Track Listing

1. Cannonball
2. Still In Love
3. No Inbetween
4. Better Days - Supertramp, David Kershenbaum, Norman Hall, Allan Sides, Steve Crimmel, Gary Chang, Anthony Marinelli, Brian Banks
5. Brother Where You Bound
6. Ever Open Door

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37512 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 42 minutes

Customer Reviews

A new direction
I can understand why tramp fans might not warm to this album immediately.
It is totally unlike the supertramp we remember of yesteryear, but I wonder what fans expected. Two years previous to this release Roger Hodgson,(the high voiced and more commercially viable singer)had gone solo so Supertramp, with Rick Davies at the helm had to regroup,dust itself off and carry on. Listen to Rick Davies' earlier offerings and it is obvious to see that this album was always going to air on the side of blues and Jazz. What came out of his writing efforts was a slick, punchy, quasi-jazz/rock affair with a crunch to the the drums and a tight parping horn section with some superb jazz sax from John Helliwell - At this point in the mid eithties it was as well produced and perhaps as mechanic as say scritti polliti. Drum machines were king and somehow the tramp made their drummer sound like a drum machine!, playing heavier more obvious beats than previous more lucid and rythmic structures. Overall I like it, but I think you have to appreciate Jazz more with this album than any other tramp record this side of Crisis what Crisis. There are some lovely melodies and good but perhaps too few songs here considering the opus Brother where you bound track is 8-9 mins long. That track stands out for me as one of Ricks best ever, being a multi faceted affair which needs a few listens to fully appreciate. It's easily their best post Hodgson record in my opinion.

good sound ... but weak music !
It's simple : the sound might be good ... but not the music, which is mechanic and passionless.

EXCELLENT SOUND QUALITY!
This incredible album from 1985 produced by David Kershenbaum and Supertramp, was remastered from the original master tapes.The result:EXCELLENT JOB!Sound quality is amazing...
The art design by Norman Moore is also very, very good.
A good CD for your collection!