Supertramp

In 1979 we lived in a cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains. One day we were blasting Goodbye Stranger as loud as the Sanyo receiver could drive the Advents. It sounded great. My nearest neighbor was far away but after the song ended he shouted down the canyon "would you please turn that down?" This was not studied critical admiration but thoughtless visceral total enjoyment-the best kind maybe.

A few months ago, I bought the Supertramp 2-Disc Cd "Retrospectacle-The Supertramp Anthology" and it has become one of my favorite Cds. Excellent band, excellent songs. I have almost all of their albums on vinyl too.

My favorite is Crime of the Century. I think Supertramp got a little overexposed later in their career. That being said, their first few albums stand the test of time and
Paris captures a lot of that spirit.