Label: Polygram Records (West Germany), 825 726-2
Style: Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Progressive Pop
Country: London, England
Time: 43:41, 46:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 281, 295 Mb
Charts:
UK #7, AUS #3, AUT #7, CAN #3, FRA #9, GER #5, NLD #2, NOR #6, SWI #1,
US #8. UK, FRA, GER & US: Gold; CAN: Platinum.
Supertramp
followed Breakfast in America with this soiree in Paris. I don’t recall
ever thinking to myself, “Man, I bet Supertramp would be an awesome live
band,” any more than I was interested in hearing 10cc or Alan Parsons
Project perform their songs on stage. Which isn’t to say that the band
doesn’t do a nice job of thumbing through their back catalog or that the
audience in Paris doesn’t appreciate the effort. The sax and guitar
solos shine a little brighter under the stage lights, the rhythm section
doesn’t miss a beat and the vocals from Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies
sound as good as you remember.
The trouble with Paris is that it
finds the band in a holding pattern at the peak of their popularity. It
would be three years before the band released another studio album, by
which time my tastes had already shifted from pop music to new wave.
Enough Supertramp fans stayed along for the ride to help both Paris and
Famous Last Words chart well, but it many ways this marks the end of an
era. Looking back over their last few albums, it had been a great ride.
Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, Ain’t Nobody But Me, The Logical Song, Take
the Long Way Home, all the highlights are here (with the notable
exception of “Give a Little Bit”).
The spoken intros from John
Anthony Helliwell, done mostly in French, are a nice touch. So is the
selection, which digs deep into popular album tracks such as School,
Asylum, Hide in Your Shell and Fool’s Overture. As a treat, the band
also slips in an old B side, You Started Laughing. The live mix is good,
with enough crowd noise to keep you in the moment and clean editing. I
can see where someone familiar with Breakfast in America would want to
pick up Paris to navigate their back catalog, although I would point you
first to Crime and Crisis. Fans will appreciate what basically amounts
to a long curtain call after Breakfast, but for most of us Paris can
wait.
(progrography.com/supertramp/review-supertramp-paris-1980/)
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. School (05:28)
02. Ain't Nobody But Me (05:37)
03. The Logical Song (03:56)
04. Bloody Well Right (07:38)
05. Breakfast In America (02:56)
06. You Started Laughing (04:02)
07. Hide In Your Shell (06:54)
08. From Now On (07:07)
01. Dreamer (03:29)
02. Rudy (07:23)
03. Soapbox Opera (04:51)
04. Asylum (06:55)
05. Take The Long Way Home (05:08)
06. Fool's Overture (10:57)
07. Two Of Us (01:23)
08. Crime Of The Century (06:31)
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