Track Listing

1. Give A Little Bit
2. Lover Boy
3. Even In The Quietest Moments
4. Downstream
5. Babaji
6. From Now On
7. Fool's Overture

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8133 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Running time: 43 minutes

CD Description
While there had been McCartney-esque pop elements in Supertramp's accessible brand of art-rock from the beginning, EVENIN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS represents a definitive shift from proggier tendencies towards a more commercial approach. Coming as it did before the band's major commercial breakthrough, BREAKFAST IN AMERICA, it foreshadows that album's straightforward pop-rock approach, while still retaining a touch of the early artiness.
While "Fool's Overture" has a bit of the weightiness one ordinarily associates with 1970s prog, the fragile, contemplative title track and "From Now On" betray a fondness for the softer side of '60s Britpop. "Give a Little Bit", which would become one of Supertramp's signaturesongs, is a sunny, acoustic-guitar-driven tune that would sound at home alongside almost any '70s Los Angeles folk-rockact. The band's big crossover was just around the corner, but all the earmarks of their breakout can be heard here.

Customer Reviews

More Brilliance
The third album in that timeless four album run from this band (1974-79) when they could do No Wrong. It opens with the timeless classic 'Give A Little Bit' and had the rest of the album stayed at this level we would probably be talking about the greatest album of all time. It doesn't....quite. But the dip in quality is pretty minimal. Only the second track leaves something to be desired. 'Lover Boy' is not exactly bad Supertramp but in this company it sinks pretty much without trace. The title track is Roger Hodgson at his mysterious spiritual best. You are never sure which God he is singing to, but it hardly seems to matter. It is an immensely moving song. 'Downstream' is one of Rick Davies' best piano ballads. Wonderful chords, and a great lyric. Heartfelt and to use that word again....moving. 'Babaji' finds Roger again in happy mood and the melody is outstanding. It perhaps goes on a minute too long to be classified as a Supertramp classic, but that first minute....is nothing short of fantastic. 'From Now On' is one of Rick Davies' three best ever songs in my opinion. It is utterly brilliant. It's a shame that no live version can match the studio original as it positvely cries out for thousands of fans to chant those great lines 'Guess I'll always have to be....living in a fantasy.' Which they never did for some reason. The piano playing and musicianship here is of course as usual of the highest quality. Then the finale 'Fool's Overture' is so brilliant that one is again simply lost for words. This song has a wonderfully melodic and beautiful verse and then crescendos into a wonderful climax of tuneful keyboards and quite brilliant backing vocals. Listening to this track you are quite entitled to think this band were indeed touched by a Great Power. There is also a wonderful reference to the Blue Meanies, those infamous Anti-Music baddies from the Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine'. But ah! Those opening lines: 'Hist-o-ry recalls how great the fall can be'.....Quite brilliant.
As is this entire album bar one track. And that's a pretty good percentage. The follow up to this would be the stupendous 'Breakfast In America' album (1979). But here on this album they shine pretty damn brightly.

Supertramp at their perk - still superb 27 years on...
Like "Crime of the Century", this deserves to be in any progressive rock lover's all time top 5 albums. Despite having a copy of it since released in 1977, it never tires. The whole album is outstanding - well crafted & produced, with high quality songs, for example 'Fool's overture', 'Lover boy', 'Downstream' & the title track, as well as the brilliant single 'Give a little bit'. It works well with alternate tracks being sung by the 2 different vocalists (an approach taken on the band's studio albums between '74 & '82). An album every bit as good as the classic & unforgettable "Crime of the Century".

Fantastic
This work is the business, fools overture is one of the most interesting Supertramp tracks ever written

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