Track Listing

1. Gone Hollywood - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
2. The Logical Song - Supertramp, Peter Henderson, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
3. Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp, Peter Henderson, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
4. Breakfast In America - Supertramp, Peter Henderson, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
5. Oh Darling - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
6. Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp, Peter Henderson, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
7. Lord Is It Mine - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
8. Just Another Nervous Wreck - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
9. Casual Conversations - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope
10. Child Of Vision - Peter Henderson, Supertramp, Lenise Bent, Jeff Harris, Gary Mielke, Aaron Rapoport, Mark Hanauer, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John A Helliwell, Dougie Thomson, Bob C Benberg, Russel Pope

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #984 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 46 minutes

From Amazon.com
After a shaky start followed by several critically acclaimed releases, the English group Supertramp hit the commercial jackpot in 1979 with Breakfast in America. The album combined the band's FM radio, AOR-rock style with an almost carnival-like nature. Breakfast gave the band major hits with "The Logical Song," "Goodbye Stranger," and "Take the Long Way Home." The plinking piano and dramatic clarinet runs of "The Logical Song" imparted a comic, yet bittersweet tone to the release as a whole. In another example of the band's devotion to alternative ways to carry their melody lines, "Goodbye Stranger" rings with some of the purest whistling ever recorded. There's also a healthy dose of cynicism running through the 10 tracks with "Just Another Nervous Wreck." --Steve Gdula

CD Description
Often forgotten, and when finally remembered it is usually for the often tedious, but huge-selling Crime Of The Century. This record cuts away the pomp and keeps it comparatively simple with some memorable pop songs and lyrics, for example, in the title track a simple statement, 'take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I've got', or the ridiculously simple rhymes in 'The Logical Song', and the painful truthof 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'Take The Long Way Home', which are further irritatingly catchy songs. Sadly Supertramp were not able to build on this excellent collection although theystill have a loyal following.

Customer Reviews

Staggering In Every Way
Supertramp. like all top class bands had more than one top class songwriter contributing...in this case Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies write the songs and the chemistry is amazing, especially so given the superb rhythm section and sax and wind instuments of Mr Helliwell...this album like all their best efforts (ie Crime, Crisis and Even In The Quietest Moments) is so impressive on SO MANY LEVELS....I suppose what makes this album in the superb mixture of the singles, particilarly Logical Song and Take The Long Way Home with the other stuff whiczh is EASILY of the same standard, in fact better in some cases...Lord Is It Mine is absolutely beautiful, lyrically and musically, the chaplain at our school once played this song in front of the whole school in morning chapel...i was blown away then and i am still am today! Oh Darling is possibly Rick Davies' most underrated song...bitter-sweet, utterly captivating and incredibly emotional....Child Of Vision has that tremendous piano plus a great lyric and Casual Conversations is beautiful it its heartfelt simplicity....and gorgeous melody...WHY CAN'T RICK DAVIES WRITE SONGS LIKE THAT THESE DAYS????? This ablum is jam packed full of uplifting music which this band would never sadly match again, good though parts of Famous Last Words were...post Hodgson Supertramp I'm afraid is rather forgettable.....but for a period of 5 years from 1974 to 1979 this band could do basically NO WRONG and their four albums from this period are timless, not to mention the album covers which are among the best of any decade. If I have to think of who has produced four albums of such sheer brilliance, one after the other, I have to resort to Beatles Rubber Soul through White album or Dylan Blood On the Tracks through Slow Train Coming. That's how good this band was.

Lost and Found
I discovered Supertramp on a set broadcast by John Peel in the early seventies which I recorded and loved. Next time you bump into Mr Peel remind him that he gave them this early break. He'll be thrilled. After seeing them perform "Dreamer" on BBC2's "Old Grey Whistle Test" I rushed out and bought the album. I loved it. We all loved it. Even my parents loved it. I saw them whenever I could. I bought the subsequent albums and even when punk came along and I had to pretend not to like them anymore I still bought and loved "Breakfast In America" - their finest hour. Having worn out the vinyl original I didn't listen to it again for another, oooh, twenty odd years.

Last year I had a craving to hear Supertramp again(nostalgia? morbidity?) and went out and bought the "Greatest Hits" which I played for my kids on a car trip through France. They loved it. I've now bought on cd the four classic albums and I'm amazed how well they have stood the test of time. I love them again. Rarely credited, the backline of Dougie Thomson and Bob Siebenberg are inch perfect, melodic and inventive holding everything together. JAH adds the icing on the cake of Davies' bluesey voice/piano and Hodgson's jangly voice/piano/guitar. The album is full of cracking songs but I am always moved by Rick Davies' "Oh Darling" which is the only unambiguous love song they wrote during this phase. The seventies ended with "Breakfast in America" and "London Calling" - it's been downhill ever since.

Taking The Long Way Home
If I could give this album a "10", I would! Last year's Gap ad "Give A Little Bit" renewed my love of this extraordinary group. Starting life as a British progressive rock band, Supertramp shifted gears and became a real pop band. Supertramp was formed in England in 1969 by keyboardist/vocalist Roger Davies. 1974's "Crime Of The Century" became the band's first big smash, followed by "Crisis! What Crisis?" and "Even In The Quietest Moments". 1979's "Breakfast In America" was a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic, and is considered by most people to be the band's best album.
Why does "Breakfast In America" entrance me? Is it the lyrics, the melody, the moving background, yes, but most of all the voices that rise and fill the room with joy and the resounding emphasis on the music. "Take the Long Way Home" strikes a chord in my heart. I have sung the lyrics with my son while driving in the car, and it brings back the memories of our togetherness. I have told my family that at my funeral "Take the Long Way Home" will be one of the songs to send me on my way.

"Lord Is It Mine" has the old time feeling of longing and wanting. "Gone Hollywood" reveals what happens when a band makes it big, and "The Logical Song" tells us just that-the entire album has the feel sublime entertainment. The band has that certain "joie de vie" that we revere in a truly outstanding work of art.

My favorite band and album- you bet! Supertramp and "Breakfast In America" bring it all together- the feel of the 70's. The times they are a changing, and that was the period in my life that reflects what I think life is all about. Bring It On, Supertramp! prisrob