Breakfast in Pollmerica - Supertramp

"Gone Hollywood". Still retaining a bit of their proggy roots.

this sleeve creeps me out

The cover is very "Mulholland Drive". BiA has got to be one of the great Wurlitzer records. Would normally go with Logical Song but going with Child of Vision for the aforementioned electric piano jam

xp yeah me too. way scary innit? it's a real kinder-trauma job.

christ..

http://beatleswithbakerblog-wbzg.itmblog.com/files/2009/08/47276016.jpg

goodbye stranger is some kind of apex of awesome camp. VOTED

goodbye stranger is a masterpiece

This album is awesome! I am voting "Oh Darling."

Goodbye Stranger is one of the greatest songs ever imo. I can't not vote for it.

I used to have this great clip of them doing it favorited on Youtube which I was about to link to but it looks like it's been taken down. :( Also, the album cover is extremely creepy. It sorta reminds of the creepy people in the Black Hole Sun video for some reason.

Title track: the yin to 'Tusk' (the song)'s yang

Art Director Mike Doud took his inspiration from the title and worked up various sketches of surreal images and visual puns. One of the rejected concepts involved giant Cheerios rolling down Arizona’s Monument Valley in a flood of milk.

http://sleevage.com/supertramp-breakfast-in-america/

goodbye stranger

Breakfast in America. Perfect pop song in every way.

I've never actually searched youtube for Supertramp, there isn't a single clip of the original lineup with Roger Hodgson...weird

this album was a huge vindication for 6th-grade me - teenagers had gotten me into supertramp a year-plus before, and I knew Crime of the Century and ...Crisis? What Crisis? backwards and forwards and then boom, they were everywhere. I missed the get-lost-in-it Crime of the Century style but this album had super-hooks and it was cool to feel like I'd been ahead of something. (I suspect that old-fashioned big-label-days "development" had a lot to do with Supertramp getting their moment: like some manager or A&R dude spent 5-7 years getting them to this point.) Looking at the tracklisting I remember the title track, "Goodbye Stranger," "The Logical Song" (which is the most Crime like in feel I think & certainly in sentiment) and kinda-sorta-maybe "Oh Darling." I lean toward "Goodbye Stranger" of those though. I used to transcribe the lyrics into journals from that one.

I find that the album cover evokes more WTC nostalgia than any photo of the actual item, probably because I'd owned the album for awhile before being old enough to realize it was a takeoff on the iconic NYC skyline. (I was about a year younger than underrated aero.)

"Goodbye Stranger" for me - always liked the way Davies/Hodgson deployed each other's counterpoint vocals in their own songs.

Voted "Breakfast" because it was the one that first popped into my head when I opened this. It's entirely possible that it had an unfair advantage due to being the title track but it's a good tune anyway.

"The Logical Song"

these guys look like some cheesier Bee Gee-fied version of the Floyd on the back jacket photo

always liked the sax break in the logical song so that.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I ended up voting "Take the Long Way Home" which I feel speaks ill of me but I loved it so much

there are no wrong answers here, my friend

the bridge of TtLWH kills, also

Jesus Christ, thank Gawd yer back ILM!! That really sucked...