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Superti
group
By Lehman Stllei
Antlstant Entertainment E
First of all, go out an<
album. Buy every all
Supertramp has ever m;
them, if you have to.
Supertramp is beyond
the most creative and pi
i group recording musi
i Breakfast in America, al
far not their best album,
three heads and should
anything released in the j
Supertramp first m;
mark in America with Cr
Century, their best albui
an unabashed contc
j masterpiece that wen
ignored in this country,
two albums have expa
I refined their sound, and
in America is their pc
tempt to gain the recogr
so richly deserve.
It is hard to define th
, effect that Supertramp 1
human ear. Their style
distinctive, no matt
variations they put on th
and their lyrics are h
i often tragic in nature.
The main thing that Si
does to achieve its style
just about every histoi
music precedent. They
have freed themselves tc
any sort of bondage to '
that groups find so
these days.,
Songwriters Roger H(
Rick Da vies are blessc
, less than a melodic gei
songs demand to be list
The ten bestselllng singl
are:
1. Knock on Wood
2. I Will Survive
3. Heart of Glass
t . 4. Music Box Dancer ..
5. What a Fool Believes
6. Reunited
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8. Tragedy
9. I Want Your Love ....
i 10. Sultans of Swing ....
The ten bestselling alburr
! are:
1. Spirits Having Flown
2. Minute by Minute ...
3. Dire Straits
4. 2-Hot
5. Blondes Have More F
6. Desolation Angels...
; 7. Livin'Inside Your Lov
i 8. Parallel Lines
j 9. Enlightened Rogues .
10. Love Tracks
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ic today. Cartney.
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t largely have not foi
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dished at- album conc
lition they America (Suj
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of Lennon and Mcasks
to be given a
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I classic ? not that it
long, but that it will
a long time to come,
is eons ahead of
being done in music
5S that is why they
ind a place in the
usic establishment,
in America, like j
others, is a concept
srning a trip to
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dow at New York
t instead of the city
are towers of coffee
artons and napkin
e table utensils. And wno Dene
Statue of Liberty, a college ed
ess named Libby "Goodb
niddle of the harbor, album's r
a sparkling glass of some fa
istead of a torch. The make the
the ambiguity of Chipmunl
les is clear. they soui
opens with "Gone anyway. 1
a brutal look at the powerful
ty and how it makes without <
hearts than stars, without a
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Frank Mills
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Dire Straits
Billboard Magazine,
Bee Gees
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Rod Stewart
Bad Company
.... George Benson
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lucation. "Lord Is It Mine
iye Stranger" is one of the to wonder at tl
nost listenable cuts, with land, but it seem
lsetto harmonies that is a time to un
Bee Gees sound like the. 4'Child of Vision
cs ? come to think of it, Coca-Cola; you!
tid like the Chipmunks you watch the
It strikes home with some you that you sho
lyrics ; "Like a ship No words coul
in anchor, like a slave songs and do tl
chain, just the thought of value is in the
?et ladies sends a shiver and Davies Y
ny veins." songwriting is i
tie track contains the music business 1
most bitterly sarcastic to the cutie-pie
1 most razor-sharp music, and disco prodi
ling," which closes side not listening t<
he weakest song on the want to be. Wh
lue to some uninspired to it, you never \
This sort of
le two makes up for this creative effort
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from losing faith in the
of human life. It has one of
ential elements of tragedy
1 be gloomy and pessimistic
depressing. It is impossible
epressed when something is
is well. Like the song says,
ms a time of sadness is a
understand."
: could serve no greater
?than this, and that is what
Supertramp such a
ty to hear. In "Just Another
is Wreck," they sing,
re gonna bleed; that's what
ed. We'll get together and
heir cover; we're ready,
e'reready..."
*tramp is ready to take
into the 1980s. One onlv
s if America is ready to eat
ist with Supertramp.
m
home's o
)ve. But if
oks good,
Dve been
j've skied
>d in New
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ing in the
is o Novy
3lly aren't
in we soy,
vlovy ond
he world."
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