After last week's pick (which nobody liked, damn them all!) I sat in my cell trying to figure a way to get bck in everyone's good graces. Luckily, during my daily time in the yard, I had an ephiphany...why not feature a well-known band this week? All signs pointed to "YES" on that. Next thing was to pick what band and what album and I came up with this one:
Supertramp, "Brother Where You Bound", released in 1985.
When "Breakfast In America" came out, I absolutely loathed Supertramp. Couldn't stand any songs on the radio and they were a bunch from that album getting significant airplay. A year later, thelive album "Paris" came out and the song "Dreamer" was played a bunch on the radio, and I liked it.
So I revisited Supertramp, and found that I liked "Breakfast...", so I picked up more of their stuff and found that "Crime Of The Century" is a fantastic album. So I was sold.
1982 came the release of "...famous last words.." and I hated that album. Hated that song about rain, and still do, because it seemed silly and stupid. Luckily I still had "Crime.." and "Breakfast.." to fall back on
Come 1985, I was in a record store and saw this album. I figured what the hell, couldn't be any worse then their last album so I stole it and ran home to give it a listen. And listen I did, for a couple weeks straight since it is that good.
Sans Roger Hodgson who had left the group, this is prog rock. Even features David Gilmour on the title track, a whopping 16+ minutes. Good stuff I say! And that's the last new Supertramp release I bought since this didn't sell particularly well and, even though there were some more new albums, you just didn't hear about them too much.
Oh wait, I lied. I picked up "Some Things Never Change" when it came out in 1997, and didn't like it.
Brother Where You Bound
1. Cannonball*
2. Still In Love
3. No Inbetween
4. Better Days*
5. Brother Where You Bound*
6. Ever Open Door*
Availability: In print, 5+ bucks
MSoTW is gonna stump you. I think Niels MIGHT get it. Rjhog, no way. Scott, doubtful. Good luck!
(Note: I was actually going to take more time writing about thi album, but something's going on so I can't delete and have to retype everything if there's an error. Deal with it!)
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Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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