Supertramp - Transmission Impossible (Broadcast Recordings) (3CD Box Set) (2023)

Disc 1

1.  School - 5:22

2.  Bloody Well Right - 6:52

3.  Sister Moonshine - 5:16

4.  Ain't Nobody But Me - 5:25

5.  Hide In Your Shell - 6:55

6.  Poor Boy - 5:35

7.  The Meaning - 5:43

8.  Just A Normal Day - 4:04

9.  Asylum - 6:57

10.  Dreamer - 3:36

11.  Rudy - 7:11

12.  If Everyone Was Listening - 4:00

13.  Lady - 6:57

14.  Home Again - 1:31

15.  Crime Of The Century - 5:15

Disc 2

1.  Give A Little Bit - 4:15

2.  Bloody Well Right  (Version 2) - 6:44

3.  Lady (Version 2) - 6:15

4.  From Now On - 7:24

5.  Babaji - 4:57

6.  Poor Boy  (Version 2) - 5:17

7.  Dreamer  (Version 2) - 3:30

8.  Another Man's Woman - 7:55

9.  Hide In Your Shell  (Version 2) - 7:27

10.  Fool's Overture - 11:02

Disc 3

1.  Crazy - 5:47

2.  Ain't Nobody But Me  (Version 2) - 5:17

3.  Breakfast In America - 3:13

4.  Bloody Well Right  (Version 3) - 6:17

5.  Give A Little Bit  (Version 2) - 4:01

6.  Rudy (Version 2) - 7:54

7.  Put On Your Old Brown Down Shoes - 4:20

8.  The Logical Song - 3:41

9.  Good Bye Stranger - 6:03

10.  Dreamer  (Version 3) - 3:57

11.  From Now On/Fool's Overture - 17:42

12.  School  (Version 2) - 5:38

13.  Crime Of The Century  (Version 2) - 7:15

CD 1: From A Live FM Broadcast Recorded At Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, 5th March 1976

CD 2: From A Live FM Broadcast Recorded At Queen Mary College, London, England, 10th November 1977

CD 3: From A Live FM Broadcast Recorded At CNE Grandstand, Toronto, ON, Canada, 24th August 1983

Notes

Release:  2023

Format:  3CD Box Set

Genre:  Progressive Rock

Runtime: 3:46:33

Label:  Eat to the Beat

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Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound (1985)

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Brother Where You Bound is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1985. 

It was their first album after original member Roger Hodgson left the band, leaving Rick Davies to handle the songwriting and singing on his own. The album features the group's Top 30 hit "Cannonball".

Brother Where You Bound reached number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and number 21 on The Billboard 200 in 1985, and went Gold according to the band's then label A&M Records in 1985, although the RIAA hasn't certified it yet.

The track "Better Days" features an extended fade-out with voice-overs by the four key players in the 1984 Presidential Campaign: quotes spoken by Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale sounding from the left audio channel and those of George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan on the right, mixed with John Helliwell's extended saxophone solo. 

Cash Box called that song "a solidly driving rocker" and praised the production values and melody.

The album's sixteen-and-a-half-minute title track featured Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham on rhythm guitar and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on the guitar solos. Also, the track had readings from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. 

A demo for the song was recorded prior to Roger Hodgson's departure from the band, for potential inclusion on …Famous Last Words…, but the band ultimately felt it was too densely progressive rock to be appropriate, and decided against recording it for the album.  At the time of the demo, the song was only ten minutes long.

Tracklist

1.  Cannonball - 7:38 

2.  Still in Love - 4:36 

3.  No Inbetween - 4:36 

4.  Better Days - 6:15 

5.  Brother Where You Bound - 16:30 

6.  Ever Open Door - 3:06 

Supertramp

• Rick Davies – keyboards, lead vocals
• John Helliwell – saxophones, glockenspiel on track 1
• Dougie Thomson – bass
• Bob Siebenberg – drums

Additional personnel

• David Gilmour – guitar solos on "Brother Where You Bound"
• Scott Gorham – rhythm guitar on "Brother Where You Bound"
• Marty Walsh – guitar on "Cannonball", "Better Days", "Brother Where You Bound", and "Still in Love"
• Doug Wintz – trombone on "Cannonball"
• Cha Cha – backing vocals on "Still in Love"
• Brian Banks – Synclavier programming
• Anthony Marinelli – Synclavier programming
• Gary Chang – Fairlight & PPG programming
• Scott Page – flute on "Better Days" and "Brother Where You Bound"

Production

• Producers: David Kershenbaum, Supertramp
• Engineer: Norman Hall
• Assistant engineer: Steve Crimmel
• Mixing: Mark Ettel
• Mixing assistant: Steve McMillan
• Mastering: Bob Ludwig
• Remastering: Greg Calbi, Jay Messina
• Track engineer: Allen Sides
• Programming: Gary Chang
• Synclavier programming: Brian Banks, Anthony Marinelli
• Art direction: Norman Moore
• Design: Norman Moore
• Tray photo: Tom Gibson

Notes

Released: 13 May 1985 

Recorded: 1984–1985 Studio Ocean Way, Hollywood The Backyard, Encino

Genre:  Progressive rock, Pop

Length: 42:44 

Producer(s):  David Kershenbaum, Supertramp

Label - A&M Records 

Supertramp - Slow Motion (2002)

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Slow Motion is the eleventh and final studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 2002.

Supertramp struggled after the departure of Roger Hodgson to be seen as a viable, creative band and prove that it could exist without Hodgson. Although the albums released after Hodgson‘s departure were interesting, they never managed to capture the glory days of that classic lineup, nor did they reach commercial popularity.

That is not to say the releases were bad — far from it — but they tended to lack the variety and strong song structures that Hodgson brought to the band. For this studio album, Supertramp‘s lineup was almost identical to that of 1997’s Some Things Never Change, with the exception of the addition of Jesse Siebenberg and the departure of Tom Walsh. 

The change in lineup meant little, as the music was very similar to the band’s last studio release. Here, Rick Davies took control of production, and it proves the album’s downfall. The songs were very good, but the production was muddy and cluttered. The mix did not do justice to the music.

The songs themselves had shades of classic Supertramp songs, but there were hints of world music and prog rock, which kept things interesting. 

The songs were basic pop/rock songs with ever-familiar alienation themes. The two longer tracks (“Tenth Avenue Breakdown” and “Dead Man’s Blues”) crossed over into the realm of prog rock and harked back to the Crime of the Century album, but each was about three minutes too long, and could have used some editing.

Track listing

1. “Slow Motion” - 3:50
2. “Little By Little” - 4:30
3. “Broken Hearted” - 4:28
4. “Over You” - 5:06
5. “Tenth Avenue Breakdown” - 8:57
6. “A Sting in the Tail” - 5:17
7. “Bee in Your Bonnet” - 6:27
8. “Goldrush” (Rick Davies, Richard Palmer-James) - 3:06
9. “Dead Man’s Blues” - 8:26

All songs written by Rick Davies, except where noted.

Personnel

• Rick Davies – harmonica, keyboards, vocals
• Mark Hart – guitars, keyboards, vocals
• John Helliwell – saxophone, woodwinds
• Cliff Hugo – bass
• Bob Siebenberg – drums
• Lee Thornburg – horns, background vocals
• Carl Verheyen – guitars
• Jesse Siebenberg – percussion, background vocals

Production

• Producers: Rick Davies, Mark Hart, Jay Messina
• Engineer: Jay Messina
• Mastering: Greg Calbi
• Pro-tools: Seth McClain
• Photography: Jean Ber, Richard Frankel

Notes
Release Date:  April 23, 2002
Recording Location:  Sonora Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
Genre:   Progressive Rock
Duration:  50:07

Label – EMI Records

Supertramp - Some Things Never Change (1997)

Some Things Never Change is the tenth album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in March 1997.

Rick Davies, Bob Siebenberg, Mark Hart, and John Helliwell re-formed Supertramp with a number of anonymous studio musicians in 1997 to record and release Some Things Never Change, their first album in ten years.
And the title is correct -- nothing much has changed within Supertramp's world; they're simply churning out the same sophisticated jazzy, lite-funk-inflected pop as they did in the mid-'80s.
The only thing that is different is that the group can no longer write ingratiatingly catchy melodies as they did when they called it quits in the '80s, but hardcore fans will still find the instrumental interplay a joy to hear.

Some Things Never Change represented a deliberate return to the band's earlier sound (before Free as a Bird), using more organic recording techniques than on their previous studio album.
John Helliwell recounted that "we recorded the album in a way that Supertramp never had and that was by all going into the studio together and doing it as a much more live thing."
The album features the single "You Win, I Lose", which was a minor hit in Germany and also received considerable airplay in Canada.
The song "Live to Love You" features both the 'tackled' sound from the Coleco Electronic Quarterback handheld electronic game, as well as the Trouble "Pop-o-matic bubble" sounds from their 1979 hit "The Logical Song".

Rick Davies explained the concept behind the album cover: "It's something to tie in with the title. In England people have tea at four o'clock and it doesn't matter where they are or what sort of social plane they're on, they will have that tea."


Tracklist

1. "It's a Hard World" – 9:46
2. "You Win, I Lose" – 4:31
3. "Get Your Act Together" – 4:49
4. "Live to Love You" – 5:18
5. "Some Things Never Change" – 6:26
6. "Listen to Me Please" – 4:46
   • Lead vocals: Rick Davies and Mark Hart
7. "Sooner or Later" (Rick Davies/Mark Hart) – 6:50
   • Lead vocals: Mark Hart
8. "Help Me Down That Road" – 4:36
9. "And the Light" – 4:40
   • Drums: Tom Walsh
10. "Give Me a Chance" (Rick Davies/Mark Hart) – 4:24
    • Lead vocals: Mark Hart
11. "C'est What?" – 8:17
12. "Where There's a Will" – 5:36

All songs written and sung by Rick Davies except where noted.

Personnel

• Rick Davies – keyboards, vocals
• Mark Hart – guitars, keyboards, vocals
• John Helliwell – saxophones, woodwinds
• Cliff Hugo – bass
• Bob Siebenberg – drums
• Lee Thornburg – trombones, trumpets, background vocals
• Carl Verheyen – guitars
• Tom Walsh – percussion, drums on "And The Light"

Additional personnel

• Bob Danziger – Kalimbas
• Karen Lawrence – background vocals
• Kim Nail – background vocals
• Fred Mandel - guitars on "And The Light" (uncredited as a musician on the cover)

Production

• Producers: Jack Douglas, Fred Mandel
• Executive producer: Rick Davies
• Engineers: Ian Gardiner, Jay Messina
• Assistant engineers: Ian Gardiner, Mike Scotella
• Mixing assistant: Roy Clark, Brian Hargrove
• Mastering: Bob Ludwig
• Creative director: Richard Frankel
• Cover art: Dimo Safari
• Portraits: Dennis Keeley

Notes
Released: 24 March 1997
Recorded: 1988–90
Genre: Blues rock, progressive rock
Length: 65:36

Label - EMI/Oxygen (US) 

Supertramp - Is Everybody Listening? (2001)

Is Everybody Listening? is a live album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 2001.
Is Everybody Listening? is credited as being the 1976 recording of a concert that took place in Cleveland, Ohio. In fact, the actual concert took place on 9 March 1975 at London's Hammersmith Odeon during the Crime of the Century tour (as John Helliwell confirmed on his website).
Is Everybody Listening? features the entire Crime of the Century album and some tracks from the then still-to-be-recorded Crisis? What Crisis? album making up the middle third of the concert.
This recording was previously released as a bootleg prior to this release.
That was when Burning Airlines arranged to release this, and a good idea it was at that. This album finally shows what all the fuss was about this band. Their other "official" live albums were recorded far too late in their career all of their excitement sounds gone and the releases are over-produced (including Paris).
Those live albums simply do not demonstrate just how talented and creative these guys were. Here, in front of a crowd of about 5,000, the classic lineup of this band tears through then-current songs from Crisis? What Crisis? and Crime of the Century, and the songs sound every bit as good as they do in their studio form in some cases better. "Dreamer has an edge to it not found in the studio recording, as does the classic "Bloody Well Right." This album also shows that they had a great stage presence live, with a witty sense of humor (the introduction to "Dreamer is brilliant and hilarious). Burning Airlines has put together yet another great package: intelligent liner notes, great photos, and a wonderful-sounding album. This album will not disappoint hardcore or casual fans.
The mastering engineer Ray Staff has remastered this album as a part of the Crime of the Century Deluxe Edition 2CD-format reissue on 9 December 2014.

Track listing

01. "School" - 6:17 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies)
02. "Bloody Well Right" - 6:50 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies)
03. "Hide in Your Shell" - 6:52 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson)
04. "Asylum" - 7:05 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson)
05. "Sister Moonshine" - 5:21 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies)
06. "Just a Normal Day" - 4:09 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson)
07. "Another Man's Woman" - 7:47 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies)
08. "Lady" - 8:58 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson)
09. "Dreamer" - 3:30 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies)
10. "Rudy" - 7:25 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson)
11. "If Everyone Was Listening" - 4:35 
       (Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson)
12. "Crime of the Century" - 6:08 
       (Lead vocals by Rick Davies)

All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.

Credits
Rick Davies – keyboards, vocals
John Helliwell – saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, vocals
Roger Hodgson – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Bob Siebenberg (also known as Bob C. Benberg) – percussion, drums
Dougie Thomson – bass, additional backing vocals

Production
Project coordinator: Carlton P. Sandercock
Design: Christian Thompson
Photography: Christian Thompson, Rick Walton
Illustrations: Christian Thompson
Liner notes: John Kirkman

Notes
Release date: 6 November 2001
Recorded: 9 March 1975 Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK
Genre:  Progressive rock, art rock
Length: 74:57
© 2001

Label - Pilot/Big Daddy

Supertramp - It Was the Best of Times (1999)

“It Was The Best Of Times” celebrates the band's heralded 1997 return to the concert stage. The live collection was recorded in September 1997 at London's Royal Albert Hall and captures excitement and tightness of the band.
This album also features the song "Don't You Lie To Me" a blues song that the band had performed on their 1988 tour and the only song not written by a current or former band member. The band is augmented by additional players added for this album and tour as well as “Slow Motion”, the follow-up studio album recorded and released in 2002.
"It Was The Best Of Times," is a fantastic live set, with Rick Davies & the boys recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in September of '97. The double CD contains the complete 21-song concert in it's entirety, as well as the occasional song introduction from saxophonist John Helliwell, so the album really does give you a marvelous "you are there" feel. Rick Davies & company are simply sensational, delivering smoking-hot live renditions of 'Tramp classics such as "Ain't Nobody But Me," "Cannonball," "Breakfast In America," "Rudy," "Downstream," "Take The Long Way Home," "The Logical Song," "School," and "Crime Of The Century." The material performed from the "Some Things Never Change" album, including "It's A Hard World," "You Win, I Lose," "Sooner Or Later," and "Listen To Me Please" are also wonderfully done. And although former co-leader Roger Hodgson is no longer with the group, his place is taken just fine by Mark Hart, whose voice sounds close enough to Hodgson's, and who sings the Hodgson material perfectly. And, of course, Davies' voice is still as rich-sounding as ever, and his effortless piano-playing outstanding, as is the band's amazing live chemistry. "It Was The Best Of Times" is a truly mind-blowing live set from Supertramp that easily rivals their classic "Paris" concert album.


Disc 1
01. "It's a Hard World" (Davies)  - 9:17
02. "You Win, I Lose" (Davies)  - 4:36
03. "Listen to Me Please" (Davies)  - 5:03
04. "Ain't Nobody But Me"  - 6:14
05. "Sooner or Later" (Davies, Mark Hart)  - 7:35
06. "Free as a Bird" (Davies)  - 4:49
07. "Cannonball" (Davies)  - 7:52
08. "From Now On"  - 8:05
09. "Breakfast in America"  - 2:47
10. "Give Me a Chance" (Davies, Hart)  - 4:39
11. "Rudy"  - 8:05

Disc 2
01. "Downstream"  - 3:53
02. "Another Man's Woman"  - 11:21
03. "Take the Long Way Home"  - 5:10
04. "Bloody Well Right"  - 6:58
05. "The Logical Song"  - 4:04
06. "Goodbye Stranger"  - 6:52
07. "School"  6:27
08. "And the Light" (Davies)  - 5:03
09. "Don't You Lie to Me (I Get Evil)" (Hudson Whittaker)  - 3:31
10. "Crime of the Century"  - 7:46

All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted.

Credits
Rick Davies - Vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica
Bob Siebenberg - Drums, Percussion
John Helliwell - Saxophone
Mark Hart - Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars
Cliff Hugo - Bass Guitar
Lee Thornburg - Trumpet, Trombone
Carl Verheyen - Guitars
Jesse Siebenberg - Percussion
Edited By [Digital Editing By] - Jennifer Munson
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] - Andy Butlin
Engineer [Live Recording Engineered By] - Ken Allardyce
Management - Richard Frankel, Sue Davies
Mastered By - Bob Ludwig
Mixed By [Assistant Engineer] - Lawrence Manchester
Mixed By [Mix Engineered By] - Jay Messina
Photography By [Live Photos] - Andrew Catlin, Dimo Safari
Typography [Supertramp Logotype] - Laura Ljungkvist
Art Direction, Design - Ph.D
Cover - Craig Frazier
Producer - Rick Davies

Notes
Recorded at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, September 19 and 20, 1997
Mixed at Manhattan Center Studios, New York
Mastered at Gateway Studios, Portland, Maine
Genre: Progressive Rock
Length: 130:08

1999 EMI Records