Supertramp: Famous Last Words CD Track Listing

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Supertramp Famous Last Words (1982)
Originally Released 1982\nCD Edition Released February 1986\nRemastered Edition Released July 30, 2002\nGold CD Released N/A\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: ...Famous Last Words... was the last album that Roger Hodgson made with Supertramp before seeking a solo career, and he made sure that radio would take kindly to his last hurrah with the band. Sporting an airy and overly bright pop sheen, ...Famous Last Words... put two singles on the charts, with the poignant "My Kind of Lady" peaking at number 31, and the effervescent smile of "It's Raining Again" going to number 11. The album itself went Top Ten both in the U.S. and in the U.K., eventually going gold in America. The songs are purposely tailored for Top 40 radio, delicately textured and built around overly bland and urbane choruses. Hodgson's abundance of romantically inclined poetry and love song fluff replaces the lyrical keenness that Supertramp had produced in the past, and the instrumental proficiency that they once mastered has vanished. Hodgson's English appeal and fragile vocal manner works well in some places, but the album's glossy sound and breezy feel is too excessive. Hodgson gave his solo album, 1984's In the Eye of the Storm, a mildly progressive feel, quite unlike his last appearance with his former group. -- Mike DeGagne\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThese are really the LAST Words, November 10, 1998 \nReviewer: A music fan from Hamburg, Germany \nThis is the last Album Supertramp did before "the Voice" Roger Hodgson left to his solo career. It's still kind of the old Supertramp sound but one misses the spirit of the early recordings. \n\n"It's raining again" is already an evergreen. \n\nI wished Supertramp could keep in that formation to give more of that refreshing sound. The mixture between Rock and soft ballads is what makes up Supertramp.\n\nThe followed Album "Brother where you bound" lacks already 1/2 of the Supertramp sound given by roger Hodgson (meaning the soft Ballads are missing). \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nPeter Henderson, Engineer\nPeter Henderson, Producer\nSupertramp, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nDigitally remastered by Greg Calbi & Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, New York.\n\nSupertramp: Roger Hodgson (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Rick Davies (vocals, keyboards); John Helliwell (saxophone, keyboards); Dougie Thomson (bass); Bob Siebenberg (drums). \n\nAdditional personnel: Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Claire Diament (background vocals). \n\nRecorded at Unicorn, Nevada City, California; The Backyard, Encino, California; Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California; Bill Schnee's Studios, North Hollywood, California. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nShadow of Breakfast, August 9, 2006 \nBy Kid A (Boulder, CO)\n"Breakfast In America" is without a doubt one of the all-time classic albums. Beyond that and "Crime Of The Century", it's easy to let the rest of Supertramp's work go unnoticed. That's what happened with me. I've been listening to Crime and Breakfast for years while neglecting the rest of their catalog. My bad! I've recently picked up several other Supertramp albums, including "Famous Last Words". \n\nClearly, Supertramp were trying to distinguish FLW as something other than simply a follow-up to the blockbuster Breakfast. Although the sound is unmistakably Supertramp, it's obvious there was an effort to strike out in different directions to accomplish something that could build upon their previous success. \n\nCheck out "Waiting So Long" for some foreshadowing of the following Supertramp album, "Brother Where You Bound" with it's rich orchestration and trademark build-ups and the '50s doo-wop influenced "My Kind of Lady" for an indication of these changes. Of course, there is still the classic Supertramp with songs like "It's Raining Again" and "Crazy" (which could easily have ended up on Breakfast In America based on its sound). \n\nDespite hiding in the shadow of Breakfast In America, Famous Last Words is still a great album in the Supertramp tradition. Consider it essential for the Supertramp fan. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nsimply brilliant, April 21, 2006 \nBy C. A. Armstrong "Charlie" (Perth, WA)\nI remember first playing ...Famous Last Words..., around the pool table one cold, dark night at boarding school as a teenager. I clearly recall my initial thoughts, that Put on your old brown shoes was the only Supertramp track that I didn't like, out of every track of every album to date. A good few listens later, it became one of my favourite tracks of one of my all time favourite albums. This album is simply brilliant, with the last two songs, Waiting so long, and the prophetic Don't leave me now finishing off a complete masterpiece with total awe. I literally come out in goose bumps as I turn up the volume to appreciate, particularly these last two tracks, it to their full glory. \nIf Roger Hodgson had to leave Supertramp, as he unfortunately did, he could not have left on a higher note. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nHodgson's farewell to Supertramp, November 29, 2005 \nBy Terrence Reardon "The Pink Panther of classic... (Florida)\nSupertramp's eighth album entitled Famous Last Words was released in October of 1982. \nThe Famous Last Words album was Supertramp's long awaited studio follow-up to 1979's chart-topping 15 million plus seller Breakfast In America. It turns out, Famous Last Words was also the last album with original guitarist/vocalist Roger Hodgson(whom also did some keyboards) who would leave the band in 1983 after the Famous Last Words tour. \nTensions between Roger and Rick Davies(keyboards/vocals) during the recording sessions were brutal to say the least. They fought over musical, creative and personal directions during the sessions for Famous Last Words. \nThe album was mainly recorded at Roger's house in Nevada City as he didn't want to leave his wife and then 3-year old daughter and infant son behind. Rick recorded most of his vocal parts at his home studio The Backyard Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. \nFamous Last Words also marked the first time which member sang and wrote each track. \nRoger Hodgson has five tracks on FLW starting with the up number Crazy which got some extensive airplay on rock radio when released, the beautiful acoustic numbers C'est Le Bon and Know Who You Are, the lyrically sad It's Raining Again and the haunting closer Don't Leave Me Now with one of Hodgson's best guitar solos ever. \nThe album's biggest hit was the up-tempo breakup song It's Raining Again which hit #11 in the US in late 1982 and is a great song to lament over the break-up of a loved one and featured one of John Helliwell's best tenor sax solos ever recorded. Its corresponding video depicted a hapless soul losing love and trying to find love(the band members had very small cameo appearances with John as a sax playing busker, bass player Dougie Thomson as a Greyhound bus driver, Roger as a passenger on the bus and keyboardist Rick Davies and drummer Bob Siebenberg as rednecks). \nSpeaking of Davies' contributions, his were the soulful Put on Your Old Brown Shoes(with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart on backing vocals), the Billy Joel-ish sounding ballad Bonnie which is a great song with some great piano work from Davies, the 50s-ish sounding number My Kind of Lady and the haunting yet atmospheric six and a half minute piece Waiting So Long which is Rick's masterpiece on the album. \nMy Kind of Lady was the album's other hit peaking at #31 here in the US and who can forget the video with the lads dressed as a 50s rock group and doo wop group without their beards and long hair which they all got rid of(Helliwell and Davies would grow beards back permanently whilst Siebenberg and Thomson kept the clean-shaven look(although Siebenberg was clean shaven pretty much on every album sleeve) and Hodgson has had beards off and on(grew back in 1983 than shaved off again in 1984 and grew back in late 1990s and shaved off again permanently in 2002) since the video). John Helliwell's sax and occasional keyboards are in fine tow as is Dougie's bass playing and the drumming of Bob Siebenberg's(Famous Last Words was the first time Bob spelled his last name the proper way after spelling it C. Benberg for years). \nFamous Last Words peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart and went Platinum although it should have been bigger but with New Wave heisting the charts it was impossible. \nThis album sounds better today with the remastering that Greg Calbi and Jay Messina did in 2002. \nHighly recommended! \n\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nDon't cut the rope of this equilibrist !(see sleeve), September 27, 2005 \nBy Gustavo D. "GDG" (Rio de Janeiro , Brazil)\nThis is a magnificent masterpiece (1982). Every song is a treasure. The albums from Crime of the Century to this one before Roger Hodgson's departure (aiming to going on solo)are worthwhile,but "Famous last words" is my number one. \nIt contains my one of my all-time favourite Supertramp songs: It's raining again, that was a hit (the others are A soapbox Opera from "Crisis? What Crisis?" and If everyone was listening from "Crime of the Century"). \nIn general, the frequent use of keys instrument(organ,piano or keyboard)is a trademark of this band in my opinion,but this record was focused on piano. Roger Hodgson with the exception of "My kind of lady" didn't use the falsetto here. \nI don't know if the cd's booklet shows it, because I own it in vinyl: the group members as equilibrists on colourful ropes. (Curious) \n\nThe other tracks: \n\nCrazy: "I'll sing you little song that makes you feel good", it really makes me feel good. It's incredibly catchy, espacially at the end of the chorus were Roger sings almost like this: b

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