It's so LOGICAL! Vocal ANALYSIS of one of the greatest lyrical journeys ever with Supertramp!
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2022
- Kirk snuck this song into my recording list knowing I needed to hear Supertramp for the first time, that the composition and lyrics would intrigue me, and that I would absolutely fall in love with "The Logical Song". I mean, "please tell me who I am" gives such profound imagery, it's still stuck with me now!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Supertramp for the first time, performing "The Logical Song”.
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Performed by Supertramp - Words and Music by Roger Hodgson
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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.
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Watched 4 vids from you now. Sub earned. You really know your stuff but even more is your appreciation for music outside ur comfort zone. Love it. (the fun you had listening to this is the pure fun of real music).
You pause far too often.
2nd comment. My favorite gospel group is The Hoppers. Listen to The Hoppers - Yahweh [Live]. Channel... Gaither Music TV.
@@redman6675 um, this channel is breaking down the vocals.of these songs by a professional. It's interesting to hear her views. But the videos are available on CZcams. So that's where I'd go for an uninterrupted listen. Have a nice day.
It would be nice if you could analyze Uriah Heep`s "July Morning" from their 1973 live version with their singer David Byron. He had one of the greatest voices in rock & roll history in my opinion. You can find it from CZcams by searching with Uriah Heep - Live 1973 (Side One and Two). Ps. I really like what you do at your The Charismatic Voice program.
You know it's good music when you've been listening to a song for over 30 years and it's still just as captivating as the first time you heard it.
This song I heard it 40 yrs ago after that I didn't heard it anymore until I dreamt this music one night and I woke up and find it in CZcams and boom it's captivating to hear it again.
Yessssss
One of my faves.
That's how the entire album is to me. Listened to it again in the car today and noticed new things.
Hard to describe this song. Could it be sensible? logical?, responsible?, practical? dependable? clinical?, intellectual?, cynical? radical? liberal? fanatical? criminal? respectable? presentable? or, a vegetable? Elizabeth will just have to break it down, Charismatical.
Ahahah I love this comment!
@@TheCharismaticVoice #charismatical
You win the internet today
Sent him off to school to learn. Marvelous lyrical impression. Child of Vision, a must listen
Mike drop
The song is about the loss of childhood innocence, and the pressures of adulthood. Awesome lyrics and well written.
And programming us to follow rules and OBEY!
@@suesjoyas opposed to living in chaos 😂
No, as opposed to living from the heart and soul. @@lukemckean6155
It is about that, but it's more specifically about the emotional meat-grinder of British private education (boarding prep and 'public schools'), as it was when Hodgson was sent, as an 8 year old in the last 1950s. It hadn't changed much when I was sent, also as an 8 year old in 1971, to board at prep school (which I loved) and then made the mistake of passing CE exams, at 13, to a public school I hated with every fibre of my being. Thankfully, most of those schools have radically altered (helped by the introduction of girls). But it was an uncaring system where, if you didn't fit the template, life was a misery.
How can this band be left out of the Rock Hall? Crime of the Century is an epic album
The hall of shame is run by Rolling Stone which is nothing more than a radical left-wing scam front group.
The Rock Hall is political from what I am told. More than them being left, Foreigner was left too which is insane to me!
The WHO never won a Grammy either. It’s all about sales …😳
Totally agree that Crime of the Century is epic. One of very few albums that I can play for the first time in years and recall every magical nuance. It's stunning, really.
The R&R Hall and the Grammys are popularity contests and political. My wife is a voting member of the Grammys and can go on for hours about the 'why' of winning or loosing. Tell me why most of the bands in the R&RHOF are not Rock and Roll.
This vocalist, Roger Hodgson (born 21 March 1950) has been recognized as one of the most gifted composers, songwriters and lyricists of our time. As the legendary voice of Supertramp and composer of many of the band's greatest hits, he gave us "Give a Little Bit," "Dreamer," "Take the Long Way Home," "Breakfast In America," "It's Raining Again," "School," "Fools Overture" and so many others that have become the soundtrack of our lives. Roger's trademark way of setting beautiful introspective lyrics to upbeat melodies resonated and found its way into the hearts and minds of people from cultures around the world. His songs have remarkably stood the test of time and earned Roger and Supertramp an adoring worldwide following.
So glad you mentioned 'Take the Long Way Home'. My personal favourite from Paris. So many seem to miss that. 'Crime of the Century' and 'Crisis what Crisis' were lp's I bought when they came out, fantastic as they were... I keep coming back to Paris and 'Take the Long Way Home'.
Just love how tine has passed and I always come back to Supertramp
Im sure she went to wikipedia as well
Agree with all your picks, particularly "It's Raining Again".
I would love to hear your analysis of "Fool's Overture" as well.
I never get tired of watching people's first reactions to songs that were ubiquitous to my childhood.
It makes you feel proud of your own youth culture, and so privileged to have had it.
Funny thing about that . the clock keeps ticking
Well said I completely agree
And they're still ubiquitous in movies, video games, on radio, etc, which makes very hard to believe the whole premise of the many people with YT channels "reacting" to mainstream songs and movies they've supposedly never heard or seen. It would have to be someone's first day on planet Earth to have never heard the classic rock songs these "reaction" channels do.. Thanks to movie soundtracks over the past 30 years, popular video games of the early '00s like Guitar Hero, or just riding in the car for years with me and their mom, my 20-something sons know '70s and '80s popular music almost as well as I do, better in some cases. For example, my born-in-1996 son and I were watching a movie recently, and he recognized a Santana song from the late '60s before I did. When I expressed surprise that he knew that, he said "Yeah, they played it at Woodstock". I later looked it up. He was right. 😄
That being said, even taking the premise with a grain of salt, it's fun listening to old familiar song such as this one without or without hearing someone else's take on them, and the reviewer on this channel certainly offers a unique style and perspective.
These were the best times in the universe
I am German, 57 years old and grew up in this world. This song meant so much to me! Artistic rebellion from a middle-class upbringing!
Same here in Canada
Supertramp is incomparable. They blurred the lines of different genres and melded music into a this cohesive perfection
The obvious songs to listen to by SuperTramp are School, Goodbye Stranger, Bloody Well Right, Breakfast in America, Take the Long Way Home, Dreamer, Give a Little Bit, Rudy, Crime of the Century...So many more as well.
Ooo, this is great! So a lot of content to look forward to. Loving it!
@@TheCharismaticVoice If you do Take the Long Way Home, I'd suggest the version Roger Hodgson did with his solo band at The Royal Albert Hall not too many years ago. The quality is good for a live performance and it sounds almost exactly like the studio version. BTW, I did finally breakdown and subscribe to both of your channels. Cheers from your librarian fan.
Long way is one of the all time great songs.
Hide in Your Shell from their first album is also great as well.
Child of vision is masterpeace
Supertramp. Snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Perhaps the unsung hero of progressive rock. For me, one of the greatest bands of all time. Thank you for covering this classic.
Something tells me you're more or less exactly the kind of person whom Kirk was thinking of when he snuck this into the list. Cheers.
@@Doubius Cheers brother 👍
Exactly!!!!
Never was truer words said, one of THE GREATEST and most talented bands ever!
No doubt! Unsung heroes!
I am 57. I grew up in the Bay area projects. I was made a ward of the state. This song makes me think of those days. My life is better now 🙂. " Strive to be better & believe in yourself. ✌️🙏❤️.
Same age as you, but I grew up in the breadbasket of the world "the midwest". Typical lower middle class parents and extended family of farmers, police officers, factory workers, construction, trucking etc... very few of us have much in the way of money or fame, or even worldly possesions , but, that's ok. We wll worked hard all our lives from a very young age and I wouldn't have it any other way as I Iearned so much through life's trials and tribulations. Hang in there and keep plugging away people like us are the winners in life not the ones in their ivory towers, with all the toys and silver spoon life. :) Have a blessed life friend.
Go, brother.
Probably my favorite Supertramp song. Imagine first hearing this song as a freshman at college the year it came out. It speaks right to you.
It certainly brings back my memories of late night beer/coffee drinking with friends putting the world to rights.
This just makes me realize how old I am. When I first saw this I thought " Oh, cool. this is a classic. I can't wait to see her analysis of this one." Then when you started talking I realized you have never heard this one! It just stuns me that a lot of people have never heard songs like this, one's I grew up with and just take for granted. I love how old songs like this can still surprise new listeners after all these years.
I was going to post a reply almost identical to this. You beat me to it. Is she really that young? Am I really that old. Could it truly be that people have never heard of Supertramp?
hope to agree and tell you guys don't worry, you're wrong, all at the same time. That appearance as unknowing, of any awareness that a part existed in some some, X, or any anticipation for parts that really excite her~but that has been said to be present when she carries that look and otherwise seems equally as a complete new experience that she is impressed by most time but didn't know it to say until hearing right now this time😂she diesnit
I agree but she also made me hear it in a different way. I’ve always just listened but now I’ll hear all these little nuances that I’ve never noticed before.
Liz is not a "normal" music listener. I don't follow her adamantly, but on the videos I've watched I've caught a little of her speaking about her history. It seems she grew up isolated in the country on an orchard farm in the pacific Northwest and really didn't hear the popular music of the day...or decades past. Those around her in childhood listened to or performed folk, classical and I think maybe blue grass/country. Then after high school she went off to study "voice" and concentrated on listening to opera and classical most of her adult years for professional and personal reasons until very recently.
So there are very major bands/artists that she either has not heard of, or heard any of their songs, or maybe just a few of the most popular at most until very recently. The types of music that people of multiple generations at least know of, if not have heard or like, from great grandparents to kids...she would have "missed out on" largely until the start of this enterprise where's she's starting to fill in the gaps.
As for something like the Logical Song or even Supertramp as a whole, I dare say that many "normal" people, especially younger ones, wouldn't know the group or at least this song either. They played Supertramp on the major rock radio station where I lived when I grew up in the 90's, but the group found very few fans among my age group, even if many among my peers did like other classic rock. Some people never heard of Supertramp; others could name a song or two maybe but never an album, much less owned their work. I was never a big fan myself and it was only in my late 20's when I started filling out my music collection that I finally first got a Supertramp album (I eventually got them all except the post 80's albums). People just have only so much time or money for music (especially in the days before youtube where you can listen for free: I spent literally thousands of dollars on hundreds of cd's by the time I was in my early 20's!).
Yep, Feeling my age with this one. It was around the time I was just really getting into Prog Rock. And I thought Roger's lyrics were just pure genius, but telling a story of a lot of people at the time, especially with The Logical Song!!
Back in the 70's and early 80's when you tell who the band was by the sound, no matter what they were singing. Supertramp was one that had so distinct a sound you could easily immediatl recognise them.
That is so right and they were uniquely their own sound
That is sssooooo true.
that's funny because I always thought this was a Yes song
You’re bloody well right
Yes! Rush, Supertrap, and Yes are like that. Rush being My favorite of all time, but definite respect to them.
I don't know if someone else in your 3000+ comments have already told you but that noise that you asked "What is that sound?" was a sound effect from an electronic football video game. It is the sound made when you are tackled in the game. It was a popular video game back in 1978 when this was being recorded. Thank you for your analysis... your song reviews are always entertaining and informative.
I remember it as a handheld football game. Video might be a stretch. The display consisted of LED segments representing players. This type of handheld electronic game was super popular in the late '70s.
I the sound is orchestral castanets.
@@richardporter1787 Not that sound. The one at 22:03. He's right. It's an old Mattel handheld electronic football game. Either that or something that sounds just like it. I used to have one of those.
I still have mine and it still works
Again... the studio version is the one. Supertamp always managed to sound really great on live performance, but the studio version is the real thing. They worked for months in the studio until they got everything built. Actually, "Breakfast in America" is often listed as one of the best studio recordings ever.
PS: After watching the whole video I admit this live version has some extra nuances in the vocals that are no so present in the studio recording.
I like the studio version, too. I give the live perfomance a 7, but the studio version is a 10.
The nuances in the live version are the flubs. 😅😅
I'm not quite sure why many of these react channels watch live versions, the studio versions are always the best representation of the audio
@@kingcosworth2643 Well, someone coudl argue live is "the real thing", and they'd have a point, specially when talking about modern recording in the era of autotune and digital postproduction. Also, I guess with live version they get nice video of the performers, much more interesting than a still picture of the album's cover.
@@iciervasotomayor That certainly can be argued, but it can be argued just as much that the studio version is the best representation of the music written and performed. Autotune is tough but all the sounds are manipulated either through valves, compressors, envelope filters whatever and the voice is simply another instrument. If the analyse is voice specific, an autotuned sample is no good, but a trained ear will know if tht has being applied. Even live versions the voice signal is run through at the very least a compressor and reverb before amplification, it's a 'distorted' or 'coloured' version of the singers voice, and then mp3'd if listening from youtube
SuperTramp is a band you definitely need to come back to. So many great songs.
This is one of those cases where the studio version is considerably better than the live version although they did a pretty bang up job for such a hard song to reproduce live. It ends the way it does here because on the album it's a fade out with the various different sound effects. Definitely check out the album "Breakfast in America" particularly for the title track, studio version of this, "Goodbye Stranger," and "Take the Long Way Home."
One of the reasons the studio version I believe is much better is because it's not rushed through. I find to often that certain live versions of a truly great song are rushed either due to it being during an encore presentation, or the performers are getting tired from the show and are trying to just get off the stage. But you are correct, the studio version is much better.
I thought I was the only one that thought the studio version was far better. Thank you for saying so, it confirms that I'm not crazy.
Right…although I like the sax in the live version
For the 40+ years I've listened to this song, I've never heard a live version. They definitely sounded great live, however, they did some adlib moments that I didn't care for. Such a great band. Blending pop/prog/rock/jazz/and funk. Awesome.
I don't think the album version is "considerbly" better than the live version. I don't find them all that different, honestly, outside of pace. Although I tend to compare Led Zeppelin album versions vs. live versions which is... well, anyway. Having said that, however, the live version on their "Paris Live" double album doesn't have the fast tempo of the live performance in this video.
Such a great song. I still get goosebumps every now and then.
Same here. Even if I had no any English in the seventies it touched me. With the words much better.
05:37 “I wanna go back again… There’s something about it that’s just so intriguing and it makes me wanna listen to this story intensely.” The moment your brain realized you fell in love for Roger Hodgson… We’ve all been there 😂
You HAVE to listen to the studio recording! Supertramp were the GOLD STANDARD for production in the late 70's. The recordings have so much depth, punch and drama! Don't know if the modern ears have the patience for all the layers of digestion required to fully "get" Supertramp! Thank you for pumping them back up!
Almost as good as Steely Dan
@@jaystrobel7862 Hard to touch Steely Dan, but they do come close.
I don't know if my ears are modern, but I just got into them this year, and I've been completely obsessed ever since. I've barely listened to anything else.
Agreed, their production was so amazing. Not only does the quality hold up today, there’s a warmth that we’ve lost in the digital age.
@@dainfuentes8168 Have loved SuperTramp since the 70s but I am now obsessed with Genesis!
Supertramp, Styx, Rush, Yes, Led, Journey, and so many more were unbelievable to grow up to!! Fantastic lyrics, music, singers in the 70’s and 80’s!!
You just kinda listed off my guitar teachers over the years.
I'm so sorry that you lost the capacity to dive for pearls: I also grew up to fantastic music in the 70s & 80s AND I'm still capable of identifying such music in 2023.
Don't worry: there are many of your kind. I'm deeply disappointed in and ashamed of my generation.
@@MetteC5 What are you talking about? No one said anything about music from today! I was appreciating the music from the 70’s/80’s. Geez.
@@quinnhen2325 Sorry, I've seen so many "music was better back then" comments that I inferred from yours that that was what you meant. I was wrong. Sincere apologies.
…..Meatloaf, foreigner…..
I was a huge Supertramp fan in my youth. I was in the audience during their last ever concert. There was much weeping.
I dont know what it is about this song, but its been a favorite since I was a little kid hearing it on a small transistor radio beside my bed. I instinctively knew even at that age that it was a playful warning about what can be lost in adulthood, and to be on guard against what others might do to you. Its just a song that ive heard literally my entire life and every single time its playful, fun, and a delight!
Oh Kirk what did you make Elizabeth do? The Supertramp albums are legendary. Awesome songs to hang memories on. Listening to any Supertramp songs will remind me of the things I did and didn’t do in my teens. ( the albums were already out for years, somehow they never age.)
I am hooked. He knows me so well!
I've been listening since the 1970s, the songs are as fresh today as they were back then, they are ageless.
I started listening to trump on the 90s, on my teen years. Their albums were 2 decades old already and yet immortal and atemporal
Time to check out Muse Elizabeth
The whole of the Crime Of The Century album is fabulous. Just start at the beginning and follow it to the end, Elizabeth. You'll find lots to love musically and lyrically in every song.
LOVE Supertramp. Of all their songs " Take the Long Way Home" is my favorite. The entire album "Breakfast in America" is a must for anyone with musical appreciation collection.
Not if you’re not into too much saxophone and rock without guitar solos
And it features one of the best clarinet solos in rock :).
@@robertlalexander4083 you’re clearly less of an appreciator of music than.
@@timmacsweet1 oh I do. I appreciate good rock bands like AC/DC and I appreciate Angus Young's guitar playing and the fact they used bagpipes on "It's a Long Way to the Top"
It still sounds incredibly fresh to me. Timeless.
This song makes me think of a boring school student (or perhaps inmate, draftee in a barracks, etc.) pondering "while all the worlds asleep", what he was, and what he is becoming in the program which is his defined, daily life. "Please tell me who I am!" His vocals and the whole song are like a stage or screen actor's performance... I love how you're pointing out the nuances; you're causing me to appreciate this song more than I ever did. Rock music is often about pubescent rebellion--the hormonal changes that occur between childhood and adulthood... I think that's represented in the jazz sax, and the whimsical sounds (whistle, and party noisemaker), and the mocking intonation of "logical" in the last verse. These are the emotions of a kid that just wants to break loose one night while he can't sleep!
You are just so great. Your facial expressions when you hear something new and unexpected are incredibly endearing. Plus, your analyses of both vocal performances and song structures are not only uniquely instructive but also filled with joy, humor, and a deep passion for music. Keep doing what you are doing. It's brilliant. P.S. Your analysis of The Darkness "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" had me in stitches. The Darkness are amazing. So few people get their mixture of absurdist, over the top Spinal Tap humor/attire and kick ass Classic Rock chops. Plus, Justin Hawkins vocals are other worldly. They are piercingly high but with seemingly no effort can also blow the roof off the house. The Darkness are an astonishing modern day mixture of AC/DC and Queen to me. I absolutely love them. That's saying a lot considering I write highly orchestrated "Electronic" music. The closest I typically get to "Classic Rock" is The Cars.
I once said to my sister, also a huge Supertramp fan, that when he sings it makes me want to go to him, give him a hug and ask if he's ok. She broke into tears and said, yes! Exactly!
Plaintive, in a word. Yes, it is THAT .
I totally agree!!
There's a sharing of pain like we are not alone and there can be joy despite our condition. What I liked about Supertramp was that there was never a sense of surrendering to what weighs us down.
" ...Famous Last Words..." I discovered that album soon after it came out. Ever since then it had been imperative to have a copy to play in whatever format I am using. I suffer from a mild lifelong depression. That beautiful album moves perfectly through sympathizing with depression, to melancholy, and then wonderfully to pure joy. When I feel drowning in despair, I block out all else, play this in full, and realize: Hey. I'm still kickin, still breathing, and life is going to be ok. It's a gentle reminder to just take time, stop, look at the wonder all around me.
@@thoughtfirst4916 your experience is so relatable, and you described this album so perfectly, in terms of its emotional impact. There's a melancholic joy to it that moves me also.
The entire Breakfast in America album is awesome. It is also part of my audio reference testing material due to its incredible recording and production along with Steeley Dans AJA and Dire Straits Brothers in Arms.
Totally agree, From Crime of the Century all their albums had such a superior sound to most other LP's at the time.
Brothers in Arms is just incredible.
"Reference testing material" brings me back! I used to use "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" for setting the tracking weight on a tonearm. It has to be in the sweet spot for Steve Winwood's vocals to sound right.
Boston's debut album needs to be on this list as well
Steely Dan was an amazing band, pretty much all of there music is an experience.
I adore Supertramp. Such original and inventive music. "Fool's Overture" is an astonishingly epic song, possibly their longest individual creation, weaving sound effects in with the music in certain parts as well, and remains my favourite of all their music. :-)
I agree, “Fools Overture” feels like it is composed. Along with “Crime of the Century” are the whole point of the concert. Great channel 😊
I first listened to this song from when I was a young girl and didn’t know any English but loved it and then years later as a teenager able to speak English and realising wat the lyrics meant therefore discovering it again like a new song 😊
This song had 11 year old me sobbing. I had such an identity crisis at that age (autism spectrum wasn’t something anybody knew about back then) and this song hit home so bloody hard. Thank you for covering it. ❤
That's really intense. I bet Rodger Hodgson would appreciate it very much.
The whole CRIME OF THE CENTURY album is a must!!!! I love the opening track.... SCHOOL.
Logical Song was their huge radio hit, but School is twice as good. And yes, the entire album is superb.
Came here to recommend School. Absolutely my favorite Supertramp song. And so biting.
Took a boat Sunday💜
School is the best. That is all 🤔
First heard CotC on a pair of fantastic Sonab speakers in a hi-fi store around ‘76. Couldn’t afford the speakers but I went off and bought the album same day.
I absolutely love how you have the ability to dissect a song with such investigation in a structured thorough process. So cool to have that skill...
For someone who has listened to this music for over 40 years and having it be the soundtrack to their life and then seeing someone glow in a reaction to songs I've heard thousands of times reminds me how magical my life has been. thanks!
The entire “Breakfast In America” album has been a favorite of mine since it was released. Really, a concept album; at least I’ve always heard it that way. No bad songs on that record, great lyrics, music, production. And “Paris” really is a live greatest hits album: “Dreamer” alone is worth the price of admission.
Definitely on the list of best albums of all time. Boston’s first album is another.
This is not even my top 5 Supertramp songs, and yet, it is just spectacular. "Goodbye Stranger" just pops into mind, without even looking at the list. Phenomenal band.
Bloody well right. Even in the quietest moments we all are indelibly stamped having witnessed multiple crimes of the century. But at least we are not in crisis.
That live album is amazing start to finish. You can tell how they are so tight at this point, having performed these songs over and over that they are starting to tinker and tweak it to be a little different this time.
I have this concert in Paris on DVD and I put it on at night to fall asleep to and it is awesome... every song is bloody marvelous!
The original ending followed the typical 70s and 80s fade-out. Hard to tell if some vocal differences are due to age or deliberate style choice for live performance. Even the sax solo had some changes, which were obviously chosen. The "bloody marvelous" ending, really drives home what I've thought is point of all the zany music at the conclusion.
Once you mentioned boarding school it all really dropped into place, and I guess that's the joy of looking into the background of songs, rather than entirely relying on the lyrics. The sense of beauty, wonder, magic, all being - essentially - beaten out of a child, in the name of "education". Wow!
Not just boarding schools - the education system as a whole is guilty of stifling creativity and passion. FFS I wish they would stop doing this but it seems to have gotten worse since the 70s.
Even in the Quietest Moments, his voice will get right into your feelings.
Even in the Quietest Moments is genius. Talk about getting lost in the music
Love that album. By far my favorite Supertramp (and I'm not a big fan of them; I don't even like several of their albums). Fool's Overture is probably their best moment.
Came here to give Even in the Quietest Moments some recognition. Glad someone has called it out. That album is perfect all the way through. As a kid my favorite song was Babaji. I was lucky my parents had a Supertramp cassette tape in the car haha
As a Gen X this was one of the premiere songs that defined my generation. Sophistication arriving at a certain maturity before the expected time. The Wurlitzer and the Hammond B3 where incredible hallmarks of that era. Once again I love your analysis spot on. Oh incidentally the saxophone is the authoritarian establishment rebuffing his inquiry, much like Charlie Brown's teacher
Although the B3 has been a workhorse of rock and roll since the 50s. But Supertramp had brilliant arrangements, no question!
It's Boomer music, decrying how being taught logic, sensibleness, reliability and other good traits ruin your ability to enjoy life. It's not X at all.
@@stevesamson3940 Oh, I think it is much more X. We were trying to adjust to the Marxist lurch of the seventies and then as we got older also deal with real life. There is nothing wrong with being reliable, or logical, or sensible, unless you try to use it to control people's thought. Most people's lives would probably be much better served if they didn't rely on quite as much emotional decision making. Don't give up on emotion but learn when and where to use it and allow it to take over. Just my opinion. You're entitled to yours as well. Peace, Love!!
@@stpnwlf9 I can assure you I didn't mean that the B3 was exclusively Gen X indeed you're right since the fifties No doubt just simply saying some fantastic groups that came to the forefront in the 70s in the 80s and the B3 was out front that's all no exclusivity.April Wine, Boston,etc,etc,ad infinitum.....
@@martincoons823 I'm of an age considered late baby-boomer, but I have an older brother 10 years my senior and we grew up sharing a room which means I got flooded with 60s rock and roll (whether I wanted to listen to it or not - LOL). My own tastes were primarily built in the early 70s and I listened to a lot of prog - some of Rick Wakeman's and Keith Emerson's most powerful organ pieces were done on the B3 (with occasional cathedral pipe organs thrown in).
As others have said, Supertramp was a very big part of me growing into this world. I adore this particular recording, performance of The Logical Song. These guys had an impact on me from the first time I heard them. Yet there are little nuances, changes that have come over time, over many performances, that draw me further in. I love hearing your joy at something that has moved me so deep. (My very first live concert - Supertramp, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1976)
I am 50, and love this song since I was a teenager. The way you analyse it have make me understand better why I love Supertramp. Than you.
This song will always have a special meaning to me. A young man I mentored died trying to detox from alcohol. I had no idea he had gotten that bad. But his gamer tag was always Presentable Vegetable. This song will always remind me of the good times shared with a really cool kid.
Alcohol and Benzo's are the two drugs that can kill during detox
Elizabeth, I'm glad you finally got to hear Supertramp. They were an amazing band. In their classic era, they had two main songwriters who were also the two lead vocalists: Roger Hodgeson, who sang this song, and Rick Davies, the pianist. Hodgeson was also the band's guitarist, and sax player John Anthony Helliwell also played keyboards and clarinet, sang backing vocals, and acted as the band's MC in concert. If you feel like doing an extended listen, their album Crime of the Century is a masterpiece from start to finish.
Two thumbs up for Crime of the Century!
Crime of the Century or Even in the Quietest Moments...
Whenever I saw them in concert John Helliwell did all of the sax parts too, and he was a quite funny MC!
Supertramp was and still is the best group for me. When they in North America, they came first to Montreal, before they became known in the USA. When they did they finally world tour they had there last two shows in Montreal and I was lucky to be at both. Both night when the last song ended with a video, the light in the arena where brought on and every of about 17,000 people in the the arena were still in their seats for about 10-15 minutes before started to leave. It was magical. Thanks for your great review.
I. Love. Me.Some. SuperTramp. Breakfast in America was one of my dad’s favorite albums and I grew up with it. As I got older, more respectable, cynical etc…I realize just how amazing this band is. It brings back so many good memories of my Dad.
"please tell me who I am" makes me cry all the time...I love this song
This song is literally heartbreaking. I grew up listening to this, and vowing to never lose myself.
Cool comment. Ya, great tune.
I think this is discovery, not loss.
You're right, losing myself to work, and acting right. I just wanted to look at the beautiful trees.
I remember hearing this song as a kid, and loving the rhythm and the overall sound of the song, without really having a full understanding of the meaning of it - as an adult, it's still awesome fun to listen to, but the meaning is so much deeper as well.
I'm no singer or musician, but watching someone new fall in love with a song that I've always loved was amazing!
When he sings about "when all the world's asleep", he's describing insomnia and existential anxiety very well.
One other thing to note... The album that this song comes from "Breakfast In America", is one of those rare albums where every song on the entire album is incredible.
Ditto Roger’s solo album “Classics Live” every song is amazing, arguably better than when he was with Ttamp
True, except that wasn't as rare in those days as it is now 🙄
Almost wholeheartedly agree. This is the album I backed as best ever during enhanced college all nighters. I would loose to Rumors and SGT Peppers, but I would pitch it. There are two weaker tracks that bring it down a bit.
Hodgson doesn't have the most earth-shattering voice of all time, but it's unique and recognizable. It kind of reminds me of Geddy Lee in the sense that it's not a traditionally mellifluous voice, but he's still great. If you enjoyed this definitely check out the studio track as well as other great tunes by this band.
A little bit of Geddy Lee with a touch of Jon Anderson of Yes.
I think his vocals are somewhat underrated: he has really good control of his vocal cords, up to the point that he can play around with his pronunciation. Not many pop/rock singers had that control in those days and combined with his lyrical and compositional abilities it made him stand out from the rest.
@@tjroelsma Like Donald Fagen; he didn't like his own voice, but I think Steely Dan was even better for his strangualted voice, it just sounds unique and perfect for the songs
I walked past a homeless man playing the Logical Song on his guitar. I said to him, "Oh, that's Super Tramp!" and he just said "Thank you".
I first heard Supertramp at school, aged around 15-ish!
I'm 61 now, so I've probably heard their whole back catalogue a few hundred times!!😲
Still love em!! 😍
Same!
I remember them when they did a live TV show on Rock goes to college , BBC broadcast , crime of the century era
I'm exactly the same age as you, and I agree with you 💯 %
Supertramp is one of my all time favorites. I always loved the way he enunciated his words to make them sound irritated and angry, but the chorus is so thoughtful and sweet. Its almost like the main part of the song is him being angry about having to be a responsible adult, but then when he gets home (and all the worlds asleep) he can relax with a ciggy and think about the deep stuff. Plus its a bop.
@Jenny Munday: You're bloody well right. ;)
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I loved this when it first came out & I heard it at boarding school. I still can't get enough of it as it has become an all time classic.
I love your channel for one big reason....
You bring a wonder to popular music that the music elite have denied for so long. A recognition of the technical side of popular music that puts it on the same level as "great" music like opera and symphonics. Too many musical snobs have called popular music and rock n' roll as "musical junk food" for decades! You show people that the music they love and adore is just as technically sound as any aria composed by Mozart or Beethoven.
Thank you.
The entire Breakfast In America album is a true classic and worth listening too.
It’s also heavily 9/11 encoded. Supertramp was part of the club. Haven’t looked but I’d bet there’s a good chance Roger and/or others are high level Masons.
This instantly transformed me back to High School Spanish class in 1979 where someone had written all the words to the song on the chalkboard. Strange what trivia can be stored in the brain for 40+ years!
Boarding school for 10 years? 😳 Holy McFuggle
Elizabeth rapidly blinking is always a very good sign.
The subtle vocal nuances Elizabeth points out are … just amazing. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard this song but not noticed most, or all, of these slight soupçons of musicality.
Elizabeth saying, “I dig it” makes me fall into CZcams fandom crush mode even more lol
I think this is one of my favourite Charismatic Voice reactions/analyses. She just does what she wants, listens to a bit of the music over and over again just because, and has an almost childlike delight in the song that is endearing.
I've never stopped listening to this. I'm 67 and Crime of the Century is in my CD player in the car.
@@danb.6294 I still have LP.😀
@@Upemm awesome. back in the day I had the audiophile album. the cuckoo clock at the end of asylum was loud and clear.
This is great! I couldn't even imagine being this talented at music. It must be a great experience in life
When I was old enough to truly understand the lyrics, this song became so much more to me than the happy, fun, sing-along that I loved as an 8 year old. Such a fantastic song lyrically and in it's arrangement and composition. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest songs to ever come out of the 70's.
I always loved the Mattel Football Game sound that you hear when he sings, "Digital." I had that hand-held game in 77-78 (it made those family vacation road trips a lot more bearable) and I never put two-and-two together, thinking that game was used as an effect. Think I heard about that on VH1 classic albums or read it in an interview somewhere. Incredible song written and performed by incredible musicians!!
The album Breakfast in America, that this is from, is absolutely exceptional! Songwriting at its best.
Hide In Your Shell ... my favourite Supertramp song of all time. It's astoundingly sad, beautiful and hopeful at the same time. And the arrangement is world class.
My favourite of theirs, too. First non-Canadian band I ever saw in concert, in about 1981.
Elizabeth would go nuts if she were to listen and analyze "Hide in your shell"... don't you think? Another beautiful and excellent song by Supertramp.
@@terrywilliams605 Agreed.
Please Elizabeth, Hide In Your Shell has to be next, please please, not afraid to beg!
Supertramp’s orchestration is stunning. So many parts with infinite variety that interweave and layer perfectly, familiar tones used in specific ways that make them fresh and unexpected. It’s not a guitar band, but the guitar parts are killer. The music complements the singing and lyrics beautifully. Something about the whole thing makes for a deeply personal connection.
This song, which I first heard when I was about eight, helped me from bullied child, defeated teen, depressive adult to mature, healed and happy woman. It always brings up so much emotion.
Been a Supertramp fan since the beginning, saw them live half a dozen times or more. We had "Two of Us" played at our wedding 42 years ago. I think "Hide in Your Shell" is their most haunting, and "Take the Long Way Home" is an excellent funky romp.
Hide in your shell ♥️♥️
I've been a fan since the 70`s too and went to their last full band tour in 1983 (still have the framed tour poster on my wall , where i go it goes lol), i`d find it hard to recommend a song as I love nearly all of them. I love the long end songs particularly, Fool's Overture, Child Of Vision, Crime Of the Century etc. LOVE Another man's woman live , were Rick just goes ballistic on the piano, He`s the Dave Gilmour of the piano lol
Don’t forget Rudy off the same album.
Supertramp's such an underrated group. The songs "Rudy" and "Crime of the Century" off the Crime of the Century record are so terrific.
Word is Rudy is still back on his train...
Yeah, this video is reminding me that it’s been too long since I listened to that album. Some absolute bangers on it. Bloody Well Right, etc.
It's not so much underrated but (apparently ) forgotten ? . Sometimes i'm a bit cynical if some of these professional singers in these reaction videos really never heard Kate Bush, Supertramp and even Pink Floyd . But maybe i'm just getting old ! 😅
I'm pretty sure they're highly rated. They were massive.
The album version of this sounds waaayyy better
On point, heartfelt reviews of some legendary Supertramp songs! Loved it
You have some of the best reaction videos. The music us old timers grew up with we listen to it like an old friend then this very talented young lady come along and slices and dices, disects and puts it under a microscope with a fresh innocence and exuberance. Knowing this song so well and watching you as each passage makes an unexpected turn brings us so much joy. Your analysis and insights to the little nuances puts a fresh spin on these old classics.
As a trombone player I can relate to a lot of what you touch on.
This was one of my absolute favorite songs when I was little! My mom used to play the Breakfast in America album on weekends. It wasn't until I was older that the profound nature of the lyrics actually sunk in.
Oh this is gonna be a good one!
Super Tramp was a childhood parent album for me too. I ended up owning Breakfast in America myself in high school in with all my thrash metal cds and ....Fleetwood Mac rumours lol (thanks mom)
Same here. Best album growing up in the 90s.
I love this song. I've loved this song since I was a kid. It's incredible.
It’s incredeeble
Same and to rediscover it again is incredible.
The soundtrack of my childhood, :*)
It's incredible, unforgettable, edible....
I love how enthused you are with this song. Your pure joy at listening is what I love. Keep doing what you do. X
Nostalgic tears here...
My Dad listened Supertramp a lot so I grew up with this music (and Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy and the Little River band). 😃
Goodbye Stranger! I always think of that one sort of paired with The Logical Song. They were the two biggest singles from Breakfast in America, which you will have to someday listen to completely, because there are so many songs on that album done so well musically, vocally, lyrically...
I just want kippers for breakfast.
As others have said, "Fool's Overture" is a classic. OF course, "Give a Little Bit" was a huge hit for them. Both have great vocal performances by Roger Hodgson. Back when I used to set up sound systems for DJs gigs, I used "Fool's Overture" for testing the sound system. Great highs, and lows with lots of dynamic range and transistions.
Thats funny - I was a mobile DJ back in the 80's and always used Supertramp to test the set up and room acoustics too. Dreamer Mostly, to see what in the room would vibrate in the second half drum ramp up. Once I thought I had it right, I would play Alan Parsons Eye in the Sky just to check the balance and stereo. I think someone from the Chicago Bulls came to one of my gigs....... Audiophiles Unite!
Comically I lifted the lyrics from this song to help my daughter write a paper for school. A very endearing memory when I share that with her and her family when we hear it played anywhere. 😊
This song makes me think of a boring school student (or perhaps inmate, draftee in a barracks, etc.) pondering "while all the worlds asleep", what he was, and what he is becoming in the program which is his defined, daily life. "Please tell me who I am!" His vocals and the whole song are like a stage or screen actor's performance... I love how you're pointing out the nuances; your causing me to appreciate this song more than I ever did.
Written partly about Hodgeson's boarding school education - "then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible" - he was educated at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire, one of the oldest private fee paying schools in the UK.
Bloody fabulous song though, lyrically and musically and his vocal range was really something. its a timeless classic and deservedly so.
There are shades of Jethro Tull's song Wind Up in that:
"When I was young & they sent me off to school & taught
me how NOT to play the game..."
Kirk was right. I was just listening to this song earlier this week and thinking... "When will we get Supertramp on the Charismatic Voice?"
This has been one of my favorite songs since it came out when I was about 8 years old. I related to it so much and I have loved it ever since. This one, "Both Sides Now," and "In the Year 2525" were on steady listening rotation. ❤❤❤
You've done it again, Elizabeth! Even though I've had the album (original vinyl) for 44 years, I was still gasping and sighing right along with you. Thanks for accentuating all the beautiful nuances and intricacies that make this song a true masterpiece!
I love this song, it resonates with me a lot. The journey from childhood to grown up and the shift that society seems to force on us. Work, relationships, education, stresses, responsibilities, expectations and so on. People say "just be yourself". I don't know who that is and I'm 68 y.o. Who am I? What a great question.
Another artist you should listen to; Tracy Chapman. She has such a beautiful powerful voice. There's a live version of her song "Fast car" at Wembley, it's her on a podium with just a mic and a guitar and it's incredible. Her vocals sound even better than they do on the perfectly mixed album (although the song deserves a full band). She's able to get 60.000 people to go quiet and pay attention with her singing in mere seconds.
Behind The Wall is amazing as well, being pure vocals and insanely powerful for such a short song.
This album helped me get through some lonely years in my late teens… Way back when it was released. Wonderful review!
Lovely video Elizabeth. This song meant so much to me as an 11yr old hearing it over the radio for the first time in 1979.
Breakfast in America was my first album and I played it non-stop for months and drove my family mad with it!
But i still adore this 'simple' song about lost youth and the cynicism of modern life.
I almost skipped this, even though I've always loved this song. Just never thought of it as a "powerful" vocal performance.... but the lyrics are incredible, the delivery is perfect... and your reaction, as always, is priceless. Love seeing you experience-- and utterly appreciate-- these timeless classics for the very first time.
Great call Kirk!!
"Crisis, What Crisis", " Breakfast in America", "Even in the Quietest Moments" and their masterpiece, "Crime of the Century"= top shelf albums that must be savored whole
Saw them in concert around 1980 and it was like listening to a gigantic stereo. Their sound was so rich, full, and clean. The Breakfast in America tour. Still remember the train they projecyed.
I love how you illuminate so many details that I have missed for years ❤
I think you'd like "Fool's Overture." It's a very long, dramatic piece with a lot of shifting moods. And Roger Hodgson's voice simply soars over the composition.
‘Fools Overture’ yes, Yes, YES Elizabeth 👏🏻 It’s one of the Best Songs 🎧 🎶 EVER. 😎
It's their Prog masterpiece!
I was 11 when this came out, and it was an immediate lifeline.
Coming from an emotionally and physically abusive home, I had a strong connection to this song.
I was moved by something, about the melody and lyrics, that would take me years to understand. Here was someone on the radio, that was also being told they were not 'acceptable'. This helped me to build my strength, on many levels, and is impossible to listen to, even today, without tearing up.
Many thanks out to Roger Hodgson and the band for changing my life!
Your comment made me tear up 😢 It's interesting to see how a song that I always related to but didn't necessarily feel a strong emotional connection with was such a lifeline for someone else. Though I already loved this song, I'll feel it even more now. I guess since I spent my teens in the 90's, (& there was so much good sad music then) I mostly relied on songs from that era to cling to in my more painful times.
We saw Supertramp in February that year, 1979. It was at the Chicago auditorium and it barely sold out. 5-6000 seats.
Not long after the BIA album was released and the Logical song was one of the biggest songs that summer we saw them again at a different, larger venue and they were the hottest thing around.
It was amazing to experience. They were a decently successful band with a cult following as well as a couple of minor hits. But then that album made them huge. Looking back I'm happy for them they deserved that success and recognition.
By the way their success came at a time when prog music falling out of favor. They won people over with solid song writing. Do not under state the importance of Rick Davies's bluesy songs and his choppy piano style. The comparison and contrast between Hodson and Davies made them complete.
Supertramp was one of those bands that didn't really have an exact category. I guess I like bands that are out of the box so yes I love Supertramp because no one else sounds like them so different can be better. I'm glad you enjoy them and thank you for the reaction ❤😊
"LONG WAY HOME" from Supertramp gives me chills every time I hear it....
My son is a head banger. Hates every other type of music. But he LOVES The Logical Song and Take the Long Way Home.
Metalhead is the term.
@@paulriddle7818 ever heard of head bangers ball? One in the same.
@@Wrexxxx Yes..... ACtive watcher.... THey still reffered to Metalheads as metalheads.
My two favorite Supertramp songs as well.
I could listen to you marvel in the deepest joys of music all day! There's nothing more rewarding than wallowing in the stylistic approaches and mandatory quirks elicited by top flight vocal talents. Totally love your niche. It's truly fun and informing at the same time.
I love how you can analyze and pick songs apart to explain the WHY of why songs sound so good. That's a gift I never had, I just knew whether or not I liked something but could not explain why.
Supertramp had a way of refusing to be put in a genre box. So brilliant with the sax add in, but then, I'm a sucker for this style of sax.