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Eldergays, was Supertramp a big deal back in the day?

Clever album art on this one.

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by Anonymousreply 38October 24, 2020 8:00 PM

I'm not sure if it was big with the gays but it was big with my straight oldest brother. He had a great stereo system and I used to listen to this album on it. It's a good one.

by Anonymousreply 1October 23, 2020 8:32 PM

At one point they were the biggest selling band in the world!

by Anonymousreply 2October 23, 2020 8:34 PM

Didn’t do a thing for me. That song sucks.

by Anonymousreply 3October 23, 2020 8:34 PM

Shame in fighting really fucked up the band.

by Anonymousreply 4October 23, 2020 8:35 PM

They had more than one song, R3.

by Anonymousreply 5October 23, 2020 8:35 PM

I thought the lead singer was a woman for the longest time.

by Anonymousreply 6October 23, 2020 8:36 PM

The story of that album cover is interesting. It was also the center of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

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by Anonymousreply 7October 23, 2020 8:38 PM

Truther conspiracy theory

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by Anonymousreply 8October 23, 2020 8:40 PM

I saw the ex-lead singer in concert about 7 years ago at the Orange County Fair. He was great but the crowd was the worst ever! Drunk , fat and old loud mouth white people are the worst!

by Anonymousreply 9October 23, 2020 8:44 PM

This song is about struggling with aging and coming to terms with growing older. A DL theme song!

Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be For you to grow, boy When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, what you might have been If you would had more time

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by Anonymousreply 10October 23, 2020 8:47 PM

Not really. A one hit wonder.

by Anonymousreply 11October 23, 2020 8:48 PM

LOVED IT THEN and LOVE IT NOW... the album and the group....

little tidbit of info: they were signed by A & M and bitched and moan about it, and including that company's biggest stars, the carpenters, and were told if it wasn't for the carpenters they wouldn't have a record deal in the first place..

by Anonymousreply 12October 23, 2020 8:52 PM

I love their first big hit, The Logical Song. I have it and all their big hits, and yes, they had more than one hit.

by Anonymousreply 13October 23, 2020 8:57 PM

Back in 1979 and 1980, it was a big thing as I remember. Back when album covers mattered, that whole waitress thing seemed cool.

by Anonymousreply 14October 23, 2020 10:14 PM

Craptastic

by Anonymousreply 15October 23, 2020 10:17 PM

I liked them, but none of my mates did. My older sister bought their records.

by Anonymousreply 16October 23, 2020 10:20 PM

Basically a flash in the pan. I'm sure they spend their time playing county fairs and venues like that.

by Anonymousreply 17October 23, 2020 10:30 PM

ELO and Supertramp are the two most underrated British bands. Goodbye Stranger is a perfect song.

by Anonymousreply 18October 23, 2020 10:37 PM

Goodbye Stranger

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by Anonymousreply 19October 23, 2020 10:39 PM

I remember driving to LA from Florida with a friend who only liked rock and I was more R & B. 8 tracks we could agree on: Pointer Sisters, The Knack, Steely Dan, and this Supertramp album. Thanks for the thread.

by Anonymousreply 20October 23, 2020 10:45 PM

Breakfast in America is a pretty good, bordering on, but not actually, great album.

by Anonymousreply 21October 23, 2020 11:00 PM

Big for me, but I don’t listen to them today.

by Anonymousreply 22October 23, 2020 11:01 PM

Who wants to see some fat assed waitress on an album cover? Not I.

by Anonymousreply 23October 23, 2020 11:11 PM

Great album, and this one of my favorite songs .

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by Anonymousreply 24October 23, 2020 11:16 PM

Live version featuring Aaron MacDonald on harmonica and tenor sax.

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by Anonymousreply 25October 23, 2020 11:18 PM

Another nice one.

Maybe it's the era, but many of these songs seem very layered, almost orchestral in their arrangements.

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by Anonymousreply 26October 23, 2020 11:21 PM

I think Child of Vision is on that album.

by Anonymousreply 27October 23, 2020 11:30 PM

I think Child of Vision is on that album.

by Anonymousreply 28October 23, 2020 11:30 PM

I loved this solo cut from Rodger Hodgson, came out a few years after.

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by Anonymousreply 29October 23, 2020 11:31 PM

Yeah, R11. Except, no.

by Anonymousreply 30October 24, 2020 12:21 AM

For a year or two they were the hottest band in the world. That album was everywhere. And then they just disappeared.

by Anonymousreply 31October 24, 2020 1:10 AM

R11 Not a one-hit wonder. There were 4 hits singles off Breakfast in America, two of them went top 10. The album itself went quadruple platinum just in the US. It was their biggest seller though, there is no way to match that sort of success.

by Anonymousreply 32October 24, 2020 1:29 AM

I like a few of their songs, but the one they had in the 80s, It's Raining Again, was putrid.

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by Anonymousreply 33October 24, 2020 1:37 AM

My older sister bought their albums too. I love "Goodbye Stranger".

by Anonymousreply 34October 24, 2020 1:38 AM

School

by Anonymousreply 35October 24, 2020 1:49 AM

I was about to post the same thing, R31. A quick rise and a quick fall. I don't recall anyone talking about them in the past two decades or so.

by Anonymousreply 36October 24, 2020 2:08 AM

Well, they weren't the Beatles...

by Anonymousreply 37October 24, 2020 2:15 AM

I was the biggest Supertramp fan and still love them. Many comments are by people who really have no clue who they were. They had a decade of phenomenal music from the early 1970s before Breakfast in America in 1979. Their real breakthrough was Crime of the Century from 1974. Music today is very disposable. Download one song, hear it, forget it, repeat with next song. Supertramp, like many bands of that era, released concept albums where you had the physical album with accompanying art and liner notes and often a tour. It was whole different and much better listening experience allowing you to get to know the band. Roger Hodgson left in the early 1980s after they recorded Famous Last Words. The rest of of the member continued on.

by Anonymousreply 38October 24, 2020 8:00 PM
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