Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp
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Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Supertramp
Free Music Review: Great collection
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Supertramp collection. Some earlier ones missed "School" or "Hide in your Shell", but this one has all the tracks you would expect.Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD includes all the Supertramp titles I remember listening to 25 years ago. The digital re-mix brings the sound quality right up to today's standards.Free Music Review: Hooray for Supertramp!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been an avid Supertramp fan since I was very young and currently own every Supertramp album. I recently bought this 'Very Best Of' compilation and did not regret it. I like basically every song on here (Take the Long Way Home is my personal favorite) and they even threw in 'School'. Hooray!
I like the fact that all the old bands are making a comeback (The Logical Song is pretty much overplayed where I live) and that hopefully this phase of rap/hip-hop and greenday wannabes will end.
I will close with 3 words:
Buy This Album!
Free Music Review: Great content, great concert, but we want more !
Hit: 4 Stars
What an awesome concert ! The songs are great, the band members are perfect. Very good mix of songs by both leaders Rick Davies and Roger Hogdson. I saw both of them in concert and now I can live the magic between them back in the early 80s.
Of course, essential hits are missing on this DVD : "Take the long way home, it's raining again, lover boy, and many more". But the choice and mix of the songs for the concert is very balance starting with the great and unique "Crazy". Also included are classicals like "Logical song", "Dreamer", "Breakfast in america" and "Good bye strangers". The interview footage (half before and half after the concert) is one of the greatest i've seen on a DVD even if it has a short playing time. Additional videos from less commercial songs are a great addition to the content of the DVD. The only problem is that we want to see more of these great artists who created a unique music style. They have so many great songs missing...
Free Music Review: What you get here and what you get on Volume 2
Hit: 4 Stars
The Very Best of Volume 1 and 2 are not chronologically sequential. Volume 2 which came out later is a suppliment to volume 1. Between the two you get the bulk of certain albums.To begin with neither album features anything from the groups largely ignored first two albums, Supertramp 1970 and Indelibly Stamped 1971.
Volume 1 features six of the eight songs on Crime of the Century 1974 while a seventh appears on Volume 2. The only thing not featured is 'Asylum'. [7/8]
Only one song from Crisis? What Crisis? 1975 was put on volume 1. Volume 2 meanwhile has two tracks of the ten songs on the album. A cassette version of volume 1 also included Sister Moonshine, but this is not on either CD. Despite only featuring three songs, Crisis is still as good an album as the other heavilly featured ones of this decade. Aside from 'Sister', the other major overlooked track is 'Another Man's Woman'. [3/10]
Even in the Quietest Moments 1977 is represent by two tracks on Vol 1 and four on volume, leaving only 'Lover Boy' of the seven tracks excluded. [6/7]
Of the 10 tracks on Breakfast in America 1979 four are featured on volume 1 and another three on volume two. Of the leftovers the greatest omission is 'Child of Vision' - which is unfortunate. [7/10]
Volume 1 featured only one track out of the nine from Famous Last Words 1982. Volume 2, meanwhile features three. Of the remaining five, the main one that sticks out as being overlooked is 'Crazy'. [4/9]
Only volume 1 features a track (out of six) from the first post-Rgoer Hodson album, Brother Where You Bound 1985. This is not a particularly great album, though 'Still in Love' would have been a good addition. [1/6]
Likewise, only volume 2 features a track from the medicore Free As a Bird 1987 (which was also on the tape version of Volume 1). Another song out of the nine they could have considered was 'It's Alright'. [1/9]
Given the date of their release the Very Best ofs feature nothing from either Some Things Never Change 1997 or Slow Motion 2002.
So basically with these two best ofs you are getting virtually all of two albums, most of a third, half of another and just token selections from three others. You may prefer to just get the albums for the stuff you aren't getting on the less featured ones and get the others anyway since you'd be pretty much getting the whole albums on the Very Best ofs.
All in all, save a few overlooked tracks, the two volume together give a very generous representation of Supertramp's 74-82 work.