Supertramp - Retrospectacle: The Supertramp Anthology
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Free Music Review: More than I expected
Hit: 5 Stars
There are songs on this anthology that I had never heard before. And, of course, all the ones I expected to hear are there, too. This is a great collection at a good price.Free Music Review: Supertramp are great!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Great album to have, however you look at Supertramp, this collection will surely bring you great memories and fantastic vibes. Great music that will always live!!Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
I feel that Supertramp is one of the greatest musical groups of all time.
I can't say enough about this album. Get it!! You won't be disappointed.
Free Music Review: Great treat for SUPERTRAMP fans with Broken needles and turntables
Hit: 4 Stars
If you happen to be a major Supertramp fan and have their LP albums but have no turntables to play 'em since you've a great deal of finding a replacement for your dilapidated equiptment - then you'd find quite a treat with this double cd retrospective album of the band (that would've been issued as part of the DVD inclusive Sound&Vision package as this is said to be a part of A&M Records' "Gold" series) which sorta beats the previous 'Very Best Of' compilations - and most obviously - one of the most rip-offed compilations ever made called = The Autobiography of SUPERTRAMP.
Containing more than a half of BREAKFAST IN AMERICA's entirety, and CRIME OF THE CENTURY + EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS; and almost a half of the albums CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? + FAMOUS LAST WORDS; and a track from all of the other albums from the self-titled debut to the latest SLOW MOTION cd ... plus two live cuts each from their live albums THESE ARE THE BEST OF TIMES (which is kinda like a definitive LIVE album for the Tramp under Davies' wing) and the classic PARIS Live album (whose video footage still hadn't seen its day of being released to the public), but it don't include any from the LIVE '88 album. It also includes a previously unreleased mix of the single "Land Ho" along with its b-side, Davies' "Summer Romance"; and an edited version of the song "Truly" from the debut album.
The let-down's this double cd compilation have included certain 'passable' (meaning: throwable) tracks such as "Cannonball" and "Dont Leave Me Now", when it could've included other real notable ones from the band, such as the intro for the album CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? "Easy Does It" (which precedes "Sister Moonshine"), along with the album's "A Soapbox Opera"; and EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS' "Fool's Overture" instead; and most of all, "Cest Le Von" from FAMOUS LAST WORDS instead.
With a liner note by Scott Schinder, me thinks a true blue fan would've better been off to have written what's there in the booklet rather.
Reportedly a certain amount of portion for this compilation's pressing where printed here in me lokal country of the Philippines (which hath great sonic volume whenever 'twas such), hearken wilt that thence maketh me a one proud bloak whose a fan of the band,me thoughts I'm the only one... 'til i found out through the net that there are actually gazzilion of fans of Supertramp ... across the world, that is.
Sampling a cd of interviews from the band members one time, I've heard John Helliwell (it is I think), stated that basically the band's songs dwell on the theme about a boy trying to get the girl - and he'd find it strange if one gets to miss out on that. And truthfully enough - I got hooked on the band when I was eight years old.
On another note--> Now if I weren't a fan myself, I would've not scored a copy of the jap teen-pop artist YUKIE KOBAYASHI ((yeah, more on this side of Yoko Ono)no seriously-- something that's pop-tolerable by the likes of Billie, Shampoo, and All Saints(?)), who's album cover for her BIG STAR SUPERSTAR album [FLCF-3844, For Life Records CD JAPAN] completely resembles the cover for Supertramp's BREAKFAST - I would've not bought it - but did anyway, as i was looking for the remastered re-issue cd of the said 'Tramp album, when to my surprise seeing that the one on the cover's oriental. Living in asia had me subjected concerning the certain buzz about a song called "Sukiyaki" (a hit in Singapore among other asian countries) for which I never really heard nor give a hoot at all about, turns out she's actually the one who'd cracked it, and the said track is also included in the said album of hers, which is by the way a concept album as well, with her alter-ego NIKKI MONROE, who's trying to make it in Hollywood.
However, it was notable with the track (and quite aptly titled I guess) called "Stupid", and that it also found spots that are produced by the noted Dire Straits producer Neil Dorfsman.
Anyway, so much for all of these - I wouldn't like to end this prattle without suggesting the following better track-sequence for two of 'Tramp's albums, next time you listen to the said albums - program your cd's as follows:
for BREAKFAST IN AMERICA =
3) Goodbye Stranger (fitting to open the album as its original working title's supposed to be "HELLO STRANGER")
1) Gone Hollywood
4) Breakfast In America
6) Take the Long Way Home
2) The Logical Song
7) Lord Is It Mine
5) Oh Darling
8) Just Another Nervious Wreck
9) Casual Conversations
10) Child Of Vision
for EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS =
3) (title track)
5) Babaji
1) Give A Little Bit
2) Lover Boy
4) Downstream
6) From Now On
7) Fool's Overture
---Christopher
Free Music Review: That's Really Super, Supertramp
Hit: 4 Stars
This "Retrospectacle" is not a greatest hits set, and probably not for casual fans of the singles Supertramp placed on the charts through the 70's and 80's. At two discs and 32 songs, it covers the Supertramp albums from their first two (largely ignored on original release) albums, the hot period from "Crime of The Century" through "Famous Last Words" and then offers a few more songs from albums post-hit career. It was a pretty wild and evolving career, with this set giving a solid history.
While they started out as art-rockers with British Music Hall sensibilities (best shown by the single "Land Ho), by the time the went for high concept with "Crime of The Century," Supertramp began to making art-pop that rocked. Not an easy task. But with "Dreamer" and "Bloody Well Right," they hit a rich commercial lineage that had few peers. In this time period, only 10cc could match Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson's canny mixture of rock/pop/and witty compositions. The albums continued getting better and (in my opinion, at least) peaked with "Even In The Quietest Moments." "Give A Little Bit" became a top 20 hits and the band became superstars. That set the stage for the explosive success of "Breakfast In America," a smoothly slick look at their newly found worldwide acceptance.
In addition to being a Top Ten Album, it spawned four hits singles (and the sublime "The Logical Song") and eventually even lifted the five year old "Dreamer" back onto the top 20. The sound was immaculate, but homogeneity was beginning to show. It also led to the obligatory double live album, the top ten "Paris." What the lone track from that album, "You Started Laughing," shows, is that Supertramp were as technically proficient on stage as they were in the studio, but not necessarily spontaneous. It also filled the time for the band to finish up "Famous Last Words," an album that did show that the band had sanded off all the quirks to become a highly polished pop band in pursuit if American Radio (must tellingly shown by the kiddy chorus that pops up on "It's Raining Again").
"Famous Last Words" was the point where Hodgson decided he was going solo, leaving Davies to carry "Brother Where You Bound" and "Free as a Bird." Turns out they obviously needed each other more than they cared to admit, as the lack of the pair's vocal interplay and songwriting chemistry made "Brother" bland and "Bird" forgettable. The remaining songs are, frankly, utterly uninteresting (although the live version of "Another Man's Woman" reminds you of past glories). Davies is still soldiering on under than Supertramp name, but the excess of material here will please only diehard fans. You could easily settle for the single disc set.