Anyone other than me?

I remember a few of their songs.....they were "big" when I was a kid/teen, but I really never got "that" into them.

I really love Breakfast in America. It's da bomb.

Koffee

Supertramp is not now nor were they ever cool. (When I talk about Supertramp I am talking “Breakfast” and all records prior). They never had the depth to elicit the geek factor you had with Yes or Genesis or ELP or the gold standard Pink Floyd. Any self respecting, jean jacket wearing, barber avoiding, camero driving, joint bogarting class of ‘78 teenager would admit a Lamb Lies Down fetish long before confessing a Crime Of The Century passion.

You played Supertamp in your room and your cheerleader sister (who never lived and breathed music as a source of all things redemptive and blissful) would say in passing, “oh, I like that song,” then vanish with Jim Hoffman, the varsity quarterback. Not a sign of cool, but certainly acknowledging their pop craft and ole Rog’s unnerving but pleasant enough voice.

The real gold were the long, and at times too sentimental, album tracks on Crime, Crisis, and Quietest. While the singles have been FM’d to death--they never had a staying power beyond nostalgia generation, these longer tracks are still worth seeking out for a listen, even at high volume with nice headphones.

Nothing captures 1979 like Breakfast. It was everywhere. And for good reason: well crafted pop songs with just enough arty pretense. It appealed to the cheerleader and the malcontent. It holds up today.

After Breakfast they fell off a cliff rendering anything afterwards worthless. I’d rather Bobby Sherman over Famous Last Words

you can take that to the bank

Why did I think they were dutch?

Supertramp were ok, I prefer the early stuff to Breakfast
(Incredibly Stamped, Crime of the Century).

Better than most of the Eurotechnotrash I heard through the 90's.

And Rodger Hodgson (or was it Rick Davies?) was way into bikes.

marty

Supertramp is not now nor were they ever cool. (When I talk about Supertramp I am talking “Breakfast” and all records prior). They never had the depth to elicit the geek factor you had with Yes or Genesis or ELP or the gold standard Pink Floyd. Any self respecting, jean jacket wearing, barber avoiding, camero driving, joint bogarting class of ‘78 teenager would admit a Lamb Lies Down fetish long before confessing a Crime Of The Century passion.

You played Supertamp in your room and your cheerleader sister (who never lived and breathed music as a source of all things redemptive and blissful) would say in passing, “oh, I like that song,” then vanish with Jim Hoffman, the varsity quarterback. Not a sign of cool, but certainly acknowledging their pop craft and ole Rog’s unnerving but pleasant enough voice.

The real gold were the long, and at times too sentimental, album tracks on Crime, Crisis, and Quietest. While the singles have been FM’d to death--they never had a staying power beyond nostalgia generation, these longer tracks are still worth seeking out for a listen, even at high volume with nice headphones.

Nothing captures 1979 like Breakfast. It was everywhere. And for good reason: well crafted pop songs with just enough arty pretense. It appealed to the cheerleader and the malcontent. It holds up today.

After Breakfast they fell off a cliff rendering anything afterwards worthless. I’d rather Bobby Sherman over Famous Last Words

you can take that to the bank


That was priceless... priceless! But I love Supertramp anyway, and now that it's being refreshed in my head, I may even go out and get the album.

Supertramp didn't have staying power, but neither did a lot of the bands in the 80s that rolled out the pop music (not rock music, but pop music). I love them like lovers... I love them like ABBA. I wish they had a Supertramp museum like they have that ABBA museum in Sweden. Now that would be deliciously yummy sin to indulge in.

Koffee

I have very album they have ever made, my favourite is "Even In The Quietest Moments".

Brother Where You Bound and Famous Last Words were garbage.

My iTunes library is large. Ever since I posted here something strange has happened. Shuffle has surfaced Supertramp repeatedly, enough to cause an eyebrow, enough to wonder if the code writers are Supertramp fantatics. I've heard Even In The Quietest Moments, Fool's Overture, Babaji, Hide In Your Shell, and Rudy. It tried to make me listen to Cannonball, but I said, oh no, I'm not listening to that crap, and hit fast forward. You get that song stuck in your head you'll suffer for 3 days.

Not if I can help it.