Supertramp - ...Famous Last Words (1982)

Year: 29 October 1982 (CD 198?)
Label: A&M Records (Germany), 393 732-2
Style: Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Progressive Pop
Country: London, England
Time: 48:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 279 Mb

I enjoy early Supertramp, but have little positive to say about Famous Last Words. The album isn't unpleasant (except maybe the crass and cliched "My Kind of Lady"), but there's little above the average. I'd only be confident in describing "Don't Leave Me Now" as good. "Don't Leave Me Now" is one of the simpler songs on the album—with another cliched lyric—yet somehow it seems to fill its 6:25 very satisfactorily through sheer bombasticism.
While the album is standard, vaguely bluesy, pop, there are some nice instrumental choices. Davies and Hodgson craft the songs well enough—if the saxophone is overused to my liking—but the basic compositions lack the flair of, say, Breakfast in America. Supertramp's usual melancholic but still somewhat uplifting sound is there (typical is "Crazy", with the opening line 'Here's a crazy little song to make you feel good' which then paints a black picture of the world), but there's nothing rivalling "The Logical Song"."C'est le Bon"—almost a sequel to "The Logical Song" in lyric and music—for example, only fleetingly catches the attention.
The album credits everything to Davies and Hodgson, but it sounds (as with some previous Supertramp) that the songs are largely by one or the other. Hodgson was soon to leave the band to go solo: perhaps Famous Last Words failed to raise his interest too.
(bondegezou.co.uk/reviews/recorded/flw.htm) Henry Potts, revised 16 Jan 98; re-revised 31 Aug 05

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Crazy (04:45)
02. Put On Your Old Brown Shoes (04:20)
03. It's Raining Again (04:25)
04. Bonnie (05:38)
05. Know Who You Are (05:02)
06. My Kind Of Lady (05:17)
07. C'est Le Bon (05:33)
08. Waiting So Long (06:35)
09. Don't Leave Me Now (06:24)

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