Supertramp

My favorite is Crime of the Century. I think Supertramp got a little overexposed later in their career. That being said, their first few albums stand the test of time and
Paris captures a lot of that spirit.

I have a sealed copy of Paris as a back up to my nearly worn out copy. Great album. Also a big fan of Crime of the Century and Some things Never Change.

Big Supertramp fan here. Unfortunately never did see them live in their original form but did see Roger a few years back in a very small venue - great show! Retrospectacle is a great compilation but shame on them for not including "Hide in your Shell"...

"Crisis, What Crisis?," their follow up to Crime, is one of my favorites. It is often difficult to write the next album after the big one that put the band on the map, but with this one I think they succeeded. "A Soap box Opera" is amazing in its writing and performance. And then of course a couple of records later they hit the big, big time with Breakfast and it seemed every Honda Accord in 1979 in a parking lot was blasting this out the back with the hatch open.

One of favorite bands of all time. Glad another finds "Soapbox Opera" special. Crime of the Century was the album gold standard to test dynamics in my local hifi shop in the mid-70's. This music began my quest as an audiophile and drove me to purchase my first quality piece of gear - a brand new Marantz 2275. Luckily, I saw Supertramp at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1974 where they performed the Crime album in its sequential entirety live. I still remember near the end of the show as that title cut began, the auditorium went even darker showing a large video behind the band of the cosmos coming toward you "Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory? Rip off the masks and let's see" and in the vast distance one begins to make out the tiny image of hands gripping a set of jail bars while the striking piano riffs and pounding drums assault the audience as the gripping hands coming slowly closer and closer view until they eventually take up the screen. It blew me away. I saw them a few years later at the Great Western Forum on their Breakfast tour. Also great. I remember Elton John and Alice Cooper joining in on the Hide in Your Shell finale. Never really did care much for the Logical song, but there are so many others I really enjoy such as Asylum, If Everyone Was Listening, Fool's Overture, etc. I do wish the boys would get along and tour again - they are better together.