Breakfast in America

Favourite songs: Breakfast in America, The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, Take the Long Way Home

Least favourite songs: Casual Conversations

5/5

The Complete album wasn't available on youtube music but it didn't matter, Supertramp is the best parts of the BeeGees and Scissor Sisters mashed together. The epitome of the genre.

Jees pop-rockia. 3/5

Supertramp's best-known album, moving into a poppier sound than their previous art-rock. Just about every song on this is extremely recognizable (if not outright overplayed).

It's good, and easily could have gone on the original list... but not at the expense of Crime Of The Century, which is better than this one on just about every level, and I will die on that hill.

Mega prog, but also much more pop sounding than I would have guessed

Just so unbelievably good. Somewhere between Queen and Floyd, but maybe better than either of those. The production is mint, too.

Absolutely wild that this wasn't on the original list.

A frankly insane run with the first four tracks makes a majority of the rest of the album disappointing, but certainly not bad. Final track is great, too.

I didn’t rate crime of the century highly on the original list. I feel I need to compensate for that with this rating. This to me is peak supertramp and an album ahead of its time, but maybe that shows I prefer more accessible music.

Whatever the original concept for this album was, and no matter how the songwriters scrapped their ideas, what I take away from this incredibly catchy pop album is this: here’s a story of a bloke who decided to go to Hollywood to make it big, had a mental breakdown, and realized that all is vanity. He became living proof of that ancient wisdom, having gone around the sun to find the moon. It’s got incredibly depressing themes couched in bright, fun, poppy sounds. This is exactly the kind of pop I like: cynical themes embedded in fun tunes. Also, this is one of the few albums in my collection that came from a real life recommendation, not something I either found on my own or was recommended by someone on the internet.

Though Pop-Prog sounds like an oxymoron, this is probably the finest example of it of all time. This album is a nonstop stream of memorable hits. Not an ounce of fat. No skips. Even the low point in the momentum of the album, "Lord Is It Mine," is still a decent ballad. Shocked this isn't their official inclusion on the list as it's superior to "Crime of the Century."