out “Goodbye Stranger.” It’s my favorite by them.
Just listening to that has made me go and listen to Breakfast in America. Roger Hodgson is still performing live and gives a brilliant concert. One of really great 70s British bands .
Full album "Breakfast in America" - is their masterpiece
It is not their only one, Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moments were better IMO.
@@blanewilliams5960 I like Breakfast in America the best but those are classics also.
Crisis? What Crisis? is also a masterpiece. This is one of the greatest bands of all time! You can’t go wrong with any of their music. I don’t think that their earlier 2 (?) albums-before Crime-are of the same caliber as the rest, but there is still some wonderful music on those, as well. Kind of like looking at childhood photos and getting a glimpse of what’s to come.
Lyrically this song is AMAZING. I was 8 in '79 when it was out... and it affected me immensely. From then on I knew grown ups were wrong about a lot!
Right on. I was in jr high school and already cynical about what adults expect from people. The more educated people become, the more they have to figure out what life means to them and some people go their whole lives without self realization. "Please tell me who I am."
Crime of the Century was their breakout album. The song Bloody Well Right is one of their best.
The first song 'School' is an epic opening to an album. They're all amazing songs on it though.
You guys NEED to check out their "Crime of the Century" album. It's my favorite Supertramp album with so many good songs on there. "School," "Bloody Well Right," "Hide In Your Shell," "Asylum," "Dreamer," "Rudy"... The WHOLE album is so good!!
Their Best Album !!!👍
Goodbye Stranger...………...one of my favorites.
btw, There are a lot of late night flights from London to NYC...…..arriving just in time for Breakfast in America.
As soon as it was over I wanted to get your reaction to "Goodbye Stranger". Excellent as usual gentlemen.
"School" "Crime of the Century" "Goodbye Stranger" ("School" is my personal favorite Supertramp song.)
One of my late wife's Lin fave songs. Hope she can hear it x
Kate Murtagh, the waitress (“Libby”) on Supertramp cover, passed in 2017.
She was an American actress and singer-comedian.
Her father was well known since 1920s with “then new” movie theaters:
Grauman's in LA, Lafayette Square in Buffalo, NY , and Paramount in Brooklyn, NY.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murtagh
They add new sound elements so perfectly and those elements are placed perfectly so they flow so naturally and enticingly. The clarity of the vocals is perfect. The lyrics draw you in right away. A perfect musical creation.
A great band that brings back high school memories for me! Must do Dreamer or Bloody Well Right off of Crime of the Century! Or Fools Overture and Even in the Quietest Moments.
"School" would have been a great song to start with.
Yups!!!
Yes!
"School" was the Precursor to Logical Song's concept of being Forced/Molded into a "Societal Norm" after being Free as a Young Child. Their, in my opinion , Finest Moment.
I was 21 and living Hayman Isd in far North Queensland Australia. I had finished my shift at one of the island bars and went back to my room. My mail was on my bed, and amongst the letters was a small padded bag from my Mah. Inside was an audio cassette and a letter. The letter read my mum was listening to Fm on the way to work, and Supertramps “ Crime of the Century “ came on. She pulled the car over and waited for the back announcer to I’d the song. She ordered the Record, that day and taped it for me and sent it. I gotta say I was blown away. The lady had great musical taste.
They were band of the year. The sounds were made from anything they could find in the studio at that time. Saw them live in 1975. Sounded just like the album. Crisis what crisis album.
Take the Long Way Home is my fave off that album, and one of my fave songs in general
Now Gents, it’s time to go to “School”.
“Take The Long Way Home” and “Bloody Well Right” are better songs than this one IMO.
Goodbye Stranger. God I love this band.
Quite Right
I like the Logical Song better than those 2. But all of them are great! Many more also.
"Just another nervous wreck" is a tremendous song from this multi-platinum album.
Lord is it Mine, Even in the Quietest Moments, and Downstream also deserve mentions.
The shear cleverness of the lyrics is outstanding.