"Breakfast In America" my second ANALYSIS of Supertramp and I'm LOVING THIS!
Vložit
- čas přidán 24. 04. 2023
- Kirk snuck a Supertramp song on my playlist last time and it absolutely shocked me how intricate and beautiful it was. I needed more! "Breakfast In America" was your second most recommended song? Album? Both? Well, let's do the album then, one song at a time!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Supertramp performing "Breakfast In America" for the first time.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Performed by
Roger Hodgson: lead vocals, piano, pump organ, electric guitar
Rick Davies: harpsichord, synthesizers, vocals
John Helliwell: clarinet
Dougie Thomson: bass
Bob Siebenberg: drums and percussion
Slyde Hyde: trombone, tuba
Words and Music by Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I definitely recommend watching the original video without interruptions. Here's the link: • Supertramp - Breakfast...
Show Supertramp some love: / supertramp - topic
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WE HAVE MERCH! Check-out the full line-up here: thecharismaticmerch.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🎧 Elizabeth’s favorite headphones 🎧 : imp.i114863.net/zayoEM
Music Gear Questions? 🎤 See my list of recommendations: imp.i114863.net/yRyGoV
WANT MY CHAIR? I don’t blame you…and here’s a link to make it even sweeter:
secretlab.co/?rfsn=4692958.b2...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🎙️Podcast: thecharismaticvoice.com/podcast/
🌐Website: thecharismaticvoice.com
📸Instagram: / thecharismaticvoice
🧑🤝🧑Patreon: / thecharismaticvoice
📺Twitch: / thecharismaticvoice
📰Our FREE Newsletter: eepurl.com/gz7Z_z
-------------------------------------COURSES------------------------------------------
🎵MUSIC APPRECIATION COURSE🎵
Want to understand how to listen to and appreciate music more? My Music Appreciation course is now live. Take a look at thecharismaticvoice.com
🎶DEMYSTIFYING SINGING🎶
My intensive 7-week course on vocal foundations includes weekly group sessions and private lessons. Learn more at thecharismaticvoice.com.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have a sister channel: THE SINGING HOLE. Join us there to examine how ordinary creatures create extraordinary sounds. / @thesinginghole
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#supertramp #Reaction #TheCharismaticVoice
-------------
It's weird how you forget just how much you love a song until you hear it after not hearing for awhile.
these renewed joys are why i visit Elizabeth's site and other music reactions.
And in some ways, really hearing it for the first time after having listened to it hundreds of times over the years. I get a refreshed point of view after each of her in-depth reactions.
Indeed
I know you like to watch the live performances, and Supertramp are great live, but you are missing out a bit by not hearing the studio versions. The production on their albums is incredible. Especially on “Crime of Century” which is my personal favorite album of theirs.
Quite so, Chris, I've (also) just made that very same point.
Absolutely agree on both points.
Yeah I have to say that Crime Of The Century was one of their best. I saw their first US concert of Crime Of the Century and was hooked ever since.
And as old as it is, you cannot hear its age production-wise... absolutely outstanding sound quality, and some of their best compositions, too
Indeed....just like Pink Floyd....the live is great but the studio tells the tale!!!
Supertramp is one of the most underrated bands. So unique.
Couldnt agree more, I was 13 when I first heard them, 48 now and have loved them ever since but they had never hit big time which has always made me wonder why. They have it all
Unique sound...maybe because no guitars?
Underrated? By whom? They were huge in the mid 70's. The problem was that they had not a very great stage presence. They were too much interested in just making music and forgot that rockmusic is also about showmanship. The only member of the group who got that was John Helliwell. That's why he made the announcements during the concerts, and not Hodgson or Davies, even though they were the composers and lead singers.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Underrated by classic rock fans who weren't alive at the time. They don't seem to be particularly well known outside of the generation they came from. My personal experience is that they didn't get much penetration past GenX.
@@timseguine2 Well that explains it better.
I'm a Gen-Xer and I remember when the "Live in Paris" Album came out, and the "Even in the quietest moments" Album was brand new when I was a toddler.
But it seems to be a very wide-spread phenomenon that many groups and performers are forgotten past their prime and when new generations look for new music.
If they never had at least one No. 1 hit that lasted months in the charts, and that will get a replay in later years, no one from later Generations will remember them.
And Supertramp did not have a single one.
Only the Album "Breakfast in America" made it to No.1
But not the song itself.
Roger has an exceptional voice, and I say "has" because at more than 70 years old he still has that voice.
Hope so! He hasn’t played live in 4 years now :/
Your next reaction to them has to be Take the Long Road Home followed by Goodbye Stranger.
And Child of Vision.
Way home 😁
When she gets to Goodbye Stranger she needs to listen to Goodbye Toby for the original inspiration.
I totally agree
Yes
The “Middle Eastern” vibe you’re getting is from the way they’re using the horns, woodwinds, and the rhythm, which is based on Klezmer, a style of jazz developed in the early 20th century among the European Jewish community. Often segregated and ostracized from the bourgeoisie, they developed their own distinctive style of jazz, which is reflected in many of Supertramp’s tracks, especially on this album.
Supertramp experimented with Klezmer at a time when many mainstream artists were playing around with Reggae, Ska, and Afro Beat styles.
Yes. Good analysis. And I feel that in this live version, the pronunciation of 'Amerrikah' (Elizabeth smartly picks up that very unBritish rolled R) is intended to reinforce that vibe; this is, perhaps, supposed to be the sound of a Middle or Eastern European come to see the fabled land.
I also agree with all of the people who recommend focusing on the studio recordings - even though that means there's no video to relate to. The production standards on Crime of the Century in particular are, as several have said, quite stunning - after nearly 50 years of living with that album, I still sometimes find myself surprised by it.
But for a two-birds-with-one-stone strike, I'd suggest The Meaning from the Crisis? What Crisis? album. Not only a great studio production, but also the first track of theirs where I remember thinking "Wow! There's such an Eastern flavour to those reeds!"
Thank you for your validation. I always felt the Jewish vibe when I listened to this song, and now I know why. The closest thing I could compare it with was the music from Fiddler on the Roof
Yes, have always noted the klezmer vibe in the clarinet specifically.
Definitely a Klezmer vibe with more than a little European Gypsy feel. They were innovative, smart and yet wholly accessible. Supertramp were very much on their own in this search for a fusion of styles in the pop field. I just loved them, the sound and the emotion they evoked. A good analysis btw❤
Romanian Gypsy was the tone I picked up
Once again, this is a song I've been listening to for decades, and my brain has it memorized, and then you listen to it and analyze it with your musical knowledge, and all these things that I took for granted, that went under the radar, are finally exposed, revealed and reverse engineered. Thank you, Elizabeth
Roger Hodgson has to be in the top 10 greatest musician/singer/songwriters of all time. And Supertramp is absolutely incredible. By the way, Roger wrote this song when he was literally 18 years old and dreaming of coming to America. Every song on the Breakfast of America album is great. It's one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the best selling albums of all time. It sold like 19 million copies.
Play legacy the are Canadians so they do have their kind of saying like a and stuff
@@JohnnyGonzalez-qd5ri Who are Canadian? Roger and supertramp are from England.
Every song on this album is golden. No filler no skips this album is a masterpiece
Easily a top 10 album for me.
Absolutely. Their DSOTM.
Definitely Supertramp's biggest commercial success and I know every word and every tone of it.
BUT: The Supertramp album I love even more and that, to my mind, is even better: Even In The Quietest Moments. Every single track a musical masterpiece: Even... itself, Babaji, Fool's Overture, From Now On, Give A Little Bit - it simply doesn't stop. Even Loverboy and Downstream have their charm...
@@gnufz8623 Now, you getting into deep tacks territory. I love it.
The best album for headphones ever made
Breakfast In America was the band's big commercial breakthrough, but Crime Of The Century and Even In The Quietest Moments are their greatest achievements. Those are two of the finest albums of the 1970s, from a decade filled with great albums.
Quietest Moments never seems to get much love, I'm glad you called it out. I love From Now On, and I think Downstream is Rick's most beautiful love song.
Even in the Quietist Moments is great
Agreed but Crisis What Crisis is great as well!
Even In The Quietest Moments is a great song to analyse I think, good suggestion!
Rodger that!
I've loved Supertramp for ages, and the klezmer-style clarinet always makes me smile. I think the flipped 'R' on 'America' might be a nod to West Side Story.
¡Precisamente!
Being a kid in the 70’s was a trip. Watergate, the Vietnam war and gas shortages. BUT! We got to listen to stuff like this on the radio.
My personal favorite Supertramp song is the studio version of "School".
The build up in the intro with the playground sounds is awesome and the child's scream gets me everytime.
School is absolutely one of the best songs ever :)
It's my favourite song by Supertramp, but I think I'd argue the Live from Paris version is tops.
That whole album is brilliant.
School and Bloody Well Right, must listen to both.
Man, this is amazing, the cut in the child's scream gives me chills every time!
I would recommend doing a studio version of one of their songs, too. Their recording quality was exceptional!
Child Of Vision - nuff said.
@@geoffos42 see, I prefer the live version of child of vision over the studio.
Don’t know why we are doing live versions of anything for reactions.
Yes, I was about to say the exact same thing! The opening note on long way home is a great prelude to a wonderful song!!
@@geoffos42yes! Fantastic harmonies! But do the studio version!!’
I like how the vocal enunciations, along with the honks and squeals of the clarinet, give the song a Klezmer-like Eastern European flavor...like the imaginary storyteller/singer grew up behind the Iron Curtain with fables of an enchanted land called America. Marvelous songwriting and story telling.
sounds also like Rhapsody in Blue
Exactly
This entire album is a masterpiece. You can pick ANY song and love it! My favorite is The Logical Song, but really... they're all just so good!
The post-it note is probably a set list.
I think most people that love Supertramp would say that the genre of this song is the Supertramp genre 😊! They are very unique. The “Crime of the Century” album is really good also.
I loved the song “School”.
Crime of the Century was the very first album I bought. I was a bit young for it at the time, but appreciated what I had as I grew.
School is awesome, the song that is ha ha. More of a dark flavour to that one. Actually just had a listen and man what a song. I always come to the conclusion after listening to the oldies that music was just so much better in the 70' and 80's. Especially for rock and pop. So much talent in Supertramp.
Although I'm looking greatly forward to the new Extreme album 😀
Simply one of the greatest albums ever recorded. From the opening track to the last there is not a throwaway song on this entire album.
Also, Supertramp has always been on my hidden treasure list and I appreciate them more now.
I actually have the album, that big black vinyl disk😂
@@metalmark1214 Breakfast in America was a good album although Crime of the Century is the definitive Supertramp l.p. it is a masterpiece all around.
@@metalmark1214 Yes, dear 20-year-olds, music actually existed before the invention of the CD! 😁
@@tommack9395 Fact. Own both.
@@joergojschaefer3521 20 year olds don’t even know what a CD is anymore 😂
Supertramp were one of the most playful sounding bands from the 70s, and most reliable - as an ex insurance underwriter, I remember when their performance bond insurance came up for renewal, I'd been reading about them in the paper that morning and it stated that they'd never missed a gig (this was 1979, I think), in a time when band managers and record companies were booking bands to play for months non stop on tour this was very much the anomaly in the music business. Loved this album and wrote the insurance policy too . . . memories!
I love just watching you and your expressions, ELIZABETH! I'M 65 these guys were the stars of my high school, so cool of you to love them the way you do!!!!
The creativity of the musicians of this era was amazing. I feel so privileged to have been a music buff during this time.
@@Horizon429 There's tons of amazing music nowadays, probably more than ever?? it's just not "mainstream" anymore. I mean check out Beach House, or Faye Webster for example... incredible stuff.
Preach!
There was plenty of shit plastic music too but the cream rose to the top and they could play and sing or they wouldn't have.
Today you can have a fully fledged studio on your laptop and while some produce good music the pressure to be really, really good is not there anymore.
@@danimal519the music of this era relied more on sheer talent and creativity than on machine produced "music" and computers in your lap. Real music not auto tune and over produced sound.
Yep, there is still great music now if you look hard but this era will never be beaten for sheer invention and creativity
Supertramp were one of the most original, creative, technically proficient and smart bands ever to hit the scene. This entire album is perfection.
Also, as a former clarinetist, I LOL'd at the description of the clarinet as a talkative, snarky instrument. SPOT ON!
Yet, they have similar proficiency to Genesis, to Jethro Tull, and to Electric Light Orchestra. Two other bands with similar talent makeup are Traffic and Procol Harem.
I love your reactions because of your technical knowledge but also because of the joy you exude in listening and discovering these musical gems. Your child-like enthusiasm is quite infectious. Both "The Logical song" and "Breakfast in America" are from a live Supertramp album called "Paris" . I think you'll love the whole concert. If you like 10 minute songs, "Fool's Overture" clocks in @ 10:57, so.. there you go 😀. The album was recorded on 1979, btw.
The first phrases sung in "Fool's Overture" give you goosebumps every single time you listen to it. You know... "History recalls how grat the fall can be..."
I remember riding my bike to the record store to buy this album in the spring of 9th grade, jamming it in my room full blast. I still love your facial expressions when you hear music you like, such a music geek, you're adorable, lol.
My later father toured with Joan Armadrading in support of supertramp (he was an onstage monitor engineer). He always said they were the tightest band he had listened to . Loved listening to the albums growing up but would highly recommend crime of the century live in Paris . I cry everytime so thanks dad, thanks supertramp , Joan and thanks for the excellent videos ❤
The deep horn in the background gives the feeling of a parade march or circus band. This album dropped at the height of disco and ruled the charts for the better part of a year.
I saw them on this tour. The best concert of my life no question.
I was born in England of an English Mum and American Dad. Moved to California as an 18 month old, back to England at 12 years and back to California at 17. This song came out when I was 14 and living in England. The lyrics always hit home for me. I'm glad to see you enjoying the Supertramp experience. Some great Songs. "Yes" was another great band from Thea general era.
No one sounds like Supertramp! Brilliant band.
Breakfast in America with Elizabeth and Supertramp. Great way to start the day. Could we have kippers for breakfast?
My dad used to make fried kippers for breakfast on the weekend. The smoke would drive me out of the house!
I always thought of Supertramp like theater kids meet band kids. Their music gives off major stage-play vibes to me.
great comment. loved it
Between the Clarinet and Tuba it had some serious Klezmer band vibes. As you continue wit Supertramp definitely go back to the "Crime of the Century" album, particularly "School" which was used in the movie "Little Darlings", and also "Rudy". Both are long, intricate and just great listens.
Their music doesn't disappoint 😊
Except for the second side of the same titled record
Supertramp were one of the original so called "superbands" and that moniker is well deserved. They used multiple styles of music in their songs and combined that with close harmony, funny breaks and a sense that they really enjoyed making music together.
If Elizabeth wants a longer song to review then she should take a look at the famous final sequence from the Paris concert album, consisting of Fool's Overture, Two of Us and Crime of the Century. Fool's Overture is just short of 11 minutes long and the three songs combined take almost 20 minutes. I feel they have to be reviewed as a sequence, because they almost seamlessly flow over into each other.
It's 44 years since this album was produced. This was five years after they first came together - a working-class boy fond of jazz and a private-school boy into pop music production. A very unlikely marriage! After the Beatles, Supertramp were the first to use staccato rhythms effectively in popular music.
It is so wonderful to relive in you what we experienced 40 years ago, when I was in my teens, starting to discover music.
Supertramp belonged to my first, say, 50 LPs (you did not get enough for your money with singles), and it was exactly the double LP of this very Paris concert. Their Live sound is so good you hardly miss the bigger precision of the studio recordings.
And you can bet, we played these records again and again, the whole album through.
Elizabeth, if you’re going to do more Supertramp, please please PLEASE do Crime of the Century. Personally, Crime of the Century (the song) is my all-time favorite song. I can loop it end-to-end for days without getting tired of it. Love all your analyses!
Yes AWESOME song!
i agree amazing song.
YES !!!!!!!!!!! 😉
Love the song, but she is doing voice analysis and there is not much singing in it.
@@donnakubiski5572 You do have a point there...
I just wanted to say that you are the ONLY channel that can get me smiling and laughing no matter what mood I'm in when I start watching. You're the best!
YES! exactly what I wanted to say too!
supertramp's sense of humor was second to none. glad you enjoy this. I wore this record out in college...
I love the way you analyze the song. You approach it from a different angle than most reviewers. You look at the interplay between the vocals and the instruments and the vocal choices. I have always loved this album but thank to you, I have a much deeper and greater appreciation for their music. The middle eastern influence you mention struck me as being more Jewish than Arabic. But that may be just me. Regardless, that clarinet solo always stayed with me. Beautiful. I would love to get your take on "Goodbye Stranger."
❤ 🐔 ☕ 🇺🇸
EDIT: Perhaps their pronunciation of "America" was inspired by/a nod to the song "America" from West Side Story. They share a similar pronunciation. Both songs are also from the perspective of someone imagining what America is like.
"Take the Long Way Home" has been suggested and I'd like to second that. If you want to hear an older Roger Hodgson, albeit without the rest of Supertramp, there is a good live version of this song from not too many years ago which is quite faithful to the original.
Why not include the link?
@@midi510 Because youtube loves to delete comments with links completely randomly. There's a good chance that your comment will just disappear and nobody will see it.
@@midi510 Sorry about that, I was in a hurry before the video started. I'll look it up.
Roger Hodgson official youtube channel czcams.com/channels/iDWjCWCtmW41-I_xzOufIA.html
@@midi510 Let's see if I got this right. I'm at an age where technology is not always my friend. czcams.com/video/YLP0y-X4uYs/video.html
The sound created in this incredible song always bring to my mind imagery of the Cheshire Cat a la Alice in Wonderland! Supertramp are the masters of stylistic, melodic and fun beautifulness in song, and their harmonies are to die for. I'm so glad you love this one, Elizabeth!
Brilliant piece of work by incredible musicians
I always got a ragtime feel from the clarinet, tuba, and piano pieces in this song. One of my favorite songs and very lyrically and musically playful.
Yes, I did as well. I presume it is someone who has heard ragtime, but not the noted Klezmer, finding the closest relation.
@@120russellI think it's Klezmer influenced 100 percent
Paul Rodgers , any song from Free or bad company.. He's never been deep dived, which is unbelievable
Free - Don’t Say You Love Me
Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson were a supergroup all on their own. Just amazing. Fun story, My mom and biological dad were HUGE fans of Supertramp and while I was in my mother's womb, she used to play me Supertramp. Breakfast In America was one of her favourite albums to play. When I was 5 my mom put on The Logical Song which, at that point, she hadn't listened to in quite awhile. I somehow knew every word to it and sang along from the backseat of the car. She was so surprised. To this day, I still know every word. Supertramp is still one of my favourite bands.
A five star comment.
Amazing that even from inside the womb...you remembered! If this isn't a case against abortion..I don't know what is ...Its not a THING inside you...its a HUMAN BEING...and it can HEAR a FEEL things, even BEFORE it is born ...Only 3 countries in the World kill their children before their natural birth...the USA is 1 of them
Elizabeth your enthusiasm for analysing a song as great as Breakfast In America is wonderful to see. Many thanks as always, 🥰🥰
You should do their "Goodbye Stranger" next. I love the voice on the choruses.
I love Hodgson's voice - so expressive and his diction is perfect. Although the studio version is superb (a real tuba as I recall) I love how they pull this off with such style.
It looked like the "tuba" was on the keyboard.
Roger Hodgson, John Davies, John Helliwell, Bob Siebenberg, Dougie Thomson....Supertramp. The most underrated band ever.
It's Rick Davies.
Thanks for posting this reaction Elizabeth, while I'm not a huge Supertramp fan this is one my favourite songs by any artist. What I particularly love about Supertramp is that you can tell it's them as soon as they start playing.
I've seen Supertramp over a dozen times and they never disappoint. The notes on the piano is the set list.
The whole album Breakfast in America is a masterpiece. So are their albums Even in the Quietest Moments and Crime of the Century. Keep going down this rabbit hole!
And btw. don't forget about their most beautiful "Hide in Your Shell" - my personal favourite Supertramp song, the way it moves around the keys in surprising ways and builds up with harmonies is just pure magic - as well as lovely lyrics that make perfect sense to all shy and introvert persons and maybe just give them that little nudge out the door to meet other people.
The song " Even in the Quietest Moments" from the album of the same name has always been my favorite. It might be a little laid back for you to reviiew, but it is beautiful none the same.
Your whisper tells a secret
Your laughter brings me joy
And a wonder of feeling
I'm nature's own little boy
I would absolutely recommend listening to their studio versions, even though their live performances are amazing. I always love that underlying off-beat drive in Supertramp songs...
Ok, I’ve heard this song so many times on the radio but I’ve never picked up on this duet play. So incredibly entertaining 😊
I’ve watched so many of your reaction videos now…..your delight, your wonder, your appreciation for all these different artists is such a joy to watch! You are such a pure, beautiful soul and such a lovely delight to watch! I’ve been living vicariously through your amazing reactions! Thank you so much! Warm hugs!
I stumbled over one of her reaction videos on my timeline and got interested in other reaction videos. Instant regret. She's the only one making reaction videos I like to watch because anyone else is missing what you mentioned.
Back in the day, an album and each song was an event. We pored over the cover art, the lyrics, the credits, the relationship between the songs on the record. There was a pop music magazine which had all the lyrics for recent songs. Likewise, a lot of the songs in the 70s & 80s were headphone songs.. so you could catch all the nuances.
- A geezer from the Before Time, The Long Long Ago.
This is another addictive tune for which everyone is going to suggest the studio version as well (each having their own strengths). Great fun !
Supertramp is awesome. Whoever mixed Breakfast in America did an awesome job. I love the fact that I can hear everything.
SuperTramp is one of the OG superbands
I concur 100%. 59 years old and the Breakfast in America album has been with me on record, 8-track, cassette, CD, MP3, and still on my phone. So many memories. What a wonderful accessory to my life.
Like Pink floyd, the Tramp had something going on that was unique, and much of it had to do with Hodgson's particular timbre and vocal style.
Also, their songs had a very feel good and easy listening vibe to them, but always with deep and thought provoking meaning.
A golden age of music, that was.
Bloody Well Right. Made me fall in love with this band. One of my favorite rhythm section ever. They were so tight and fluid at the same time.
Your enthusiasm is infectious and watching your reaction to this bunch of English eccentrics has put a big smile on my face. Subscribed. :)
My sister got me that album for Christmas in 79, when I was 15. Love them. I played trumpet in HS. So I did the horns
The note on the keyboard is the set list. They have a LOT of songs in their catalogue, many of which are hits.
Timeless album. I had never owned it myself, so I made sure to pick it up on vinyl a couple of years ago and it sounds amazing. One of my favorite albums of all time by any band.
Elizabeth is just the most adorable! And watching her hear music that I love and have loved is so fun and magical! I get teary-eyed and laugh out loud with her! She is the best!!
No shortage of great Supertramp songs to check out. Some suggestions: Bloody Well Right, Take the Long Way Home, Goodbye Stranger, Give a Little Bit, Dreamer
I am an absolute metalhead… However, Supertramp is my favorite band of all time. This video and your commentary totally explain why I’ve always loved them.
Child of vision is a gem, beautiful song.
When I was about 10 years old, I bought this cassette from Columbia records, 10 cassettes for a penny. My father was a music teacher with his masters degree from New England Conservatory of Music. I don't remember much from 40 years ago, but I will never forget that he specifically said that this was Jewish Klezmer music... so you indeed are correct with the middle eastern sound.. Kudos to you for picking up on and recognizing! I watch all of your videos and love each and every one of them... thank you for helping all of us learn something more, knowledge is power :)
Glad to hear you LOVE Supertramp as much as many of us. Hope you can get your ears on a selection from Even in the Quietest Moments someday. That album will change your life if you listen to it beginning to end.
One of the greatest albums ever.
A great album from start to Finnish.
This is what I find is missing in so much of today's music. It was intricate, but without excessive ornamentation. And it's probably one reason why music from the '70s and '80s is still so popular, even with the younger generations. Incidentally, the reason the clarinet feels like jazz is probably because it never seems to come in on the beat, but always lags behind a touch - this syncopation can definitely give it a jazz vibe.
So much of today's music is that they get a drum machine beat, add a few chords and then somebody drones rhythmically. It makes all the songs sound the same with the only distinction being whether the voice is male or female. I know I sound like a grumpy old man writing that, but they Spotify top 10 these days is at least 50% grooves and not even songs.
You're not listening to much of "today's music" then.
Supertramp is one of the most creative bands ever ! Got me through a lot of hard times back in the day.
I saw them live on this Breakfast In America tour. It was stunning to hear in person. I've loved their music from the moment they burst onto the scene. #thecharismaticvoice so exciting to watch your reaction to their song, and lyrical playfulness. And toward the end did you hear his fluttering vocals? Brilliantly executed. Thank you.
Supertramp is one of those bands in my collection where every song on every album means everything to me. I love them.
I was a teen in the 70s. There were certain groups that were un-genre'd - they were their own thing. Supertramp was one such group.
I get such a kick watching you enjoy the classic rock pop songs, these were top 40 songs that blew us away when they first came out; They are timeless, brilliant as you have discovered and I hope you keep it up there is soo much to hear! thank you for that beautiful smile!
Lord, Is It Mine one of my favorite songs by them, very personal and inspiring song.
That is what I recommended to her
This is a great band.
One of my favorites from them is “even in the quietest moments”. So beautiful.
My favorite also
SuperTramp is one of the greatest bands of all time! They deserve every accolade that they have ever gotten. Yet, if possible, still highly underrated!!
Asylum. Crime of the Century. Fools Overture. Hide in Your shell. Good Bye Stranger
Take the Long Way Home. Ruby. All live in Paris. One of the greatest concerts ever. Hodson, Davis, Helliwell, Thompson, and Sibenberg are legends!!
100%! I have listened to that album hundreds of times.
So interested that you chose the live Paris version of this song. Supertramp amazed me at how they sounded live. My sister had bought Breakfast in America when it came out on a cronky old cassette and I was so fascinated at how the album started and finished so brilliantly that I swiped it from her and played it over and over till I knew every wow and flutter (and stretch...).
So when I decided it was time to invest some meagre pocket money in them, I found the live Paris album at a local shop for not much more than most of their single albums on offer so I could get double value. It had to be mine.
I adored the whole thing. The playing, the instrumentation, the arrangements, the interplay and production was amazing. To see the video of them much later even showed me how the players were swapping instruments between songs and even mid-song.
So when I came to hear the studio recordings of Crime of the Century I was remarkably disappointed. In comparison to what I'd heard live, the tracks lacked immediacy and excitement and some of the production tricks sounded a little clunky and sort of sub-Pink Floyd. Clearly the band had grown into the songs and were pulling together to create what, to me, seemed greater live versions with every nuance intact or extended.
I still have little love for that studio album but do enjoy Even in the Quietest Moments and Crisis, What Crisis? but I love ALL of the live Paris album. The only things missing from it for me were Goodbye Stranger with Roger's tremendous end guitar solo and Child of Vision with Rick's unbelievable piano ending. How delightful that even these missing tracks turned up later on the live DVD of these Paris concerts. A band uniquely themselves.
The reason you can't identify their genere is because they are so unique, they sound like... Supertramp! 😊
Thanks for this. Just a great song, love the live version but the studio version is unbelievable. The whole album.
So many incredible songs, but my all time favorite is Fool's Overture, especially live with an orchestra backing. It. Is. Stunning!
I love watching your channel and so pleased to see you were doing Supertramp.
I never got on with Roger Hodgson's voice - but the 2004 "Night at the Proms" live performance with orchestra of "Fool's Overture" is absolutely incredible - his lyrical ability, and the emotion he puts behind his nasally, but soaring high notes bring a tear to my eye.
Thank you for digging into Supertramp. This is one of my favorites. A great British progressive band. The great American progressive band, KANSAS awaits your reaction. They have a violinist along with one of the greatest rock voices 1974 - 1984, STEVE WALSH -- a vocal idol to so many. I highly recommend "Journey From Mariabronne" which is an enthralling piece of music from either the studio or their live version from the "Two For the Show" album. Also "Angels Have Fallen," "Miracles Out of Nowhere," and their only blues track where Steve absolutely kills it called "Lonely Street."
Would love to see Elizabeth review Take the long way home. One of my absolutely favorite Supertramp songs.
Yes!
This album (Paris) is one of my favorite live albums of all time. Rudy and Fool's Overture are incredible.
I wish I could hear the songs you react to for the first time again. Your reactions are so good it makes me envious.
This album is the one I take with me anytime I want to test a turntable or speakers. It's an amazing album, especially the original pressings.
Supertramp is timeless. grew up in the 90's listening to bits and pieces of their music and it still holds up today. I can only imagine what it was like to hear this stuff when it first came out because today it's still so unique.
So much fun watching you first time experience the music that made my life so special.
You're so energetic and happy all the time. I wish i could be that way
I always loved this song but i love ot even more now after your review. EXCELLENT!
So glad you are doing more Supertramp!